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Designing state machines
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Why I’m Remaking OpenAI Universe
OpenAI Universe was very exciting when it first came out. With Universe, it was suddenly possible to train AI to play Flash games, book flights online, and perform various other real-world tasks. Unfortunately, Universe never really took off in the AI world. I don’t know why others aren’t using Universe, but I can…
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Diving into the world of hash tables
Diving into the world of Hash Tables and understanding the underlying mechanics is extremely interesting, and very rewarding. So let's get into it and get started from the beginning. They are used commonly in algorithm design.
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Streaming Combinators and Extracting Flat Parallelism
A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.
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Literate SQL
Complex queries are hard to read. Literate SQL is about writing queries that are as easy to read as a good novel.
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How LZ4 works (2016)
LZ4 is an exciting algorithm, but unfortunately there is no good explanation on how it works. This blog post tries to explain it in terms that everybody can understand.
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Why Choose Vue.js
In the past five years or so, while the web development world was going mad with the JavaScript revolution – I stayed mostly indifferent, occupying myself with backend work and distracting myself with things like Kubernetes .
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How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Twilio
Learn how to create a Python program that sends you an SMS text message whenever an event happens, such as university class registration opens.
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Ways to Get Better at C++
Expressive code in C++
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A new approach to text rendering
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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What Challenges and Trade-Offs Do Optimising Compilers Face?
After immersing oneself in a research area for several years, it’s easy to feel like the heir to a way of looking at the world that is criminally underrated: why don’t more people want what I want? This can be a useful motivation, but it can also lead to ignoring the changing context in which most research sits. So…
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Multiple regex performance shootout: RE2 vs. Intel's Hyperscan
Access technologies from partnerships with the community and leaders. Everything open source at Intel. We have a lot to share and a lot to learn.
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Teller – API for your bank account
How many times have you thought to yourself “Damn, I really wish my bank account had an API”? I bet the answer is a lot. Well, today is the last day you will ever think that again because we are pleased to announce that the Teller API beta program is now open to the public.
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D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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What the heck is a parser-combinator?
Introduction to parser combinators. Understand this functional programming concept for building parsers from smaller components.
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Opus 1.2 Released
For music encoding Opus has already been shown to out-perform other audio codecs at both 64 kb/s and 96 kb/s . We originally thought that 64 kb/s was near the lowest bitrate at which Opus could be useful for streaming stereo music. However, with variable bitrate (VBR) improvements in Opus 1.1, suddenly 48 kb/s became…
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Tabs, spaces and your salary – how is it really?
Tabs and spaces are not what they seem.
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Why Python Is Not My Favorite Language (2016)
Historical reference to Ian Denhardt’s Why Python Is Not My Favorite Language (2016-12-25), with archive and current documentation links.
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Django project optimization guide – Part 1
Django is a powerful framework used in many great projects. It provides many batteries, that speed up development and therefore reduces the price of it. When a project becomes large and is used by many users you inevitably will run into performance problems. In this guide, I will try define potential problems and how…
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Connect: behind the front-end experience
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xerox Alto
I wrote a short program to generate the Mandelbrot set on the Xerox Alto, a groundbreaking minicomputer from the 1970s. The program, in...
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The Aggregate Magic Algorithms (2015)
There are lots of people and places that create and collect algorithms of all types ( here are a few WWW sites). Unfortunately, in building systems hardware and software, we in The Aggregate often have found it necessary to do relatively obscure low-level things very efficiently. Many of the tricks we've devised or…
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