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

(UPDATE: Mommy Saver Plus has been reinstated!  This after I posted this on HN, tweeted at them, and sent a slightly-too-passive-aggressive ...

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.

A little known story about how @paulg, writing a comment in the newborn Hacker News, inspired the creation of Redis. At some point he wrote that in certain Lisp programs he wrote there was this pattern of just storing data in memory, logging on disk what…