Thomas Hales This review gives a mathematician’s perspective on Lean. What is great about Lean? I turned to Lean when I started looking for a system with more foundational strength than HOL-L…

After 3.5 years of development, Buttplug, the open source intimate haptics controls library created and maintained by Nonpolynomial, has finally arrived at its v1 release. Fitting that it’s also the first real blog post on the new Nonpolynomial Blog! For…

Convicted copyright troll lawyer Paul Hansmeier is currently in prison but that isn't stopping him from tracking down pirates.

The coronavirus can cause insomnia and long-term changes in our nervous systems. But sleep could also be a key to ending the pandemic.

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A Passaic County man says he spent a year trying to clear his name after Woodbridge police relied on facial recognition software to identify him a suspect.

Scientists have turned CO2 into jet fuel, hinting at a future where aircraft could have net zero emissions without relying on electric motors..

Hey guys! Here, we'll be discussing our experience building and reimagining Corewars, a computer game from the 80's played in Assembly, and deploying it in an Indian university as an educational, technical, entrepreneurial experiment!

Small drones will be allowed to fly over people and at night in the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Monday, a significant step toward their use for widespread commercial deliveries.

[In this reprinted #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, id Software co-founder and technical director John Carmack looks at the value in programming in a functional style with C++.] Probably everyone reading this has heard "functional programming" put forth as…

There's an old joke that computer science is a lie, because its not really about computers, and its not really a science. Funny joke. Everyone laughs, then someone says "Yeah but it sort of is about computers though, isn't it?". Feet shuffle awkwardly. Someone…

While building a timer app I came across a peculiarity with displaying time and found out that the iPhone timer addresses it by showing you a fake time.

Fujifilm has announced that it has set a new world record by creating a magnetic storage tape that can store a staggering 580 terabytes of data. The breakthrough, developed jointly with IBM Research, uses a new magnetic particle called Strontium Ferrite (SrFe)…

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The man who coined Eroom’s law, on the end of an era in drug R&D, the frontier of drug discovery, and COVID-19.