The Album de Statistique Graphique is a set of annual publications of data visualizations in France in the late 1800’s. I first heard about them from Michael Friendly a decade ago and have al…

ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Agency Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and National Science Foundation (NSF) are teaming up to collaborate on a new program noscriptd: Real Time Machine Learning (RTML), which seeks to reduce the design costs associated with developing…

programming, language design, and human factors

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In the late 1970s, 52 percent of 12th-graders hung out with their friends almost every day. By 2017, only 28 percent were doing so.

The fast-food giant's largest acquisition in 20 years is bringing machine learning to the drive-thru.

Read this page on the Filament Group website

Syllabus with assigned readings and final examination for Thomas Schelling's 1970 undergraduate course at Harvard ""Conflict, Coalition and Strategy".

How can mass-copying pages from web publishers without a license not be considered copyright infringement?

Just how expensive do prenoscription drugs need to be to fund innovative research?

"A beautiful space for reading and writing" and pivoting.

a tool for thinking in systems

Monitoring systems were looking for attacks using technique popularized by the NSA.

How Asmara in Eritrea unintentionally became a cycling paradise.

Design and code to deploy a self-hosted content delivery network.

Logs from the application level are the only way your application talks back to you. Having proper logs with commendable search capabilities is like having a torch in a dark room.