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Solomon Golomb (1932–2016)
Stephen Wolfram shares a glimpse into his conversations with Solomon Golomb, developments on shift registers, polyominoes, scientific contributions.
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Some OS X Applications Vulnerable to MITM Attacks
Facebook bug bounty and story behind a vulnerability
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You Compiled This, Driver – Trust Me
I was incredibly inspired by Tomasz Stachowiak’s hack of GCN . It made me wish I owned a GCN machine of my own to start trying insane things with. On the other hand, I dooo own an Intel Haswell GPU , and they dooo publish some really dense documentation that’s allegedly enough to write a complete driver with.
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macOS Sierra Leaks Image of MacBook Pro with Magic Toolbar
Welp, it is real. These images are straight out of System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PassKitUI.framework/Versions/A/Resources on my Mac running 10.12.1: There’s a lot to parse here. Clearly, the rumors of a Magic Toolbar are all correct, as well the inclusion of Touch ID to the right of the Toolbar. It looks like…
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A resizable concurrent map
In an earlier post, I showed how to implement the “world’s simplest lock-free hash table” in C++. It was so simple that you couldn’t even delete entries or …
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How to Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML (2005)
“There’s just no nice way to say this: Anyone who can’t make a syndication feed that’s well-formed XML is an incompetent fool.——Maybe this is unkind and elitist of me, but I think that anyone who either can’t or won’t implement these measures is, as noted above, a bozo.” – Tim Bray , co-editor of the XML 1.0…
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On Two Views of Computation in Computer Science
Abstract: Machine and language models of computation differ so greatly in the computational complexity properties of their representation that they form two distinct classes that cannot be directly…
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Is your JavaScript function actually pure?
Open Source Freelancer
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Regressive Web Apps
Killing the web to save it.
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The Birkana hexadecimal number symbols
AMONG number systems, the hexadecimal system of counting (or 'radix') has a special place in the hearts of programmers, being closely relate...
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One-bit Computing at 60 Hertz
an extremely simple processor design
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Finding the genre of a song with Deep Learning
A step-by-step guide to make your computer a music expert.
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Understanding consensus and Paxos in distributed systems
A whirlwind tour on acheiving agreement in a distributed system
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Practical Reverse Engineering Part 4 - Dumping the Flash
Fourth post in the series, detailing how to dump the router's flash chip directly with an SPI programmer, then split and decompress the resulting image into ...
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Tech worker resistance is crucial to preventing human rights abuses in the U.S
Hi, I am Valerie Aurora, systems archictecture consultant, writer, and cat appreciator. At Bow Shock Systems , I solve difficult systems problems in networking, file systems, and operating systems. In 2023 I moved permanently to Amsterdam after 20 years in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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How I Deal with Harassment, Abuse, and Crazies in General
Whenever I write about a topic that upsets me, I calm myself by illustrating it with royalty-free, reassuring stock photos. "People are...
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From first principles: Why I bet on Scala.js
Three years ago, I downloaded the nascent Scala.js compiler and tried to use it on a toy project.
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The sad graph of software death
Create beautiful emails, automate campaigns, and track performance. Try it now and see how our tools can drive your business.
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The Sad State of HTML Email Input Fields and IDNs
Chrome and Firefox disagree on IDN addresses in type=email inputs: punycode, validity and the value JavaScript sees. Feature detection is the workaround.
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Why the NSA Dump Isn't from an Insider
Between Lies and Bad Analysis
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Building an IBM Watson-powered AI Chatbot in 50 lines of code
Developing a speech-to-text bot using IBM’s Supercomputer.
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Interview with Matt Might
Interview with Matt Might, a professor, programming languages researcher, investigator of rare disease, and popular blogger.