Lawmakers in Illinois are so desperate to shore up the state’s massively underfunded retirement system that they’re willing to entertain an eye-popping wager: Borrowing $107 billion and letting it ride in the financial markets.

After Equifax’s security breach, consumers looked for ways to make the company pay. One option: Persuade employers not to give the company any data.

This review was originally published in March 2017, when the film opened at SXSW in Austin, Texas. It is being republished to coincide with the film’s limited theatrical release on January 26th,...

Experimental Global Optimization Algorithm. Contribute to chrisstroemel/Simple development by creating an account on GitHub.

I wrote a quick function for simulating a Gaussian process given only its kernel function and used it to simulate processes with different kernels and very different properties.

It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple. This is...

Rob Mockler’s surreal film is somewhere between social commentary and a horror movie about a criminal getting kicks for clicks.

We’re proud to announce the release of Linux Driver Management 1.0, a reworked implementation with the focus on being an agnostic, GObject-s

MoviePass may account for less than 5% of the revenue AMC makes from ticket sales.

Research in Nature outlines method to make the images of science fiction

We told you this was going to be a problem, and asked point-blank: Why would a company gearing up for production of its make-or-break product be laying off experienced staff?

Now you can add The Boring Company Flamethrower to your post-apocalyptic arsenal — just be sure to place your order before the nuclear holocaust. (Hurry!)

But it may not safeguard the carmaker’s future

How do you get to sleep at night? For some of us, it can be the most difficult thing we do all day. Worrying about falling asleep and letting other intrusive thoughts in night after night only comp…

I guess you can’t use @NYULibraries if you don’t have Twitter or Facebook?

Tesla employees say inexperienced workers and tech problems are plaguing its battery factory in Nevada, and likely to cause more Model 3 delays.

I guess you can’t use @NYULibraries if you don’t have Twitter or Facebook?

The Citus 7.2 extension to Postgres now includes distributed database features such as expanded support for distributed SQL and the distribution of complex subqueries across multiple nodes, and more. Developers building real-time analytics dashboards and…

Many software engineers use database indexes every day, but few of us really understand how they work. In this post I’ll explain:
How indexing works in Postgres using B-Trees What B-Trees are Why they are a good fit for this problem Indexes in Postgres…