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Gamma Steganography
Hi, My name is Carl and I'm a software engineer and aspiring artist.Here’s a cool trick: try downloading this picture and looking at it in your file browser:If your computer is like mine, the output...
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California Cool: How the Wetsuit Became the Surfer's Second Skin (2013)
When Bob Meistrell started surfing in Northern California during the early 1950s, 20 minutes was about all he could stand in the frigid coastal waters. Despite the constant rush of adrenaline, after...
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The Wetware Crisis: TEPES (2008)
[Copyright 2008 by Bruce F. Webster. All rights reserved. Adapted from Surviving Complexity (forthcoming).] [Some edits and expansions made in 2018]In my forthcoming book, Surviving Complexity, the...
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Are Robots Coming for Your Job? Eventually, Yes
Its educational partner is a college-alternative start-up, the Holberton School. Founded in 2015 in San Francisco, Holberton offers a two-year program to create software engineers. Its graduates now...
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Tensegrity (1961)
TENSEGRITY by R. Buckminster Fuller Note from RWG: This paper appeared in Portfolio and Art News Annual, No.4, 1961. In addition to this article there is an accompanying Introduction by John McHale....
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The first calculating machine
Even in the world of polymath Renaissance mathematici Wilhelm Schickard (1592–1635) sticks out for the sheer breadth of his activities. Professor of both Hebrew and mathematics at the University of...
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UBiome received $83M in Series C financing
23andMe, IBM and now uBiome is the next tech company to jump into the lucrative multi-billion dollar drug discovery market.The company started out with a consumer gut health test to check whether your...
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Introduction to HAProxy Stick Tables
HTTP requests are stateless by design. However, this raises some questions regarding how to track user activities, including malicious ones, across requests so that you can collect metrics, block...
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Inside cpyext: Why emulating CPython C API is so Hard
cpyext is PyPy's subsystem which provides a compatibility layer to compile and run CPython C extensions inside PyPy. Often people ask why a particular C extension doesn't work or is very slow on PyPy....
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NewSQL databases fail to guarantee consistency and I blame Spanner
The CAP theorem famously states that it is impossible to guarantee both consistency and availability in the event of a network partition. Since network partitions are always theoretically possible in a...
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The new Jaguar cars sound like spaceships, thanks to Richard Devine
Music, film/TV, games… yes. But another frontier is opening for sound design you might not expect: cars. That has led automaker Jaguar to sound designer Richard Devine, and that in turn means when this...
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Writing Documentation When You Aren't a Technical Writer – Part Two
Welcome back for Part Two of Writing Documentation When You Aren’t A Technical Writer! In Part One, we discussed how to write documentation people actually read and how to avoid the common pitfalls...
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Freezing your credit is now free in all states under a new law
Janna Herron and Adam Shell USA TODAY Published 2:50 PM EDT Sep 21, 2018One of the best ways to protect yourself from identity theft is now free.Starting Friday, a new federal law allows people to...
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Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China
Google bosses have forced employees to delete a confidential memo circulating inside the company that revealed explosive details about a plan to launch a censored search engine in China, The Intercept...
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Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)
August 2007A good programmer working intensively on his own code can hold it in his mind the way a mathematician holds a problem he's working on. Mathematicians don't answer questions by working them...
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Southern California just saw its longest streak of bad air in decades
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Magic Leap Is Bidding on an Army Combat Contract
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Drug giants Novartis and Bayer fail to stop NHS offering cheaper eye treatment
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