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...

Enhance your application with the ability to see and interact with humans using any RGB camera. - GitHub - quic/sense: Enhance your application with the ability to see and interact with humans usin...

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Performance comparison of web application frameworks using community-contributed test implementations.

Tesla bought $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin, the company said in a regulatory filing on Monday, effectively putting nearly all of the money it earned on clean car credits towards the world’s f…

Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said the attacker tried to raise levels of sodium hydroxide, also known as lye, by a factor of more than 100.