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...

In Python’s Numpy library lives an extremely general, but little-known and used, function called einsum() that performs summation according to Einstein’s summation convention. In this t…

In early 2018, a physics student named Jan Böhmer created...

Hanging out with the matchmaker who impersonates her clients online.

The NewsGuard tool was previously only available as a desktop plug-in.

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What happens when you raise money in a high-cost market like San Francisco and then spend it somewhere more affordable? VC arbitrage. This post breaks out how purchasing power varies across cities and provides a helpful tool for evaluating yours.

How many ad blocks could an ad slinger block if an ad slinger could block blocks?

In this blogpost I explore how ODE’s can be used to solve data modelling problems. I take a deep dive into the data modelling problem at hand and present ODE...

DiffEqFlux.jl – A Julia Library for Neural Differential Equations...

Why the effect of Egypt's Aswan Dam is not the example of unintended consequences that people believe.

It’s a question I get asked frequently, most recently by a colleague who was shocked to find that his new pair of prenoscription eyeglasses cost about $800.

Lenders are turning to borrowers with harder-to-document finances, helping drive growth in the kind of home loans that helped fuel the housing meltdown.