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Back to old tricks, or, baby steps in Rust
I’ve been learning Rust for the past twenty days or so, working through the Blandy & Orendorff book, coding up things as I go. Once I got into playing with Rust traits and closures and as…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,567 posts.
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From context collapse to content collapse
When social media was taking shape fifteen-odd years ago, the concept of “context collapse” helped frame and explain the phenomenon. Young scholars like Danah Boyd and Michael Wesch, bu…
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SSH Emergency Access
Learn how to prepare for emergency access to your SSH hosts.
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Lisp Badge: A single-board computer that you can program in uLisp
The Lisp Badge is a self-contained computer with its own display and keyboard, based on an ATmega1284, that you can program in uLisp:
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Scaling Linux Services: Before accepting connections
Theo Julienne is a software & infrastructure engineer.
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Bitcoin From Scratch – Part 1
Understanding the fundamental building blocks of Bitcoin can be daunting for some developers. The purpose of this guide is to explain through simple pieces of code, how Bitcoin works.
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2+1=4, by quinoa
I was struck the other day by the following: The cooking instructions on my Bob’s tri-colored quinoa package said to combine 2 cups of water with 1 cup of dried quinoa, which would ultimately create 4 cups of cooked quinoa. See image above. My first reaction was to believe …
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TaBERT: A new model for understanding queries over tabular data
TaBERT is the first model that has been pretrained to learn representations for both natural language sentences and tabular data.
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Reddit and LinkedIn apps also caught copying and pasting clipboard contents
Linkedin and Reddit both check your clipboard and copy and paste your clipboard contents with every keystroke - even when you’re in another app. Another
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“It'll all be over by Christmas” (Part 2)
On April 16—gosh, it feels like an entire year ago—I made some predictions about where we were going. How do they hold up?
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GPT-3 Creative Fiction
Creative writing by OpenAI’s GPT-3 model, demonstrating poetry, dialogue, puns, literary parodies, and storytelling. Plus advice on effective GPT-3 prompt programming & avoiding common errors.
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Sphere Eversion
Topology is the study of the properties of geometric objects which aren’t changed by continuous deformation. A standard low-grade math joke is that toplogists consider a coffee mug and a doughnut equivalent because they’re both torii—(pauses for laughter)—one can be continuously deformed into the other, called a…
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RenderMan and Funko Games
Case study for Funkoverse JAWS artwork.
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Crooked to the Millimetre
The technology pioneered by the ETH spin-off incon.ai allows blocks to be positioned with pinpoint accuracy, creating structures with aesthetic designs and augmented acoustics.
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1. Trends in income and wealth inequality
Barely 10 years past the end of the Great Recession in 2009, the U.S. economy is doing well on several fronts. The labor market is on a job-creating streak that…
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Neural Supersampling for Real-Time Rendering
Real-time rendering in virtual reality presents a unique set of challenges — chief among them being the need to support...
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Estonian Electronic Identity Card: Security Flaws in Key Management
Arnis Parsovs, Software Technology and Applications Competence Center and University of Tartu
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RCE on Telia Routers
Multiple vulnerabilities could allow running arbitrary code on an intranet server and gain root access on all the customers' routers
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Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks
An interactive visualization system designed to help non-experts learn about Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).
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On moving from statistics to machine learning, the final stage of grief (2019)
I’ve spent the last few months preparing for and applying for data science jobs. It’s possible the data science world may reject me and my lack of both experience and a credential above…
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Peppering (Password Storage)
Website with the collection of all the cheat sheets of the project.