A former coworker of mine was responding to customer support tickets one day. He was gathering information about a customer issue in order to figure out what was wrong. At some point during this process, his boss intervened and corrected the way he was responding…

Meet Lady Margaret Cavendish.

Elo does not work when different skill levels must play against each other. Can we make a better system?

If you are desperate for 6% smaller Go binaries, this blog post is for you. (I did this experiment to help out Tailscale. Disclosure: I’m an investor.) If binary size doesn’t worry you, well, maybe you’ll find it entertaining.
In order to get example numbers…

A blog by Alex Nixon on programming and software

In a lot of computational math, operations research, such as algorithm design for optimization problems and the like, authors like to use $$\langle \cdot, \cdot \rangle$$ as opposed to $$(\cdot)^T ...

The company will classify QAnon as coordinated harmful activity in part because of a rise in harassment targeting high-profile critics of the president.

You think you need a COO. What you really need is an operating philosophy.

A new study identified 37 recently active volcanic structures on Venus. The study provides some of the best evidence yet that Venus is still a geologically active planet. A research paper on the work, ...

An unlikely marriage where both sides win

Torn between whether to write on Medium or post on your own blog? Here's a cautionary tale.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced Tuesday the establishment of three quantum computing centers across the nation, invo…

A long and convoluted allegory about the difference between what you can acquire and what you can keep.