In 1960, a team at the University of Illinois released the first version of their PLATO “computerized instruction system,” a network of what would eventually be thousands of computer terminals connected to large mainframe computers.
Discover why sentiment analysis is becoming a core enterprise capability, with modern NLP techniques providing a deeper understanding of the customer experience than ever before.
Exit interviews with defectors from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind.
Rappler’s answer to state-sponsored lies and harassment was to stop using corporate social media as its public square.
Because we owned our own data and combined them with publicly available, vetted databases, our chatbot’s error rate was a little more than 1.6 percent—at the time, the error rate of commercial chatbots was about 16 percent.
Matrix is open-source and allows users to set up their own communication servers.
In this essay, Carson Gross discusses his advice to young people interested in computer science worried about the future given the advancements in AI.
Converters, formatters and debuggers that never upload your files.
David Byrne will always be most widely known as the co-founder and frontman of Talking Heads. That may count among the greatest possible achievements for any artist — to the minds of many an Open Culture reader, at least — but it must occasionally frustrate the man himself.
One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.
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Even though we know better.
The California giant has helped turn a local, seasonal treat into a worldwide refrigerator staple and marketing juggernaut.
With a little help from knot theory, scientists have invented a “robust knit” to fight laddering
Photographer Steve McCurry has an exhibition at Leica Gallery New York showcasing works from earlier in his career and a new body of work.
Maceration is like steeping tea, but instead of a teabag, it's grape solids soaking in juice, imparting color, tannins, and flavor.
What makes the MBDA Meteor such an amazing air-to-air missile and why doesn’t the US have anything like it?
The Firebase iOS SDK crashed after a backend change, crashing all apps which used Firebase analytics for 2-6 hours. Google didn’t update the status page, but did offer a postmortem 4 days later.
SSH client config directives at a glance: Host and Match patterns, keys, jump hosts, keepalives, multiplexing, port forwarding, host key checking, and tokens …
Extend a Linux partition and grow ext4, XFS, Btrfs, or LVM storage after a disk resize, with layout checks, safe ext4 shrink steps, and troubleshooting.
Mazda Stories explores the ancient art of origami, its importance in Hiroshima and how it's believed to have miraculous powers…
As climates shift and traditional growing regions suffer, the American South has potential to be the next global olive oil source.
In a handful of animals, tumors can be transmitted like infectious diseases or parasites, defying science’s tidy definitions
Dispatching, finite-capacity scheduling, MES, APC and simulation each attack a different share of the time wafers spend waiting, and all of them depend on accurate WIP and equipment-state data.
We’ve made several upgrades to uploading/hosting images on CodePen lately. One change, moving to the open-source file-uploading library Uppy, was driven by business concerns. But the benefits…
The history of autodidacticism shows that learning has always been social. The right relationships open intellectual horizons
Form’s 100-hour batteries could make clean energy more weather-resilient and help power data centers.
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Statsmodels answers the questions sklearn was never built to answer: is this coefficient real or noise, does this added complexity earn its keep, can I trust these p-values in the first place, and which specific data points are quietly running the whole show.
Note: Run a regression in scikit-learn, and you get exactly two things back: a set of coefficients and a .predict() method. Ask it for a p-value on any of those coefficients, and there’s no built-in way to get one. This isn’t a missing feature scikit-learn’s maintainers overlooked; it’s a deliberate design choice they’ve stated directly: scikit-learn is built for prediction, not statistical inference…
Solve 13.56 MHz NFC antenna integration challenges with expert engineering solutions for metal shielding, placement limits, and chipset matching.
A practical guide to naming UI components, with useful resources, naming conventions, and structures.
The long read: On 14 January this year, army and navy squads faced an unprecedented challenge: one bomb on a Plymouth building site, another floating on a dredger in Exmouth. That afternoon, the clock started ticking
The beloved video game Tetris has a fascinating, complicated history. While the Tetris Company (TTC) claims exclusive rights to the geometric pieces at the heart of the game, known as tetrominoes, history shows that the Russian engineer and game designer duo behind TTC did not…
Reflection claims Beam is 3-4x more efficient than GLM 5.2 and over 4x more efficient than leading Western open models.
Some of the most personal furniture purchases come with the least personal tool. You bring home a crib, spread the pieces across the floor, and end up pressing a skinny metal Allen key into your fingertips while trying to line up the next bolt. It slips. Your hand cramps. The…
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We are sharing two candidate magnets for next-generation computer memory, found by a team of Claude Opus 5.5 agents. Both are predicted to have zero net magnetism yet still sort electrons by spin: one a new compound we designed, the other a material first made in 1999. We're…
Gideon Lewis-Kraus reviews “Kobuk the Destroyer, and Other Tales from the Wild, Unseen World of Test Engineering,” by Alex Davies.
Create and query SQLite databases with sqlite3 on Linux. Import CSV files, format query results, and back up or restore your data.
One Army plant in Kingsport, Tennessee, is the only US manufacturer of the military explosives RDX and HMX. The plant, Holston, supplies most of the explosives used in US bombs, missiles and artillery shells. In 1980 five US plants could make about 119 million pounds of RDX a…
Why don’t great apes have knee problems?
SSH is how you log in to and work on remote Linux machines. Start with the basics, then secure your setup and fix the errors you are most likely to run into.
Why barcodes are about to go extinct and QR codes are set to take over, transforming the future of retail.
After decades of depending on customers who had to beg their parents for pocket money—and who would eventually grow up—the toy industry has found a savior in “kid-ults.”
Nobody needs their fortieth pen. That has never stopped anyone who truly loves stationery from buying it anyway, because a new notebook still feels like a small event no matter how many already sit in the drawer. This list is for that person, not the casual note taker, but…
After a plague-ridden crusade left Venice drowning in debt, the republic created the world's first bond market, changing the relationship between the government and its citizens.
Visualizing user attitudes and behaviors in an empathy map helps UX teams align on a deep understanding of end users.