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I am on holiday in Bavaria, where, in between the beer and schnitzels, I have been contemplating the nature of trust. A rather old-fashioned guest house happily took our reservation and let us run …
At Meta, research permeates everything we do. We believe the most interesting research questions are derived from real world problems.
I’ve edited a couple of the JSON RFCs, and am working on the design of a fairly complex DSL, so I think I can claim to have dug deeper in the JSON mines than most. We can easily agree on what’s wrong with JSON, and I can’t help wondering if it’d be worth fixing it.
This FAQ addresses questions for developers & companies interested in working on Business Source License (BSL) software or adopting BSL for their own business.
One of the things I love about Lisp is that it gives you the ability to change and mold the syntax of the language to what you need. In this post I want to look at the evolution of a little macro I've been playing around with for a while now.
Some people on the internet are getting very excited at the (unconfirmed) reports of an "Earth-like" exoplanet orbiting Proxima Centauri , a mere 4.25 light-years away from Earth. If correct, the planet is orbiting in the liquid water zone around our nearest stellar neighbour and is of the same order of mass as the…
Explains how the Japanese writing system works by comparing it to expanding the English alphabet.
Note: The timeline has been updated. Please see our October 2021 post for more details. We have always believed in making the open, inter...
There’s always too much work to be done on software projects, too many features to implement, too many bugs to fix. Some days you’re just not going through the backlog fast enough, you’re not producing enough code, and it’s taking too long to fix a seemingly-impossible bug. And to make things worse you’re wasting time…
PowerShell is a spiced up command line shell made by Microsoft. According to some people, it is a really useful and good shell alternative. Already a long time ago, we got bug reports from confused users who couldn't use curl from their PowerShell prompts and it didn't take long until we figured out that Microsoft ……
With high-profile hacks in the headlines and government officials trying to reopen a long-settled debate about encryption, information security has become a mainstream issue. But we feel that one element of digital security hasn’t received enough critical attention: the role of government in...
On a recent trip to Cuba I brought with me a smartphone and hoped to get Internet access either via WiFi or 3G. I managed that (at a price) but also saw for myself how Cubans get access to an alternate Internet delivered by sneakernet.
The latest information about the Unconference is now available at the Unconference wiki, which will be periodically updated with more information for attendees.
MIT spinout SolidEnergy Systems has developed an anode-free lithium metal battery with double the energy capacity of lithium ion batteries that power smartphones, electric cars, wearables, and drones. The device was created by Qichao Hu, former postdoc in the group of batteries expert Donald Sadoway.
Explore the progression from AI training to AI inference, and how they both function.
Recently we (Felix, Niko, and I) have been working on getting compiler-level GC support for Rust. The plan is to provide a base set of APIs and …
