If you have heard of word vectors, you will probably know they enable a type of algebra on words. So, for example,

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Earlier this week a friend of mine was talking about nerd culture, and was surprised when I mentioned that I don’t like it. I avoid nerd culture and, despite being the exact target demographi…

When someone says “military grade” anything, remember that classified documents were stolen from an open FTP server run by a guy who’d just received his military issued cyber security awareness award.

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New findings are fueling an old suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called “octonions.”…

In the wake of the recent Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, it

A new Munker illusion, which I call confetti. All the dots in the background are the same color (RGB 250, 219, 172) but are perceived as four different colors. The differences are subtle, though, and depend on the size of the image when it's viewed. cc @AkiyoshiKitaoka