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Corporate branding and advertisements are ubiquitous in society today and almost impossible to avoid. What if we lived in a world where consumers were blind to this surplus of corporate branding? Brand Killer is a technology demonstration that envisions a future in which consumers can use augmented reality to opt out…
Debug your programs like they're closed source!
John D. Norton Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Center for Philosophy of Science University of Pittsburgh http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton This page at http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies Prepared to accompany cityLIVE! "everything einstein" November 15, 2007, 6:30 pm The New Hazlett Theater…
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
Working at Netflix 2015: What is it like to work at Netfilx? Brendan Gregg describes his job and experiences at Netflix after several months as a senior performance architect.
Eigenvalues/vectors are instrumental to understanding electrical circuits, mechanical systems, ecology and even Google's PageRank algorithm. Let's see if visualization can make these ideas more intuitive.
Simulated annealing is a method for finding a good (not necessarily perfect) solution to an optimization problem. If you're in a situation where you want to maximize or minimize something, your problem can likely be tackled with simulated annealing.
Is there a big red button that can launch nuclear war? No — but thinking about why there isn't is a nice way into the complexities of command and control issues.
Articles and tutorials about Rust, Embedded development and Computer Graphics.
Pivotal ends sponsorship for Groovy & Grails; these popular JVM projects now seek new funding and partners to continue their vital development.
In some ways path tracing is one of the simplest and most intuitive ways to do ray tracing.
Today I’m releasing the “record” library, which is an API of just two quasi-quoters, providing a full-scale solution to the notorious records problem of Haskell!
Few things bother me more than when I am forced to make an account to have some basic interaction with a website.
Adam Drake is an advisor to scale-up tech companies. He writes about ML/AI/data, leadership, and building tech teams.
Perhaps you've read posts like Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names and Falsehoods programmers believe about time . Maybe you've also read Falsehoods programmers believe about geography .
Perl used to be everywhere. Its fall from grace wasn't inevitable. Here's how it could have been prevented.
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Laudable! Let's take a look at some of the changes that arise from this, through a simple case study: making an international phone call to a relative. Before abolishing time zones I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there? Google tells me it is currently...
Blog about network and security, showing example of Linux iptables and Snort configuration, and Windows security softwares.
10 years later and still unrebutted: DNSSEC is pageantry, it's not security, which is why so few security teams deploy it.
