Starting in August 2019 I took part in the Replication Markets project, a part of DARPA's SCORE program whose goal is to predict which social science papers will successfully replicate.

This post is from my talk at Y Combinator's Aspiring Founders Forum.

There was a famous Apple ad campaign in the late 90s with the slogan "Think Different." This is something you’re going to have...

Executive Mandates driving Product Execution via Project Management

Scholars knew the work about Guillaume d’Orange and the bloody siege of his city existed, but until now believed it had been lost completely

elfshaker stores binary objects efficiently. Contribute to elfshaker/elfshaker development by creating an account on GitHub.

Proposed replacement for /dev/random promises to double performance and add flexibility

Pangea Aerospace, a company from Barcelona (Spain), has fired several times the first MethaLox aerospike engine in the world in their first try, at DLR Lampoldshausen facilities.The company has reached a major milestone for rocket propulsion, after the success…

New research provides evidence of "clear, consistent, and large discrimination" against men in female-dominated occupations in Sweden. The study indicates ...

China has pressured major U.S. companies not to cross its red lines.

Surveillance technology is the surrogate for the communities Western capitalism has destroyed.

Ebou Janha, 102, is the only surviving veteran of a regiment of Gambian soldiers who fought for the British in Burma.

The IPv4 unicast extensions project - Making class-e (240/4), 0/8, 127/8, 225/8-232/8 generally usable - adding 419 million new IPs to the world, and fixing various other slightly broken pieces of...

Nature - The successful in-orbit operation of an electric space propulsion system based on iodine, rather than the more expensive and difficult-to-store xenon, is demonstrated.

You may want to take a closer look at your car. You may find something interesting.

982 People. 14 Outlets. 80% White. 2% Black. 18% Other.

Sotheby's said Thursday night that a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution was sold for $43.2 million at auction -- but unfortunately, the win did not go to a week-in-the-making community that raised tens of millions of dollars for just this purpose.

It’s not every day that you get to debug what may well be a packet of death. It was certainly the first time for me.
What do I mean by “a packet of death”? A software bug where the network stack crashes in reaction to a single received network packet, taking…

TL;DR: How to reason about people who are smarter than you. A few proposals, interspersed with reinforcement learning and humorous fiction. Ending on a surprising connection to logical inductors.