(Author’s note: I got slightly stuck writing this, so am publishing a somewhat unfinished draft, largely so I can get to the many other items in my blogging queue (there’s a thread on the xi Zulip for those more interested). I can come back to this and do…

Why people living in smaller cities or towns tend to give higher ratings to their communities.

An October 2019 update is still planned, but previews of that will come in spring.

A team of Canadian scientists has developed a fascinating new experimental drug that is purported to result in rapid improvements to both mood and memory following extensive animal testing. It's hoped the drug will move to human trials within the next two…

Student-loan delinquencies surged last year, hitting consecutive records.

Since 2011, e-cigarettes and vaping has increased in teens since 2011, and we still don’t know the long-term health effects

What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer 25 questions to see your own custom dialect map.

Tons of tiny meteorites fall to Earth every day, but are next to impossible to find once they land. At least, that’s what the science community thought. In this pilot episode of our “Trial & Error” experiment series, we go on a hunt for micrometeorites with…

Antitrust agencies are concerned that the autonomous pricing algorithms increasingly used by online vendors may learn to collude. This column uses experiments with pricing algorithms powered by AI in

Multi-task learning and language model pre-training are popular approaches for many of today’s natural language understanding (NLU) tasks…

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Theoretical physicists have known since the 1930s that quantum gravity is necessary to bring order into the laws of nature, but 80…

A site for cybersecurity directives and implementation guidance, from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Why we work too much filling up our weekends leading to no breaks ever.

Interactive article explaining color spaces and how they're used to express color.

London's trade guilds date back a thousand years and have billions of pounds in assets. But have they forgotten their original purpose?