This short film by Lance Oppenheim is uncomfortably fascinating. It's about sentencing mitigation videos, short films produced b | Continue reading
Controller compatibility in PC games used to be managed only by the individual game developers, meaning a game supported a predetermined set of hardware and players selected from these prescribed input options. In 2015 we began an experiment to find out what happens when the comm … | Continue reading
A new study reports participating in light physical activity, such as yoga or tai chi, can help to increase connectivity between brain areas responsible for memory formation and storage. | Continue reading
In a fascinating behind-the-scenes interview, the wardrobe team for Saturday Night Live, which is comprised of Dale Richards, Tom Broecker, Eric Justian | Continue reading
Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers. But before that he help plan the destruction of most life on Earth. Now he wants to undo it. | Continue reading
Danziger et al. (1) concluded that meal breaks taken by Israeli parole boards influence the boards’ decisions. This conclusion depends on the order of cases being random or at least exogenous to the timing of meal breaks. We examined data provided by the authors and obtained addi … | Continue reading
Fake decentralization fashion is the science of creating a decentralized product governed by a couple of nodes running their Blockchain. | Continue reading
A new rule seeks to bar low-income immigrants if they’re likely to use food stamps and public housing. | Continue reading
Rework is a podcast by the makers of Basecamp about a better way to work and run your business. While the prevailing narrative around successful entrepreneurship tells you to scale fast and raise money, we think there's a better way. We'll take you behind the scenes at Basecamp w … | Continue reading
The Coca-Cola trial of 1911 helped establish caffeine as America’s pick-me-up of choice—not that it was planned that way. | Continue reading
Lucidchart is focused around visual communication, so we set out to prove Lucidchart’s Turing completeness in the most visual way possible. | Continue reading
Trump’s pick is a baseball fan who racked up considerable debt buying season tickets. Help us figure out who went with the nominated judge. | Continue reading
Space flight is quickly becoming a reality for the everyday citizen. And with time, it will be embraced as the norm for commercial travel. This is not only an exciting prospect for the advancement of space culture, but it personally excites me because I believe space is the next … | Continue reading
It's even worse than it appears. | Continue reading
Java developers on Azure and Azure Stack can build and run production Java applications using Azul Systems Zulu Enterprise builds of OpenJDK without incurring additional support costs. | Continue reading
Intro to NLP with NLTK | Continue reading
My pet cat is bringing home prey and making a mess. I used AI and Microsoft's CustomVision API to decide weather my cat should be let into the house or not. | Continue reading
Researchers report the medial prefrontal cortex calibrates current visual information with previously obtained information to help us perceive the world with more stability, helping to retain visual consistency as we blink. | Continue reading
Side-sleepers can have a hard time finding a pillow with enough neck and head support. After sleeping on 56 pillows, we found the best for most side-sleepers. | Continue reading
Using newtypes and type classes, we create a wrapper around IO with support for logging capabilities. This approach keeps log entries as values, enables log aggregation, and supports diagno... | Continue reading
For our own troubleshooting needs, the Azure Data Explorer team wanted to run ad-hoc queries on the massive telemetry data stream produced by our service. Finding no suitable solution, we decided t… | Continue reading
Today at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando we announced the preview of Azure Data Explorer in 41 regions - a lightning fast service optimized for data exploration. The service helps organizations quickly discover insights from petabytes of structured and unstructured data. | Continue reading
An unexplained break from a stable family routine. A bathroom only very slightly out of order: a rumpled towel on the floor, a broken vase, tiny specks of blood. An unbelievable 9-1-1 call and, soon after, an arrest. Countdown to Capture has all the ingredients of a good true cri … | Continue reading
In an announcement that evidently came as a surprise to the watchers-and-waiters (I ain't one, so I dunno), Fujifilm announced that it is working on a one-hundred megapixel GFX camera. This is something for the future, not for now, but... | Continue reading
Join Infinite Red on Oct 2, 2018 for our very first online React Native workshop: React Native Fundamentals.This one-day course will teach you a basic foundation of React Native. By the end, you'll know how to set up your machine and which tools are the best for your project. Be … | Continue reading
Over the past couple of days I’ve been investigating various load balancing techniques (Layer 4 and Layer 7) for use with Kubernetes’… | Continue reading
Samsung has issued a warning about the health risks of watching 3D television. | Continue reading
One of the obstacles to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testifying before the Senate yesterday was an inability to suffer the “confinement” of being in an airliner (see “Why won’t… | Continue reading
And Carla Bruni. | Continue reading
With the right training, feral donkeys go from zero to hero. | Continue reading
I’ve been working on a refactor of my Elixir-powered Bitcoin full node for weeks now. Let’s dive into the solution I landed on. | Continue reading
This is a long and winding tale (with lots of code) of my attempts replicate JSX syntax, component structure, server-side rendering, and… | Continue reading
Today we launched Firefox Monitor, a collaboration with Have I Been Pwned, designed to help keep our users safer online. | Continue reading