Harvard’s Marc Lipsitch said evidence indicates that the international cordon keeping coronavirus cases bottled up in China is a leaky one, and it’s likely that the relative handful of global cases reported so far are undercounted. If true, that will lead…

Some hints and tips for getting started with Mypy and introducing it to existing projects

I’m tired of hearing about Grace Hopper, Margaret Hamilton, and Ada Lovelace. Can’t we think of someone else for once? I went ahead and compiled a bunch of really important women according to some fairly arbitrary rules:
There’s a specific thing you can…

C++ exceptions have their place, but using an alternative is recommended for general program flow control.

Fast web applications through dynamic, partially-stateful dataflow - mit-pdos/noria

A tool for editing version-control repositories and translating among different systems. Supports git, bzr, Subversion, darcs, and fossil directly, also hg, CVS, and RCS through plugins.

Jessica Taylor recently wrote a post objecting to what she describes as appeals to consequences. In general an appeal to consequences is saying that "X would have bad consequences" means that "X is false", but Jessica is using it in a broader way, to include…

Walter Huang, who died in 2018 after his Tesla Model X slammed into a concrete barrier, had previously complained about the SUV malfunctioning on the same stretch of Silicon Valley freeway, according to NTSB documents.

A neuroscientist, he showed how an unrelenting barrage of stress hormones can break down the body, leading to disease, depression, obesity and more.

Posted by Sergei Glazunov and Mark Brand, Project Zero Introduction It was a normal week in the Project Zero office when we got an inte...

Many people, beleaguered college students especially, can find it challenging to appreciate mathematics because of the way it’s presented…

Case Fatality Rate (CFR), Infection Fatality Rate (IFR), and Crude Mortality Rate (CMR) latest estimates for the COVID-19 disease from the SARS-CoV-2 virus originating from Wuhan, China

February 10, 2020 4 minutes read The mythical book, Mythical man month quotes that no matter the programming language chosen, a professional developer will write on average 10 lines of code (LoC) day. After 14 years of full-time development on the tool NDepend…

Push messages are an essential part of connected mobile devices. They arealso one of the critical missing pieces in the open source Androidecosystem. Until n...

When making a first full backup of less than 2 GB takes 86 minutes, and you then can’t restore from it anyway.