In the early 90s, Apple began working on the Power Mac 7100, a product that was internally given the codename "Carl Sagan." The impetus behind the codename was a riff on Sagan's catchphrase "billions and billions", the implication being that the 7100 would…

I was never a good math student, but I was determined to penetrate the mysteries of mathematics.

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We all have a finite amount of time to live, and within that mortal countdown we devote some fraction towards our work. Even for the most career-focused, your life will be filled by many things beyond work: supporting your family, children, exercise, being…

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Do institutional investors invest efficiently? To study this question I combine a novel dataset of over 16,000 startups (representing over $9 billion in investm

The colloquial term “hangry” refers to the notion that people become angry when hungry, but very little research has directly determined the extent to which the relationship between hunger and negative emotions is robust. Here, we examined associations between…

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Scientists alarmed at claims of releasing 10m frogs and 100m ladybugs to rack up viewers as relocating species can have ‘extremely negative consequences’

The era of a safe climate is over – now we must confront the reality that we will overshoot and adapt, says top earth system scientist James Dyke

This is a short overview of the development that's gone into Kandria, the open world action RPG I've been working on in recent years.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) — Canada’s federal Dudley Do-Whatevers — is again belatedly admitting it has access to powerful surveillance tech its supposed oversight s…

Reed-Solomon coder computing one million parity blocks at 1 GB/s. O(N*log(N)) algo employing FFT. - Bulat-Ziganshin/FastECC