Children's perception of time is relatively understudied. Learning to see time through their eyes may be fundamental to a happier human experience.

Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI. They are often created with widely available, general-purpose AI applications, most likely ChatGPT, and mimic…

An introduction to signals: a written version of my talk at RustConf 2023.

What do the integers have in common with the symmetries of a triangle? In the 19th century, mathematicians invented groups as an answer to this question.

One of the hardest things for people to understand with distributed systems is that eventual consistency is the same thing as eventual inconsistency. The very...

With fundamental technology change, we don't so much get our predictions wrong as make predictions about the wrong things.

Learn SQL by creating a SQL database in JavaScript - weinberg/SQLToy

A recent release of Nickel added algebraic data types and pattern matching. This blog post explains the motivation behind this addition, the design choices made, the considerations around backward compatibility and how ADTs can be useful for a configuration…

Sometimes I just want to put pixels on a screen. I don’t want to think about SDL this or OpenGL that—I just want to draw my pixel buffer and be done.

September 4, 2024 – “To this day, when I read something that functions as a hinge in my life—a book that rearranges me internally—I won’t reread it.”

LLM chatbots can be engaged in endless "conversations" by considerably simpler text generation bots. This has some interesting implications.

Discuss, discover, and read arXiv papers.

A renewed interest in private cloud is helping drive a 'massive increase in OpenStack demand.' Here's what else is at play.

Slicing huge cruise ships in half, then welding in an extra segment to lengthen them, is more or less a license to print money for cruise operators – so this 'jumboization' surgery is becoming very common. Let's take a look at how it's done.

My new Rust binary search Good programmers use good tools, and binary search is one of the most important tools in your toolbox. That's why you shouldn't accept anything less than the very finest bin…