A seminal paper from 2000 investigated the impact of blind auditions in orchestras, and found that they increased the proportion of women in symphony orchestras. I investigate the study, and find that there is no good evidence presented.

Today the @nytimes chose to eliminate my role, stating that there is no need for a dedicated focus on newsroom and journalistic security. I strongly believe in what I do (and what we did), and to say I’m disappointed would be an understatement. (1/3)

New research finds that high-tech inventors are significantly more productive when they work in large clusters—but there are drawbacks.

German photographer Tom Hegen (previously), who specializes in aerial photography, recently traveled to the Netherlands to document the country’s LED greenhouses. The greenhouses were developed as a response to the small country’s growing need for food both…

Max Winter beat me to the punch: I was prepared to write something on the exhaustion of present-day verbal comedy and the absence of anything in the way of physical comedy to take its place, when his post “Slapstick Last: Why a Modern-Day Harold Lloyd Is…

In the 1930s big auto dreamed up freeways and demanded massive car infrastructure. Micromobility needs its own Futurama—one where cars are marginalized.

By most accounts, the release of iOS 13 and macOS 10.15 Catalina have been troubled, with numerous significant bugs making it past Apple’s internal testing and the public beta phase. Former Apple engineer David Shayer explains the underlying reasons these…

I've been using Ubuntu as my workstation OS for several months now. Ubuntu Server with the i3 window manager to be specific.

Mozilla ended support for the Firefox Lockwise app on Android and iOS, effective December 13, 2021, and integrated its functionality into Firefox mobile.

Prof. Andy Pavlo (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/)
Slides: https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2019/slides/01-introduction.pdf
Notes https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2019/notes/01-introduction.pdf

15-445/645 Intro to Database Systems (Fall 2019)
Carnegie…