It’s a space feat no nation has accomplished until now.

Here we are at the beginning of 2019 and I’m engaged in yet another discussion on the merits (or lack thereof) of keeping all of an…

Alec Nevala-Lee considers the science fiction writer’s concept of “psychohistory,” a fictional method for predicting the future dreamed up during turbulent times.

Shaohua Li — Linux RAID Storage Discusion and Development Archive

By growing cells in unrealistic liquids, they may have inadvertently skewed the results of their experiments.

Procedural macros in Rust are a really compelling feature that I didn’t understand until recently. There are a few gotchas,...

LaTTe is a Lisp proof assistant based on the calculus of constructions. It is written in Clojure by Frédéric Peschanski and exposes a powerful DSL for expressing fundamental terms of mathematical reasoning: definitions, axioms, theorems, and proofs. In this…

The unlikely success of a socialist print magazine

Researchers programmed a machine-learning algorithm to diagnose early-stage Alzheimer’s disease from a very common type of brain scan.

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I was in need of a new laptop, so I bought a cheap ChromeBook – mostly because Amazon could deliver it the same day. Sadly, the trackpad was broken. Before I sent it back, I thought I’d…

A law that took effect on Tuesday makes California the first state to bar the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits that do not come from shelters or rescue organizations.

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Ludwig Wittgentein | Philosophy Essay | The legacy of a thinker who saw philosophy ‘not just as a vocation, but as a way of life he had to lead’

Simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming.

The long read: Once derided, the successors to muzak have grown more sophisticated – and influential – than any of us realise.