On Sunday evening, as Spain and Argentina played out the World Cup final, the mathematician Levent Alpöge posted a short message on X. The Jacobian conjecture, he wrote, is false. He thanked a friend ...

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A veritable garden of linters and type checkers has blossomed in the Python ecosystem. Pyright and Mypy are two of the most popular, while Astral’s ty and Meta’s Pyrefly are two promising Rust-based ...

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According to decades of research by psychologist John Gottman, a whopping 69% of relationship conflicts are “unresolvable.” What this means is that over two-thirds of the problems in relationships are ...