Today Google bricked my Chromebook by force-installing a hidden extension that trains a machine vision model on the contents of my screen without my consent, making the whole machine too hot to touch, and I am once again begging someone, anyone, to remove…

The US has become a hostile and authoritarian state to foreign scientists and is choosing ideology over science.

A Language Server for Postgres. Contribute to supabase-community/postgres-language-server development by creating an account on GitHub.

Scammers operate everywhere—job recruitment sites, across social media, on dating apps and in your text messages. Arguably the most hurtful and damaging of these scams is romance scams, where the perpetrator spends weeks or months seducing a victim and earning…

Playstacean is a moddified PSOne, and it’s already clawing its way into our hearts.

The one where I deploy counter defences

ESP32-based focus timer with an epaper display and rotary dial - Rukenshia/pomodoro

The inside story of how the CEO of the hottest tech company was ousted and, just as quickly, resurrected.

Researchers have discovered that chimpanzees living in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania employ a degree of engineering when making their tools, deliberately choosing plants that provide materials that produce more flexible tools for termite fishing.

Ever since Stephen Dolan’s 2016 thesis Algebraic Subtyping showed how to combine type inference and subtyping, I’ve been developing increasingly sophisticated programming languages based on those ideas, first IntercalScript in 2019, then CubiML in 2020, PolySubML…

Dear Mark, Since its launch in November last year many people, most buzzing with a kind of algorithmic awe, have sent me songs ‘in the...

Communications Medicine - Pias et al. evaluate machine learning models designed to predict in-hospital mortality and 5-year cancer survivability. Multiple classification models are unable to...

I'm done talking about microservices: the term is confusing, discussions are abstract, and without organisational change, microservices are pointless

“Bypassnro” is an easy MS Account workaround for Home and Pro Windows editions.

A physical chess board without the concept of turns - misprit7/real-time-chess

Christophe Fouquet says the continent’s champions could move elsewhere if they are not better protected

The challenge The authoring platform of choice in many math-heavy disciplines is LaTeX. It produces typeset documents of excellent quality and handles formulas and mathematical diagrams extremely w…

Most of us last saw calculus in school, but derivatives are a critical part of machine learning, particularly deep neural networks, which are trained by optimizing a loss function. This article is an attempt to explain all the matrix calculus you need in…