Graphics Deep Dive: Cascaded Voxel Cone Tracing in the Tomorrow Children
Deep Dive is an ongoing Gamasutra series with the goal of shedding light on specific design, art, or technical features within a video game, in order to show how seemingly simple, fundamental design...
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View ArticleTheranos Sued for Alleged Fraud by Robertson Stephens Co-Founder Colman
Updated Nov. 28, 2016 4:13 p.m. ETRobertson Stephens & Co. co-founder Robert Colman accused Theranos Inc. in a lawsuit filed Monday of making false and misleading claims about its operations and...
View ArticleVisualizing How Developers Rate Their Own Programming Skills
Stack Overflow, the favorite destination for software developers when something breaks for no apparent reason, recently released their 2016 Stack Overflow Survey Results with responses to the questions...
View ArticleIntel discloses “vector+SIMD” instructions for future processors
The art and science of microprocessor architecture is a never-ending struggling to balance complexity, verifiability, usability, expressiveness, compactness, ease of encoding/decoding, energy...
View ArticleTesorio (YC S15) Is Hiring Senior Back End and Full Stack Engineers
We believe businesses should be free to focus on their employees, product and customers and stop worrying about when or if they’re going to be paid. Imagine a world where B2B transactions are...
View ArticleYC’s 2016 Holiday Gift Guide
Outschool offers amazingly enriching small-group classes for kids with masterful teachers. In Outschool classes, kids are transported to Ancient Egypt, Russia, or the US Congress for the afternoon,...
View ArticleAndroid security in 2016 is a mess
Your phone probably contains banking, payment and personal information that can be remotely stolen via numerous known and unknown bugs in the Android software. This is attractive to criminals.Vendors...
View ArticleStanford Degrees in Statistics
CourseDescriptionTextMATH 51. Linear Algebra and Differential Calculus of Several Variables. 5 Units.Geometry and algebra of vectors, matrices and linear transformations, eigenvalues of symmetric...
View ArticleProbabilistic Data Structure Showdown: Cuckoo Filters vs. Bloom Filters
Probabilistic Data Structure Showdown: Cuckoo Filters vs. Bloom FiltersProbabilistic data structures store data compactly with low memory and provide approximate answers to queries about stored data....
View ArticleThought as a Technology
Have you ever felt awe and delight upon first experiencing a computer interface? An interface that surprised you with its strangeness, with a sense of entering an alien world? Some people experience...
View ArticleNeutralize ME Firmware on SandyBridge and IvyBridge Platforms
Author: persmule Mail: persmule@tya.email, persmule@gmail.com00 ME: Management EngineFirst introduced in Intel’s 965 Express Chipset Family, the Intel Management Engine (ME) is a separate computing...
View ArticleSeaHash: A fast, portable hash function in Rust
SeaHash: A blazingly fast, portable hash function with proven statistical guarantees.SeaHash is a hash function with performance better than (around 3-20% improvement) xxHash and MetroHash....
View ArticleCyberChef – A Cyber Swiss Army Knife
What sort of things can I do with CyberChef?There are well over 100 operations in CyberChef allowing you to carry simple and complex tasks easily. Here are some examples:Can I load input directly from...
View ArticleArduboy – A game system the size of a credit card
Arduboy is a miniature open-source game system that you can program yourself! If you don’t know how to program yet, it’s a great way to learn! If you already are an expert developer, join our...
View ArticleWhere are the Voyagers?
Distance from EarthDistance from the SunRoundtrip Light Time from Earthhh:mm:ssThe chart above is a real-time odometer of Voyager 1's distance from the Earth and the Sun in astronomical units (AU) and...
View ArticleWe turned $140k on Kickstarter into $40k in debt and broke even
This is Part 3 of “Making The Contender: Conception to Completion”. Here are links to Part 1 (how we made the game) and Part 2 (how we ran the Kickstarter).There are two big questions that every...
View ArticleFallout 1.5: Resurrection
What is it?Fallout 1.5: Resurrection is a new, old-school Fallout. It's a modification for Fallout 2 with a completely new story taking place in the Fallout universe. The plot is set in the time...
View ArticleGeologist uncovers 2.5B-year-old fossils of bacteria
A microscopic image of 2.5 billion-year-old sulfur-oxidizing bacterium. Credit: Andrew Czaja, UC assistant professor of geologySomewhere between Earth's creation and where we are today, scientists...
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