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.

Old-School Disk Partitions Unix started out life in 1970. Many of the things it did, it had to invent on the fly. Disk handling was one of t...

How the Spanish arrival transformed the land—and decimated the population—of Mesoamerica.

“Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C.
Every line of code written comes at a price: maintenance. To...

By Stanislav Kirdey, William High

The assay looks for stomach, esophageal, colorectal, lung and liver malignancies

Attachment theory suggests that early interactions with caregivers can dramatically affect your beliefs about yourself, your expectations of others, and how you cope with stress and regulate your emotions as an adult

There is no Amazon. There is no eBay. If you want to buy a dress or a crested finch from the comfort of your home, you have to use Facebook.