The availability of the government of the United States of America.

Americans consumed almost 37 pounds per capita in 2017, but that wasn't enough to reduce the country's 1.4 billion-pound cheese surplus. The stockpile of cheese started to build several years ago.

Why Wittgenstein’s theories are the basis of all modern NLP

A New Zealand libertarian blog about Austrian economics, organic architecture, romantic realist art, Ayn Rand, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Von Mises

Amazon DocumentDB is a serverless, fully managed, MongoDB API-compatible document database service.

An increasing amount of information today is generated, exchanged, and stored
digitally. This also includes long-lived and highly sensitive information
(e.g., electronic health records,...

‘User-centric’ licensing is where the royalties from a streaming subnoscription only go to the artists who that subscriber listens to.

For decades, canneries around San Jose’s Diridon Station processed the fruits of the fertile “Valley of Heart’s Delight,” now known as Silicon Valley. Opened in 1935, what was then called Cahill Depot was a rail depot for the Southern Pacific Railroad. The…

The authors of an much-ballyhooed 2017 paper about the spread of fake news on social media have retracted their article after finding that they’d botched their analysis. The paper, “Limited individ…

Adrian Kummerländer's blog on software development, linux and open source

AWS launched DocumentDB today, a new database offering that is compatible with the MongoDB API. The company describes DocumentDB as a “fast, scalable, and highly available document database that is designed to be compatible with your existing MongoDB applications…

From Markdown to PDF via HTML and CSS.

In many parts of America, like Corinth, Miss., judges are locking up defendants who can’t pay — sometimes for months at a time.

Hi fellow Elmers, IBM has just released Decision Composer, a free and limited offering of our Operational Decision Management (ODM - ex ILOG JRules) product. A good portion of the front end is written in Elm, so I thought I’d share the link here, and post…

Nature Medicine - Analysis of electrocardiograms using an end-to-end deep learning approach can detect and classify cardiac arrhythmia with high accuracy, similar to that of cardiologists.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed image yet of a close neighbour of the Milky Way — the Triangulum Galaxy, a spiral galaxy located at a distance of only three million light-years. This panoramic survey of the third-largest…