Clay Shirky's writings about the Internet, including Economics and Culture, Media and Community, Open Source

The MIT spinout Frequency Therapeutics uses a new kind of druggable regenerative therapy that targets progenitor cells to create hair cells of the inner ear and reverse hearing loss.

Oracle has begun making a new version of Solaris 11.4 available for free/open-source developers and for non-production personal use

The Pursuit of Thicker Desires in a Thinning World

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In my previous blog post on pointer provenance, I have shown that not thinking carefully about pointers can lead to a compiler that is internally inconsistent: programs that are intended to...

One theory is that reckless young bison and mammoths got into more trouble.

Asynchronous HTTP/IO C library, routing, websockets, SSL and reverse proxy. - Softmotions/iwnet

A Python Extension is generally some code written in language other than python to extend the python ecosystem by exposing an interface compatible with Python API.Such extensions are generally in form of compiled code and loaded dynamically by the Python…

The science of psychedelics is everywhere – but we should treat it with serious scepticism

In some of Daniel Kahnemann’s books and any other business advice-type articles, you always seem to read the same argument: The thing important people all over the world would like to see is in

Prologue Tianzhou: Hey Danny, I don't think SQLite is good for our long-term game. I started with it because it is easy to use for local development. Danny: We'...

Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is a modern public-key encryption technique famous for being smaller, faster, and more efficient than incumbents. Bitcoin, for example, uses ECC as its asymmetric cryptosystem because it is so lightweight. The mathematical…

He told his Kentucky company he did not want a birthday celebration, but they arranged one anyway.

As I write this, the world’s wealthiest and noisiest man has made a characteristically loud public offer to buy the internet’s most memetic social media platform. Who knows whether Elon Musk’s much…

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