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As the field of machine learning has become ever more popular, a litany of online courses has emerged claiming to teach the skills necessary to “build a career in AI”. Is that what they do, though?

Are you young, newly rich from stock trading and ready to take the plunge in options? Wall Street is following your every move.

A research collaboration between Queen Mary University of London, the University of Cambridge and the Institute for High Pressure Physics in Troitsk has discovered the fastest possible speed of sound.

Prosecutors for the Justice Department and state attorney general offices are discussing ways of curbing the search giant's market power as they prepare to sue the company.

Not everything is black and white—unless you're talking about today's car colors, apparently.

Demoing products is Rob Falcone's bread and butter. Now he wants to pass the wisdom of his experience along so others can demo better.

Stunning hand-colored transparencies of life in Meiji-era Japan, from the Canadian businessman Herbert Geddes’ collection, acquired in Yokohama from 1908–1918.

Be a creator, not just a consumer.

Here’s a simple way to transmit audio to people who wear T-coil-equipped hearing aids

Several years ago, I developed a public lecture on the cosmic distance ladder in astronomy from a historical perspective (and emphasising the role of mathematics in building the ladder). I previous…

Remembering the maverick physicist who pioneered an “anthropic” approach to cosmology

I grew up ski racing in Lake Tahoe.

There’s an art to being a performer whose face will never be seen.

Part 1 - Complexity This world is a complex, interconnected web of systems. We've tried to make sense of this by creating various (seemingly-unrelated) disciplines. With the huge number of disciplines, I think you'll agree with me when I say that it's impossible…

A collection of postmortems. Sorry for the delay in merging PRs! - danluu/post-mortems

I recently created a macOS app called Slack Lite, which beats Slack's desktop app across a few performance metrics. Slack Lite uses Slack's official UI, so it's visually indistinguishable from the official client. Even so, Slack Lite uses 5x fewer threads…

Browse and download high-resolution, public domain Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations and Posters.