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Building a legacy search engine for a legacy protocol
Most users who use the internet today, are mostly focused on three protocols, HTTP, TLS, and DNS.
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A very casual introduction to Fully Homomorphic Encryption (2012)
Craig Gentry on board the mothership. (credit) A couple of weeks ago I polled readers for the subjects that they were interested in. You gave me some excellent responses, and I promise they’r…
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Machine Learning: A Summary on Feature Engineering Using R Language
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On the Women’s Petition Against Coffee of 1674
“That Newfangled, Abominable, Heathenish Liquor called COFFEE.” Imagine a space where you can bet on bear fights, warm your legs by th...
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Writing a CHIP-8 Emulator with Rust and WebAssembly
Over the past couple of months I’ve been exploring the potential of WebAssembly. I wanted to try my hand at creating a more complex WebAssembly application, which is why I’ve been spending my evenings working on a CHIP-8 emulator ... and learning Rust!
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Compiling a subset of Python syntax to x86-64 assembly for fun and zero profit
A toy (but working) compiler that turns Python syntax into x86-64 assembly using Python's built-in AST module.
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Teaching Robots to Understand Semantic Concepts
Posted by Sergey Levine, Faculty Advisor and Pierre Sermanet, Research Scientist, Google Brain TeamMachine learning can allow robots to acquire com...
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Google Research and Daydream Labs: Seeing eye to eye in mixed reality
Virtual reality lets you experience amazing things—from exploring new worlds, to painting with trails of stars, to defending your fleet to save the world. But, headsets …
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Shell Has a Forth-Like Quality
This post takes a short break from ASDL to expand on one of my Hacker News comments.
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Why Won't You Answer My Question?
I've spent more time than I would like to admit on various Q&A sites and forums related to development, where I have answered thousands of questions. Generally, the questions stay within the confines of such forums, however after waking up to my personal inbox being flooded with a
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‘Story Of Your Life’ Is Not A Time-Travel Story
Famous Ted Chiang SF short story ‘Story Of Your Life’ is usually misinterpreted as, like the movie version 𝐴𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙, being about time-travel/precognition; I explain it is instead an exploration of xenopsychology and a psychology of timeless physics.
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Chrome 59 stable released
The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 59 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out ov...
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The Document Foundation on City of Munich’s discussion on returning to Microsoft
The Document Foundation is an independent, charitable entity and the home of LibreOffice. We have followed the developments in Munich with great concerns and like to express our disappointment to see a minority of politicians apparently ignoring the expert advice for which they’ve sought. Rumours of the City of Munich…
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iPhone 8 Plus Camera Review
The iPhone 8 Plus across western India — Portrait Lighting put to work on real faces, plus the quieter upgrades that matter to creative pros.
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Dependent Types for F#
F# DependentTypes
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The idea maze of personal logging (2016)
In another post, I laid out my reasons for building a personal logging system. Here, I’ll go into the strategy and tactics issues.
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Transitioning entirely to neural machine translation
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Local and distributed query processing in CockroachDB
This blog post outlines how CockroachDB executes queries and shares Cockroach Labs' vision for future work on distributed processing.
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Things Developers Should Know About SQL Server (2013)
Hi. I’m a former developer who’s moved into database administration, and here’s what I wish somebody would have told me when I got started. 7. SQL functions rarely perform well. Good developers like to reuse code by putting it into functions, and then calling those functions from multiple places. That’s a great…
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Sharding data models
At Citus we make it simple to shard PostgreSQL. So we’ve thought a lot about different data models for sharding. This post covers 5 different data models for sharding, from sharding by tenant (multi-tenant data models), sharding by geography, sharding by entity id, sharding a graph, and time-based partitioning.