Distances in the expanding Universe don’t work like you’d expect. Unless, that is, you learn to think like a cosmologist.

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…

This paper is by  Abutalib Aghayev (Carnegie Mellon University), Sage Weil (Red Hat Inc.), Michael Kuchnik (Carnegie Mellon University), Mar...

Money meant to fund an Israeli startup wound up directly deposited to the scammers.

For one short moment, some of the most powerful computers in the world could be hacked together with code, wire, and PS3s. 

THIS PROJECT IS UNMAINTAINED. Please refer to the documentation for alternatives. Simple Rust implementations of selected abstract algebraic structures.

Two Truths and a Take, Season 1 Episode 33

Googol Game or "You should learn when to quit". A JavaScript game. - victorqribeiro/googol

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. is approving new drugs so fast that companies are now preparing for a green light months in advance of the scheduled decision date, a pace that’s helping patients with rare or untreatable diseases but raising alarm among consumer advocates.

When Peter Teich’s money went to another Barclays customer, the bank offered £25 as a token gesture

Product-minded engineers are developers with lots of interest in the product
itself. They want to understand why decisions are made, how people use the
product, and love to be involved in making product decisions. They're someone
who would likely make a good…

Over the next 20 years, more than a quarter (27.4 percent) of the nation’s currently owner-occupied homes are likely to hit the market.

Company security analyst sent session cookie allowing account take-over.

Smallpox was eradicated relatively quickly, but other diseases have proved harder to eliminate. The reasons are a mix of biology and psychology.