Let's chill just a little bit on the "TLA+ will save AI from itself" narrative

Git 3.0 will make SHA-256 the new default content hashing algorithm and it will be an incomprehensibly expensive and ultimately valueless and avoidable global nightmare.

Tell me you don’t understand software without literally using those words!!!

When behavioral scientist Danny Kenny suddenly had virtually no free time, the scarcity brought his priorities into sharp focus.

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel, Edwin Frank, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 480, $33.00

Revelations about microbes living deep inside Earth’s crust are challenging scientists’ conceptions of life and how it evolves.

When we look for extraterrestrials, we often peer into the depths of space. But alien life might be closer than you think

Our inability to switch off our commonsense intuitions will lead us to adopt some odd, half-formed ideologies.

The modern era is often seen as the triumph of science over supernaturalism. But what really happened is far more interesting

[This is a guest post by Amit Sahai. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] When I was an undergraduate student, I remember talking with…

When you talk about Papua New Guinea, people may say, oh, is that the place where:

One common take on the coding agents that I see goes something like this: “Sure, AI helps you output more code, but won’t the quality suffer?”

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Why passkeys are a step back for personal security: examining account lockout risks, platform lock-in, hardware key limits, and fragile recovery flows.

The comeback of joined-up handwriting reflects research as well as culture

TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software. Try our first System One Model, Jev, in early access.

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...

Best practices for writing a design doc based on my experience working as a developer at Google and Microsoft.

In the first English translation in half a century, Paul Reitter and Paul North distill the essence of the Marxist masterpiece by going back to basics.

Norma Clarke: La Vie en Rose - Pink: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau (Translated from French by Jody Gladding)

In the philosopher’s world, provocation and controversy are inseparable from the examined life.

We are far more likely to use our hands to type or swipe than pick up a pen. But in the process we are in danger of losing cognitive skills, sensory experience – and a connection to history

From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to focus—it’s what we’re focussing on.

How did women in 19th-century Europe learn about the birds and the bees?

The questionable statistic at the heart of the “men don’t read fiction” discourse.

Reviewing books by two of the world’s leading psychoanalytic writers, Christian R. Gelder explores the challenge that psychoanalysis poses not only to conventional understandings of self and sex, but ...

You either loved it, or were using it wrong.

Many modern programming languages include some form of asynchronous programming. In particular, a growing number now have what we call straight-line asynchrony: attempts to provide asynchronous functi...

English continues to expand into diverse regions around the world. The question is whether humanity will be homogenized as a result.

When we communicate using little data, we’re speaking the language of robots.

On how to read one hundred pages every day.

We read and write fiction because it asks impossible questions, and leads us boldly into the unknown.

Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?

John Dupré reviews Richard Dawkins’s “The Genetic Book of the Dead” and Sara Imari Walker’s “Life as No One Knows It.”

It's fun sci-fi but it doesn't make a lot of sense.

A Look at Recurrent Depth, Hidden Chains of Thought, and Recent Research on Looping Transformer Blocks

Might seem simple on the face of it, but unfortunately it's pain all the way down.

A gallery that collects architecture figures from The Big LLM Architecture Comparison and related articles, with fact sheets and links back to the original sections.

An atlas of the vibrance of the real world

Experts say that the smell comes from a chemical compound called 2-nonenal, and it can show up much earlier than one expects

AI-assisted incident response can lower MTTR while leaving engineers less prepared for the complex incidents automation cannot solve.

The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English

Apologies to those who have invested in a modish workstation

I get asked fairly often what people need to know to be hireable as a graphics programmer. I figured it was time to make a page to link instead of re-typing it each time. We are in a strange time w…

How listening broadly turns everyday problems into useful project ideas.

The need for ongoing friction in long-term skill formation.