The introduction of dynamic arrays triggered the biggest change to how we work with Microsoft Excel formulas in years, if not decades. They allow a single formula to spill multiple results into ...

We’ll start with the most far-reaching addition, which the spec describes as “a new Iterator global with associated static and prototype methods for working with iterators.” The most exciting part of ...

The meaning of most emojis is pretty clear just by looking at them. For example, when the pandemic hit in 2020, usage of the emoji showing a mask over a face 😷 went through the roof. But that’s not ...

This post explains the key findings and algorithm of our 2023 SIGGRAPH paper “Winding Numbers on Discrete Surfaces” . What problem does this paper solve? For a given point on a surface, we would like ...

Have you ever found yourself stuck in the tedious cycle of manually updating Excel reports every time new data comes in? It’s frustrating, isn’t it? You tweak a chart here, adjust a formula there, and ...

Built on top of Erlang, Elixir makes it easier to write good functional programming code and harder to mess it up. Here's a first look at this language on the rise. Elixir is one of the most ...

Despite evidence that some people with excess adiposity have ill health due to obesity, obesity is generally considered a harbinger of other diseases, not a disease in itself. The idea of obesity as a ...

The functions of consciousness, viewed from an evolutionary standpoint, can be categorized as being either general or particular. There are two general functions, meaning those that do not depend on ...