This is a thread about a font that's appeared in a lot of video games over the years, and how it was surprisingly challenging to track down its true origin. And no, it's probably not the one you're thinking of (though that one has an interesting story as…

Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University

CDs and DVDs were sold to consumers as these virtually indestructible platters, but the truth, as exemplified by the “disc rot” phenomenon, is more complicated.

Many elementary school teachers are anxious about teaching math, and studies show their students learn less from them. Math should be taught by specialists starting in kindergarten.

Jacob Collier is the internet’s favorite musical virtuoso. Here’s his mostly acapella arrangement of a Christmas carol called “In The Bleak Midwinter.” The most remarkable p…

One thing I like to do to improve the command-line programs I maintain is to make them aware of whether they're being run interactively. In this post …

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https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2019/ Carnegie Mellon University 15-721 Advanced Database Systems Spring 2019

Over a million papers are published in scientific journals each year, and as Stanford University professor John Ioannidis wrote in a now legendary paper published to PLoS Medicine in 2005, most of th

New research makes a molecular connection between the brain and aging — and shows that overactive neurons can shorten life span.

How to be effective in the theatre of work

When James DeLine became a rural doctor, he had no experience treating the Amish, and no idea he'd be at the cutting edge of genetic medicine.

A practical calculating tool, unit
conversion utility, and programming language designed to make physical
calculations simple. It tracks units of measure (feet, meters, kilograms,
watts, etc.) through all calculations, and helps ensure that answers…

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