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Evaluating a class of infinite sums in closed form
A family of infinite sums that evaluate to rational numbers, sometimes integers, and and effective algorithm for finding the sum.
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Make your electronics tamper-evident
If the police ever have physical access to an electronic device like a laptop, even for five minutes , they can install hardware keyloggers, create images of the storage media, or otherwise trivially compromise it at the hardware, firmware, or software level. One way to minimize this risk is to make devices…
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Monetagium – monetary extortion in feudal Europe
An English penny minted by William the Conqueror, who brought monetagium to England. Source: History in Coins The way that a modern mafia pr...
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Parsing Protobuf Definitions with Tree-sitter
If you work with Protocol Buffers (protobuf), you can really save time, boredom, and headache by parsing your defin…
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TPU transformation: A look back at 10 years of our AI-specialized chips
Google has been a leader on AI development for more than a decade by also being a leader in chip development for more than a decade.
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How to build quickly
Do “outline speedrunning”: Recursively outline an MVP, speedrun filling it in, and only then go back and perfect. This is a ~10x speed up over the ‘loading-bar’ style (more on that below) Don’t just read this article and move on. Go out and do this for the very next thing you make so you can […]
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Revisiting Linux CPU Scheduling
Disclaimer: This is to the best of my knowledge. It's a complicated topic, there are tons of options, and this only covers a tiny fraction of this topic anyway. If you spot mistakes, please tell me.
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Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle contained a bulky printer so the astronauts could receive procedures, mission plans, weather reports, crew activity plans,...
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Nxylon: New super-black material made from wood
By sheer accident, UBC researchers created a new super-black material that absorbs almost all light and trademarked it as Nxylon.
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Clang vs. Clang
This is a blog post about an experiment with Clang. I need to explain some context first.
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Primitive Recursive Functions for a Working Programmer
Programmers on the internet often use Turing-completeness terminology. Typically, not being Turing-complete is extolled as a virtue or even a requirement in specific domains. I claim that most such discussions are misinformed --- that not being Turing complete doesn't actually mean what folks want it to mean, and is…
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"We ran out of columns"
Oh the merchants2 table? Yeah, we ran out of columns on merchants, so we made merchants2
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R5N - Obfuscated mesh routing on hostile networks.
This document contains the R 5 N DHT technical specification. R 5 N is a secure distributed hash table (DHT) routing algorithm and data structure for decentralized applications. It features an open peer-to-peer overlay routing mechanism which supports ad-hoc permissionless participation and support for topologies in…
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The future of kdb+?
It’s been 2 years since I worked full time in kdb+ but people seem to always want to talk to me about kdb+ and where I think it’s going, so to save rehashing the same debates I’m going to put it here and refer to it in future. Please leave a comment if you want and I will reply.
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Towards userspaceification of POSIX – part I: signal handling and IO
The Redox official website
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Tauri 2.0 Release Candidate
The cross-platform app building toolkit
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The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
We've forgotten what community really means.
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Quark Stars
Wow — evidence that very massive neutron stars may have cores made of deconfined quark matter! The idea of a ‘quark star’ is not new, but I didn’t know it was a serio…
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Programming a CH32v003 with light
A comedic example, parked nicely on the thinnest wedge of the venn diagram, is the HamFurs – people who do amateur radio while wearing fur suits. While it isn't my cup of tea, I love that such a group exists. They seemed like nice people when I chatted to them.
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PSA: Internet Archive "glitch" deletes years of user data and accounts
Recently at Internet Archive a “glitch” (their choice of word) deleted a great many accounts, including my account that had been at archive.org/details/@ging...
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Why CSV is still king
Build AI-powered data tables
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Intel Reports Second Quarter 2024 Financial Results
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Intel Corporation today reported second-quarter 2024 financial results.
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Threat actor abuses Cloudflare tunnels to deliver remote access trojans
Key findings Proofpoint has observed an increase in malware delivery via TryCloudflare Tunnel abuse. The activity is financially motivated and delivers exclusively remote
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GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub
We are enabling the rise of the AI engineer with GitHub Models – bringing the power of industry leading large and small language models to our more than 100 million users directly on GitHub.
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Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters
Flux, the largest SOTA open source text-to-image model to date, developed by Black Forest Labs—the original team behind Stable Diffusion is now available on fal. Flux pushes the boundaries of creativity and performance with an impressive 12B parameters, delivering aesthetics reminiscent of Midjourney. To play around…
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Stable Fast 3D: Rapid 3D Asset Generation from Single Images
We are excited to introduce Stable Fast 3D, Stability AI’s latest breakthrough in 3D asset generation technology. This innovative model transforms a single input image into a detailed 3D asset, setting a new standard for speed and quality in the field of 3D reconstruction.
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How I got my laser eye injury
It has been brought to my attention that I have never actually written this story down before, merely told it in person to many students for valuable lessons and also for laughs over cocktails. It is a litany of bad ideas from several people that all came together at once to reach out and zap … Continue reading "How I…
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How Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing process
Over the years, Google's treatment of JavaScript has changed, leaving us with misconceptions of how it's indexed. Here, we debunk the myths.