The fast track to a life well lived is feeling grateful

Being ‘good’ need not take years of ethical analysis: just a few moments of gratitude can set you on the path to virtue

PyPy's New JSON Parser

Introduction In the last year or two I have worked on and off on making PyPy's JSON faster, particularly when parsing large JSON files. I...

Here Are the Urban Highways That Deserve to Die

The Congress for New Urbanism ranks the most-loathed urban freeways in North America—and makes the case for tearing them down.

The Board Game at the Heart of Viking Culture

An ancient game known as “hnefatafl” held immense symbolic and religious significance.

leah blogs: Ken Thompson's Unix password

Shackleton’s Medical Kit

‘Each box was like the distillation of all that we have learned as a species about our bodies and their infirmities, a time capsule of medicine.’

Why Robot Brains Need Symbols

We’ll need both deep learning and symbol manipulation to build AI.

Still Life

Covering Texas news, politics, food, history, travel, crime, music, and everything in between for fifty years.

I Worked at Capital One for Five Years. This Is How We Justified Piling Debt on Poor Customers.

The subprime lending giant is a textbook case in creating a corporate culture of denial.

Japanese manufacturers use decades of experience to dominate key chemical m

Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., JSR Corp. and Shin-Etsu Chemical Co.: Three seemingly inconspicuous companies suddenly came into the spotlight in early July when Japan announced it would slap tightened export controls to South Korea on three key chemicals — photoresists, fluorinated…

How Supermassive Black Holes Were Discovered

Astronomers turned a fantastic concept into reality.

The Cure for Toxic Positivity

‘Hang in there!’ can do more harm than good

150 successful machine learning models: 6 lessons learned at Booking.com

How UMAP Works — umap 0.3 documentation

How Irish Butter Kerrygold Conquered America’s Kitchens

The salty, uber-yellow spread has seen double-digit growth almost every year for the past decade.

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The Troubling Economics of Food Halls

The troubling economics of this ubiquitous trend

New chips for machine intelligence

My history with Forth and stack machines (2010) | Hacker News

The Long, Loving Search for Betsy the Cow

"She's missing. I’m not going to quit her."

Under-Investigated Fields List (Version 1.0) - matthewmcateer.me

Nominations for fields that are not being researched as much as they should be

My fancy smartphone could never give me what the landline gave my grandmother

Company in old age versus the pressure of conversation.

What Really Happened at Sonia Rykiel

How an adored French brand ended up in liquidation.

Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language - Issue 76: Language

Nautilus is a different kind of science magazine. Our stories take you into the depths of science and spotlight its ripples in our lives and cultures.

A terrible crime, a patient waiting for a transplant: The tragic, redemptive journey of one heart.

Three decades ago, a young man murdered his girlfriend and killed himself. What happened next to his heart was extraordinary.

The Diver Who Brings Up the Bodies

So many Indian farmers are killing themselves that bodies pile up at the end of one long canal. Gurbaksh Singh helps their families find closure.

You Can Do More Good Than You Think

All you need is compassion and the courage to open your mouth

36 Hours in Boone, N.C. (and Environs)

A lively Appalachian college town, a genteel resort spot and stops along the Blue Ridge Parkway offer a colorful fall weekend of music, crafts, beer and majestic views.

Inside Notre Dame: a blow-by-blow account of the restoration process | The

Five months on we look at the steps and measurements implemented by experts to start rebuilding the fire-ravaged cathedral

A Hole in the Head: A History of Trepanation | The MIT Press Reader

A survey of trepanation, or trephination, the oldest surgical procedure known to humanity.

Learn Just a Little Awk: An Awk Tutorial by Example

What is Hierarchical Clustering?

The article contains a brief introduction to various concepts related to Hierarchical clustering algorithm.

Novelist Cormac McCarthy’s tips on how to write a great science paper

Nature - The Pulitzer prizewinner shares his advice for pleasing readers, editors and yourself.

How to Get Ahead When Your Boss Doesn’t Have Influence

Some bosses lack the political aptitude or key competencies that would let them help you get ahead. When you realize that your manager is out of the loop and your opportunities for influence within the company are limited, focus on getting you more access to communications…

The Octopus: An Alien Among Us

Self-replicating, bacterial life first appeared on Earth about 4 billion years ago. For most of Earth’s history, life remained at the single-celled level, and nothing like a nervous system existed …

Why Symbols Aren’t Forever

The removal of cultural emblems is not the erasure of history but part of it.

When Do Kids Start Playing Pretend?

It’s complicated.

Partial Functions in Python: A Guide for Developers

Learn how to simplify your Python code using partial functions to create more flexible, reusable, and concise function calls

Why Your Brain Hates Other People

And how to make it think differently.

The ultimate guide to HTTP status codes for SEO

Learn important HTTP status codes for SEO, how they affect website performance and the tools you need to monitor and resolve issues.

Mystery boxes: at the crossroads of loot boxes and blockchain

Mystery boxes - those little bundles of randomness - have been around for decades. You pay for something without knowing what’s inside. Maybe it's great, maybe it's garbage, but it’s the thrill of the unknown that keeps people coming back for more. This idea has evolved…

Most Dangerous JavaScript Vulnerabilities To Watch For in 2025

Hackers are continuously developing new ways to exploit JavaScript vulnerabilities. Here are the JS attack vectors developers should know about.

How ‘Embeddings’ Encode What Words Mean — Sort Of

Machines work with words by embedding their relationships with other words in a string of numbers.

An In-Depth Guide to Contrastive Learning: Techniques Models and Applications

Discover the fundamentals of contrastive learning, including key techniques like SimCLR, MoCo, and CLIP. Learn how contrastive learning improves unsupervised learning and its practical applications.

There are 665 open licences most are pretty rubbish

you are in a maze of twisty licences, all alike

Reducing Transistor Capacitance At The 5nm Node Using A Source/Drain Contact Recess

On how to reduce transistor capacitance at the 5nm node using a source/drain contact recess.

Why influence is such a powerful persuader

Forty years ago, Bob Cialdini published a groundbreaking book on the power of influence. In our digital age, these rules may have become even more powerful.

Adit Deshpande – CS Undergrad at UCLA ('19)

Engineering at Forward | UCLA CS '19

She Remembers Everything by Rosanne Cash

She Remembers Everything by Rosanne Cash album reviews & Metacritic score: The 15th full-length release for the singer-songwriter features contributions from such artists as T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Kris Kristofferson, John Leve...

How I Learned To Write Dialogue By Reviewing Police Complaints

“Did you see the badge number or nameplate of the officer who hit you?” I heard myself say as I played back the interview tape. “No.” As the tinny reply sounded in my headphones, I could picture th…