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Cloudmacs: access your Emacs in browser
How I really wanted Spacemacs everywhere and my wish came true thanks to Docker
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,668 posts.
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Programming Algorithms in Lisp: Data Structures
The next several chapters will be describing the basic data structures that every programming language provides, their usage, and the most i...
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How to Join a Social Network in 1998
I'm David Friedman , a professional photographer who sometimes gets ideas for photos, designs, gadgets, and other projects. I write about it all on this blog. You can find the meaning behind the name “Ironic Sans” back in the very first post .
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Lego logic gates and mechanical computing
randomwraith.com - LEGO, Beer & pastimes
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Photos from Crude Sketches: Nvidia's GauGAN Explained Visually
In this article I'll be explaining how GauGAN converts simple blobs of color into photorealistic paintings of landscapes.
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Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019
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Minnesota court decision means doctors can be sued by patients they don't treat
By KIP SULLIVAN (30) On April 17, the Minnesota Supreme Court published an opinion holding that doctors who deny services to patients may be sued even if they did not have a doctor-patient relation…
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Sorting in Japanese – An Unsolved Problem (2011)
Sorting Japanese is not only difficult—it’s an unsolved problem. This seems hard to believe if you are not familiar with the complexities of processing Japanese digitally. But what is trivially easy in English is impossible in Japanese, even with the amount of computer power we have available today.
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Comparing JVM alternatives to JavaScript
I am mostly a backend developer, but every now and then I need to do some frontend work. Even if just for personal use.
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AWS API Performance Comparison: Serverless vs. Containers
A performance comparison between three different methods of deploying an API on AWS
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The Early History of Usenet, Part I: The Technological Setting
Usenet—Netnews—was conceived almost exactly 40 years ago this month. To understand where it came from and why certain decisions were made the way they were, it’s important to understand the technological constraints of the time.
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Do Not Use Task Manager for Memory Info
Task Manager can be lacking as a memory tracker. Let's cover alternatives to replace it. First, let’s discuss how memory allocations work in Windows.
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Debugging a Live Saturn V
We all have stories, as engineers, of fixing some crazy thing at the last minute right before the demo goes up. We have all encountered situations where we needed to fix something that was our fault and we needed to fix it now.
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Essential elements of good documentation
A comprehensive guide on how to write good documentation for your code and libraries
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Creating a Starcraft AI – Part 22: Caveat Implementor
First part of this series | Previous | Next |Index In the latter part of the last episode, I outlined two problems I want to solve next. The first is to weigh in the direction of my target when fin…
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Perl is dying
Some personal reflections about the evolution and death or programming languages. By the forces a circumstances, I had to reverse engineer and decommission a few Perl scripts in an old company earl…
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Dark color: Things to know about color when adopting dark mode
Things you should know about color when adopting dark mode.
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Floating point oddity
Code that shows how floating point arithmetic can go wrong, and how C and C++ can return different results for similar code.
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The Unscalable, Deadlock-Prone, Thread Pool
Paul Khuong's personal blog. Some Lisp, some optimisation, mathematical or computer.
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Backpropogation Is Just Steepest Descent with Automatic Differentiation (2013)
Preface The intended audience of this article is someone who knows something about Machine Learning and Artifical Neural Networks (ANNs) in particular and who recalls that fitting an ANN required a…
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Deterministic thinking: a problem in how we think, not just in how we act
– Basketball Stats: Don’t model the probability of win, model the expected score differential.
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What if we could see all concurrency bugs in the debugger?
A paper on debugging non-deterministic concurrency issues interactively.
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The Most Wonderful Map in the World: Urbano Monte's Planisphere of 1587
At some point in 1589, a Milanese cartographer named Urbano Monte made up his mind: his self-portrait needed updating. Monte carefully ...
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Compiler Performance and LLVM
I have always wanted the Cone compiler to be fast. Faster build times make it easier and more pleasant for the programmer to iterate and experiment quickly. Compilers built for speed, such as Turbo Pascal, D and Go, win praise and loyalty. Languages that struggle more with this, like C++ or Rust, get regular…
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Chinese Window Lattice and CSS
谁向云端着此亭，檐前树木映窗棂。 -- 释绍嵩《陪赵知府登桃岭山亭》 (image from 中国窗棂) The traditional Chinese window lattice has a symmetrical beauty, as well as a very beautiful formal name -- 窗棂.
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Fast Tensors in Clojure – A Sneak Peek
There's a lot going on behind the scenes, since I am not only writing the books; at the same time I have to create the software to write about. For example, ...
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Psychology of Human Misjudgment
A summary of the legendary investor, Charlie Mungers talk on Psychology.