#93 How fateful?
When I met my boyfriend, I sometimes felt a tinge of regret that we never got to make an adorable meet-cute story, despite living in the same city for five years and attending the same university. Our story isn’t unique from many couples in 2020- in a trough between COVID waves, we started speaking online, on Bumble, a dating app.
Engineers create molten salt micro-nuclear reactor
A nuclear power plant produces 8000 times more power than fossil fuels and is environmentally friendly, but when accidents do occur, they have major repercussions, such as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Nearly 100 people died either in the accident or through radiation sickness in the years following.
Discovering faster matrix multiplication algorithms with reinforcement learning
Improving the efficiency of algorithms for fundamental computations can have a widespread impact, as it can affect the overall speed of a large amount of computations. Matrix multiplication is one such primitive task, occurring in many systems—from neural networks to scientific computing routines.
The banker who caused the 1929 stock crash
At the outset of the Depression, Charles Mitchell was the most wanted banker in America. Today, his name’s largely been forgotten.
Over 50% of CEOs say they're considering cutting jobs over the next 6 months
Microsoft researchers recently warned of 'productivity paranoia' among managers about their hybrid workforce.
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