Natural language found more complex than it strictly needs to be—and for good reason

Human languages are complex phenomena. Around 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, some with only a handful of remaining speakers, while others, such as Chinese, English, Spanish and Hindi, are ...

Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language

To arrive at a language late is to see it without the forgiving haze of sentimentality that comes with imprinting—the fond willingness to overlook a flaw as a quirk. What I saw ...

Meet the Billion-Dollar Crypto Founder Who Started Trading at 9 Years Old

Denis Dariotis, the youthful founder and CEO of cryptocurrency-focused trading software firm GoQuant, talks about building a ...
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How stats made programming click for me

Spreadsheets are still useful, but if you do a lot of work with numbers, you'll realize that they have limitations.

The hottest Stanford computer science class isn't banning AI tools — it's embracing them

One of the hottest Stanford CS courses this semester embraces rather than bans AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude.

FCC says hackers hijack US radio gear to send fake alerts, obscenities

Hackers are hijacking U.S. radio transmission equipment to broadcast bogus emergency messages and obscene language, the ...