Young children will pass up rewards they know they can collect to explore other options, a new study suggests.

Researchers found that when adults and 4- to 5-year-old children played a game where certain choices earned them rewards, both adults and children…

In my book, A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics, I describe the Taylor Series as a “hammer for every nail.” I learned about another nail in the design of modern smartphone accelerometers from “Eight Amazing Engineering Stories” by Hammack, Ryan, and…

infecting macOS via macro-laden documents and 0days

As the Snowden leaks continue to dribble out, it has become increasingly obvious that most nations  planning for "cyber-war" have been mer...

@rnewman @lizhenry I know some awesome doc writers looking for work. My team - the entire MDN writers team and remains of dev rel - got laid off.

An idiomatic, lean, fast & safe pure Rust implementation of Git - GitoxideLabs/gitoxide

PyPy winds down its membership in the Software Freedom Conservancy Conservancy and PyPy's great work together PyPy joined Conservancy ...

If the official news and the unofficial information come true, I believe that Mozilla will die. Ciao Firefox, ciao Thunderbird.

Personal blog of Christian Haschek

As some people know, I've spent a fair bit of time studying economist Kenneth Arrow whose work on endogenous growth theory and...

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A collection of Jupyter Notebooks for learning Python for Data Science. - blobcity/python-for-data-science

Guest post by Alicia Aldrete As the wife, research assistant, and sometimes coauthor of an ancient historian who teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, I had expected to spend many hours…