NFTs are emblematic of capitalism’s growing retreat from productive activity — and the wealthy’s desire to extend their dominion into the digital ether. They’re worse than useless.

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When teaching introductory OR courses I have often found that presenting counter-intuitive or paradox-like results is a great eye-opener for the students. I use these examples and results as a moti...

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Nature - A hybrid algorithm that applies backpropagation is used to train layers of controllable physical systems to carry out calculations like deep neural networks, but accounting for real-world...

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Thanks to @rg3 who created this program the project has a new maintainer. Also, many thanks to @dstftw and @remitamine for holding the fort over the last several years. I hope that we'll be abl...

Overview of the available tools for Game Boy homebrew development.

The sphinxes are the latest finds to emerge from a 25-year restoration project.

An interesting question came up on the postgresql IRC channel about how to use native PostgreSQL features to handle some sort of queuing behavior. While the specific usage was related to handling serialization of specific events to some external broker, the…

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The Treasury Department is reconsidering the Internal Revenue Service’s reliance on facial recognition software ID.me for access to its website, an official said Friday amid scrutiny of the company’s collection of images of tens of millions of Americans’…

DeWalt and Ryobi have both announced removable batteries for their tools powered by USB Type-C. Read on to find out more.

The blockchain business model has made headlines for sensational ploys. But in quieter corners DAOs are forging a promising new ecosystem for digital startups.