Renaissance news and milestones

Wealth, Magnificence, and the Politics of a Usable Past

Why are old patterns returning to UI? A breakdown of Y2K, retrofuturism, brutalism, and skeuomorphism in modern interface design.

This paper synthesizes a structured deliberation among four AI models on a pressing question in technology strategy: does the rise of AI-native development tools-Cursor, Devin, C…

Pompous know-it-alls were once a mainstay of mockery on the Italian stage. Arnoud Visser investigates this stock character of the pedant and his association with individual super…

Artificial intelligence's ability to enrich science will depend not only on model capability, but also on whether researchers, reviewers and funders reward originality over speed.

In 2024, China's NMPA approved 83 new drugs, the FDA approved 50. China's share of new commercial clinical trials jumped from 8% globally in 2013 to 30% in 2024, just behind the…

The subtle and frustrating nature of manifold collapse

Autonomous drones may have killed soldiers for the first time.

Many of the insights hitting soccer pitches today trace back to Jesse Davis and a team of computer scientists open-sourcing tools for some of the sport's trickiest problems.

Over a decade ago, with the launch of the of the Apple TV HD and the first version of tvOS,...

This high-spirited and highly personal approach to writing about the Renaissance is anything but 'academic'.

We've always found strace useful but somewhat hard to work with. Its output is often inscrutable, it's hard to follow subprocesses or threads, and if you wan...

In most industries, UX is often used to drive engagement at any cost-but in education, aligning design with real human needs isn't just ethical, it's a strategic advantage. GUEST…

A dispute over how to divvy up the pot in an interrupted game of chance led early mathematicians to invent modern risk assessment

A reading note on Mamba-3: Improved Sequence Modeling using State Space Principles by Aakash Lahoti, Kevin Y. Li, Berlin Chen, Caitlin Wang, Aviv Bick, J. Zico Kolter, Tri Dao, a…

Todd Brekhus on unifying data, AI, and curriculum to help teachers act on insights in real time. INTERVIEW by Victor Rivero A longtime leader at the intersection of data, literac…

Rising energy uncertainty is accelerating interest in fusion, as Renaissance Fusion advances liquid metal cooling toward cost-competitive power.

A combination of geographic luck, network effects, and vagaries of history. Can we replicate them today?

How to prioritize proven products that drive positive outcomes-and how to increase the value of products you already have.

Phrack is both a technical journal and a cultural document. Like all zines, it represents a snapshot of the scene at the time.

Adam Gopnik reviews

Rest of World News: The Renaissance which means "rebirth," began in Italy during the 14th century and spread across Europe by the 17th century marking a period of renewed.

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