Why models always get better when they are bigger and deeper, even when the amount of data they consume stays the same or gets smaller.

With the customer traction we've seen so far, we're delighted to announce that Retool has raised a $50M Series B, led by Sequoia.

Earlier this week, I was doing some work on AWS and wanted to know what IP addresses were being used. Luckily for me, AWS publishes this all here https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json. When you go through this list, you’ll quickly see that AWS has…

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How the Julia language is making it easy for programmers to use GPU capabilities

Worse yet, stripping the IRS, DOJ and SEC of their powers has been a completely bipartisan effort

Why does @instagram continue to store and use all of my contacts?! I disabled access to contacts years ago, and yet they’ve retained the original import - not cool! How do I delete that??

I’ve become increasingly disgruntled at the state of hiring, and now I’m mad enough to write this blog post.

Combining the world’s most popular sport with everyone’s favourite discrete probability distribution, this post predicts football matches using the Poisson distribution.

🛡️ Open-source and next-generation Web Application Firewall (WAF) - bunkerity/bunkerweb

The European Global Navigation Satellite System Galileo has recently been suffering from frequent "almost disruptions", most likely partially due to Corona, and possibly also due to Brexit, but in any case due to some historical stinginess. Before I explain…

When I ask my colleagues why mmap is faster than system calls, the answer is inevitably “system call overhead”: the cost of crossing the…

Today's lawsuit by the Department of Justice is deeply flawed. People use Google because they choose to, not because they're forced to, or because they can't find alternatives.

A breakthrough study, led by researchers from the University of California, Irvine, results in the restoration of retinal and visual functions of mice models suffering from inherited retinal disease.

Great writing can’t be taught, but bad writing can be avoided. Mahoney shares tips to enhance the writing on your personal site, blog, journal, etc.

Trannoscript of my Deserted Island DevOps talk on principles for ecosystem thinking in software

In an article recently published in Physical Review Research, we show how deep learning can help solve the fundamental equations of quantum mechanics for real-world systems. Not only is this an important fundamental scientific question, but it also could…

The National Archives has scanned more than 300 agreements between the United States and Indigenous tribes

A new investigation argues that the politics is delaying electric grid unification