Google's success derives in large part from its PageRank algorithm, which ranks the importance of web pages according to an eigenvector of a weighted link matrix. Analysis of the PageRank formula provides a wonderful applied topic for a linear algebra course.…

Computers are a tool that you can use or be used by. I have written about my tool-taming tactics before, including blocking distracting websites in my hosts file. My “checking” function is the natural evolution of that tactic.


It implements the core functionality…

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A month after bills went up, PG&E announced its profits for 2023 surged to over $2.2 billion, a jump of almost 25%. But the utility says the two are not connected.

How to hide binary data and messages in packs of playing cards

In an unprecedented move, US Special forces troops will be permanently stationed in Taiwan, Republic of China. According to Taiwan's United Daily News (UDN),

On February 14, 2024, the Court of Appeal of Paris issued an order stating that Orange, a major French telecom provider, had infringed the copyight of Entr’Ouvert’s Lasso software and violate…

The secrets that will make you much better at listening to a degree that your relationships are significantly more successful, peaceful, gratifying, intimate, and trusting, have to do with what you…

I think filing bugs on browsers is one of the most useful things a web developer can do. When faced with a cross-browser compatibility problem, a lot of us are conditioned to just search for some q…

Here are some images of the northern green anaconda, indigenous to the Orinoco Basin of the Amazon and \

Exhibitions around the world are celebrating the art movement’s centennial and asking whether our crazy dreams can still set us free.

In a previous edition of this magazine, we argued that English was so pervasive in our industry, nobody even questioned its use anymore. The same can be said of Git. It is difficult to imagine that merely twenty years ago, the landscape of source control…

A recent subpoena request shows that film companies are trying to obtain information on a Redditor's piracy habits.

My wife uses Windows and over the years I've helped her move things to new systems. Win8, 10 and now 11. With every upgrade the UI changes. ...

Inside the incredible rise and insane fall of a premium snack startup

Brussels on Monday fined Apple 1.84 billion euros ($2 billion) for thwarting competition from music streaming rivals via restrictions on its App Store, the iPhone maker's first ever penalty for breaching EU rules.

Experiments demonstrate some of the unusual features of molecular reactions that occur in the deep cold of interstellar space.