I’ve been studying the early history of electricity’s discovery as a map for our current discovery of artificial intelligence. The smartest people alive back then, including Isaac Newton, who may have been the smartest person who ever lived, had confident…

Newly released data shows Customs and Border Protection funneled the DNA of nearly 2,000 US citizens—some as young as 14—into an FBI crime database, raising alarms about oversight and legality.

I am an ed(1) fan. Naturally, I have a lot of scripts and implementations handy. Here are some.

Some loosely organized thoughts on the current Zeitgeist. They were inspired by the response to my recent meta-project mentioned in my previous post https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115254145226514817, where within 24 hours I became aware of a large number of…

With AI workloads on the rise, the demand for Python support on WebAssembly on the Edge has grown rapidly.

However, bringing Python to WebAssembly is...

CBP officers took DNA samples from about 2,000 citizens, some as young as 14 and many who never faced criminal charges, new analysis shows

Thoughts on FOSS and fintech, layered by Mahmoud Hashemi

How HubSpot scaled AI adoption in engineering, moving from cautious experimentation to universal usage, driving productivity and innovation through strategic investment and organizational commitment.

From the Zed Blog: We're moving Zed AI from prompt-based limits to token-based pricing.

Blots is a small, expression-oriented programming language designed to be quick to learn and easy to use. It's designed to be useful out of the box for quick calculations and data transformation, particularly with JSON.

...and the vibes are definitely off



It feels different in tech right now. We’re coming off a long era where optimism carried the industry. Something has curdled. AI hype, return-to-office mandates, and continued layoffs have shifted the mood. Managers…

Transform your phone into a pocket spectrometer with just a card and an algorithm.

The company behind more than a dozen dating apps, Match Group, has known for years about the abusive users on its platforms, but chooses to leave millions of people in the dark

Apache Sedona is a cluster computing system for processing large-scale spatial data. Sedona extends existing cluster computing systems, such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, and Snowflake, with a set of out-of-the-box distributed Spatial Datasets and Spatial…

Most bacteria cannot be cultured in the lab—and that’s been bad news for medicine. Many of our frontline antibiotics originated from microbes, yet as antibiotic resistance spreads and drug pipelines run dry, the soil beneath our feet has a vast hidden reservoir…

Quicksort is an efficient sorting algorithm based on a divide and conquer approach. Choosing the dividing element at random is a good strategy to avoid bad worst-case runtime.

Updates and articles from the Val Town team

Björk talks about an early trip to the dentist, her lifelong interest in nature and technology, and what she learned from last year’s MoMA exhibition.

We're introducing Waymo for Business and inviting organizations to sign up to explore the benefits of our fully autonomous ride-hailing service. After conducting successful pilots with a variety of organizations, we're ready to partner with more employers…