In a study of healthy volunteers, NIH researchers have mapped out the brain activity that flows when we learn a new skill, such as playing a new song on the piano, and discovered why taking short breaks from practice is a key to learning.

A Bowl of Rotting Peaches Before getting into the science, let me share a personal experience of the sort that may give one pause before concluding, as I suspect most do, that insects are incapable…

CHAD BOCHAN How to have conversations that lead to actual answers.

Back in a distant time — longer ago than he cares to admit — your editor
managed a system-administration group. At that time, most of the day-to-day
pain reliably came from two types of devices: modems and printers. Modems
are more
plentiful than ever…

The command line address book. Contribute to henrycatalinismith/ppl development by creating an account on GitHub.

Accelerate the training of machine learning models with TensorFlow right on your Mac.

Edit – I posted this on Hackernews and got some valuable feedback. Many brought up the fact that you should be able to reuse the internal state of the compressor instead of recompressing the training data each time a prediction is made. There’s also some…

What happens when journalists don't have any friends in finance to challenge their thinking?

“Playing With Time” is a new mind-blowing 1.5-minute video by Macro Room in which a man bends time and space in slow motion. It was created entirely with a high-speed camera with clever planning and editing. Ben Ouaniche, the Tel-Aviv, Israel-based visual…

Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform - superset/RELEASING/release-notes-1-1 at master · apache/superset

The bipartisan bill would boost government spending on technology research and development amid rising competition from China and other nations.

As developers, we can *definitely* do better than 'Error 503 Service Unavailable' when it comes to error messages. This article shows you how.

When I started studying the art of studying, I wanted to understand the role of book learning. How do we best learn from a textbook, scientific artic…

This week we’re joined by Ryan Dahl, Node.js creator, and now the creator of Deno - a simple, modern and secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that uses V8 and is built in Rust. We talk with Ryan about the massive success of Node and how it impacted…

Federal police provide details about a sting that tricked mafia, bikie and global gang heavyweights into delivering their plans straight into the hands of detectives.

I was pleasantly surprised to hear from Suresh, an ex-student I’ve known for a long time. A U.S. citizen he was now the head of sales and marketing for a company in London selling medical devices t…

Model parallel transformers in JAX and Haiku. Contribute to kingoflolz/mesh-transformer-jax development by creating an account on GitHub.

The App Review Guidelines provide guidance and examples across a range of development topics, including user interface design, functionality, content, and the use of specific technologies. These guidelines are designed to help you prepare your apps for the…