Interpolating the gamma function

Suppose you wanted to approximate Γ(10.3). You know it’s somewhere between Γ(10) = 9! and Γ(11) = 10!, and linear interpolation would give you Γ(10.3) ≈ 0.7 × 9! + 0.3 × 10! = 1342656. But the exact value is closer to 716430.69, and so our estimate is 53% too

Accessibility by design: Building interfaces for everyone at Stack Overflow

How we took a proactive approach to making our sites and products accessible to all.

Unpacking the 2024 Developer Survey results

Ryan and Eira talk with Stack Overflow senior research analyst Erin Yepis about the results of our 2024 Developer Survey, which polled more than 65,000 developers about the tools they use, the technologies they want to learn, their experiences at work, and much more. Erin highlights what the survey reveals

Chris’ Corner: Here’s some things you should know

Fine fine fine, here’s some things you could know if you were hip and into knowing things about building websites well. You shouldn’t lazy load hero images. It hurts your Largest Contentful Paint metric, and rightfully so, it delays when the page feels done and ready for users. If your

This developer tool is 40 years old: can it be improved?

Would updating a tool few think about make a diff(erence)?

Too clever Monte Carlo

One way to find the volume of a sphere would be to imagine the sphere in a box, randomly select points in the box, and count how many of these points fall inside the sphere. In principle this would work in any dimension. The problem with naive Monte Carlo We

Evaluating a class of infinite sums in closed form

The other day I ran across the surprising identity and wondered how many sums of this form can be evaluated in closed form like this. Quite a few it turns out. Sums of the form evaluate to a rational number when k is a non-negative integer and c is a

How developer experience can escape the spreadsheet

Ben and Ryan are joined by Cortex cofounders Anish Dhar, CEO, and Ganesh Datta, CTO. Cortex offers an internal developer portal that helps devs document and reinforce organizational best practices and improve developer productivity. The portal includes features like scorecards that incentivize developers to improve their work and AI-powered search

Google Cloud Is the New Way to the Cloud

Explore Google Cloud's powerful and versatile services, from AI to data storage, for businesses and developers. Get started for free. Continue reading Google Cloud Is the New Way to the Cloud on SitePoint.

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