With everyone getting excited about Typenoscript I thought it'd be fun to do a walkthrough of one of my favorite features, type guards. These are type-safe functions that allow us to assert that an argument matches a certain type. The best part is these work…

Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong’s tense two-word report came over the loudspeakers at NASA’s Mission Control in Houston, more of a question than a statement as he and and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin rapidly descended [more...]

Learn why many of the world’s leading companies are choosing Google Cloud to solve their toughest challenges.

When Columbus arrived in the Bahamas in 1492, and when Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot in English) landed on the mainland of North America in 1497, they arrived in a vast land, but also in an equally v…

Bon is a programming language designed with simplicity, performance, and safety in mind. - daniel-p-gonzalez/bon

Researchers at the University of Washington have genetically modified a common houseplant to remove chloroform and benzene from the air around it.

Am I the only one who is skeptical clicking on ads I see online? Yes, I know it is the lifeblood of entrepreneurs , but I really don't care ...

Martin Gibala’s newest study finds that running up a staircase for just 20 seconds, repeated a few times a day, can measurably improve your fitness

The Rationalization of the Attention Market The phenomenon of mass communication is not coupled to any specific technology. Its essential feature is the capacity to articulate a message that satura…

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

Congratulations to these five members of the SIAM community who were recently awarded the James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software, SIAG/CSE Early Career Prize, and SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering.


Jeff Bezanson, Stefan…

Ah, C. The best lingua franca we have… because we have no other lingua francas. Linguae franca. Surgeons general? C is fairly old — 44 years, now! — and comes from a time when there were possibly more architectures than programming languages. It works well…

When we started working on a Continuous Integration solution back in 2011, it was hard to imagine what Travis CI would become. Years later, we’re still continuously working to make our community an...

Employee 1: Hey, truelai, everytime Employee 2 walks by my cubicle, one of my screens blacks out and when it comes back on, it's the wrong...