Background: In 2017, patients on a generic or branded antidepressant venlafaxine were switched to a new generic formulation (Enlafax). In February and April 2018, two major NZ media outlets






ran stories about the new generic being less effective and…

Crackdown from regulators comes just as the internet giant’s vulnerability is showing up on its own.

I found this article on the front page of the New York Times today and it is funny as I had been planning on writing this myself whenever...

Findings challenge a popular belief that curiosity in general is the prime driver of learning

The past few months have been quite hectic with a slew of gigantic changes requiring lengthy articles alongside them. These big features all hitting together seems to have brought up a talking point in the community would be irresponsible to ignore. Everyone…

The term “anti-pattern” is a derogatory term used to disparage software design approaches that a given developer or group of developers may not like. The term started its life as a usef…

A compiler is just a part of Emnoscripten. What if we stripped away all the bells and whistles and used just the compiler?

The programmer supposedly used face recognition to match social-media photos with images from porn sites. Collecting that data would have been illegal in some countries but not others.

If you mean a piece of spent fuel that is 30+ years old, probably nothing; certainly nothing obvious and immediate. However, you would receive a higher internal (committed) dose than many occupational regulations allow, and have a marginally highe...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell gave a speech a couple of weeks back that showed that financial regulators have learned many lessons from the 2008 financial crisis, but not the most important one, namely:
If regulators wait to act until they can say…

The men, whose story will be brought to life in Netflix’s “When They See Us,” discuss the mini-series with their onscreen counterparts.

I’ve been researching for this post for quite a while and of necessity it’s going to be my longest post.  Ilya Starinov is arguably the most important person in the history of IEDs and in…

increased automation has not reduced our workload. Why not? What if it did?

A Tesla Model S has caught on fire and completely burned down while plugged in at Tesla’s Supercharger station in Antwerp,...

10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Minus 3-Month Treasury Constant Maturity

The defence minister said the response by authorities was "correct", in a rare acknowledgement of events.

May was a momentous month, which marked a victory for sanity and pragmatism over irrational paranoia. I'm obviously not talking about politics. I'm