About a year ago, I was contacted by Masterclass (a subscription-based online education company) on the possibility of producing a series of classes with the premise of explaining mathematical ways…

Researchers from the University of Illinois developed GPU-accelerated software to simulate a cell that metabolizes and grows like a living cell.

The discovery may actually signal good news for both species, experts say.

The RGB curtain predictably turns into a mess of wires when not used according to instructions. As should be obvious from this blog, I am somewhat drawn to clever and minimalistic implementations o…

‘A watershed in furthering our understanding of these structures,’ researcher says

Dubbed the Quark, the motor weighs just 63 pounds.

When I started dating my partner, I quickly noticed that grad school was making her very sad.
This was shortly after I’d started leading an engineering team at Wave, and so the “obvious” hypothesis to me was that the management (okay, “management”) one gets…

MIT chemical engineers have created a new material that is stronger than steel, as light as plastic, and can be easily manufactured in large quantities.

Nature - Two of the first people treated with CAR-T-cell cancer therapies are still in remission 12 years on.

A simple principle to help structure code better

Solving novel problems and setting a new milestone in competitive programming.

Abstract. During the 1918–19 influenza pandemic, many local authorities made the controversial decision to close schools. We use newly digitized data from newspaper archives on the length of school closures for 165 large U.S. cities during the 1918–19 flu…

Design shortcuts meant to make a new plane seem like an old, familiar one are to blame

Sha256 algorithm explained online step by step visually

I recently wrote that managing an external display on Linux shouldn’t be this hard. I went down a path of trying out some different options before finally landing at an unexpected place: KDE.…

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