The strange world of Python, as used by big investment banks

Table of Contents FAQ When it comes to code reviews, it’s a common phenomenon that there is much focus and long-winded discussions around mundane aspects like code formatting and style, whereas …

Suppose that I give you a short string of digits, containing possibly spaces or other characters (e.g., "20141103 012910"). We would like to pack the digits into an integer (e.g., 0x20141103012910) so that the lexicographical order over the string matches…

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Posted by Fabian Pedregosa and Eleni Triantafillou, Research Scientists, Google Deep learning has recently driven tremendous progress in a wide arr...

A guest post by Armand Domalewski.

Made of common, inexpensive, and non-toxic materials, an algae-powered battery could be a sustainable option for powering electronics

Most biologists have assumed that ants wander aimlessly around a new environment. New UArizona research suggests that at least one species of rock ant actually searches in a more methodical way.

Adding domain specific verification to Nostr and changing your Bluesky username to your own domain can be accomplished by creating .well-known text files. If you’re using Micro.blog and would like to do this, it’s pretty easy.

A stupid Rust memory allocator. Contribute to shadyfennec/stupidalloc development by creating an account on GitHub.

How relationships come to an end and the scourge of the smartphone

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An Away team is a self-suficent engineering team that work on software code owned by another team (the host team) to deliver a specific project. Using away teams enable innovation without excessive burocracy or blockages that are based on the time or the…

The Titan Arum has become a rockstar in the plant world for its unpredictable displays, and more notoriously, its putrid stench of rotting flesh.

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Google has updated its privacy policy to say that "publicly available" data will be used to train Bard and Cloud AI.

Travel the World Using KDE Applications

Back in 2020, students from Universidad Del Valle De Guatemala (UVG) pulled off a really impressive feat, designing and building a CubeSat that lasted a whopping 211 days in orbit. In addition to t…