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.

Science and literature alike are readers of the world. And, sooner or later, both lead us to the unreadable, the boundary at which the unintelligible begins.

Load Balancers plays a key role in Web Architecture. In this post we are going to develop a simple load balancer with power of Go

The internet is often derided as the place productivity and well-being go to die. But if it can democratize expertise that judgment might start to look premature.

In response to the call for blogs about the vision for Rust for 2020, I’m going to write about GUI. I believe the time is right for a native GUI toolkit written in Rust, and that such a thing would fill a very important niche. There is a demand for performance…

I’m depressed. I’m depressed because the word on the street is that Boeing will not be moving forward with its so-called “new midsize airplane,” or NMA, also known as the 797. That’s the rumor, at any rate. If built, the 797 would bridge the range and capacity…

Hear from Andrej Karpathy on how Tesla is using PyTorch to develop full self-driving capabilities for its vehicles, including AutoPilot and Smart Summon.

In my spare time I’m an emergency services volunteer, and one of the tasks our unit has is to run the radio network and keep track of what’s happening. This can be a pretty stressful job, especially when there’s lots of radio traffic, and it’s not unusual…