In the era of Big Data, we’ve come to believe that, with enough information, human behavior is predictable. But number crunching can lead us perilously wrong.

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The vehicle was parked directly outside the hotel doors.

We’re sharing details about Glean, Meta’s open source system for collecting, deriving, and working with facts about source code. In this blog post we’ll talk about why a system like Glean is import…

My friend, the photographer Paul Clarke has an uncanny eye for detail. Every single shot he publishes is beautiful - they capture life in a way that I don't have the language to describe. I'm quite content to point my phone at someone, use the default settings…

Nature - From deciphering burnt Roman scrolls to reading crumbling cuneiform tablets, neural networks could give researchers more data than they’ve had in centuries.

New Year’s Day 2025 By the mid 1700s in England there was a curious juxtaposition between the lore of New Year’s Day and the law of New Year’s Day. The legal system, the government, the estab…

Shredos Disk Eraser 64 bit for all Intel 64 bit processors as well as processors from AMD and other vendors which make compatible 64 bit chips. ShredOS - Secure disk erasure/wipe - PartialVolume/sh...

Keeping my laptop clean by developing in a virtual machine

Passengers on several of the carrier’s flights said the biting pests were on seats, blankets and in overhead bins and that the airline did not take action.

This is the 25-year story of how I fell into the field of AI.

Why companies don't reward glue work and why you shouldn't do it all the time

A second is now defined in terms of periods of radiation from a cesium atom. Why was this necessary? Why cesium? What the particular number of periods?

While both figures are rough, a recent estimate for number of trees on Earth exceeds the highest estimates for the number of stars in the Milky Way.

It's been well known for many decades that exercise provides many benefits to our health. But a new scientific consortium is revealing new insights into just how profound exercise can be for the human body. William Brangham discussed more with Euan Ashley…