For millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning. But why? And how did the habit disappear?

And how debate was shut-down to protect "science"

This is going to be a somewhat experimental post. In class, I mentioned that when solving the type of homework problems encountered in a graduate real analysis course, there are really only about a…

I’ve been using #AnnotatedEquations in my recent papers. I think it really adds to the readability and understanding of the math.

Here are some examples. It uses #tikz in #latex.

Let me know if you like it. Happy for any feedback. [GitHub link: next tweet]…

Permafrost contains microbes, mammoths, and twice as much carbon as Earth’s atmosphere. What happens when it starts to melt?

How does an A.I. generate waifus and husbandos? Utilizing the power of machine learning algorithms, see how we taught an A.I. to make these magic anime portraits in the form of generative art.

Emails to Dr Anthony Fauci show ‘likely’ explanation identified at start of coronavirus pandemic, but there were worries about saying so

“I’m going to be 29 anyways, so I might as well be 29 with a Master’s.”
— me 5 years ago debating whether I should take classes
On June 5, 2017, I started taking classes at Tufts University while working full time. On January 4, 2022, I submitted the final…

Sometime in 2024, the IEEE will unveil a new 802.11 standard that will bring new capabilities to everyone’s favorite wireless communication standard. But the upcoming 802.11bf standard isn’t for communication — it’s for sensing. The newest version of Wi-Fi…

How long can a Turing machine program run when started on the blank tape before the tape becomes blank again? Of course, this will depend on the length of the program – how many states and colors it has. Even given these parameters, it is logically impossible…

As a complement to vaccines, small-molecule therapeutic agents are needed to treat or prevent infections by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its variants, which cause COVID-19. Affinity selection-mass spectrometry was used…

Armed with 3 years of grocery shopping data, researchers found that total sugar sales are down almost 20 percent, driven largely by falling soda purchases.

In light of videos showing self-driving Teslas attempting dangerous maneuvers, the California DMV is considering whether to require the company to conform to the same laws as other robot car makers.

After the Twitter space Q&A @logankilpatrick hosted yesterday on “The future of machine learning and why it looks a lot like Julia,” I thought it would be useful to accumulate some community responses to a few questions about the current state of machine…

I’ve seen a lot of confusion over what precisely the term ‘observable universe’ refers to. This post is an attempt to remedy that. In 1929, Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is expand…