Researchers demonstrate a solution to a 40-year problem

Since IBM's Deep Blue defeated World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in their 1997 match, chess engines have only increased dramatically in strength and understanding. Today, the best chess engines are an almost incomprehensible 1,000 Elo points stronger than…

How I finally became the kind of person who carries a paper notebook and a pen

Plimsoll line is a marking where the hull of a ship meets the surface of the
water.

I've just read a discussion between Glen Weyl and Scott Alexander about
technocracy. It's really hard to figure out what they are actually disagreeing
about. My naive understanding…

In this blogpost, we discuss the major challenges of integrating legacy and non-legacy systems and how RabbitMQ can provide a solution

JupyterLab extension for live editing of LaTeX documents - jupyterlab/jupyterlab-latex

A game where you need to pick the design that is most correct. Test your attention to details!

The dry hills, brilliant sea, and neat rows of gated suburban communities made me wonder whether I had left San Francisco at all. Looking down on the suburbs of Istanbul that hug the Bosporus during my flight’s approach was unreal—not just because months…

Their structures were once controversial. Now researchers have discovered quasicrystals in the aftermath of a 1945 bomb test.

Read writing from Donald G. McNeil Jr. on Medium. New York Times, 1976–2021. Last beat: lead Covid reporter. 2020 Chancellor Award; 2021 NYT team Pulitzer donaldgmcneiljr1954@gmail.com.

In early spring 2020, I reported an article for The New York Times on which I put the tentative headline: “New Coronavirus Is ‘Clearly Not…

After three years of intense work and a year-long beta, including sites from **Digital Ocean**, **Shopify**, and **Flowplayer**: [Volument](/) — "a privacy-friendly analytics for conversion optimization" is now open for everyone. With 10k monthly sessions…

The ancient Minoan language known as "Linear A," long untranslated, may finally be deciphered with the help of the internet.

The cyber attack that shutdown the Colonial pipeline causing a gas panic and stoking fears of gasoline shortages, didn’t actually shut down the pipeline. It impacted the billing system at the Colonial Pipeline Co., which shut it down because they were worried…