Why did humans start speaking? Scientists point to a specific gene

Julia: C codegen considered unnecessary: go directly to binary, do not pass C

Relational Quantum Mechanics

What Just Happened to UK TBTF Lender Barclays' Online Banking Services?

Robin Milner's Work on Concurrency: An Appreciation

Obelisks

Total Kievan Debellation

Towards third generation HOTT [pdf]

Think Tank Funding Tracker

What's Causing the Great Stagnation?

The Murmur of Engines

The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)

The Stinking Legacy-Prisons and Concentration Camps of the USA

Abu Mohammad Al-Julani (Syrian Rebel Leader)

Palantir, Anduril to save data from battlefield to train AI models

Stephen Kotkin on Stalin, Power, and the Art of Biography

Nord Stream: hide-and-seek deep under the Baltic sea

Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI and the Future of AI – Lex Fridman [video]

Online Age Verification as Trojan Horse for the Mass Rollout of Digital IDs?

The World Grid and New Geographies of Cooperation

Neal Stephenson on History, Spycraft, and American-Soviet Parallels

The Chinese Room Argument

Our Journey with Caching

Next.js 15 RC 2

Defining Statistical Models in Jax?

The Military-Entertainment Complex Is Bigger Than You Realize

Erik Andersson's informative Nord Stream update

DuckDB – State of Project [pdf]

Some reflections after being cancelled / banned by YouTube

Snowflake Higher Order Functions (HoF)

Monumental Breakthrough in Mathematics [Part 2] [video]

Rethinking US Foreign Policy for a Multipolar World

Goodbye API. Hello RSQL

A Great Fog over the Past

Hunting for Foxes with Sheaves [pdf]

Everyone is terrified of a far-right return in Germany. It won't happen

Notes on the political economy of war [pdf]

First Sweden, Now Brazil: Digital Crime Is Exploding

Sarah Wilkinson in her own words

Launching Hasura DDN: the first metadata-driven data access layer