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Programming as Play
I often want to program something just for fun without any expectations. But why? Well, a recent scientific paper investigated this idea of programming as play.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,153 posts.
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A principled way to solve problems
Today I’m writing some short thoughts on how to design solutions or decide on actions when you face a new problem. TL;DR constantly ask yourself what you are trying to do. One of the main lessons I’ve learned in this short time working in research (as an intern), is to be methodological. Especially when you are doing…
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There aren't that many uses for blockchains
Criteria for judging when a blockchain is applicable
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How I learned about corporate firewalls
This is story about how I learned to be a little bit less naive about the web and how it works. But it's also a story of user experience and what we owe our users in terms of error handling - even when the problem isn't our fault.
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Air Marshals Will Refuse Orders to Go to the Border, Prefer First Class Cabins
Armed federal officers publicly threatening to defy orders from the President seems like it’s getting insufficient attention. The Biden administration largely continuing Trump’s border policies (he’s building the wall!) seems under-covered as well. The claim about vulnerable flights as a result is absurd.
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Copyright infringement in AI art
As AI creative tools are becoming widespread, the question of copyright of AI creations has also taken centre-stage. But while copyright nerds obsess over the authorship question, the issue that is…
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Sam Bankman-Fried vs. the Match King
The similarities between Ivar Kreuger and Sam Bankman Fried.
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SICP: JavaScript Edition available for pre-order
Since the publication of its first edition in 1984 and its second edition in 1996, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) has influenced co...
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Alien intelligence and the concept of technology
Learn how alien intelligence connects to human intelligence through science and technology using the Principle of Computational Equivalence, the ruliad, rulial space, tiny spacecraft and the Wolfram Language.
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The more metrics you track, the less you know
The more metrics you track, the less you know.
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Briar has been removed from Google Play
Status update Update (February 28, 13:20 UTC): Briar is available on Google Play again. Briar was briefly removed from Google Play because we didn’t provide Google’s review team with a username and password for testing the app. We provided Google with a username and password for testing and the app is now available…
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Nvidia Hopper Sweeps AI Inference Benchmarks in MLPerf Debut
In industry-standard tests of AI inference, NVIDIA H100 GPUs set world records, A100 GPUs showed leadership in mainstream performance and Jetson AGX Orin led in edge computing.
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Dozens of high-traffic websites vulnerable to ‘account pre-hijacking’, study
We enable the world to secure the web. Burp Suite, the Web Security Academy, and world-leading research from PortSwigger — the AppSec community’s home.
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The next century of computing
80 Brief Predictions for the Future
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Maintain a clean architecture in Python with dependency rules
Disentangle the dependencies between your packages.
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Encrypted DNS and NTP = Deadlock
I recently found out the hard way that encrypted DNS can deadlock with NTP on embedded devices without a battery-backed clock.
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The underwhelming impact of software engineering research
This article was prompted by responses to a tweet I wrote in response to an analysis of the research area of papers submitted to the 2022 ICSE conference, the flagship conference for software engineering research. These led me to reflect on software engineering research in general. I’m sorry to say that I think that…
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Those writing extensively on note-writing rarely have a serious context of use
Much of the day-to-day thinking involved in creative work is simply lost, like sand castles in the tide. Ephemerality can actually be useful in low-fidelity thought, but it’s simply an accidental property in many cases. We should do our serious thinking in the form of Evergreen notes so that the thinking accumulates.
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Lesser known Apple Watch workouts
You might be doing a lot more than your Apple Watch is giving you credit for…
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How Crossrail was affected by the curvature of the Earth (2018)
Crossrail's tunnels under London are long, so long that when they were being planned, they were affected by something you might not expect -- the curvature of the earth.
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Data Structures in the Fleet Editor
This is a multipart series on building Fleet, a next generation IDE by JetBrains. Part I - Architecture Overview Part II - Breaking down the editor Part III – State Management Part IV – D
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Cloudflare Beta (2009)
In March 2009, a group of the original team behind Project Honey Pot began working on a new idea. Dubbed Cloudflare , the skunkworks project's goal was to take Project Honey Pot to a new level. For the first five years of its life, Project Honey Pot has tracked online malicious behavior. The most common request by…
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The Stacks Project, a new model for organizing and visualizing mathematics
Columbia professor Johan de Jong has spent the last 15 years gathering the foundational theorems of algebraic geometry in one place. His creation, the Stacks Project, offers a new model for organizing and visualizing mathematical information.