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Is there such a thing as half a derivative?
The original question was: Another one of those questions of the type “does this make sense”. You have first derivatives and second derivatives. f'(x), f”(x) or sometimes dy/dx …
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,426 posts.
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Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video
Things are moving fast for royalty-free video codecs. A month ago, the IETF NETVC Working Group had its first meeting and two weeks ago Cisco announced Tho
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A few spy tools for your operating system (other than strace)
A few spy tools for your operating system (other than strace!)
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Gotchas from Two Years with Node
Get started sending data from your Node.js servers to Segment and any destination using the Analytics Node.js library.
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State of the Common Lisp Ecosystem
Personal website of Fernando Borretti.
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What a graph of 8,000 fake Twitter accounts looks like
Recently I've been plagued with Tweets saying that I'm "trending in London." As flattering as that is, it's not true. There appears to be a network of Twitter bots which are randomly repeating other people's tweets, ripping off avatars and bios, and generally causing a nuisance. Looking at the users' Twitter name, I…
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Demystifying SEO with experiments
Building the platform where people around the world come to search, save and shop
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A Beginner’s Guide to Eigenvectors, Covariance, PCA and Entropy
The Eclipse Deeplearning4j Project. Eclipse Deeplearning4j has 5 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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Procedural City Generation
Since seeing the city generation from the shelved Introversion Software game “Subversion” in action , I’ve wanted to to try writing a basic procedural city generator myself. The developers followed a method described in Parish and Müller’s paper: Procedural Modelling of Cities (2001) . The paper is well-written and…
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I made an NES emulator – What I learned about the original Nintendo
Interesting technical tidbits about the NES…
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SIMD in Rust
An overview of my work on improving SIMD in Rust.
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A cartoon guide to Flux
Flux is both one of the most popular and one of the least understood topics in current web development. This guide is an attempt to explain…
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What Is Aging? Most Scientists Still Get It Wrong
Most people misunderstand what aging is. It’s not just the public who have been deceived -- Most scientists and medical researchers who study aging are on the wrong track.
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If David Cameron bans secure encryption he can't intercept
8:30 : Wake up and get out of bed. Open the curtains to see the sun shining, put a dressing gown on and go downstairs to make some coffee.
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Docker Acquires Tutum
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Facebook to open-source AI hardware design
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SQLite Release 3.8.11.1
A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .
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Attack of the week: FREAK (or 'factoring the NSA for fun and profit')
This is the story of how a handful of cryptographers ‘hacked’ the NSA. It’s also a story of encryption backdoors, and why they never quite work out the way you want them to. But I…