We live in interesting times. For instance, we are witnessing several extinction events all at once. One of them is the massive extinction of species. The other is the extinction of jobs. Both are …

I've had this blog post in one form or another of draft for several years now. I hesitated to complete it, in part because at the best of times cultural observations can easily be misinterpreted and also in part because of the role I had in working with many…

Sock knitters know this beast: Second Sock Syndrome. What can you do about it? How can you fight it or cope with it? Here are 12 ideas that might help you.

'Wikipedia consensus is that an unedited machine translation, left as a Wikipedia article, is worse than nothing.'

Autumn has come and with it a successor springs As a quick recap or the ‘too long, didn’t read’ (tdlr) version of the intro to the Haiku Alpha series, Be had started life making its own software (B…

The story of water supply in the ancient Roman Empire is grand. The transport and hydraulic control of large quantities of fresh water was one of the factors in the immense, unprecedented success of the Roman Empire. The major Roman cities were located, in…

Andreessen-Horowitz has always been the most levelheaded of the major current year VC firms. While other firms were levering up on “cleantech” and nonsensical biotech startups that viol…

Request for Co-founder This is a new series I’m going to start doing, much in the same spirit as YC’s Request for Startups. RFC doesn’t mean “Request for Comments” — although comments are of course welcome — but rather “Request for Co-founder.” RFC posts…

Posted by Adam Roberts, Staff Software Engineer and Colin Raffel, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research Over the past few years, transfer le...

Netflix is pleased to announce the open-source release of our crisis management orchestration framework: Dispatch!

Time and time again JavaScript is crowned the most popular programming language in the World. Whether you agree with that or not, one…

Roberta Haynes is one of the few people still around who underwent Dr. Mortimer Hartman’s LSD therapy, which captivated Hollywood in the 1950s.

Welcome, This is the index page for my "Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3" small series where I select some rendering tec...

Is there anything we (statisticians) can still learn from Quantum Physics under a classic probability framework?