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Paul Buchheit: The two paths to success
The recent WSJ article on the supposedly Chinese style of parenting has generated a lot of interesting discussion. The most amusing comment...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,909 posts.
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The Riemann Hypothesis
Note: These pages make extensive use of the latest XHTML and CSS Standards . They ought to look great in any standards-compliant modern browser. Unfortunately, they will probably look horrible in older browsers, like Netscape 4.x and IE 4.x. Moreover, many posts use MathML, which is, currently only supported in…
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A document to help you start a tech cooperative
If you're interested in starting a worker-owned cooperative, this letter is for you.
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I over-engineered a Fast Fourier Transform for Arduino
PhD student in Photophysics
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Mise-en-place for knowledge workers
Knowledge work is unique among skilled professions in that we lack a culture of systematic improvement. Other skilled trades – from carpenters to welders
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DuckDB: Querying JSON files as if they were tables
We recently improved DuckDB's JSON extension so JSON files can be directly queried as if they were tables.
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Look at yourself objectively
In the 1840s, hospitals were dangerous places. Mothers who went in to give birth often didn’t make it out. For example, at Vienna General Hospital’s First Obstetrical Clinic, as many as 10% of mothers died of puerperal fever after giving birth. But there was some good news: at the Second Clinic, the number was just…
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A new Xbox controller to make gaming accessible to more people with disabilities
The new Xbox Adaptive Controller will make gaming accessible to people with a broad range of disabilities.
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A Taxonomy of Tech Debt (2018)
Hi there. I’m Bill “LtRandolph” Clark, and I’m the engineering manager for the Champions team on LoL . I’ve worked on several different teams on League over the past years, but one focus has been consistent: I’m obsessed with tech debt. I…
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The World of CSS Transforms
The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take a deep look at this property and see some of the nifty things it can do.
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Believe you can change
Carol Dweck was obsessed with failure. You know how some people just seem to succeed at everything they do, while others seem helpless, doomed to a life of constant failure? Dweck noticed that too — and she was determined to figure out why. So she began watching kids, trying to see if she could spot the difference…
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OpenAI Privacy Filter
OpenAI Privacy Filter is an open-weight model for detecting and redacting personally identifiable information (PII) in text with state-of-the-art accuracy
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In defense of <canvas>
My friend and fellow Chicagoan Evan Miller wrote an excellent blog post over the weekend: Why I Develop For The Mac . It's full of great reasons why his software (which is also excellent, by the way) was written for the desktop, despite the fact that he's a web developer, even the creator of an Erlang web framework .
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Can a Linear Program Do Weight-Space Programming?
Last week, MIT CSAIL published Sparks of Weight-Space Programming. Given the raw weights of a small network, GPT-6 Astra could tell which game it had been …
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A minimalistic desk to handle cables and electronic clutter elegantly
Bookmark Tweet I wanted a desk that could elegantly handle (2) computers and its peripherals (3 displays, 4 external hard drives, tens of cables ). I...
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The Lego Great Ball Contraption
The Great Ball Contraption is a class of machines built with Lego that transport small balls from place to place in many different ways. The otherwise pointless
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Top Books on Amazon Based on Number of HN Users Linking Them in Comments
This visualization shows the top 29 books ranked by the number of unique users linking to corresponding Amazon pages in Hacker News comments from Oct 2006 to Oct 2015.
19609
What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?
Tracing one vector-add kernel from nvcc all the way down to the warps that execute it.
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Cleve Moler has died
Jack Little and Cleve Moler, cofounders of MathWorks, recognized the need among engineers and scientists for more powerful and productive computation environments beyond those provided by languages such as Fortran and C. In response to that need, they combined their expertise in mathematics, engineering, and computer…
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Introduction to Decision Tree Learning
From Kaggle to classrooms, one of the first lessons in machine learning involves decision trees. The reason for the focus on decision trees is that they aren’t very mathematics heavy compared to other ML approaches, and at the same time,… Continue reading Introduction to Decision Tree Learning
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Papers I like
This started out on Twitter and I expected having to write up maybe 50 or so, but then it made the rounds. I don’t think I have 1200+ papers that I’d recommend reading, and even if I di…
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Ethereum Isn't Fun Anymore
Ethereum isn't fun anymore. There I said it. And although, the last time I developed an app using it has been more than a year ago, I stand by my word. Developing dapps on Ethereum has become ann
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I can tolerate anything except the outgroup (2014)
[Content warning: Politics, religion, social justice, spoilers for “The Secret of Father Brown”. This isn’t especially original to me and I don’t claim anything more than to…
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Apple's risky bet on CarPlay
What is Apple's strategy with CarPlay?
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The Mathematical Hacker
The programming profession is blessed with a number of gifted essayists. Today I will pick on three of my favorites — Eric Raymond, Paul Graham, and Steve Yegge — because they all seem to disagree about why (and whether) mathematics is relevant to the practicing programmer. Their attitudes might be summarized as:
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Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure?
Notes about startups, AI, health-care and overall engineering
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Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?
[This is a guest post by Po-Shen Loh, crossposted from his blog, where an illustrated version appears. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. —…
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