Risks of autoregressive language models and the future of prompt engineering

How Germany Is Able To Run The World’s Second Largest Export Economy In The Post-Industrial Era “ The Germany Shock ” describes European growth & the efficiency-maximizing centralization of European manufacturing activity after the launch of the Single Market and the Euro . Two questi

Coal-dependent towns and regions are working to not just replace coal, but to build stronger and healthier communities with economies that don’t exploit people or the planet.

Have you ever heard a tree scream?

Understanding Germany’s trade dominance is not easy. The topic is fraught with tough political questions, some of which are hotly debated today (if not necessarily by academics, certainly by …

Attitude follows action far more often than action follows attitude. We change our mood as a result of how we act. If you want to feel a certain way, begin by acting as if you do. On the other hand…

Have an important question to answer? Here's how I do research, avoiding getting lost and confused along the way.

As I wrote in my recent reflections about the range of projects I helped to deliver during my time at the Open Data Institute and beyond, I’ve been thinking about the type of work I want to b…

Beaker is a new peer-to-peer browser for a Web where users control their data and websites are hosted locally.

The Hour of Reckoning Is Upon Us We are in the grip of COVID-19 and the most significant social and political unrest in the U.S. since the mid-1960s—what

Look at that banana, just look at it. Bananas are a modern miracle. They’re cheap, nutritious, and readily available. And just about every banana you’ve ever eaten (if you live in the N…

Natural anonymity comes from our ability to recognize others without the aid of an external identity system. Online interactions will only be able to mirror life-like anonymity when we can use decentralized identity systems that don't force all interactions to be under the purview of centralized, administrative identity systems.

Spoiler: Still 🤷 after 30 years

“Ignore sunk costs” is the critical lesson of useful decision making. The thing you earned, that you depend on, that was hard to do–it’s a gift from your former self. Just b…

Applying "The Goal" to the business of software

…or is it to Erlang Pattern-Matching?

The Order of the Smile (Polish: Order Uśmiechu) is an international award that children give to adults to honor them in their “love, care and aid” for children. This is the only award that exists i…

Or: How Fantasy Football taught me not to do virtual paperwork

Voltek’s approach to wiring buildings for the future involves a much greener design by distributing direct power over low voltage cabling.

Why we can’t have nice things.

Serbia’s recent celebrations of Victory Day in World War II show how the ruling Progressive Party is manipulating the legacy of the Communist Partisans’ struggle against fascism for its own national political purposes.

Fossil apes can inform us about essential aspects of ape and human evolution, including the nature of our last common ancestor. In the 150 years since Charles Darwin speculated that humans originated in Africa, the number of species in the human family tree has exploded, but so has the level of d

Feeling connected and validated by experiences that mirror your own can help you understand how to conquer, or at least endure, times of struggle. But what if your struggle looks more like achievem…

Who’s a better student? The one with a 3.95 GPA or the one with 3.96? Neither or both, actually. These metrics are foolishly and incorrectly precise. The decisions that led to this average ha…