Summary: we don't understand why programmers are paid so well. If you're a programmer, there's enough of a chance that this is temporary that it's worth explicitly planning for a future in which you're laid off and unable to find similarly high-paying work.…

Background Backpropagation is a common method for training a neural network. There is no shortage of papers online that attempt to explain how backpropagation works, but few that include an example…

1/ There is some pretty substantial context about Twitter's 2023 revenue and advertisers that I think partly help explains why Musk is really losing it...

And it involves upfront ad sales. Let me explain...

The ten-foot-tall machine, named Prosthesis, is entirely controlled by humans.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey might have something for you - Bluesky Social, a new "decentralized social network" that reportedly aims to reclaim user data. Dorsey stepped down as CEO of the social network he co-founded in 2006 in May 2022.

Programmer and lawyer Matthew Butterick has sued Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI, alleging that GitHub's Copilot violates the terms of open-source licenses and infringes the rights of code authors.

Every Mastodon explanation is like "It's very simple, your account is part of a kerflunk, and each kerflunk can talk to each other as part of a bumblurt. At the moment everyone you flurgle can see your bloops but only people IN your kerflunk can quark your…

F4 Map is a WebGL 3D Map Viewer based on OpenStreetMap data

A tool to visualize different pathfinding and maze algorithms in action. Built with React and Tailwind.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is on notice from NASA after a review found that it had some serious staffing issues that led blocked its Psyche Mission.

The Level Lock Plus smart lock sold at the Apple Store isn't as secure as its $330 price implies; one expert has shown that a novice could pick it open.

Stewart Brand coined the term “personal computer” and was one of the first to envision what digital technology would become. He knows it got messy. He thinks tech can clean itself up.

In this episode, Dan Holohan tells about a Manhattan co-op apartment building, where the local time (mechanically speaking) is 1949, the heat is uneven, and the radiators hold an historic clue.

I found this proposal for improvements to error handling in Go interesting, but still not something I’d be happy to see implemented.
Allow me to clear up my thoughts on Go’s errors. Overall, I prefer how Go forces me to think about errors at every turn. When…

janky twitter replacement. Contribute to diracdeltas/tweets development by creating an account on GitHub.