Ignore the Noise, Go to the Signal In a former life I was a history student. I wasn’t very good at it, and one of my weaknesses was an unwillingness to cut out the second-hand nonsense and re…

They have led to a proliferation of fake news and clickbait, fuelled surveillance capitalism and normalised pervasive tracking and data-mining. Then there’s their effect on democracy ...

LuaJIT 2.0 bytecode parser, viewer, assembler and test VM. Lua 5.1 parser, IDE and debugger. - rochus-keller/LjTools

Airships lost out to conventional aircraft after a series of disastrous crashes. But now safer technology could be the key to their return.

A century and a half of research and discovery.

Some days ago, driven by boredom, I implemented my own Markov chains in Haskell by following this great tutorial. Markov chains can be a way of implementing really fun “dumb” group chat bots, that can generate new random messages that sound realistic based…

A British historian famously wrote that work expands to fill available time – but what was he actually saying about inefficiency?

France's nuclear energy spending was 60% of what Germany spent on renewables. France gets about 400 Terawatt hour per year from nuclear but Germany gets 226

Learn more about how the Rust programming language shares many of the advantages offered by Haskell such as a strong type system, great tooling, polymorphism, immutability, concurrency, and great software testing methodologies. Rust is a good choice when…

“We will make decisions that hurt the business if they help people’s well-being and health,” says Instagram’s CEO Adam Mosseri. To that end, next week Instagram will expand to some users in the United States its test of hiding Like counts from everyone but…

A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.

A diet high in added sugar, impossible to escape in processed foods, has been linked to diabetes, heart disease and possibly cancer

Recent revelations in India show that the threat from the company’s spyware to activists and journalists isn’t limited to autocratic regimes.