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I receive offers for sponsored content on a daily basis. I decided to reply to one of them to see what happened.

A former coworker pointed me to the news today that freshmeat has suddenly ceased operations. I spent the rest of the day flooded with memories and the urge to jot a few of them down before they’re…

There's no bomb in bombast

Play micropolisJS and build a virtual city in your browser! micropolisJS is a handwritten HTML5/Javanoscript port of Micropolis, the open-source release of SimCity (the 1989 version).

The anti-Putin pirates.

Zelle, the payments platform used by millions of customers, is a popular target of scammers. But banks have been reluctant to make fraud victims whole — despite owning the system.

The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983 - microsoft/GW-BASIC

The Internet is an amazing tool. But I’ve been using it in the wrong way - it became my new default, my master and I think I’m not the only one.

Most great thinkers have speculated about the kind of leadership that might give rise to a better society, analyzing it through what’s sometimes called a “normative” lens: What should we be doing? In Leviathan, for example, Thomas Hobbes argued for a single…

Russia continues to bombard Mariupol, Kharkiv and other key cities despite offering escape routes, Ukraine officials say.

Russian state-controlled news network RT said on Thursday it will begin broadcasting on Rumble, a YouTube-like video site, after tech companies including Meta Platforms and Twitter have restricted access to RT following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

A simple, opinionated decision system to help decide whether to build a software feature or not.

Legend has it there is an evil spirit trapped in the Sessho-seki stone, so what happens now that the stone is broken?

This course is an introduction to the theory that tries to explain how minds are made from collections of simpler processes. It treats such aspects of thinking as vision, language, learning, reasoning, memory, consciousness, ideals, emotions, and personality.…

Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics on Monday called for a permanent presence of U.S. troops in Latvia following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

(see gflownet tutorial and paper list here) I have rarely been as enthusiastic about a new research direction. We call them GFlowNets, for Generative Flow…