A week of mathematical outreach, the good, the ba(r)d and the ugly I like to talk about my research. I really do, even with people, who are not model theorists or not even mathematicians. It is fun to make up more or less unhinged ways of describing what…

The Fehmarnbelt tunnel between Rødbyhavn on Lolland and Puttgarden in Germany will be the world's longest immersed tunnel. This video explains how 360,000 tonnes of steel and 3 million cubic metres of concrete are being turned into an 18-kilometre tunnel.

Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has been kicked off Amazon's charity platform for its failure to disclose where tens of millions in donations it received ended up.

This article explains how to use the www-authenticate header to handle user authentication without any client side code.

Exploring power, ownership, and equity in an early childhood classroom.

Grist is the evolution of spreadsheets. Contribute to gristlabs/grist-core development by creating an account on GitHub.

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It may be counterintuitive. But some argue that the key to training AI systems that must work in messy real-world environments, such as self-driving cars and warehouse robots, is not, in fact, real-world data. Instead, some say, synthetic data is what will…

More than half of unemployed American men in their 30s have a history of being arrested or convicted of a crime, a stigma that poses a barrier to them participating in the nation's labor force, according ...

Python-based calculations, especially those that use NumPy, can run much faster by using the Numba library.

This photograph shows the leopard that explorer Carl Akeley killed with his bare hands during one of his African expeditions.

A single activist helped turn the tide against NSO Group, one of the world’s most sophisticated spyware companies now facing a cascade of legal action and scrutiny in Washington over damaging new allegations that its software was used to hack government officials…

I’ve been playing with GitHub Copilot, an IDE extensions that uses GitHub’s vast knowledge of how people code to suggest what you probably meant to type next. I’m running it through Visual Studio Code, but it also runs in JetBrains and Neovim.

How Twitter moved from a home grown logging platform to the commercially available Splunk and the challenges we’ve encountered along the way.

@jeff_replies @gevmage (and 3 others) Jeff is correct - the entire semiconductor roadmap naming has been divorced from physical dimensions for years. Most of the folks in the semiconductor industry are aware of this. Intel realized that their naming convention…

We are pleased to announce that Works in Progress has a new home at Stripe, where we’ll be teaming up with Stripe Press to further ideas for economic, scientific and technological advancement.