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I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, and now every time a reactionary Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation. Here's the column:

On Instagram, there’s an…

The tutorial will provide you with an understanding of key requirements for implementing writing systems in information technology. It will do this by examining real examples of a wide range of modern scripts to discover features that a computerized implementation…

This patch adds a new C++ backend to ocamlc, improving on the unincremented C currently in use by the runtime and FFI. As an example, here's a simple program that computes the prime numbers...

This blog post and the companion video both explain an erosion technique I’ve worked on over the past eight months. The video has lots of e...

JAX’s true calling: Ray-Marching renderers in Python on WebGL Demo (move your mouse/thumb across the image)
Why, though? Well, I’ve been drooling over this tool the cool kids use, and wondering how I can join the gang. It’s called JAX.
It’s got GPU accelerated…

More open-source developers are finding that, when used properly, AI can actually help current and long-neglected programs. However, legal and quality issues loom.

Gold and other heavy elements are born in some of the universe’s most violent events—but scientists still struggle to understand the nuclear steps that create them. Now, nuclear physicists have uncovered three key discoveries about how unstable atomic nuclei…

For those of you who haven’t seen, there were actually two “bombshell” QC announcements this week. One, from Caltech, including friend-of-the-blog John Preskill, showed how to do quantum faul…

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