In a recent post, I offered a definition of the distinction between data science and machine learning: that data science is focused on extracting insights, while machine learning is interested in making predictions. I also noted that the two fields greatly…

This post is about the Bay Area startup and venture ecosystem. I believe the local ecosystem just completed an entire “reset” with respect to the earliest stages of company formation. (I need to state upfront that this isn’t about the seed landscape nationwide…

Recently, I was playing around with the split command-line tool on Mac OS X, and I decided to chop a 4000-line file into 4000 separate single-line files. However, when I attempted to run split -l1, I ran into a funny error: split: too many files Curious to…

Students are beginning to urge divestment.

Mrs. Fraley’s connection to Rosie was made public in 2016, ending years of speculation over who was the model for the fictional 1940s war worker.

Acoustic tractor beams use the power of sound to hold particles in mid-air, and unlike magnetic levitation, they can grab most solids or liquids. For the first time University of Bristol engineers have ...

I continue to enjoy seeing what can be done with WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) but even more fun is combining ...

I was recently eating lunch with someone who asked a question that I became somewhat obsessed with: what happens when you grep a file and append the contents...

Update: In an email to 9to5Mac, Twist says that “the app works fine and the cloud services are paid for and covered for a long while.” Two years ago, we reported on Twist, a new smart h…

Five joy riders mountain-biked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon; five federal prisoners rode back up in shackles

The French and German central banks are helping to internationalize the Chinese currency.

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In the late 1990s, small Internet providers flourished; most eventually died …

[Tobias Kuhn] had watched a YouTube video about a robot arm which used servo motors, and wanted to try making one himself. But he found it hard to get slow or smooth movements out of the servos. Ev…

Trips down memory lane — to a highly regimented place that no longer exists — are the hallmark of this Dresden home for the elderly.

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The most perilous road in America gets 300 inches of snow a year, features 70 named avalanche paths, and has almost no guardrails. Who would be crazy enough to keep Colorado’s infamous Highway 550