Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says

Does consciousness depend on flesh and blood? The answer is almost certainly no, according to Eric Schwitzgebel, a distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside.

Softmax Activation Function

Math functions that calculate weighted sum of inputs and adds bias to give non-linearity to output of neuron.

Why are so many young people getting cancer? What researchers do and don’t know

Possible explanations for the trend are emerging, but are likely to vary from one type of tumour to another.

I design with Claude more than Figma now

For a long time I was skeptical of LLMs—whenever I reached for them I was disappointed by the results. Last year I tried Copilot and Cursor to tweak a game I...

Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first world

By Ryan Lopopolo, Member of the Technical Staff

Patrick Stevens | Announcing WoofWare.PawPrint, a deterministic .NET runtime

Moving beyond fork() + exec()

Since the earliest days of Unix, two of the core process-oriented system calls have been fork() [...]

Cheap, Fast DNA Synthesis Unlocks AI-Generated Genomes

Sidewinder makes it practical to build the DNA sequences that AI models predict