I've blogged about ServiceStack before. It's an extraordinary open source project - an ecosystem of its own even - that ...

This post expands on the NAACL 2019 tutorial on Transfer Learning in NLP. It highlights key insights and takeaways and provides updates based on recent work.

There is really only one Big Tech monopoly that I actively worry about. It’s not Amazon, Facebook or Apple, though they are all extremely dominant in their respective fields and do act in anti-comp…

FUTURE HUMAN Survival of the Richest The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind (This piece is now the basis of a new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires.) Last …

If you like classic science fiction, one of the genre’s best magazines can now be found online for free. Archive.org is now home to a collection of Galaxy Science Fiction, which published some of...

In July 2015 workers at the Garden Creek I Gas Processing Plant, in Watford City, North Dakota, noticed a leak in a pipeline and reported a spill to the North Dakota Department of Health that remains officially listed as 10 gallons, the size of two bottled…

A week ago last Friday, I spoke to Joi Ito about the release of documents that accuse Media Lab co-founder Marvin Minsky of involvement in Jeffrey Epstein’s horrific crimes.* Joi told me that evening…

Today, Mozilla and Google took action to protect the online security and privacy of individuals in Kazakhstan. Together the companies deployed technical solutions within Firefox and Chrome to block the ...

Radio-frequency identification, famously used to bug the US embassy in Moscow, is a cheap way to track objects and data.

The simple and open source user story mapping tool. - amborle/featmap

Mathematicians and neuroscientists have created the first anatomically accurate model that explains how vision is possible.

✅ Probably the first Global Visa Travel Information Guide. All countries. All destinations. One portal. International Access Visa.

The story of CTVT—a contagious cancer that spreads from dog to dog—gets weirder all the time.

Eclipse Adoptium provides prebuilt OpenJDK binaries from a fully open source set of build scripts and infrastructure.

People are excited about running WebAssembly outside the browser. People are also excited about running WebAssembly from languages like Python, Ruby, and Rust. Lin Clark's Code Cartoons are back, illustrating ...

Air travel has been in existence for over one hundred years. Since its inception, thousands of airports runways have been built – each one of them designed site specifically, and according to landscape and natural conditions.

In an unprecedented move, Germany sold 30-year bonds at a negative yield, as investors desperate for safe assets bet that further falls in yields will boost the value of the bonds in the future.