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The Math Required for Machine Learning
For the past year, I’ve been working on implementing well known model architectures and building web applications, so I have a fair amount…
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Shrinking Machine Learning Models for Offline Use
Get the latest news and features about smart home, Alexa Built-in, and Alexa Gadgets.
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IOTA: The Brave Little Toaster That Couldn’t
IOTA is a cryptocurrency targeting the internet of things. It purports to be scalable, decentralized, and feeless. Unfortunately it is none of those things.
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Duckspeak vs. Smalltalk: Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple (2011)
Duckspeak Vs Smalltalk The Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple Computers Malcolm Gladwell's recent piece, "Creation Myth" , in...
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The Cosmetic Class
What happens when a society with a penchant for the cosmetic meets a medium dominated by it? “The medium is the message.” Or so goes the famous saying from media scholar Marshall McLuhan, widely re…
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Gracefully Restarting a Go Program Without Downtime
This post discusses approaches to gracefully restart a Go application with a working sample, useful for developers and SREs who build services written in Go.
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Firefox nightly is now built with clang LTO on all platforms
You might have read that Mozilla recently switched Windows builds to clang-cl . More recently, those Windows builds have seen both PGO (Profile-Guided Optimization) and LTO (Link-Time Optimization) enabled .
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A tale of 132 e's
A few weeks ago my most popular repository on GitHub was crowbar , a Rust crate that I’m particularly proud of. It wasn’t necessarily good , but it did something interesting. It has 168 stars.
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Writing a simple SQL interpreter in Julia
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Figma Platform
Today, we’re excited to launch the Figma Platform, a way to improve design workflows by connecting Figma to other tools, scripts and even web apps.
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Subverted Design
Making sense of our shifting priorities.
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Intel’s Chipped Chips
Typically when collecting something, be it coins, cars or CPU’s having the most pristine unblemished example is highly desirable. However, sometimes, the best example is one that isn’t perfect, in coin collecting it may be a rare double struck coin, or some other flaw that actually makes the coin more valuable.
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Why I love Common Lisp and hate Java (2012)
“Common what?” is a common reply I get when I mention Common Lisp. Perhaps rightly so, since Common Lisp is not all that common these days. Developed in the sixties, it is one of the ol…
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If I were to invent a programming language for the 21st century
A short essay about the evolution of programming languages.
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Do We Need Central Banks? (2017)
Paper presented at the 14 th Rhodes Forum: Dialogue of Civilisations Research Institute, Panel 2: Economic Alternatives when Conventional Models Fail, Rhodos, Greece, on 1 October 2016
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United Airlines Threatens to Engage Collections for Passengers Who Skip Segments
United reportedly has an effort to go after customers specifically that utilize Skiplagged to fly hidden city itineraries on the airline. In one case they're demanding payment of over $3000 and threatening to shut down the member's frequent flyer account and ban then from the airline. They are also threatening to send…
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Flutter Release Preview 2
Flutter is Google's new mobile app toolkit for crafting beautiful native interfaces on iOS and Android in record time. Today, during the keynote of Google Developer Days in Shanghai, we are announcing Flutter Release Preview 2: our last major milestone before Flutter 1.0.