Goal-driven code
Goal-Driven CodePhoto by Emile Perron on UnsplashSummary: Not all coding is sequential. For non-specialists, the programming language is often a barrier. Whand is a simplified declarative language intended to control external devices as a function of events and the passage of time.A Whand script essentially describes the desired result, unlike sequential languages
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Decks for education-based startups are pretty rare. Here's how Tomorrow University landed that $10 million.
Read moreSpaceX’s next Starship launch is on hold as FAA lists 63 ‘corrective actions’ needed
SpaceX Starship prototype | Image: SpaceX The first orbital launch attempt for SpaceX’s Starship and Super Heavy booster in April ended explosively about four minutes into its test flight, and the FAA isn’t ready to clear a follow-up attempt yet. Today, the agency closed its mishap investigation and said the
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Today we’re looking at where deals are getting done from a geographic perspective.
Read moreReddit users on mobile can now translate posts into other languages
Reddit is giving users the ability to translate posts into other languages. There will be eight different languages available to start — including English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and Swedish. To translate a Reddit post, users click on the “translate” button at the top underneath the Redditor’s username.
Read moreHow badly will AI-generated images impact elections?
There’s a very high risk that artificial intelligence (AI) will put the integrity of the election process into question.
Read more7 days left to save on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 is so close we can practically hear the hustle and bustle of 10,000 startup movers, shakers and future unicorns converging on San Francisco’s Moscone West. It all goes down September 19–21, and we can’t wait to see you there! Here’s a shoutout to all the last-minute decision
Read moreWith Postmarks, social bookmarking is back — but this time it’s built on the fediverse
The successor to Web 2.0 bookmarking site del.icio.us is here, but this time, it’s built for the open web and the fediverse — the decentralized collection of social networks that includes the Twitter/X competitor Mastodon and others. Portland-area web developer Casey Kolderup has launched Postmarks, a fediverse-enabled social bookmarking service
Read moreSquare says it has resolved day-long outage
Fintech giant Square says its services are coming back online after a day-long outage left small business owners unable to process payments. The Block-owned company had, up until Friday morning on the U.S. west coast, been battling a prolonged outage that had downed its services since Thursday afternoon. In a
Read moreJustifiable sample size
One of the most common things a statistician is asked to do is compute a sample. There are well known formulas for this, so why isn’t calculating a sample size trivial? As with most things in statistics, plugging numbers into a formula is not the hard part. The hard part
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