Programmatically Speaking

We asked a group of writers to consider the forces that have shaped our lives in 2017. Here, science fiction writer Ted Chiang looks at capitalism, Silicon Valley, and its fear of superintelligent AI.

Gosper Glider Gun I was recently chatting to a friend whose startup’s machine learning models were so disorganized it was causing serious problems as his team tried to build on each other&#82…

I think that the most important aspect of programming is the readability of the source code that you write or maintain. This involves many…

How to cultivate lasting shared knowledge without giving up all that free time you don't really have.

Quirky knitters teamed up with a neural-network creator to generate new types of tentacled, cozy shapes.

Annotated rhyming dictionary

Today we’ll take a break from digital 3D design and do some good old-fashioned analog knitting. Here’s a pattern we’ve been working on recently. What is this crazy stitch, and whe…

We asked a group of writers to consider the forces that have shaped our lives in 2017. Here, science fiction writer Ted Chiang looks at capitalism, Silicon Valley, and its fear of superintelligent AI.

“To beat a hobbyhorse, what practical FP needs is: patterns. OO state machine patterns were kind of a mess, but they presented prior art. /6”