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When I first started writing software, developers had to implement most of the algorithms they used; yes, hardware vendors provided libraries, but the culture was one of self-reliance (except for maths functions, which were technical and complicated).
How can a theorem prover use the convention that 1/0=0 and still be consistent?
It's all relative
In this post I'll provide some of my personal experience and history working with BGP, and introduce a new BGP library, CoreBGP, which can be used to build the next generation of BGP-enabled applications.
Part 3 covers functions, closures, if-else, while, for..in, range and iterators
I recently wrote my first 4K intro in Rust and released it at the Nova 2020 where it took first place in the new school intro competition. W...
You can view a video related to this blog post here: Does UASP make the Raspberry Pi faster?. A couple weeks ago, I did some testing with my Raspberry Pi 4 and external USB SSD drives. I found a USB 3.0 SSD was ten times faster than the fastest microSD card I tested. In the comments on the video associated with that…
Computer Science, Machine Learning, Programming, Art, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Short Fiction
There are a thousand beautiful ways to start the day that don’t begin with looking at your phone. And yet so few of us choose to do so. Technology is commanding our attention in infinite, insurmountable loops. A country trip off-grid helped me escape.
This is an interactive tutorial series about Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types, or CRDTs for short. Their purpose is to allow seamless replication of data on different nodes in a distributed system. Merging is by construction always possible, without any conflicts. This series assumes no knowledge about CRDTs, but…
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11 key learnings and mistakes from our journey
Designing humility and forgiveness into social media products
I’ve been learning Rust for the past twenty days or so, working through the Blandy & Orendorff book, coding up things as I go. Once I got into playing with Rust traits and closures and as…
When social media was taking shape fifteen-odd years ago, the concept of “context collapse” helped frame and explain the phenomenon. Young scholars like Danah Boyd and Michael Wesch, bu…
Theo Julienne is a software & infrastructure engineer.
Understanding the fundamental building blocks of Bitcoin can be daunting for some developers. The purpose of this guide is to explain through simple pieces of code, how Bitcoin works.
On April 16—gosh, it feels like an entire year ago—I made some predictions about where we were going. How do they hold up?
Creative writing by OpenAI’s GPT-3 model, demonstrating poetry, dialogue, puns, literary parodies, and storytelling. Plus advice on effective GPT-3 prompt programming & avoiding common errors.
Topology is the study of the properties of geometric objects which aren’t changed by continuous deformation. A standard low-grade math joke is that toplogists consider a coffee mug and a doughnut equivalent because they’re both torii—(pauses for laughter)—one can be continuously deformed into the other, called a…
