Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

OpenAI and Tesla alum Andrej Karpathy wrote that there was no more "business as usual" in software, thanks to AI. AI agents are "extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow," Karpathy ...

For the past few years now, movie stars have publicized their films in promotional drag called “method dressing.” Picking up on the themes or cliches of their films, they appear on the red carpet in ...

Official implementation of the paper: "CONSTRAINT MATTERS: MULTI-MODAL REPRESENTATION FOR REDUCING MIXED-INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING", accepted by ICLR 2026. Model reduction is a powerful way to ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

1 College of Science, Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin, China. 2 Lvliang Vocational and Technical College, Lvliang, China. Multiple reflections in seismic exploration data ...

A gamer’s preference for their keyboard switches is a personal affair. You’re almost always guaranteed to start a debate if you ask a room full of gamers which they’d prefer: linear or clicky switches ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

When you think about multiple personalities, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? For many, it is a disturbing picture from a Hollywood film about a deranged and sociopathic murderer.