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Breaking a Wine Glass in Python by Detecting the Resonant Frequency
Detecting the Resonant Frequency of an Object with
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More State Machine Love: From Reflection to Statecharts
In “ How I Learned to Stop Worrying and ❤️ the State Machine ,” we built an extremely basic state machine to model a bank account.
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Tail recursion in Python
The Personal blog and musings of Chris Penner, a designer, developer and future opsimath.
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Inheritance Often Doesn't Make Sense
There are three different types of inheritance going on. Ontological inheritance is about specialisation: this thing is a specific variety of that thing (a football is a sphere and it has this radius) Abstract data type inheritance is about substitution: this thing behaves in all the ways that thing does and has this…
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What can we learn from how compilers are designed?
A case study on how compilers decouple components from each other using data.
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De-anonymizing programmers from executable binaries
When coding style survives compilation: de-anonymizing programmers from executable binaries Caliskan et al., NDSS’18 As a programmer you have a unique style, and stylometry techniques can be used t…
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Regular Expressions – Mastering Lookahead and Lookbehind
Regex Lookahead and Lookbehind Tutorial. Explains the fine details of Lookahead and Lookbehind, including zero-width matches, overlapping matches and atomicity.
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Flight Recorder becomes part of OpenJDK
Provide a low-overhead data collection framework for troubleshooting Java applications and the HotSpot JVM.
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A Usable C++ Dialect That Is Safe Against Memory Corruption
Quote: we DID get a perfectly usable C++ dialect which is also 100% safe against memory corruption and against memory leaks. Another Quote: we can (and often...
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How JavaScript works: the rendering engine and tips to optimize its performance
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Key Git Concepts Explained the Hard Way
As an exercise, after finishing this article do the whole exercise again, but make a change to both origin/master and master and then do the fetch and merge to see what happens when a fast-forward is not possible.
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Making WebAssembly better for Rust and for all languages
To be a useful as a web language, Rust needs to work well with the JavaScript ecosystem. We have some work to do to get there, and fortunately that work ...
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A Practical Introduction to Blockchain with Python
Adil Moujahid, Bridging Tech and Art
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AWS documentation is now open source and on GitHub
Earlier this year we made the AWS SDK developer guides available as GitHub repos (all found within the awsdocs organization) and invited interested parties to contribute changes and improvements in the form of pull requests. Today we are adding over 138 additional developer and user guides to the organization, and we…
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Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps
At Repl.it we come to work every day to explore a single idea—what if programming just worked? What if instead of fiddling around with packages, configurations, and mismatching versions, you just open your IDE and start coding. What if developers can go from an idea to coding and shipping software with no time in…
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Implementing FizzBuzz on an FPGA
I recently started FPGA programming and figured it would be fun to use an FPGA to implement the FizzBuzz algorithm. An FPGA ( Field-Progra...
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Run JavaScript on Cloudflare with Workers
We believe the true dream of cloud computing is that your code lives in the network itself. Your code doesn't run in "us-west-4", it runs everywhere.
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Memory efficiency of parallel IO operations in Python
Python allows for several different approaches to parallel processing. The main issue with parallelism is knowing its limitations. We either want to parallelise IO operations or …
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Lossy GIF compressor
This is an encoder (based on gifsicle ) which implements lossy LZW compression. It can reduce animgif file sizes by 30%—50% at a cost of some dithering/noise.
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PyTorch – Internal Architecture Tour
Update 28 Feb 2019: I added a new blog post with a slide deck containing the presentation I did for PyData Montreal. Introduction Short intro to Python extension objects in C/C++ Zero-copy PyTorch Tensor to Numpy and vice-versa Tensor Storage Shared Memory DLPack: a hope for the Deep Learning frameworks Babel…
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Semantic Image Segmentation with DeepLab in Tensorflow
Posted by Liang-Chieh Chen and Yukun Zhu, Software Engineers, Google ResearchSemantic image segmentation, the task of assigning a semantic label, s...
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Modeling Redux with TLA+
Update 01/07/19 Greetings from 2019! The good news is that Chicago isn’t yet a radioactive crater. The bad news is almost everything I said about refinement in this article is wrong. I’m working on writing a more in-depth, rigorous treatment of refinement as its own article. But this one is currently explaining…
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Concurrency I can finally understand and write correctly
I wrote my Advent of Code in D. The programming language. It was the first time I used D in earnest every day for something substantial. It was fun and I learned things along the way, such as easy metaprogramming, concurrency I could write correctly, and functional programming that doesn’t feel like I have one arm…
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Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes (2016)
I wrote a program to clean up scans of handwritten notes while simultaneously reducing file size.
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