Scientists have identified 85 new exoplanets, a major advancement in the search for extraterrestrial life.

Spam on GitHub is getting out of control and affecting 10,000's of users daily. GitHub is seemly doing nothing about it, here is the proof.

No shots fired. No flags raised. No land gained. Still, the U.S. recently grew by the size of about two Californias.

Stable Diffusion may soon have some competition when it comes to open-source image generators. In its latest iteration, PixArt becomes faster and more accurate while maintaining a relatively high resolution.

Welcome to the open review site for Mireille Hildebrandt’s Law for Computer Scientists, forthcoming Oxford University Press 2019.

Composer and bassoonist brin solomon on Peter Schickele (aka, P.D.Q. Bach), who died at his home on January 16, 2024, at the age of 88.

DuckDB can attach MySQL, Postgres, and SQLite databases in addition to databases stored in its own format. This allows data to be read into DuckDB and moved between these systems in a convenient manner.

By Eric Niderost When Albert Einstein arrived in Pasadena, California, in early 1933, he was to take up his duties as visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology for about three months. CalTech President Robert Millikan had made all the arrangements…

An OCR (Optical Character Recognition) utility for text extraction from images.

Robert Geller (BS '73, PhD '77), Seismologist and Commentator

If life ever existed on Mars, the Perseverance rover's verification of lake sediments at the base of the Jezero crater reinforces the hope that traces might be found in the crater.

OpenCiv1 Project news


The game logic is based on original DOS Civilization game version 475.05 disassembly.
The project has progressed significantly since first post, for a code and details see...

The lofty theory and the sordid reality of "perf".

Maslow never got around to publishing the final tier of his pyramid: self-transcendence.

Exceptional Creatures is Honeybadger.io's documentation of Ruby's exception system, with a twist. Collect them all!