We looked at 19 years of covers to find how Vogue represents women of different shades.

Lately I’ve been doing some career counseling for people off Twitter (long story). The central drama for many people goes something like this: “I’m a senior engineer, but I’m thin…

Born of war, Mother's Day grew to horrify its own mother, whose fight to fix the holiday "cost her everything, financially and physically."

Explore how people search on Google to understand the behavior of our dogs (and cats)

A look at the complicated business of funding open source software development.

Our study of 25 years of artificial-intelligence research suggests the era of deep learning is coming to an end.

More and more companies, government agencies, educational institutions and philanthropic organisations are today in the grip of a new phenomenon. I’ve termed it ‘metric fixation’. The key components…

Nearly 90,000 took this comprehensive, annual survey of people who code. Demographics. Most loved, dreaded and wanted technologies. Salary and careers.

The rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat: drug-resistant germs.

How rich, creative, or safe can we expect a city to be? How can we establish which cities are the most innovative, the most violent,…

Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff Matt Kibbe We libertarians have always preferred to use esoteric arguments, specialized language, and other

Visualizing the World’s Population, in 3D

If you hang out on Meta Stack Overflow, you may have noticed news from time to time about A/B tests of various features here at Stack Overflow. We use A/B testing to compare a new version to a…

it is imperative to have a vigilant and knowledgeable Integration Test team

Walter Pitts was used to being bullied. He’d been born into a tough family in Prohibition-era Detroit, where his father, a boiler-maker,…

Trust used to be a very personal thing: You went on the recommendations of your friends or friends of friends. By finding ways to…

The toughest race in the world isn’t the Marathon des Sables, it’s probably much shorter than that and with a whole lot less sand. After recently enjoying the suffering of the Armagh International 5k…

What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer 25 questions to see your own custom dialect map.

By searching through footnotes, researchers found female programmers who made important but unrecognized contributions to genetics.

The skilled climber and thief Vjeran Tomic, whom the French press referred to as Spider-Man, has described robbery as an act of imagination.

A study of Stradivari and Guarneri violins found minerals chemically infused in the wood, a possible answer to why the instruments have a reputation for a superior sound.

A team in Cremona, Italy, wants to preserve every note from the world’s finest instruments before they become too fragile to play. But perfect recordings need silence. Lots of it.

This blogpost accompanies my Github-project TF-rex. The goal of this project is to play Google’s offline T-rex Dino game using Reinforcement Learning (RL). The RL algorithm is based on the Deep Q…

The famed science fiction writer was wrong about a world government, but pretty close on robots. On computers, though ...