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…

This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline

My heart breaks when my friends conflate the two terms: understanding the difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’ is the first step toward building a more equitable society

This is something I posted on python-ideas, but I think it's interesting to a wider audience. There's been a lot of discussion recently ab...

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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An explanation of why you should favor procedural programming over Object-Oriented Programming (OOP).

Why a boring evening routine is key to morning productivity

Gwern has answered my prayers and taught GPT-2 poetry. GPT-2 is the language processing system that OpenAI announced a few weeks ago. They are keeping the full version secret, but have released a s…

I was checking the other day and was appalled at how long it has been since I posted here.  I had been working a job during 2018 that had me traveling 3,600 miles by air every week so that is at le…

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The critical rules to keep in mind when designing an event-driven architecture

Types in programming languages are used to be written to the left of names, but are now moving to the right in modern languages. Why?

With China no longer accepting used plastic and paper, communities are facing steep collection bills, forcing them to end their programs or burn or bury more waste.

I purchased an iPad Pro with the Smart Keyboard and Pencil to use as my main computer. Can it replace my local workstation? Is it powerful enough for my day-to-day tasks? Let's find out.