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The Missing Missing Reasons

Issendai2021cited by 10Life, Learning & Writing details

Members of estranged parents’ forums often say their children never gave them any reason for the estrangement, then turn around and reveal that their children did tell them why. But the reasons their children give—the infamous missing reasons—are missing.

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What science can tell us about C and C++'s security

Alex Gaynor2021cited by 12Security & Privacy details

There are not a lot of very strong empirical results in the field of programming languages . This is probably because there’s a huge amount of variables to control for, and most of the subjects available to researchers are CS undergraduates. However, I have recently found a result replicated across numerous codebases…

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Lena (first draft)

qntm2021cited by 15Life, Learning & Writing details

A note from the author This was a very quick first draft, written in around two hours as part of my 30 More First Drafts project. You can now read the finished short story. This article is about the standard test brain image. For the original human, see [[Miguel A...