Until recently, and for well over the past decade, my wife and I have been nomads. Moving from the Caribbean to Miami, New York, Las Vegas, Vancouver, and

Mumbai’s land use regulations are designed to keep population density low. Instead, they force Mumbaikars into slums, while all of India pays the price.

Three years after banning chlorpyrifos from its own fields, the EU is still shipping the chemical to countries including Tunisia, Bangladesh, and Costa Rica

The CAP theorem is too simplistic and too widely misunderstood to be of much use for characterizing systems. Therefore I ask that we retire all references to the CAP theorem, stop talking about the CAP theorem, and put the poor thing to rest
Martin Kleppmann…

The international fish liver oil and meat trade is driving rapid depletion of deepwater sharks with extremely slow life histories.

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Large language models (LLMs) have overrun commercial markets, more like a tsunami than a normal technical wave of interest. The topic is everywhere –news stories, blogs, podcasts, startup investmen…

March 4, 2024 – Blotter art as meta-medium.

This blog post will cover the new sources of “chaos” that have been added to LavaRand and how you can make use of that harnessed chaos in your next application.

New research from the UC San Diego Rady School of Management and Texas A&M University finds that having self-control is often what leads to power.

How Montreal priced out long-term renters as thousands of homes became vacation suites

The Transportation Security Administration is testing new self-screening checkpoint lanes at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas. The new process promises passengers shorter wait lines without the hassle of taking off shoes and outerwear or removing…

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More doctors are charging fees to respond to patient messages.

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The DMA went through its first major challenge with Apple banning Epic Games Sweden from competing with the App Store, and the DMA just had its first major victory. Following a swift inquiry by the European Commission, Apple notified the Commission and Epic…

Google fired an employee who protested this week at an Israeli tech event, and also shuttered an internal discussion board that filled up with dissent.