Understanding deal and portfolio risk and capital requirements is a computationally expensive process that requires the execution of multiple financial forecasting models every day and in often in real time. This post describes how it works at RenaissanceRe…

Where does a game like Star Fox, Super Mario Bros., or Sharknado: The Video Game actually come from?

youtube-dl has a JavaScript interpreter written in pure Python in 870 lines of code.
https://t.co/5ZLZEhFRem
... wow.

Dramatically unequal consumption lies at the heart of the climate crisis.

At surface level, mechanical keyboards switches seem simple and easy to understand. Cut and dry. But the more you learn, you realize the depth of…

Does too much screen time make your attention span shorter than a goldfish? Is technology addiction real? The media seems to think so. We looked into it.

The tale of a small tech startup navigating procurement in the most constrained market in recent history.

The map of reality is not reality. Even the best maps are imperfect. That's because they are reductions of what they represent. If a map were to represent the territory with perfect fidelity, it would no longer be a reduction and thus would no longer be useful…

What if you could grow a $1 billion company without the outside investment, the crazy sales and marketing spend, the pressure to grow ever faster?

lots of memes about speedy wikipedia editors — quick thread about what went down on wikipedia in the minutes after her death was announced

Current Western education allegory

A little post on why publishing statistics are so confusing

The #1 website for Artificial Intelligence and Prompt Engineering. Search the world's best AI prompts for models like Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT, Midjourney...

In Argentina, your money is worth double if you skip the airport currency exchange and instead go to one of the many black market exchanges hidden throughout Buenos Aires. These illegal exchanges are called "cuevas" (the word for "cave" in Spanish),......