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When ‘he’ll be kept on payroll, somewhere’ is where you are
On August 31, 2015, I started a Ph.D. in cryptography at TU Eindhoven, working with Tanja Lange and Dan Bernstein. On December 2, 2016, I…
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How to Write a Git Commit Message (2014)
Commit messages matter. Here's how to write them well.
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Training agents to invent a language
In this post we’ll outline new OpenAI research in which agents develop their own language.
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20,000 UC Berkeley Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them
Update 12/21/2019: just looking to access these videos? Check out the @UCBerkeley channel on lbry.tv or download the app and…
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How Discord Indexes Billions of Messages Using Elasticsearch
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Guetzli: A New Open-Source JPEG Encoder
Posted by Robert Obryk and Jyrki Alakuijala, Software Engineers, Google Research Europe(Cross-posted on the Google Open Source Blog)At Google, we c...
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A million-dollar engineering problem
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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Acing the technical interview
If you want to get a job as a software witch, you’re going to have to pass a whiteboard interview. We all do them, as engineers–often as a part of our morning ritual, along with arranging a beautiful grid of xterms across the astral plane, and compulsively running ls in every nearby directory–just in case things have…
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An Upgrade to SyntaxNet, New Models and a Parsing Competition
Posted by David Weiss and Slav Petrov, Research ScientistsAt Google, we continuously improve the language understanding capabilities used in applic...
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Web Scraping: Bypassing “403 Forbidden,” captchas, and more
The full code for the completed scraper can be found in the companion repository on github. Introduction I wouldn’t really consider web scraping one of my hobbies or anything but I guess I sort of do a lot of it.
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Insert D-Wave Post Here
In the two months since I last blogged, the US has continued its descent into madness. Yet even while so many certainties have proven ephemeral as the morning dew—the US’…
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Scrolling on the web: A primer
Scrolling is one of the oldest interactions on the web. Long before we had pull-to-refresh or infinite-loading lists, the humble scrollbar solved the web’s original scaling problem: how can we interact with content that’s stretched beyond the available viewport? Animations by Rachel Nabors Today, scrolling is still…
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The eigenvector of “Why we moved from language X to language Y”
I was reading yet another blog post titled "Why our team moved from <language X> to <language Y> (I forgot which one) and I started wondering if you can generalize it a bit. Is it possible to generate a N * N contingency table of moving from language X to language Y?
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Anthony Bourdain on not having debt
Before he was the guy from Parts Unknown, he was 44, never had a savings account, hadn't filed taxes in 10 years, and was AWOL on his AmEx bill. That turned out to be a great financial education.
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Uber Driver Tip-Hustling Schemes
Uber drivers increasingly resort to aggressive tactics for tips, leading to uncomfortable experiences for riders.
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Why WebAssembly Is Faster Than Asm.js
Performance is tricky to measure, and has many aspects. Also, in a new technology there are always going to be not-yet-optimized cases. So not every single benchmark will be fast ...
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Practical Color Theory for People Who Code
Hi! I'm Natalya! I'm a classically trained fine artist who spent 6 years teaching people how to paint, draw, and grow their creativity. I am now a front end developer, and I love writing code as much as I love painting. I have a degree in Studio Art, a bachelor's in Developmental Psychology, and a master's degree in…
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Omnispeak – A Commander Keen Reimplementation
Omnispeak is an open-source reimplementation of Commander Keen episodes 4, 5, and 6. It aims to be a pixel-perfect, bug-for-bug clone of the original games, and is compatible with savegames from the DOS version.
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CoreOS's rkt and Docker's containerd jointly donated to CNCF
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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Introducing FreeNAS Corral
In the TrueNAS blog, discover the latest in scalable data storage solutions. Stay updated on the latest innovations in TrueNAS technology.
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Benchmark of 100 crowdfunding videos reveals what works and how much to spend
How much should you spend on your Kickstarter video? Indiegogo video? We asked 100 campaigns and found that video budgets vary between $0k-$100k and increase with campaign size. Read on to learn what budget, length, location, tone is best for your Kickstarter video, Indiegogo video
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