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How do you delegate to a group of people?
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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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Deep Learning in Clojure from Scratch to GPU: Learning a Regression
A great moment has arrived. We are going to apply our neural networks implementation to a regression problem. The network is going to learn a known function,...
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Clojure from Scratch to GPU: A Simple Neural Network Training API
The stage has been set for wrapping up the simplest version of a complete neural network API, and its key part that offers the entry for the /learning/ funct...
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Larry and Sergey: A Valediction
Photographer: “How ’bout we do the shoot in a hot tub?” Larry and Sergey: “Sure!” Never such innocence again. Can billionaires be tragic figures? Lear must have been w…
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Time Travel (2006)
Last time we talked about free will, superintelligent predictors, and Dr. Evil planning to destroy the earth from his moon base. Today I'd like to talk about a more down-to-earth topic: time travel. The first point I have to make is one that Carl Sagan made: we're all time travelers—at the rate of one second per…
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Software Rot (2017)
Software rots. That is: Adapting mature software to new circumstances tends to take more time and effort than writing new software from scratch. Software people don't like to admit this, but open so…
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How Slack Harms Projects
Presently, real-time communication tools such as Slack are very popular in business environments. However, use of these tools creates a culture that harms projects. It negatively impacts planning a...
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I don’t use Semantic Web technologies anymore, though they still influence me
90Phut TV là trang web không thể bỏ qua dành cho những tín đồ theo dõi bóng đá trực tuyến. Kênh đảm bảo mang đến chất lượng tường thuật mượt mà cùng nhiều tin
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The Tragedy of Given-When-Then
When all you have is a hammer, everything in the world starts to look like a nail. Twenty five years of doing analysis and helping others do analysis has shown me that there are at least three diff…
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JVM Garbage Collectors Benchmarks Report
The current article describes a series of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Garbage Collectors (GC) micro-benchmarks and their results, using a different set of patterns. For the current issue, I included all Garbage Collectors from AdoptOpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM version 13 (build 13+33) :
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Rust, a Raspberry Pi and Addressable LEDs
Tom Arrell's blog. Tom is a Software Engineer who writes about programming, embedded and electrical projects, and life.
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Mimetic Traps
I’ve been a graduate student in physics for almost three years, but I only recently figured out why. I had to tackle a simple question do so:
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PANE: Programming with visible data
PANE is a live, functional programming environment built around data-visibility. In PANE, all intermediate values are visible by default, and you construct a program by acting on these concrete values.
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Functional Imperative Programming with Elixir (2018)
Stuff about things
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Solving Programming Puzzles Without Using Your Brain
This post is a write-up of a solution to part of a programming puzzle I did yesterday. It’s a little different than the usual “solution + theory” approach, though: I’m going to talk about the actual steps you’d need to take to get to the solution (i.e. what to google, what intermediate code looks like, etc.). Often…
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Ilya Starinov – The godfather of modern insurgent IED warfare
I’ve been researching for this post for quite a while and of necessity it’s going to be my longest post. Ilya Starinov is arguably the most important person in the history of IEDs and in…
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5-HTTLPR: A Pointed Review
In 1996, some researchers discovered that depressed people often had an unusual version of the serotonin transporter gene 5-HTTLPR. The study became a psychiatric sensation, getting thousands of ci…
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Maybe We Should Stop Creating Inscrutable CLIs
In the original Unix tradition, command-line options are single letters preceded by a single hyphen…The original Unix style evolved on slow ASR-33 teletypes that made terseness a virtue; thus the single-letter options.
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How to Steal a Billion
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The challenges of teaching software engineering
I've just finished teaching a four-day course introducing software engineering for the first time. My plan is to refine the course (I'm teaching it again in October), and it will eventually become the basis for doctoral training programmes in research software engineering at Oxford, and part of a taught Masters. My…
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Things I Enjoy in Rust: Error Handling
Things I enjoy in Rust:
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Loop invariants can give you coding superpowers
A loop invariant is a simple yet powerful tool for designing, testing, modifying, documenting and proving code correct.