Functions Are Vectors (2023)

Why is grid-wide battery storage capacity measured in power instead of energy?

What UI first distinguished radio buttons from checkboxes with circles/squares?

Infinity plus 1: Finding Larger Infinities

How to make task list less depressing?

How to tell an advisee you don't think they're cut out for academia?

Why are smokestacks so tall?

Infinity plus 1: Finding Larger Infinities

Philosophy of Mathematics

Why have some publishers stopped printing Indian edition books?

How do modern compilers choose which variables to put in registers?

Reacting to Changes: Computers and Living Cells

Why did Saturn V have fins?

Why are the walls of a spacecraft usually so thin?

Slipping on Banana Peels [video]

Certificate Authorities and the Fragility of Internet Safety

The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor

What should my name be on research articles?

Known Attacks on Elliptic Curve Cryptography

C++, Complexity, and Compiler Bugs

Yellow Fleet

Are retrocomputers best left on or off?

Non-Specialness of Our Place in the Universe

Notes from Pen and Teller's Masterclass

What is the Axiom of Choice? (2021)

The quest for a Wiki-less game

Is there an integer that takes all 3 sides of different Pythagorean triples?

Why don't languages or IDEs support attaching descriptive metadata to variables?

Understanding 3D Graphics

How would you explain a tensor to a computer scientist?

Multiplier v2: Code indexer specialized for C/C++

Primordial black holes and the Higgs field in the early universe

How can a time traveler encrypt info so it's only decryptable after a given date

When should I give up searching for a tenure track faculty job?

What are the ways compilers recognize complex patterns?

Understanding 3D Graphics

Why were early (personal) computer connectors so bulky?

GraphToy: Graphing mathematical functions, useful during procedural programming

What actual purpose do accent characters in ISO-8859-1 and Windows 1252 serve?

Work Snapshots: Take screenshots every few mins and browse your "work sessions"

Probability: The Distribution Matters

Inbox Ten

Money for Nothing, Commits for Free

How long does malware last "in the wild"?

Which cognitive psychology findings are solid that I can use to help students?

Simon Rifkind's great mistake and the shortfall on the Colorado River (2013)

Inaccessible Rail: Why is the smallest flightless bird called that?

Number Detective: Explaining an unexpected numerical pattern

How to avoid accidentally sharing proprietary information of a former employer?

Why do (or don't) languages forbid unreachable code?

Deleting Software I Wrote Upon Leaving Employment of a Company

History of Timekeeping Devices

Double Space Court Case: court case spends weeks arguing about formatting

Double Space Court Case

Untangle: Solving Problems with Fuzzy Constraints

Motion blur all the way down (2022)

Blender testing out a new platform to share/find extensions

How would you explain a tensor to a computer scientist?

Since when does Windows support forward slash as path separator?

I'm not going to cryptographically sign my Git commits, and you shouldn't either

Curl is now a CVE Numbering Authority

PIDs: Creating Stable Control in Games

Retro computer capable of being damaged only by issuing instructions at it?

Public Suffix List support added in curl

When did computer manuals start using monospace fonts for code and why?

Infinite Systems Failing in a Finite World