A couple years ago, a poet friend asked me for advice on opening a non-profit small press bookstore and arts space. My wife, visual artist Marina Eckler, had recently opened...

Despite decades of research on materialism, there are few viable strategies for reducing materialism in younger consumers. In this paper, we present two studies conducted among over 900 adolescents...

Ezra Klein and Sam Harris are usually intellectual adversaries. They butted heads earlier this year on the topic of the science of IQ, which was just one battle in the larger war waged by the “intellectual dark web” against mainstream leftism and identity…

I recently learned that in the mid 90s in Japan, the Super Nintendo had a peripheral called a Satellaview, which was a satellite modem that would receive data broadcasts from Nintendo.

Fixing things will be tricky

Hi. In this article I will tell you about a rendering technique known as raymarching with distance fields , capable of producing highly deta...

Reading medieval literature, it’s hard not to be impressed with how much the characters get done—as when we read about King Harold…

Google’s engineering education and ML fairness teams developed a 60-minute self-study training module on fairness, which is now available publicly as part of our popular Machine Learning Crash Course

When receiving bytes from the network, we often assume that they are unicode strings, encoded using something called UTF-8. Sadly, not all streams of bytes are valid UTF-8. So we need to check the strings. It is probably a good idea to optimize this problem…

Scientific Reports - The genetics of university success

An extremely fast non-cryptographic high-quality hash function.

We'll soon find it hard to know with our own eyes if a video is real or generated by AI, but new algorithms are staying one or two steps ahead of the fakers.

Cross-platform C++11 header-only library for memory mapped file IO - vimpunk/mio

A friend doing a job search recently asked me:
A choice I will likely have is whether to work at a larger company… or a startup… I was wondering if you had any particular feelings on this question.
In the long run I’m hoping to work at a non-startup…

Buggy updates point at deeper problems.

Slowdown of detached home sales, speculation-tax avoidance, Airbnb rules bring flood of high-end houses onto rental market, creating “desperation” as owners slash rents

A legal letter of note

FontStruct’s love affair with a neglected programming language