Back in 1948, the journal Physical Review published a paper ennoscriptd “Space-Time Approach to Quantum Electrodynamics” by a young physicist named R.P. Feynman at Cornell University. The paper described a new way to solve problems in electrodynamics using matrices.…

London blogger The Gentle Author's photographs of the growing trend to leave only the facade of a building while constructing a new one behind.

A small s**tstorm is heading your way, if you're in the business of running code on Intel computers. Here's a sad story about the state of computing in 2019. It'll take a couple of tweets, but it's actually kind of important (?), so please retweet so this…

A framework for how to think about story/IP-based media companies, the upsides and risks in story ecosystems, and the strongest bear case for Disney’s immediate future.

How the Go programming language helped Uber Engineering build and scale our highest queries per second microservice, for geofence lookups.

Engineers have developed a way to control balance in Little HERMES, a two-legged, teleoperated robot — an essential step toward enabling a humanoid to carry out high-impact tasks in challenging environments. The work was done at MIT and the University of…

Facebook, Google, Uber, Amazon - the biggest names in technology - are all in the same business: spying on you. But what does this mean? Author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff traces the currents that led us here and asks how human…

This article explores a seq2seq architecture for solving simple probability problems in Deepmind’s Mathematics Dataset. A transformer is used to map questions to intermediate steps, while an external symbolic calculator evaluates intermediate expressions.…

Statistics about remote work from 2982 companies working remotely in 3381 cities across 132 countries.

Psychologist Robert Epstein argues in a provocative book, "The Case Against Adolescence," that teens are far more competent than we assume, and most of their problems stem from restrictions placed on them.

We provide evidence that bond fund managers misclassify their holdings, and that these misclassifications have a real and significant impact on investor capital

This is a pedagogical implementation of an animated bar chart race. Read on to learn how it works, or fork this notebook and drop in your data! The data for the race is a CSV with columns date (in YYYY-MM-DD format), name, value and optionally category (which…

Deciding between building a mainstream PC and a high-end desktop has historically been very clear cut: if budget is a concern, and you're interested in gaming, then typically a user looks to the mainstream. Otherwise, if a user is looking to do more professional…

1Password, a profitable Toronto-based password manager, has raised $200 million in a massive Series A funding round.

The water and energy use of the mist shower is so low that the bathroom could be taken off-grid and off-pipe even in an urban context.

There is a reason cats prefer meaty wet food to dry kibble, and disdain sugar entirely