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This Old Lisp
This is the keynote talk that I gave at the 2018 European Lisp Symposium in Marbella, Spain.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,419 posts.
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Reason ML toolchain
ReasonML advertises itself as Syntax and toolchain for OCaml. In this article, I'll try my best to explain what ReasonML offers to the…
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A Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering AI
Technical AI safety is a multifaceted area of research, with many sub-questions in areas such as reward learning, robustness, and interpretability. These will all need to be answered in order to make sure AI development will go well for humanity as systems become more and more powerful. Not all of these questions are…
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Critical step found in DNA repair, cellular aging (2017)
The body’s ability to repair DNA damage declines with age, which causes gradual cell demise, overall bodily degeneration, and greater susceptibility to cancer. Experiments in mice suggest a way to thwart DNA damage.
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Is Gutenberg the End or a New Beginning for WordPress?
Does the WordPress Block Editor deliver on its promise of heralding an exciting future for WordPress development?
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Evolving the Firefox Brand
Say “Firefox” and most people think of a web browser on their laptop or phone, period. TL;DR, there’s more to the story now, and our branding needs to evolve. With ...
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Rust and WebAssembly in 2019
Compiling Rust to WebAssembly should be the best choice for fast, reliable codefor the Web. Additionally, the same way that Rust integrates with C callingcon...
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Lessons from Spotify
Spotify has a marginal cost problem, but while the cause is unique to Spotify, the challenges are more applicable than it seems.
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Battery breakthrough: Double performance lithium battery that doesn’t catch fire
ANN ARBOR—A rechargeable battery technology developed at the University of Michigan could double the output of today’s lithium ion cells—drastically extending electric vehicle ranges and time between cell phone charges—without taking up any added space. By using a ceramic, solid-state electrolyte
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Artificial intelligence accelerates discovery of metallic glass
Machine learning algorithms pinpoint new materials 200 times faster than previously possible
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Japan to add millions of new nodes to federated Nextcloud network
Nextcloud, Waffle Computer and NEC Platforms to bring federated file exchange and collaboration to millions of new users in Japan We are excited to announce that through a partnership with NEC Platforms, Ltd. and Waffle Computer, Ltd., millions of routers will be equipped with Nextcloud, bringing secure, federated and…
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Multithreading Rust and Wasm
When WebAssembly was first shipped it was an MVP which, while minimal, has spawned a huge number of exciting projects which work today across all major browsers. Rust has capitalized on the wasm MVP’s success as well with tools like wasm-bindgen and wasm-pack by making the MVP feel less minimal. WebAssembly is yet…
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I Don’t Believe in Full-Stack Engineering
There, I said it.
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Any positive number can be written as a sum of three palindromes
This incredible mathematical hat-trick is based on the paper Every positive integer is a sum of three palindromes by Javier Cilleruelo, Florian Luca and Lewis Baxter.
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It can all go to zero
Perspective can be a useful thing. Cryptocurrencies have had a bad 24 hours. Last night Amy and I watched The Big Short for the second time. If you’ve never seen
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Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014)
A portfolio of HPC tools help data scientists, researchers, and developers efficiently build cross-architecture applications.
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ReasonML – React as first intended
ReasonML is a technology Facebook uses to build React apps, seen as a futuristic version of JavaScript. Here is what you should know.
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Twitter suspended our Open Data project's account and wiped all our followers
On Saturday evening, I was disturbed to discover that our OpenBenches Twitter Account had been suspended! To be clear, OpenBenches posts photos of benches. That’s it. No porn, no spam, no enc…
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Bypassing website anti-scraping protections
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Things you must know before you can understand Meltdown as a developer
Meltdown is a cache-timing attack on Intel CPUs that allows all memory to be read by any process because of how they do Speculative Execution.
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Modern C++ for C Programmers: part 5
Welcome back! In part 4 we went over the nitty-gritty of lambdas and how to store them, we explored the relation between the various C++ algorithms and containers, plus we took a stroll through some non-standard containers with exceptional capabilities. Note: part 1 is here. In this probably final part 5, we’ll be…