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.

Last January the Dell XPS 13 developer edition (9370) made its debut.  Today we’re excited to announce that one year later its successor, the XPS 13 developer edition (9380), is now available…

Oracle has allegedly withheld $400 million in wages from racially underrepresented workers (black, Latinx and Asian) as well as women, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs said in a filing today. The OFCCP is the office…

Managers and professional employees who have boring and dull jobs themselves are more likely to design demotivating, disengaging, low-skill and repetitive jobs for others, new research led by Curtin University ...

It might sound ridiculous to say math can be racist. But when we rely on it to make decisions, it's just as flawed as we are.