Kristina Lustig, formerly our Director of Design, explains why she took a new role as an associate software developer.

This book will help you master algorithms programming using Lisp, including using the most important data structures and algorithms. This book also covers the essential tools that help in the development of algorithmic code to give you all you need to enhance…

Nature - Nearly half a million genomes reveal five DNA markers associated with sexual behaviour — but none with the power to predict the sexuality of an individual.

Walking is one of the simplest and most strategic things you can do for yourself. It takes little preparation, minimal effort, no special equipment, and it can contract or expand to fit the exact amount of time you have available. According to the Centers…

I turned 30 last week and a friend asked me if I'd figured out any life advice in the past decade worth passing on.  I'm somewhat hesitant to publish this because I think these lists usually seem...

Terraria co-creator Andrew Spinks is the latest high-profile victim of Google’s ban-first, answer-questions-never approach to creators on its platform, but the problem goes back over a decade. Like countless internet users, Spinks had loads of money and data…

Stephen Wolfram explores multiway Turing machines, finding some significant surprises. A look at ordinary vs. multiway, simple rules, visualization and multispace, causal graphs, causal invariance, finite tapes.

How to format blog content so it’ll last.

My talk should be on in about an hour and a half from when I post this. A possible next evolutionary step for computers is persistent memory: large capacity non-volatile main memory. With a few terabytes of nonvolatile RAM, who needs an SSD any more? I will…

A post about my personal opinion on blockchain (spoiler: I'm not a fan)

Last night during Super Bowl LV, Mountain Dew ran an ad featuring John Cena riding through a Mountain Dew-themed amusement park. Bottles are scattered all over the scene: neon signs on buildings, in fun house mirrors, and flying out of the car trunk. At the…

The NYT's Taylor Lorenz falsely accuses a tech investor of using a slur after spending months trying to infiltrate and monitor a new app that allows free conversation.

Bob McDonald's blog: A simple backyard procedure results in see-through wood with enormous potential as a building material.

Over the last several weeks, developer Kosta Eleftheriou has been highlighting many apparent scam applications on the App Store. The formula for each scam application is virtually identical, and it centers on fake reviews and ratings paired with a deceptive…

The task came with a sense of helplessness. We knew what "great" looked like, but it was impractical to build all of that functionality.

After 1405 nights of observation over 6 years, astronomers at three observatories have produced an image of the night sky that contains 10 trillion pixels of data and depicts over a billion galaxies. Bad Astronomy's Ph

This paper shows that models which result from gradient descent training (e.g., deep neural nets) can be expressed as a weighted sum of simi...