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PyTorch 1.10
We are excited to announce the release of PyTorch 1.10. This release is composed of over 3,400 commits since 1.9, made by 426 contributors. We want to sincerely thank our...
FOSDEM 2022 will be online
FOSDEM 2022 will take place on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 February 2022. It will be an online event.
Magit, the magical Git interface (2017)
Blog of Jonas Bernoulli
How to learn mathematics: the asterisk method
All original material on the geometry.org website is Copyright (C) 1999–2025, Alan U. Kennington.
Interview with Frank Herbert and His Wife Beverly Herbert (1969)
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The communications systems at the US Central Command headquarters
A weblog about Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and top level telecommunications equipment
Building the Brex API
We’re excited to launch the Brex API this week! Now, customers can programmatically read their data, issue cards, invite users, send payments and much more.
Decreasing service fees on subscriptions to 15%
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
What do people want in a co-founder?
YC launched a co-founder matching platform about 3 months ago. There are now 16,000 co-founder profiles on the platform. Potential co-founders have sent 130,000 matching invites through the platform, and, with a 25% acceptance rate, we’ve seen a total of 33,000 matches.
Forget Twitter Threads; Write a Blog Post Instead
All of the kool kids in Twitter land seem to be jumping on the bandwagon of a very annoying craze. Twitter threads. Please stop; write a blog post instead
Willingness to look stupid
People frequently 1 think that I'm very stupid. I don't find this surprising, since I don't mind if other people think I'm stupid, which means that I don't adjust my behavior to avoid seeming stupid, which results in people thinking that I'm stupid. Although there are some downsides to people thinking that I'm stupid…
FlixMobility Acquires Greyhound to Expand U.S. Intercity Bus Services
Launched in 2013 in Munich, Flix is a global travel-tech champion providing sustainable and affordable travel solutions to more than 500 million travelers since its launch, across more than 40 countries on 5 continents through its brands FlixBus, FlixTrain, Greyhound and Kâmil Koç.
Yamaha DX7 Technical Analysis
An introductory technical analysis of the Yamaha DX7, detailing some of the known information about the synthesiser’s engineering.
Getting the best out of OpenSCAD
A write-up of how I use OpenSCAD to produce designs for manufacturing, and how I post-process the output to get the best results.
Eliminating gifted programs won’t make education fair
Recently equity-minded education reformers in New York City have been trying to curtail “gifted and talented programs,” saying they “do not condone a
Playstation 3 Architecture
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
We analyzed 425k favicons
The humble favicon was messily birthed with the pernicious IE5 release. Since that fateful day, browsers have slowly expanded favicon technology to encompass many wildly differing and lightly documented use cases. Here in 2021 favicons are found primarily in browser tabs, home screens, and Google search results, but…
Android Apps on Windows 11
Windows is a platform for creators Windows is the most open platform on the planet for creators. Part of living our commitment to openness is welcoming partner technologies and content that deliver powerful experiences. And what makes Window
There is no 'printf'
In C, 'main' returns an int. What happens when you don't explicitly return a value, though? C99 provides a return value of 0, but C89... well, that's undefined, my favorite kind of behavior.
New HTTP standards for caching on the modern web
If you run any large public-facing website or web application on the modern web, caching your static content in a CDN or other caching service is super...
Conservation should be allowed to pay its own way on public lands
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) auction in February, 2016, for oil and gas drilling rights near Arches National Park was unremarkable. The high bidder, Tempest Exploration Co. LLC, paid $2,500 for the 1,120 acre lease by credit card and began paying annual rental fees. What soon did prove remarkable, though, was…
A talk with Walter Bright about Empire
Our discussion on the creation of the great-granddaddy of all computer wargames
About that time I had an outburst during the Y Combinator Interview
And what it taught me.