Constructing agents with planning capabilities has long been one of the main challenges in the pursuit of artificial intelligence. Tree-based planning methods have enjoyed huge success in...

The Swedish phoneme that is notorious for having its own dedicated IPA symbol, /ɧ/, that is — the so-called sje-sound. What is up with that, anyway?
Historically, this phoneme arises as the...

The Editable PDF Initiative is a collaborative project to turn PDF into a format that can be readily edited using a graphical or text editor, in the same way that would normally be possible using a word processing package. All specifications will be fully…

Last year for National Novel Writing Month I trained a neural net called torch-rnn on 10,096 unique ways to begin a novel. It came up with some intriguing possibilities, my personal favorite being “I am forced to write to my neighbors about the beast.” But…

Insights from 17 of today's biggest marketplaces, including Airbnb, DoorDash, Thumbtack, Etsy, Uber and many more

Losing the News: The Decimation of Local News and the Search for Solutions lays out the devastating impact of the shrinking and consolidation of local news outlets.

Car culture has already been changed by bike and bus lanes. A transportation panel in Manhattan has floated the idea of eliminating free street parking entirely.

I wrote recently about buying a Digital (DEC) vt420 and hooking it up to Linux. Among my observations on the vt420, which apparently were among the most popular to use with Unix systems, are these:…

A whimsical literary competition challenging entrants to write the worst possible opening sentence to a novel never written.

The legislation removes marijuana from schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act.

Fast.io is cloud storage built for teams. Organize files in project workspaces, see real-time activity, and connect AI agents like ChatGPT to your data.

Disables the WYSIWYG editor in Slack. Contribute to kfahy/slack-disable-wysiwyg-bookmarklet development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Sale comes within months of DNS overseer pushing through controversial contract change

Google Stadia has a lot of power behind the scenes, but for some reason the company is blatantly lying about the 4K quality of some of its games.

Governments’ wholehearted support for the fossil-fuel industry is to blame

The past decade has seen a remarkable series of advances in machine learning, and in particular deep learning approaches based on artificial neural networks, to improve our abilities to build more...

Today I'd like to blog about the nicest proof of Kleene's theorem that regular expressions and finite automata are equivalent that...