Architect and poet Paolo Belardi traces the many conditions and situations that have inspired extraordinary ideas across the arts and sciences.

Julius "Zeekill" Kivimäki, a 25-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a local online psychotherapy practice and leaking therapy notes for more than 22,000 patients online, was arrested this week in France. A notorious hacker convicted of perpetrating…

novel by Mary Shelley

Few things are harder to start than a narrative of the thing you “do” and what all the ramifications of it are. For people who don’t make it the center of their lives, your thing …

In 2023 China flying a “spy balloon” over the U.S. created an international incident. It turns out the U.S. did the same to the Soviet Union in the 1950’s. In the 1950’s the U.S. …

How is the hiring spree for a new kind of official changing higher education in America?

Do you find public transit in this city frustrating sometimes? It might be SFMTA’s use of this old storage format.

I set out on a journey to learn what statistical approaches the industry uses to get to faster decisions in A/B testing. This is the first post in the series in which I set the scene and summarize …

Plus a position-search announcement from NSF Roger Schank just passed away. Roger was a top leader of AI. I overlapped with him for my time at Yale. In 1974, he became a professor of computer scien…

What happens when the unconventional becomes conventional? Michael Seibel and Dalton Caldwell discuss how the startup world has changed from being dominated by outsiders and nonconformists to now attracting more mainstream conformists looking for status and…

Towards serverless Kubernetes controllers

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We created a prototype that runs Kubernetes operators in WebAssembly (wasm) and suspends them to disk when they are not used. This greatly reduces the memory overhead of the Kubernetes control plane. It also…