CEO stands by decision to keep prices steady instead of scoring sweet, sweet, windfall profits

I don’t have anything to add to the benchmarking discussion, but I have a thought about compatibility. It seems unquestionable that nogil requires some work from extension module maintainers before an extension is considered safe to use in the nogil world. It also breaks the ABI (if only by changing the meaning of the bits in ob_refcnt). Regardless of whether that’s a reason to proclaim that nogil is Python 4, this is likely to create a rift between modules that are nogil-compatible and those ...

A guide to using Azure Functions with Quarkus 3, for HTTP and non-HTTP functions. Covers newer native integration for serverless functions.

Loudspeakers: new materials in acoustics – Read the column on Polytechnique Insights

Long before Geoffrey Hinton and Eliezer Yudkowsky sounded warnings about artificial intelligence, there was Dr. Norbert Weiner in the 1950s and 60s. Weiner was a pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence, or as he called it ‘Cybernetics.’ His groundbreaking work laid the foundations that our current AI boom is built atop of and his concerns about AI have no doubt influenced those being voiced by his successors in the field today.

Illusion involving a hidden thumb confounds capuchin and squirrel monkeys for the same reason as humans – it misdirects the expected outcomes of actions they

That's the NY Post headline, and not ripped from The Onion.

In this article, first published at Counterpunch+ in November 2021, CIA mind-control programs are linked to experiments on returning Korean War POWs. Also revealed is the extent to which CIA…