A quarter-century ago, Napster was the talk of the town, triggering a global piracy frenzy that never disappeared.

The pace of innovation in AI is slowing, its usefulness is limited, and the cost of running it remains exorbitant

Produced while being an affiliate at PIBBSS[1]. The work was done initially with funding from a Lightspeed Grant, and then continued while at PIBBSS.…

From fighters to tankers, the Upside-Down Air Force has tested numerous inverted aircraft since the early 1970s.

Managers in Washington accused of hounding staff to keep quiet over quality concerns, as employees point to union-busting

A life by example

In a post to China’s popular WeChat platform last week, one writer bemoaned the shocking loss of nearly a full decade of information from the early days of the country’s domestic internet. Within hours the writer's reflections had vanished too.

Lead programmer talks Lua’s flexibility, challenges, and integration with Defold game engine after 60k lines of code in Craftomation 101.

The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit.

Albert Einstein used to say that he went to his office at the Institute for Advanced Study “just to have the privilege of walking home with Kurt Gödel.” The two would meet at Einstein’s home each day between 10 and 11 and undertake the half-hour walk to the…

Smaller programs that do less work.

A path to continued model improvement.

I regularly hear or read statements like this: “X is slow but this is to be expected because it needs to do a lot of work”. It can be said about an application or a component in a larger system, and can refer to other resources that aren’t time. I often find…