A new report adds to a growing line of research showing that police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in contrast to popular narratives.

TOKYO -- The 1953 Japanese film

The machine would use an “alphabet of human thoughts” and rules to combine them

Tobacco companies knew that cigarette smoke contained radioactive alpha particles for more than four decades and developed "deep and intimate" knowledge of these particles' cancer-causing potential, but they deliberately kept their findings from the public…

In which I rewrite my toy pygit client in Go to see how suitable Go is for simple scripts.

Scientists are finding ways to help people sober up faster and feel fewer bad effects

A buoy in Manatee Bay recorded 101.1 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday evening, as coral reefs suffer

We thought we were accelerating fast enough. Turns out we weren't.

Cornell researchers have successfully transferred key regions of a highly efficient red algae into a tobacco plant to dramatically improve plant productivity and increase carbon sequestration.

This post previously appeared in Poets & Quants. I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. In this case Wicked doesn’t mean moral…

It's similar to the Face ID failures of the iPhone 13's screen, later fixed.

The papers were not ready for publication.

Lee & Kim had been working on the material on and off since Kim was in graduate school in 1999 (LK-99 geddit?). Lee never makes tenure and is still stuck as an adjunct professor 19 years later. Kim goes off to…

The next trick to tinier transistors is high-numerical-aperture EUV lithography

Sukbae Lee, one of the scientists that the alleged superconductor LK-99 is named after, said the claims were in the process of being peer-reviewed

From reconfiguring the system to reconfiguring the user.

Reinforcement learning (RL) is an established tool for sequential decision making. In this work, we apply RL to solve an automatic music playlist generation problem...

A Lesson from Go Proverbs for life.