The fast food industry's latest trend is offering vegetarian takes on old standards, with none of the health benefits of vegetables.

In his new book, The Years That Matter Most, Paul Tough explores whether higher education offers students true social mobility.

Learn about attention mechanisms and how they are applied for text recognition tasks. We will also use tensorflow attention ocr to train our own number plate reader.

The TypeScript 3.7 release is coming soon, and it's going to be a big one. The target release date is November 5th, and there's some seriously exciting...

This post was co-written with Zack Sultan, Lead Product Designer at Slack In 2016, Slack was two years old and already used by millions of people. Our codebase had grown rapidly, and like many companies that focused on product/market fit, our code was built…

Building a better Go linker Austin Clements 2019-09-12 golang.org/s/better-linker Motivation As the scale of software built in Go grows, both the memory consumption and performance of the Go linker have become a problem for our users. We’ve had a fire drill…

What is the ideal pillow? In Chinese culture, the ideal shifted over time, and views on a good sleep also reveal attitudes about studying, love, food and drink.

The city of Dunkirk in northern France launched a revamped bus system last year with a twist – it’s completely free. A new study shows that the programme is not only revitalising the city center but…

A vector and matrix library written in C# using hardware intrinsics - john-h-k/MathSharp

Preview version of an open source tool that enables developers to run their AWS DynamoDB™ workloads on Apache Cassandra™. With the proxy, developers can run DynamoDB workloads outside of AWS (inclu...

Hello! I’ve released a new zine! It’s called “HTTP: Learn your browsers language!”

Skunk Works needed a way to hide the A-12's radar reflecting behind, so they dumped cesium into its fuel to create a radar-absorbing exhaust plume.