WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton told students to reject Facebook by deleting their apps from their phones in an address at Stanford University in California on Wednesday.

A simple Prolog Interpreter written in a few lines of Python 3. It runs a limited subset of Prolog and uses backtracking and generators in order to perform its magic. - photonlines/Python-Prolog-In...

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On Sept. 16, 2007, a Japanese YouTuber who goes by the handle “Computing Aesthetic” uploaded a forty-eight-second-long video with…

Common Lisp editor/IDE with high expansibility. Contribute to lem-project/lem development by creating an account on GitHub.

This is not "time well spent."

Thanks for the responses to my previous post about finding roots of polynomials; I now have some new avenues to explore. But today I want to write about something completely different. I recently s…

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The UK could become a cashless society in the next 15 years but nearly half of Britain or 25 million people would struggle without access to cash, according to a new report.

Eating the fungi more than twice a week cut people's risk of memory and language problems, a study found.

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