Why are administrators at a top-ranked public high school hiding National Merit awards from students and families?

Using Machine Learning, the NREL-Led Team Discovered Variants of “Plastic-Eating” Enzymes Adapted To Deconstructing all Varieties of PET—Even Durable Crystalline Varieties

Nearly three years into the pandemic, travel has returned but hotel staff have not. Unable to find workers, hotel owners and managers are having to adapt to what they believe is the new normal.

A driver told authorities that their Tesla’s “full-self-driving” software braked unexpectedly and triggered an eight-car pileup in the San Francisco Bay Area last month that led to nine people being treated for minor injuries including one juvenile who was…

“Why are we over-complicating this?” is a very easy thing to say after being introduced to a project. What's hard is to reserve judgement until you've educated yourself on the entire problem domain, and noted all the considerations that were made by previous…

I love the way Apple names things: FireWire, App Nap, iPhone, iPod, EarPod, AirPod, AirPlay, FairPlay etc. It’s playful and there’s a lot of reuse of words and sounds. Having just finished reading the biography of Steve Jobs, I decided to visualize various…

Why some mathematicians argue the economy is designed to create a few super rich people – unless we stop it.

In this blog post I want to show the complete code (in Python3) of how a very
simple optimizer for sequences of operations can work. These algorithms could
be part of a (really simple) compiler, or a

[He is] that beautiful white Christ which seems to be coming out of Russia … [One] of the most perfect lives I have come across in my own experience.—Oscar Wilde…View Post

I often want to program something just for fun without any expectations. But why? Well, a recent scientific paper investigated this idea of programming as play.

Imagining better ways of picking people

Building and sailing Draken Harald Hårfagre - the World's largest Viking Ship sailing in modern times.

felixge's notes on the various go profiling methods that are available. - DataDog/go-profiler-notes

Born for but never raced in F1, the idea found some success at Le Mans.

Learn more about Jitsi, a free open-source video conferencing software for web & mobile. Make a call, launch on your own servers, integrate into your app, and more.

Free and open source tool for syncing your bookmarks and browser data between your various browsers and devices.

My local Montana landfill is full of the remains of short-lived coffee grinders, pens, peelers, laptops. After Christmas, I’ll need to reserve a bigger plot.