Our success is based on scientific discovery, so it's not surprising how much faith we put into it. But we now trust science so implicitly that our trust undermines the institution itself.

I've always been curious about the story of Bell Labs – how it was formed, why it was successful, its challenges and struggles, innovation engine, people, its organizational structure, operations, and its legacy. The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner is an excellent…

Party like a Sumerian: reinterpreting the ‘sceptres’ from the Maikop kurgan - Volume 96 Issue 385

Researchers thought the mineral was impossible to find on Earth's surface.

For Bitcoin, there’s only been one constant recently: decline after decline after decline. And the superlatives have piled up really quickly.

At Contentsquare, we gather hundreds of metrics about user interactions on the websites of our customers. Having all this information can easily become cumbersome and hard to exploit. To make user…

I have been surprised about is how little fan fair has been given to what I consider Go’s most important feature.

What a shared rejection spreadsheet taught me about success

Scriptable desktop app to correct the perspective of images - ad-si/Perspec

Sam Zeloof combines 1970s-era machines with homemade designs. His creations show what’s possible for small-scale silicon tinkerers.

I’ve been implementing the same (or as similar as possible) trading orderbook algorithm in various languages recently and one thing I…

Last week I had a thought: “What’s the simplest Lisp interpreter I could write, which supports macros?"

A weekend of Clojure hacking and some confusion later, a REPL was born. In this essay, we’ll...

The A.R.M. (Automatic Ripping Machine) detects the insertion of an optical disc, identifies the type of media, and autonomously performs the appropriate action:

What I wished I’d known back when I started

Create web apps from Python notebooks. Contribute to mljar/mercury development by creating an account on GitHub.