Canadian private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners (ECP) on Thursday said it had acquired Pornhub owner MindGeek, which has been mired in controversy over recent years.

The other day, a new grad student asked me this question. It brought me back to my own first year.
When I entered grad school, I noticed that the older grad ...

Many of Ricardo Nuila's patients at Houston's Ben Taub Hospital are dealing with serious illnesses as a result of not being able to access basic preventive care. His new book is The People's Hospital.

Large language models like ChatGPT are now big enough that they’ve started to display startling, unpredictable behaviors.

While Adobe Flash is officially -- and thankfully -- dead, those interested in Adobe Flash Player for nostalgia or archival purposes, Ruffle is working to emulate Adobe Flash support via this open-source project making use of the Rust programming language.

As a brief introduction to how Haskell FFI works, I’ll be talking about my memfd package, which is available on Hackage. Part 1 of this article lays out concepts; part 2 will explain the package.

Update (Nov 1, 2024): What does it actually mean to personalize learning?

Research suggests there is a crucial window during weaning to lower the allergy risk.

Since the earliest days of Mac OS X, Apple has complied with the licenses for the dozens of open source components it includes in the OS by posting (sometimes a little belatedly) updated versions of the source code to its Open Source at Apple web page.This…

Nature Human Behaviour - Examining real-world data that tested different headlines for the same news story on real news readers, Robertson et al. find that people are more likely to click on a...

“Our instincts of time and causation are our deepest, strongest instincts that physicists and philosophers—and humans—are loath to give up,” said one scientist.

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A comparison of the forms and functions of digestive and absorptive glands in carnivorous plants sheds light on their convergent evolution.

ViperGPT: Visual Inference via Python Execution for Reasoning.

It shouldn’t be surprising that ChatGPT can play chess. But many have claimed it can’t be done. These people used bad prompts and came to the conclusion that ChatGPT can’t play a legal chess game. With the right prompt, ChatGPT can play and win full chess…

Why fly all the way across the ocean when you can chill out by the pool?

You can’t make an omelette without breaking antitrust laws