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A new version of Adblock Plus was released on July 17, 2018. Version 3.2 introduced a new filter option for rewriting requests. A day later AdBlock followed suit and released support for the new filter option. uBlock, being owned by AdBlock, also implemented the feature. Under certain conditions the $rewrite filter…
Supply chain security is an insurmountably hard problem. The recent focus is on Chinese 5G equipment, but the problem is much broader. This opinion piece looks at undersea communications cables: But now the Chinese conglomerate Huawei Technologies, the leading firm working to deliver 5G telephony networks globally…
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Putting a £1,000 Macbook Air in the oven and cranking the temperature up higher than the recipe suggests is a bad idea, unless your goal is to simultaneously desolder most components from the motherboard.
A great moment has arrived. We are going to apply our neural networks implementation to a regression problem. The network is going to learn a known function,...
Physicist: Black holes and space are both black, so there’s that. But while black holes tend to be very small, space is bonkers big and filled with just enough stuff to give astronomers thin…
This extraordinary view of the LMC might be the world's longest exposure image in amateur astronomy. 1060 hours were needed to capture this highly-resolved image (204 Megapixels) of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Scammers who make a living swindling Airbnb.com customers have a powerful new tool at their disposal: A software-as-a-service offering called “ Land Lordz ,” which helps automate the creation and management of fake Airbnb Web sites and the sending of messages to advertise the fraudulent listings.
Benjamin Tseng — startup operator, deeptech investor, and applied technologist. Writings and projects across deeptech + AI, biotech, operational models, and software systems.
I’ve been building a Kubernetes based platform at $work now for almost a year, and I’ve become a bit of a Kubernetes apologist. It’s true, I think the technology is
In machine learning, the term manifold is thrown around a lot—in fact, there’s even a branch of machine learning dealing with learning the structure of manifolds. Said branch is aptly named manifold learning . Inspired by fantastic visualizations of shapelet mining algorithms , this post aims to give a visual…
It has been almost 9 months since I started my sabbatical work with the Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB team. I knew what I signed up for then...
I spent this weekend writing a Forth designed for music synthesis, and it reminded me what a joy writing programming languages is! I have a big list of programming language experiments that I want to try, but it's mostly been in my head so far. Here's a living document of some of the languages I want to write.
I'm 35. Before Facebook, I had to use different tools depending on whom I wanted to chat with. I'm not talking about the early era of the Internet, but rather the period after everybody started getting online. Chat was just getting popular, but it
Every developer should know the basics of DNS, the critical protocol at the heart of the web.
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Modern design tools, of both the vector and code kind, are amazing pieces of software that in recent years have transformed the design profession, but none of them seem to really understand the context that we currently design for. The remnants of fixed-dimensions are still visible in all and the tools are not helping…
Apple aren't the only company with products that can feel tingly or buzzy to a light touch, it is all due to the widespread use of switched...
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
What this function does is to give you a lumninance-correct grayscale version of any matplotlib colormap. I've found this useful for quickly checking how my plots might appear if printed in black and white, but I think it's probably even more useful for stoking the flame of the internet's general rant against jet .
This article has been translated into Spanish: Por qué debes aprender más lenguajes de programación (incluso si no los vas a utilizar)
Microservice architecture paradigm fits well within the Unix’s first principle/philosophy: “Make one program do one thing well”. We l...
The native web platform has caught up with frontend frameworks and will slowly render them obsolete.
In this article I'll be explaining how GauGAN converts simple blobs of color into photorealistic paintings of landscapes.
Did you use to have some sort of intuition for what “lvalue” and “rvalue” meant? Are you confused about glvalues, xvalues and prvalues, and worry that lvalues and rvalues mi…
