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Magic Leap: When Reality Hits the Fan
Largely A Summary With Some New Information I have covered a lot of material and even then only glossed at the surface of what I have learned about Magic Leap (ML). By combining the information ava…
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When the Judge Distrusts Your Lawyers
Uber is in trouble. The trial between Alphabet’s Waymo and Uber over Waymo’s self-driving car trade secrets was scheduled to begin on December 4th before Judge William Alsup, of Oracle v. Google fame. (Readers familiar with coverage of that case know how smart and tough he is). According to published reports, at the…
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Persisting state between AWS EC2 spot instances
Persisting state between AWS EC2 spot instances using Docker on an external volume
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What if we made video conferencing work?
alexstjohn.com is your first and best source for information about alexstjohn. Here you will also find topics relating to issues of general interest. We hope you find what you are looking for!
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San Francisco, now with more dystopia
Personal website of Caroline and Mike Hudack, angel investors and tech industry veterans living in London.
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Privacy and Security Risks of Android VPN Permission-enabled Apps
Explore the science behind the headlines with our leading experts.
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Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people
I was looking on the DuckDuckGo search results for "anonymous bitcoin sms" today, just to see what was out there. My SMS Privacy was the top result, as expected. But the second result was new to me:
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Cracking random number generators (xoroshiro128+)
In software, we generate random numbers by calling a function called a "random number generator". Such functions have hidden states, so that repeated calls to the function generate new numbers that appear random. If you know this state, you can predict all future outcomes of the random number generators. O'Neill, a…
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EFF Applauds Amazon for Pushing Back on Request for Echo Data
The number of Internet-enabled sensors in homes across the country is steadily increasing. These sensors are collecting personal information about what’s going on inside the home, and they are doing so in a volume and detail never before possible. The law, of course, has not kept up. There are no...
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Cognitive Biases in Programming
As developers, we’re familiar with the various problems that interfere with our productivity. But often we overlook the broad picture. Some…
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A Lap Around Python in Visual Studio 2017
We’re delighted to announce that our rich Python toolchain is fully available in Visual Studio 2017. Installation of Python tools, interpreters, runtimes,
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The Lives of China’s Art Factory Workers
Hidden on the outskirts of the southern Chinese boomtown of Shenzhen lies a warren of narrow buildings that once produced two thirds of the world’s oil paintings. The suburb of Dafen – now officially named Dafen Oil Painting Village – grew in the late 1980s after Huang Jiang, an enterprising master art copier from…
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Brittleness comes from “One Thing”
Brittleness is when the company fails because just one component breaks. Learn some strategies for fixing Brittle Points.
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B2fJ – A Java Virtual Machine to run on the 8-bit home computers of the 80s
Back to the Future Java (b2fJ) aims at bringing the power of Java to 8-bit home computers of the ’80s. This project provides a toolchain to cross-compile Java programs under Windows.
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A Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex
Why neurons have thousands of synapses, a theory of sequence memory in neocortex Hawkins & Ahmad, Front. Neural Circuits 2016 It all began with a fascinating lunchtime conversation with Martin …
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Translating a C++ parser to Haskell
nix-derivation 1.0 announcement post
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TruffleRuby on the Substrate VM
Technical articles by Kevin Menard. Topics include Ruby, Java, machine learning, and general computing.
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Nuts and Bolts of Multithreaded Programming (2011)
Access technologies that use data for modern code, machine learning, big data, analytics, networking, storage, servers, cloud, and more.
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Anomalous keys in Tor relays
Counting almost 7,000 relays , the Tor network is one of the largest volunteer-run anonymity networks operating today. Most of the volunteers who operate these relays choose to remain anonymous, and little is known about how they set up or operate their relays. As a result, it is not clear if all relays correctly…
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Red Hat Announces Broad Expansion to Open Source Patent Promise
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced a significant revision of its Patent Promise. That promise, originating in 2002, was based on Red Hat’s intention not to enforce its patents against free and open source software. The new version significantly expands and…
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Our continuing commitment to your privacy with Windows 10
At Microsoft, we are deeply committed to protecting our customers’ privacy. This includes providing clear choices and easy-to-use tools that put you in control of how your information is collected and used. Trust is a core pillar of our More Personal Computing vision, and we are working hard to make sure Windows 10 is…
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Traffic Engineers’ Epic Fail
The consequence for minor lapses in judgment shouldn’t be death.