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Churches vary greatly, but one of the largest associations of evangelical congregations in Austin was birthed from young adults, grew from young adults, and plants from young adult…

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Thinking about Maslow’s hierarchy, the auditorium scene sounded like an effort to impart a religious experience. But “change the world,” at your current employer or your startup, d…

To elaborate on the management, not engineering, failure: nice domestic marquee credentials for the most-visible leader, but... How much credence was his input given among other le…

It was kind of funny that one of the results was reported as "a trend to increase hedonic attitudes towards some inulin-rich vegetables." Let's look at just a representative handfu…

At Data Day Texas 2019, Jonathan Mugan of Deep Grammar presented an overview of the history of NLP's steps toward AI.

At EFF-Austin, Fay Archip and A. J. Butt provided a great introduction to the concept of doxxing and the steps you could take to minimize your risk. This is a write-up of their pre…

Reading something from a specific, embodied religious tradition (Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu) provides a refreshing set of justifications and perspective to the secu…

How about taking the competing arguments at face value and evaluating them against each other? If qui bono is the only question you ask, you shut down a lot of your brain.

But the witchunt and purge of Brendan Eich. For love of diversity and civility, can't use Firefox. Try http://brave.com instead. They're actually developing a way to democratize ad…

O'Reilly's publishing Introduction to Machine Learning with Python by Sarah Guido and Andreas Mueller in January 2016. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920030515.do