To some, METR’s “time horizon plot” indicates that AI utopia—or apocalypse—is close at hand. The truth is more complicated.

First developed by climate scientist Michael Mann in 1999, the iconic "hockey stick" graph — a visual representation of the accelerated rise in our global temperatures in recent decades — has had its ...

A computer generated image of objects in Earth orbit that are currently being tracked. Approximately 95% of the objects in this illustration are orbital debris, i.e., not functional satellites. The ...

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Abstract: Many modern parallel systems, such as MapReduce, Hadoop and Spark, can be modeled well by the MPC model. The MPC model captures well coarse-grained computation on large data — data is ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The default git log command doesn’t provide the most visually pleasing results. The output is ...

A unique Bitcoin price model shows that BTC rallies by 6x when the network’s age increases by 40%. Bitcoin’s price increased by sixfold each time its age increased by 40%. If the pattern holds, ...

If you’ve been making the same commute for a long time, you’ve probably settled on what seems like the best route. But “best” is a slippery concept. Perhaps one day there’s an accident or road closure ...

Bullish fractals, long-term technical patterns, and favorable macroeconomic trends could boost ETH's price to $10,000 by 2025. Ethereum’s native token, Ether (ETH), looks poised to grow toward $10,000 ...

Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program includes a Chart Wizard for making a variety of graphs from tabulated data. In some situations, as with scientific experiments, the data in one or both axes of ...