Preaching the gospel of evidence, experiment and reason since 2003.

The fight to save America’s iconic tree has become a civil war.

Update: We are diving deep into the Google API leak and what it means for marketers in our next episode of SparkToro Office Hours on June 27. Join Michael

Blink Shell: The top mobile terminal for Apple devices. Blazing fast, full-featured, and loved by developers around the world. It's giving you the freedom to develop anywhere, anytime.

There are few things I think about more than the essays on gwern.net, and there are few with as satisfying a theoretical payout to contemplate in my orb as his essay on “leaky pipelines”, aka log-normal distributions.
The skulk: Say you’re working on a Laravel…

News post: Gleam v1.2.0 released

One of the big contributors to the record-breaking global temperatures over the past year—El Niño—is nearly gone, and its opposite, La Niña, is on the way.

The poor performance of transformers on arithmetic tasks seems to stem in large part from their inability to keep track of the exact position of each digit inside of a large span of digits. We...

It's the Memorial Day holiday weekend and it's time for a little deferred maintenance, especially on those machines I intend to work on more...

FILE0 is a modern storage service focusing on top tier developer experience.

I believe that the way the industry is often building asynchronous event-driven applications is misguided and can be greatly improved.

Ferry Boender's blog

The underscore is not a legal character for use in hostnames. As
defined in RFC 822, the only legal characters are the
following:

After many months of research, development and QA, Wasmi’s most significant update ever is finally ready for production use.
Wasmi is an efficient and versatile WebAssembly (Wasm) interpreter with a focus on embedded environments. It is an excellent choice…

A supernova showering Earth with radioactive debris is a surprisingly common cosmic occurrence

The Cutzmala water system, which provides water to millions in Mexico City, is operating at 28% capacity and could run dry in a matter of weeks.