"It seemed like we’d failed."

Gaël Varoquaux, computer / data / health science

A year ago today I self-published “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics” (PIM). In this short note I want to describe the success it’s had, summarize the complaints of some readers and the praise of others, and outline what’s next.
Since publication…

Chess openings visualized from over 800 million Lichess games, 2 million tournament games and 1 million chess engine games.

Companion exercises for O'Reilly Media's "Introducing Erlang" - oreillymedia/etudes-for-erlang

(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc’s (AMZN.O) cloud computing unit has designed a second, more powerful generation of data center processor chip, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, the latest sign that the company is pouring money into custom silicon…

Websites that copy news stories from legitimate sites are making money from Google and Amazon ads.

Anker’s PowerPort Atom PD 1 and RavPower’s 45W GaN charger are an early preview of the charging tech of the future

Origami artist and physicist Robert J. Lang explains origami in 11 levels of difficulty. From a simple, traditional cicada to an extremely intricate one, watch how Robert J. Lang demonstrates and breaks down everything that goes into the art of origami.
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Measurements on a superconducting material show an abrupt transition between a normal metal and a "strange" metal. The really strange thing, however, is that this abruptness disappears when the temperature ...

Website for the Internet Oracle, aka the Usenet Oracle

American tech companies are getting the go-ahead to resume business with Chinese smartphone giant Huawei, but it may be too late: It is now building smartphones without U.S. chips.

History suggests this could be big.