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Ampersand (2015)
This & is called an AMPERSAND. And here's why...
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The New XOR Problem
In 1969, Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert published Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry. In it, they showed that a single-layer perceptron cannot compute the XOR function. The main argument relies on linear separability: Perceptrons are linear classifiers, which essentially means drawing a line to…
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Why don’t more people live close to friends?
A few theories why
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The Windows 11 Trash Party
Thomas Bandt was setting up a new computer for his kid, and it gave him the opportunity to really look at what Windows has become over the years. Here's what was showing by default in the Start menu: First, there was news about a mass shooting that had occurred
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Thought Examinations, Indoctrination Meetings and Struggle Sessions
On the mechanics of totalitarian terror in Mao's China.
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Breaking the limits of TLA+ model checking
Graphing TLA+ state spaces for fun and profit.
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Keep stuff linkable
2023-04-18 • Revised for clarity and style, with better link queries, based on feedback from HN. Thank you!
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The colorful charm of Amiga utility disks
Commodore produced a great many Amiga models, but for several years the gold standard was an Amiga 500 expanded with half a meg of RAM (bringing the total to a full megabyte) and an external floppy drive (bringing the total number to two). For the demo scene , this was the only Amiga configuration that mattered during…
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Tag Systems
I've tried to write a blog post on tag systems for years now. Literally years, I think I first started drafting it out in 2018 or so? The problem is that...
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I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated
In 2020 I wondered if I could run my blog on solar power , being inspired by Low-tech Magazine , doing the same thing (but better) 1 . The answer was 'yes', but only through spring and summer.
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No Source Code == No Patent
How we know you "have' the invention
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Horrible Code, Clean Performance
A short tale of how horrible code yields clean performance.
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I liked this simple calculus exercise
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Constraint Programming (2020)
A brief introduction tutorial to Constraint Programming with Python, we introduce some relevant definitions and solve our old Pokémon Centers and Pokémon Gyms problem this time with CP!
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'Algebra for none' fails in San Francisco
The goal was equity. The result: Meh.Frustrated by high failure rates in eighth-grade algebra, San Francisco Unified decided in 2015 to delay algebra till ninth grade and place low, average and high achievers in the same classes. The goal was to improve achievement for black and Hispanic students, preparing more for…
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The basics of decoupling capacitors
How to stabilize digital supply voltages - and why most of the online advice on this topic is suspect.
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Alien Artefacts
The purpose of this blog post is to introduce the concept of alien artefacts 1 , a subcategory of legacy code. I use the term to describe particularly complicated and important pieces of software written by very smart engineers that are no longer working for the company—and thus not available to support it. The…
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I used Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth to create an art portrait of my dog
In this post, we walk through my entire workflow/process for bringing Stable Diffusion to life as a high-quality framed art print. We’ll touch on making art with Dreambooth, Stable Diffusion, Outpainting, Inpainting, Upscaling, preparing for print with Photoshop, and finally printing on fine-art paper with an Epson…
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Unwinding the Stack the Hard Way
Tutorial on how to make a stack trace or backtrace manually unwinding the stack using ELF’s .eh_frame and call frame information (CFI)
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OpenVMS 9.2 for x86: Auto boot, licenses, PAKs, networking and SSH
Published: 15-04-2023 22:30 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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Conway’s Law (2022)
Systems are constrained to follow the communication patterns of their designers.
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Plain C API design, the real world Kobayashi Maru test
Designing APIs is hard. Designing good APIs that future people will not instantly classify as "total crap" is even harder. There are typical...
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SpaceX's Texas Rocket Is Going to Cause a Lot More Damage Than Anyone Thinks
On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a license for SpaceX to launch the first orbital test of Starship, the largest rocket in human history, as soon as this Monday, April 17th.
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Clean front end architecture with SvelteKit
A practical guide for craftspeople seeking to avoid the most common pitfalls when designing modern frontend applications.
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Understanding large language models: A cross-section of the relevant literature
A Cross-Section of the Most Relevant Literature To Get Up to Speed
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The Military-Industrial Stock Buyback Complex
Why is the US military ceding ground to China? As a new DOD report shows, big defense contractors are middlemen whose main purpose is stock buybacks and dividends.
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Load Balancing
A bottom-up, animated guide to HTTP load balancing algorithms.
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Nibbles of Rust – Restructuring Patterns
In Rust, there is this feature known as “pattern matching”, whereby you can take apart a piece of structured data by writing out patterns which bind to parts of it. This process is known as “destructuring”, because you’re breaking a structure into parts.