An iOS Dev’s intro to graphics, and a Graphics Engineer’s intro to ARKit

Attention conservation notice: Over 7800 words about optimal planning for a socialist economy and its intersection with computational complexity theory. This is about as relevant to the world aroun…

In order to improve the quality of my trannoscription of the 1879 edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, I collate the text against the Google Books version. Although the OCR is faulty, it is helpful fo…

Over the past few years, ever since writing " If Susan Can Learn Physics, So Can You ", I've been contacted by people from all backgrounds who are inspired and want to learn physics, but don't know where to start, what to learn, what to read, and how to structure…

NIMBYism is partly to blame

When Bill Gates visited Wired in 1996 the editors interviewed him. I don't think we ever did anything with the interview. I had completely forgotten I had video'ed it.

A city’s battle to take back its streets from the streetwalkers, one illegal turn at a time.

"Stone babies"—or lithopedions—are incredibly rare.

GoCity is an implementation of the Code City metaphor for visualizing Go source code.

Piston engine starting system

Uber built Michelangelo, our machine learning platform, in 2015. Three years later, we reflect on our journey to scaling ML across the company.

They say you can’t be a little bit pregnant, but maybe a number can be a little bit prime

Uncle Sam's snoops got sloppy with online chat, it seems

"Collect gold in the troubled times; collect antiques in the flourishing age." This old Chinese saying has been disseminated through society as a weather vane for good investment for generations.

There have been some potentially significant developments in Parkinson's disease, which is a good thing to be able to report. As populations age around the world, PD has been on its way up, but therapies for it have not been, despite a good deal of work in…

Edge co-location and data center as a platform service, stitching together a network of fully-managed micro data centers deeply embedded in the urban fabric

Yesterday, during a BlizzCon Q&A shortly after the announcement of mobile game Diablo Immortal, a fan in a red shirt approached the mic. “Just was wondering,” he said in a deadpan tone, “is this an out-of-season April Fool’s joke?” The audience cheered. It…

There's a bunch of gross stuff, besides human bodies, hiding under graveyards.