Meet two brothers working to preserve the Fulani language and the culture embedded within it.

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In the popular trend of unintentionally horrifying “uplifting” news, out-of-touch corporate media give us supposedly charming, wholesome and positive news that actually, upon even minimal...

A guest post on the strange lives of octopuses.

Lawmakers ban plastic straws as a far worse kind of waste covers the streets of San Francisco and L.A.

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Employers are seeing a surge in CVs from Gen Z job applicants containing photos and illustrations; ‘there’s a freaking bitmoji’

It’s possible that the only thing engineers hate more than a nasty bug is interviewing. Interviews are interruptions from deep work…

Model-free reinforcement learning (RL) can be used to learn effective policies for complex tasks, such as Atari games, even from image observations. However, this typically requires very large...

I was very excited when I first used YAML, but some real-world usage showed it's not so great after all

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