I wasted 20 years of my life chasing utopian energy. Utopian energy is an imagined form of energy that’s abundant, reliable, inexpensive, and also clean, renewable, and life-sustaining. But utopian energy is as much a fantasy as a utopian society.
A common issue programmers have when they try to test real-world software is how to deal with third-party dependencies. Let’s examine an old, but counter-intuitive principle.
Today I will share some of the software engineering soft skills I have learned from my first 10 years on Google Chrome, where I am a Senior Staff Engineering...
At the age of 19, Jeff Gross fell under the sway of a much older, charismatic Svengali. Decades later, his life is unrecognizable. What the hell happened?
Ricky Lightfoot reveals he had been awake for 29 hours before the event after flying from Tenerife.
In an important new paper, Can Education be Standardized? Evidence from Kenya, Guthrie Gray-Lobe, Anthony Keats, Michael Kremer, Isaac Mbiti and Owen Ozier evaluate Bridge International schools using a large randomized experiment. Twenty five thousand Kenyan students applied for 10,000 scholarships to Bridge International and the scholarships were given out by lottery. Kenyan pupils who won […]
The chorus of technologists who believe AI models may not be far off from achieving consciousness is getting bolder.
Credit... Christopher Lee for The New York Times headway The nation’s fourth-largest city hasn’t solved homelessness, but its remarkable progress can suggest a…
Things I thought I knew, and on which I agreed with a lot of other historians, turned out to be ever more questionable. Perhaps even wrong. And so I had to delve ever deeper to get to the truth, and to reformulate what I knew.
Toxic productivity happens when your desire to get things done goes to an extreme. Here’s how to escape your productivity addiction.
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On Sunday, March 6, we migrated we converted more than 3.7 million lines of code with a single pull request. The next day, hundreds of engineers came in to start writing TypeScript for their projects.
Tomorrow, Wednesday, 8 June, I will be leaving Petersburg, leaving Russia. My return home will follow in reverse order the same path as my arrival a little over five weeks ago, taking a bus to Tall…
It turns out anxiety and existential dread are not the key to longevity, per a new study.
In an attempt to work through my vasty backlog of half-finished blogs. I’m going to be posting up a few little short ones here and there. It’s wild to me when I…
Generally lazy, often friendly, the dogs of India know how to relax.
Could 12 strangers agree on justice in Baltimore, a city riddled with killings and distrust of the police, in a shooting case where the victim was an actor on the legendary drama “The Wire”?
Some backers see FIRE moving to take on fights ceded by ACLU.
Fighting COVID-19 demands new knowledge. But the country’s most important health-research agency has become sclerotic and overly cautious.
No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language
Some families didn't feed their kids' friends -- but Swedes say it's not like that anymore.
“That’s a pretty interesting result to anyone running a hedged long/short investment portfolio, especially with energy prices so high. It also means that if I…
