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Paris: You Don’t Want to Read This
You don’t want to read this, and I take no pleasure in writing it, and no one really wants to hear it right now. But I believe it needs to be said. I join the world in grieving for the dead in Paris. I have grieved for the dead from…
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SVG Mask Artwork of the Intel 4004
The Intel 4004 after 44 years: scalable vector mask artwork, Rubylith cutters, replica PCB rev 2, printer emulator code.
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The most popular curl download – by a malware
During October 2015 the curl web site sent out 1127 gigabytes of data. This was the first time we crossed the terabyte limit within a single month. Looking at the stats a little closer, I noticed that in July 2015 a particular single package started to get very popular. The exact URL was…
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Argentina on Two Steaks a Day(2006)
The classic beginner's mistake in Argentina is to neglect the first steak of the day. You will be tempted to just peck at it or even skip it altogether, rationalizing that you need to save yourself for the much larger steak later that night. But this is a false economy, like refusing to drink water in the early parts…
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Cleaner Cars from Cradle to Grave
Over their lifetime, battery electric vehicles produce far less global warming pollution than their gasoline counterparts—and they’re getting cleaner.
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The Advertising Bubble
A few days ago VentureBeat published an article called The 7 martech buying trends shaping sales & marketing strategies in 2016 , a piece of sponsored prose remarkable not for its content, but for being at least four layers of advertising removed from any kind of productive economic activity.
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The Discovery of Statistical Regression
We explore the hotly contested history of the crowning jewel of statistics.
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Anyone Can Learn to Code an LSTM-RNN (Part 1: RNN)
A machine learning craftsmanship blog.
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Will ZFS and non-ECC RAM kill your data?
This comes up far too often, so rather than continuing to explain it over and over again, I’m going to try to do a really good job of it once and link to it here.
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We need less powerful languages
We need languages and systems that are less powerful, not more powerful, and easy ways to create and use such languages.
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What will be the legacy of Go?
In October this year I had the privilege of speaking at the GothamGo conference in New York City. As I talk quite softly, and there were a few problems with the recording, I decided to write up my slide notes and present them here.
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Julia Computing Granted $600k by Moore Foundation
As data-driven research becomes more mainstream, the need for efficient and powerful scientific computing tools increases. To help meet this need, the Gordon an…
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What Can You Put in a Refrigerator?
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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How Filipino WWII Soldiers Were Written Out of History
How hundreds of thousands of Filipino soldiers fought in the U.S. military and helped win World War II. And how history -- and the American government -- forgot them.
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The Making of Gyroscope Running, a React Native App
The making of our first React Native iPhone app
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Writing code doesn't mix well with oration
Why writing code live on stage is a bad idea, and what to do instead.
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Breaking all the Eggs in C++
If you want to make an omelet, so the saying goes, you have to break a few eggs. Think of the omelet you could make if you broke not just a...
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CoreOS Introduces Clair: Open Source Vulnerability Analysis for Your Containers
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death
Bassel Khartabil, a leading figure in the Syrian Open Source software community, has been imprisoned by the Syrian government since...
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Elasticsearch as a Time Series Data Store
Ever wondered how Elasticsearch handles time series metrics? Felix Barnsteiner from stagemonitor - an open source solution to application performance monitoring