In the last few years, you’ve likely seen a fair few comments about monopolies in the tech industry, and suggestions for breaking them up…

Between roughly 1975 and 1995, access to computers accelerated much more quickly than access to computer networks. First in the United States, and then in other wealthy countries, computers became …

For the three years starting in April of 2017, I ran much of The Prepared’s (and ultimately my family’s) income through Patreon. I started doing so as an experiment - one that by any measure has been a success. But while Patreon was instrumental in that…

What is ReDoS, and how to deal with it?

While locked down due to COVID-19, Joshua Greene and Andrew Lobb figured out how to prove a version of the “rectangular peg problem.”…

The first thing I wanted to do with my Saab 96 was to establish a baseline weight. The cheapest scales used for racing are over $700, so that wasn’t an option. People have used bathroom scales but I’d rather not own sixteen bathroom scales. One idea I thought…

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Originally released December 2019 3.3GHz 12‑core Intel Xeon W processor, Turbo Boost up to 4.4GHz
48GB (6x8GB) of DDR4 ECC memory Two Radeon Pro Vega II with 32GB of HBM2 memory each 1TB SSD storage Stainless steel frame with feet Apple Afterburner

► Versión en Español A friend sent me a file in LaTeX that she had received. When compiling it, one of the equations had a strange blac...

Official tensorflow implementation for CVPR2020 paper “Learning to Cartoonize Using White-box Cartoon Representations” - SystemErrorWang/White-box-Cartoonization

Staring at a deep red light for three minutes a day can significantly improve declining eyesight, finds a new study, the first of its kind in humans.

Friedrich Hayeks lecture on Evolution & Spontaneous order at the 1983 - 33rd Meeting of Nobel Laureates at Lindau.

We know that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is accepted by natural scientists. It describes how biological systems spontaneously evolve…

A simple guide to the national security law China has passed in Hong Kong and why it matters.

Discount chains are thriving. But what do they do to poor communities?

A question on Stack Overflow’s Software Engineering site caught our attention recently. It tries to come to terms with the impact of scrum on developers' ability to do a great job. The claim is a bold one: Scrum is turning good developers into average ones.…