Almost 200 years before scientists accepted black holes exist, a British clergyman called John Michell published some surprisingly prescient ideas about these strange cosmic objects.

Robert Barsky examines the profound impact of "Homage to Catalonia" on Noam Chomsky's early embrace of left-libertarian and anarchist ideologies.

The AI bubble is reaching a tipping point. As we continue to follow the GPUs, navigating what comes next will be essential.

Remove unwanted background noise and achieve studio quality audio for any film, podcast, or interview

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The 2024 Abel Laureate Michel Talagrand shares his advice to young mathematicians.

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Edited by Eivind Lotsberg

Getting my location history from Google and analyzing it with Python.

If you are a Mac user, or if you have transferred files from Mac to Windows, you’re probably familiar with .DS_Store files. But where does this name come from?

It really should be acceptable and normal to say “I don’t entirely understand what I just read, but I loved it.”

On the freaky model world of the Dollomites; plus—more lucid dreaming and a roundup of recent favorites.

The cause is just as concerning as the color.

A detailed blog post on optimizing multi-threaded matrix multiplication for x86 processors to achieve OpenBLAS/MKL-like performance. Tags: High-performance GEMM on CPU, Fast GEMM on CPU, High-performance matrix multiplication on CPU, Fast Matrix Multiplication…

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Trackmania: the world's most competitive racing game. In this post, we begin our journey towards training a neural network to superhuman performance, by chronicling the history of previous attempts.

This is a story of how it took me way too long to ship a product, and I ended up paying for a competitor product instead.

Las Vegas’ $2.3 billion immersive flagship takes a distressingly prophetic look inward.

If you’re designing a universal port, you will be expected to provide power. This was a lesson learned in the times of LPT and COM ports, where factory-made peripherals and DIY boards alike h…