Survivorship bias is a common logical error that distorts our understanding of the world. It happens when we assume that success tells the whole story and when we don’t adequately consider past failures.

Leaky filtration system in brain contributes to cognitive dysfunction in aging as well as disease

Australia’s status as an open democracy has been downgraded in a blunt assessment released this week by a global alliance of human rights organisations.

This year the 10th version of the ECMAScript Language Specification was released, often referred to simply as ES2019. Let’s take a closer look at what new features we got and how we can put them to use.

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Take a look back at your year online. What you find might surprise you.

Sundar Pichai’s appointment as CEO of Google parent Alphabet effectively shifts the focus back on the company’s advertising profit machine and away from its “moonshots” and other potential new businesses.

New research from Washington University in St. Louis confirms that the brain tunes itself to a point where it is as excitable as it can be without tipping into disorder, similar to a phase transition. The new research from Keith Hengen, assistant professor…

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A new study shows the apex predators will flee their hunting grounds and won't return for up to a year when killer whales pass by

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The amuse-bouche is the best way … to express big ideas in small bites. – Jean-Georges Vongerichten, 2002 Such were the vagaries of what may have been the most powerful computer language ever hatched by a Canadian. Yes, I know that James Gosling, an alumnus…

For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of Stack Overflow. I’m still going on some customer calls and have a weekly meeting with him, …

Robots have replaced thousands of routine jobs on Wall Street. Now, they’re coming for higher-ups.

Optimizing memory-usage for approximate nearest neighbor search

Double descent is a puzzling phenomenon in machine learning where increasing model size/training time/data can initially hurt performance, but then i…