<p><em>The pandemic brought about an unexpected side-effect: The Great Resignation. People have been quitting their jobs like never before. In the US, 4 million people quit their jobs in April and another 4.4 million in September. In the UK, nearly a quarter…

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Photon-based quantum computer does a calculation that ordinary computers might never be able to do.

What the hole is going on?

Brush up your NumPy or learn it from scratch

A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.

You can divide Mac history in a bunch of different ways. But perhaps the clearest line of demarcation is the mid-1998 release of the original iMac. The first era of the Mac, begun in 1984, was endi…

There are two problems with anger: it is morally corrupting, and it is completely correct. 

Intro This post will cover challenges and aspects of production to consider when creating new rendering / graphics techniques and algorithms – especially in the context of applied research fo…

A new computational algorithm shows how the brain maintains information in the short term using specific types of neurons.

Hearts made out of brioche and braised human legs are on the menu.

Vaccination will not be mandatory, officials say, and the register will not be made public.

Graphical tool for data manipulation written in C++/Qt. - przemek83/volbx

A Japanese forestry firm has partnered with Kyoto University in what would be a world first.

The views expressed in this newsletter are solely my own, and do not represent the views of my employer. Well, they aren’t solely my own, because I’ve stolen most of them from people smarter than me. But, you get what I’m saying. If you work at the intersection…

Prohibitionists around the world have long used rhetoric to associate the plant with violence and depravity.

In this talk, I aim to report and show a collection of observations, physical, visual and other evidence of the last years incidents that...