Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
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Imagine a device from science fiction capable of creating a self-replicating, constantly improving robotic hivemind. I wanted to know if we could build one today. Then I sort of did.
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A little coding fun with hash maps and delegates for trivial parallelization...
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Just because you can write an app without going to college, don't discount the value of a degree if you decide to seriously pursue computer science.
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Some computer scientists are so eager to work work quantum computers, they created a new language to make working with quantum circuits easier.
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In the tech world, dissing someone's tech stack is a great way to start a small holy war. And Jeff Atwood did just that on his blog.
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Like all communities, open source programming has its fair share of drama and emotional flareups over prominent tools and apps.
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Exposing kids to coding is a great idea. But it's important not to force them into programming as a career while they're still young.
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A disagreement between academic and industrial computer science is threatening to leave students in an educational no-man's land.