In the preface of Probably Overthinking It, I wrote: Sometimes interpreting data is easy. For example, one of the reasons we know that smoking causes lung cancer is that when only 20% of the popula…

Cyber units of Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence attacked the tax system of Russia and managed to destroy the entire database and its backup copies. The intelligence adds that Russia will not be able to resuscitate its tax system fully.

How we upgraded from Postgres 11.9 to 15.3 with zero downtime

You can call Claude in Google Sheets with the Claude for Sheets extension. Claude for Sheets enables seamless integration between Claude and Google Sheets, allowing you to execute interactions with Claude directly in cells. This tool allows for easy and rapid…

Professors John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz along with a band of Dartmouth undergraduates invent the Basic computer language.

Updated May 23, 2024: Since introducing our first report, we’ve made important improvements — adding runtime and views (total hours viewed divided by runtime) and separating films and series. This mirrors our weekly Top 10 and Most Popular lists. See our…

Better than a Pi? It’s an open and shut case

TableGen is a language used within the LLVM project for generating a variety of files, when manual maintenance would be very difficult.
For example, it is used to define all of the instructions that can be used on a particular architecture.

An unofficial bonus chapter for the iOS Human Interface Guidelines: Learn how to structure iPhone apps with drill-downs, modals, pyramids, sequences, and more.

In 2011 I had a post,  here , about a real journal called  The Antarctica Journal of Mathematics . Note that I put in the link in the last s...

Why didn't the geniuses’ refrigerator ever make it to market?

When your iPhone isn’t in a familiar location, Stolen Device Protection can prevent thieves from making critical changes to your Apple account.

Search giant says delays not specific to any browser – just those evading advert breaks. YMMV

Paul Thomas Murphy’s “Falling Rocket” focuses on the explosive trial that divided the London art world.

As the rich pay to banish commercials, advertisers hunt for their attention elsewhere

Solal Pirelli A PhD student in Switzerland who blogged about a series of dubious conferences linked to potential citation fraud is being sued by one of the conference chairs, a professor of compute…