Evgeny Morozov on how the ideas behind Project Cybersyn, a futuristic experiment in cybernetics from nineteen-seventies Chile, still shapes technology.

A quantum phenomenon predicted in 1959, the Aharonov-Bohm effect, also applies to gravity.

Deep Learning Is Hopelessly Flawed

Interesting news has just come out about a possible cause for multiple sclerosis. That has been a huge area of research over the years, with all kinds of hypotheses being advanced (genetic, environmental, immunological, infectious agents, and combinations…

@Flotonix @roguetrick @Reddit It seems to only give the blocked messgae on firefox. Works with other browsers.

MMAP Databases = 💩

For centuries, book-makers, printers, furniture-makers and, now, programmers have worked to answer: how do you find what you need in a book?

I started 2022 with a mini batch at the Recurse Center. I did a full batch in Fall 2020, and hanging out with people working on their side projects full time seems like a fun way to kick off the year.

If innovative reactor designs can't pass muster with the federal government, the U.S. nuclear industry is in trouble.

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* Chapter 1: Types
* Chapter 2: Variables
* Chapter 3: Operators/Math
* Chapter 4: Control structures
* Chapter 5: Arrays
* Chapter 6: Functions
* Chapter 7: Structs
* Chapter 8: Classes and Objects
* Chapter 9: Methods
* Chapter 10:…

Gilles Deleuze Postscript on the Societies of Control May, 1990 This essay first appeared in L’Autre journal, no. 1 (May, 1990), is included in the...

Questioning the early/late distinction in Jane Austen’s work in the light of her publishing history

Here are the results of Nim Community Survey 2021.