In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career.

With early computers, you didn’t boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to…

Some final thoughts on this epic expedition.

Happy New Year, everyone! It was exactly two years ago that it first became publicly knowable—though most of us wouldn’t know for at least two more months—just how freakishly horr…

Countries are racing to explore Earth’s closest neighbour

A real-time 3D digital map of Tokyo's public transport system. This data visualization was produced by Akihiko Kusanagi.

Why Elizabeth Holmes is still the next Steve Jobs.

Dicio assistant app for Android. Contribute to Stypox/dicio-android development by creating an account on GitHub.

Consumers getting care in the ER can breathe a sigh of financial relief.

Radioactive waste generated from treating highly contaminated water used to cool crippled reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has thrown up yet new nightmarish challenges in decommissioning the facility, a project that is supposed to be completed…

Today, December 31, 2021, marks the official dissolution of the Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI.org).   Founded in 2011 with support from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the Nutrition…

Some reasons why you might not want to remove data from the database between automated tests: speed, correctness, data growth issues and parallelism advantages

In this post we’re going to look at how Flare deserializes JSON documents stored on disk using a very fast bespoke, sparse, vectorized deserializer called squirrel-json.

Almost Always Unsigned # Written by Dale Weiler
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The need for signed integer arithmetic is often misplaced as most integers never represent negative values within a program. The indexing of arrays…