An exploration and explanation of the Monte Carlo method. This is a computational essay on the Monte Carlo method - some math that really seems like magic to me. The premise of this method is straightforward: Calculating probabilities by giving a simulation…

Nine U.S. states’ economies are expected to slide into contraction within six months -- the most since the financial crisis ended more than a decade ago, according to the latest projections from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

Unregulated surveillance, ruthless bosses, sexual harassment … after years working at tech startups, Anna Wiener is taking them on in Uncanny Valley

Summary of U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate related disaster research, methodology, and data sources

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Over the past couple of months I’ve been exploring the potential of WebAssembly. I wanted to try my hand at creating a more complex WebAssembly application, which is why I’ve been spending my evenings working on a CHIP-8 emulator ... and learning Rust!

Social perception bias might simply be an emergent property of our social networks.

It looks like Torvalds is playing the Uno reverse card.

Desperate bottle-makers turning to a new fuel resulted in a sparkling innovation.

It keeps bailing on deals, leaving companies in the lurch.

Watch a Neural Network learns to shoot a target. Contribute to victorqribeiro/bangBangML development by creating an account on GitHub.

Dead simple games made with word vectors. . Contribute to Hellisotherpeople/Language-games development by creating an account on GitHub.

WASHINGTON/AMSTERDAM/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Trump administration mounted an extensive campaign to block the sale of Dutch chip manufacturing technology to China, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lobbying the Netherlands government and White House…

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I've had about a dozen performance reviews during…

Realizing the promise of digital lidar: Announcing a new family of 128 channel lidar sensors available in long-range, mid-range, and ultra-wide view.

If you are contemplating joining a coding bootcamp in 2020 then let me give you a list of the top scams they use to steal your money (yes, even with an ISA, the #1 scam):

Late in the summer of 1997, two of the most critical players in global aviation became a single tremendous titan. Boeing, one of the US’s largest and most important companies, acquired its longtime plane manufacturer rival, McDonnell Douglas, in what was…

This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.