An introductory post about complexity theory today!
It is relatively well-known that there exist so-called NP-complete problems --- particularly hard problems, such that, if you solve one of them efficiently, you can solve all of them efficiently.
I think…

A hot take.

Dreaming, memory-making, problem-solving: A lot happens during the most active sleep phase

A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor. Contribute to pulsar-edit/pulsar development by creating an account on GitHub.

Cosmic rays may have given right-handed genetic helixes an evolutionary edge at the beginning of life’s history.

The obscure command set that gradually helped us move past acoustic couplers and brought dial-up modems into the mainstream. For a while, at least.

There are good reasons you always feel 20 percent younger than your actual age.

Explaining the discrepancy between Phobos's orbit and its apparent motion across the Martian sky

RFCs, also called Design Documents, let us describe software designs before implementation. But how do you make sure that RFCs get deep review and are seen by the right people? How do you help reviewers catch problems in a system’s design? We’ve been iterating…

Nuanced goal-setting frameworks to help manage the complexity in a growing company.

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