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Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2016
I’m Patrick McKenzie, perhaps better known as patio11 on the Internet. I ran a succession of small software businesses from 2006 through 2016. They started out as a side project and took over my...
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Larry Page is pouring millions into flying cars
People have dreamed about flying cars for decades, but the technology has always seemed far out of reach. Airplanes have long been too big, expensive, dangerous, loud, and complex for personal aviation...
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China announces ban on ivory trade by end of 2017
Image copyrightAFPImage caption Kenya set alight 105 tonnes of ivory tusks in April to help tackle the illegal tradeChina has announced a ban on all ivory trade and processing activities by the end of...
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How to ask good questions
Asking good questions is a super important skill when writing software. I’ve gotten way better at it over the years (to the extent that it’s something my coworkers comment on a lot). Here are a few...
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New Exploit Breaks the iPhone's Messaging App with One Text
Yet another way to wreak havoc on someone's life with a single text has been discovered. This time it results from a message containing a large virtual contact file (VCF) crashing the iPhone's built-in...
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Memshare: A Dynamic Multi-Tenant Memory Key-Value Cache
(Submitted on 26 Oct 2016)Abstract: Web application performance is heavily reliant on the hit rate of memory-based caches. Current DRAM-based web caches statically partition their memory across...
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When Finnish Teachers Work in America's Public Schools
“I have been very tired—more tired and confused than I have ever been in my life,” Kristiina Chartouni, a veteran Finnish educator who began teaching American high-school students this autumn, said in...
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Mini x86 – An x86 documentation, decompiler and emulator in pure JS
README.mdA x86 documentation, disassembler and emulator (in pure JS) optimized for running (MS-DOS) .COM files.Documentation:Apps:Bonus:Demos included:Tutos from http://www.sizecoding.org:hello...
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Tyrus Wong, ‘Bambi’ Artist Thwarted by Racial Bias, Dies at 106
Mr. Wong died on Friday at 106. A Hollywood studio artist, painter, printmaker, calligrapher, greeting-card illustrator and, in later years, maker of fantastical kites, he was one of the most...
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Fravia's web-searching lore (2009)
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Life in Life (2012) [video]
Offentliggjort den 13. maj 2012A video of Conway's Game of Life, emulated in Conway's Game of Life.The Life pattern is the OTCA Metapixel: http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/OTCA_m... - for more...
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The IT security culture, hackers vs. industry consortia
In a previous life I used to do a lot of IT security work, probably even at a time when most people had no idea what IT security actually is. I grew up with the Chaos Computer Club, as it was a great...
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To Make the World Better, Think Small
There is a solution, however, to psychic numbing: Think small. In the fund-raising business, there’s an old axiom that “one is greater than one million.” This isn’t bad math; it is a reminder that when...
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Interactive Map: The Flow of International Trade
The interactive visualization you see in this post was created by data visualization expert Max Galka from the Metrocosm blog. (Also check out his new project, Blueshift, which allows users to upload...
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Russia Hysteria Infects WashPost: False Story About Hacking U.S. Electric Grid
(updated below)The Washington Post on Friday reported a genuinely alarming event: Russian hackers have penetrated the U.S. power system through an electrical grid in Vermont. The Post headline conveyed...
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A Paper Algorithm Notation
.paper { /* This is a reset for Mobile Safari; without it, many pieces of text * are rendered too small to read cleanly */ -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; } .paper { white-space: pre-line; /* Preserve...
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Recursive Anonymous Functions in Elixir: Combinators and Macros
README.mdA Tale of Combinators and Macros1. RecursionRecursion is the core of Elixir and Erlang code. But it is missing from anonymous functions.iex(9)> sum = fn [] -> 0; [h|t] -> h + sum.(t)...
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Silicon Valley's obscure unicorns could boost 2017 IPO market
The Wall St. sign is seen outside the door to the New York Stock Exchange in New York's financial district February 4, 2014. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
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Deep Learning 2016: The Year in Review
In order to understand trends in the field, I find it helpful to think of developments in deep learning as being driven by three major frontiers that limit the success of artificial intelligence in...
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