In her new book, the linguist Gretchen McCulloch breaks down just how life online has rewritten the rules of how we communicate.

He directed the first piloted orbital flights, orchestrated spacewalks, oversaw the first lunar landing and led the space center in Houston.

An 18-year-old Dallas-born U.S. citizen has been in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement for...

In this paper we propose a novel neural approach for automatic decipherment of lost languages. To compensate for the lack of strong supervision signal, our model design is informed by patterns in...

Apple is in advanced talks to buy Intel’s smartphone-modem chip business, a move that would jump-start the iPhone maker’s push to take control of developing the critical components powering its devices.

This blog post is about an interesting detail about machine learning that I came across as a researcher at Jane Street - that of the interaction between L2 r...

Headless Chrome Node.js API. Contribute to puppeteer/puppeteer development by creating an account on GitHub.

Every IT team should have a culture of constant improvement - or movement along the path toward the goal of automating whatever the team feels confident in automating, in ways that are easy to change as conditions change. As the needle moves to the right…

Drago — a nice example of a real-world binary tree This was the first post about my book on algorithms and Lisp. Writing it, actually, st...

A web app to create and browse text visualizations for automated customer listening. - microsoft/browsecloud

Warning: This post is long. While working through this massive server upgrade/migration process, tears were shed, many cuss words were uttered, along with a general feeling of frustration, which ultimately culminated into extreme happiness once the migration…

event in central London in July and August 1858

Any parents found to have carried out female foeticide will face legal action, district magistrate says

The convoluted and ultimately pointless tale of how I connected a retro 80s 5" BW TV to my PC as a 3rd monitor

Awesome & interesting talks about programming. Contribute to hellerve/programming-talks development by creating an account on GitHub.

Why Facebook may be a bigger fraud than Enron.