First, what is an ASIC? An ASIC is an Application Specific Integrated Circuit which basically means that it is an Integrated Circuit on a single piece of silicon and its use is limited to a particu…

We'll be reinstating Mr. Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks with new guardrails in place to deter repeat offenses.

Free font created with real US congressional districts. The name comes from gerrymandering, the process that made possible letter-like shapes.

In multithreaded programming, it’s important to make threads wait. They must wait for exclusive access to a resource. They must wait when there’s no work available. …

The 2020s are not the 1990s.

It has been 2 years since I published “CamelCase vs underscores: Scientific showdown”, and it still is easily the most visited article on this blog. Yesterday alone it got 2,614 views t…

Los Angeles lost a hundred thousand affordable homes in a decade. Don’t look to bulldozers to explain how.

I love programming. I've been writing software professionally for decades. But my productivity with home projects is low - I rarely finish anything.
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Make Sunsets was testing the idea of cooling the atmosphere with sunlight-reflecting chemicals in Baja, but came under widespread criticism.

A study by chemists at the University of Chicago has uncovered a new key step in the process that HIV uses to replicate itself.

The man behind a startup called DoNotPay planned to use AI to help fight a traffic ticket. But professional lawyers shut it down.

Nature - Satellite navigation systems for lunar settlements will require local atomic clocks. Researchers are figuring out what time they will keep.

Convert text to handwriting using an in-browser recurrent neural network. Choose from various print and cursive styles. Customize the outputs and download as SVG.