Bitcoin’s emergence has brought a field of competitors. One payment system, Ripple, serves as a platform for currencies both digital and real. NY Times seems upbeat on Ripple:…

What do Newcomb’s Problem, Sierpiński Numbers, and Chaos Theory have in common? According to “The Math Book”, they are each one of history’s 250 major milestones in mathematics….

Medical Breakthrough: After 200 years of use by millions of people around the world and 20 years of widespread adoption in Japan, two medical researchers in the US…

In just a few years the company’s product could be standard-issue gear for every member of the U.S. military. Medical Breakthrough: After a mere 400 years of experimentation…

“[W]hen your living conditions are stable, peaceful, and prosperous—no civil wars raging in your streets, no mass hunger, no epidemic disease, no vexation from poverty—making yourself miserable is…

Specified as control theory, FAI is an ultra-high frequency, stable, low-sensitivity, high-response, robust, closed-loop, non-linear, self-optimizing controller with no overshoot, which performs a flawlessly reliable error-free policy of…

Markets are supposed to be anti-inductive: If a regularity develops that becomes public knowledge, rational economic actors are supposed to exploit this regularity until it vanishes — or until…

The California Film Institute, Smith Rafael Film Center, Mill Valley Film Festival, California Film Institute Education Want to check out a new movie featuring a broad range of…

Check out a new place some brands have started airing their commercials. You won’t be able to look away. Seriously. Now that Vicarious broke CAPTCHAs, I guess we…

The citizen scientists over at DIYGenomics are recruiting volunteers for an opt-in genomics study on polyamorous participants. My friend Melanie Swan is coordinating the study so if you’re…

If typing hurts your wrists, consider switching to a better keyboard layout. In 2005, I switched to Dvorak and completely eliminated painful, chronic RSI issues in a matter of weeks. The appeal…