Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

In my high-school English classes, I often tell my students that they write their papers backwards: They devise a thesis and then look for evidence to support it. They’ll find what they want to see, I ...

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On a recent transatlantic flight, Mark Ruddock, an entrepreneur in residence at GALLOS Technologies, decided to put his team of AI agents to work. He was 34,000 feet over the Atlantic with a ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. In Ye Olden Days, I was a COBOL programmer, working on a Unisys E1100 system with a CODASYL ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. All you need to do is open an online editor and code away! Which is exactly what we’re going to ...

This story was originally published on April 24, 2025, and has been updated. The art of letter writing is not dead. Rachel Syme, a New Yorker staff writer, learned that during the early days of the ...

Abstract: This article proposes a nonaugmented method for investigating the minimal observability problem of Boolean networks (BNs). This method can be applied to more general BNs and reduce the ...

Method references are a shorthand way to write lambda expressions that call a single method. Rather than implementing a method in a functional interface, a method reference simply points to an ...