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Math in Data Science
Find out how much math is involved in data science and what math you need to know to get started in a data science role.
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The impact of direct air carbon capture on climate change
By Michael Nielsen, November 21, 2019
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How Not to Do Time Tracking for Software Developers
Time tracking can be beneficial for software developers. Want to know how? Follow our best practices and see what mistakes to avoid.
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If the universe is 13.8B years old, how can we see 46B light years away? (2018)
Distances in the expanding Universe don’t work like you’d expect. Unless, that is, you learn to think like a cosmologist.
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SIMD Instructions Considered Harmful (2017)
In the process of writing a short introduction to RISC-V, we compared RISC-V vector code to SIMD. We were struck by the insidiousness of the SIMD instruction extensions of ARM, MIPS, and x86. We de…
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OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues
[latexpage] On Thursday, OpenAI announced that they had trained a language model. They used a large training dataset and showed that the resulting model was useful for downstream tasks where training data is scarce. They
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Signal Technology Foundation is now open for donations
You can now donate to support Signal, the secure messaging service, directly.
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AVX512 VBMI – remove spaces from text
Removing spaces from a string is a common task in text processing. Instead of removing single character we often want to remove all the white space characters or the punctuation characters etc.
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Proxmox VE 6.1 – Open-Source virtualization platform
Latest announcements for Proxmox.
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The Origin of ‘Script Kiddie’
The term script kiddie probably originated around 1994, but the first public record is from 1996.
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Selling Juicer
Ryan MacInnes is a web developer, programmer, and designer in Los Angeles, CA. He loves working on Ruby on Rails projects, Javascript and iOS. His forte is large, scalable and highly interactive web applications with a beautiful minimal approach to UI and UX.
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German Data Privacy Commissioner Says Article 13 Inevitably Leads to Filters
German Data Privacy Commissioner Ulrich Kelber is also a computer scientist, which makes him uniquely qualified to comment on the potential consequences of the proposed new EU Copyright Directive. The Directive will be voted on at the end of this month, and its Article 13 requires that online...
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Building a Stateless API Proxy
How to make an access-limiting proxy for any API
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Data Still Dominates
I’m a huge proponent of designing your code around the data, rather than the other way around, and I think it’s one of the reasons git has been fairly successful… I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important…
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Twitter accounts are being hijacked for spam
It seems that Twitter has lost control of its advertising system. This blog post will show you why it is dangerous to click on any Twitter advertising. Twitter ads have always been a bit crap, but I've seen a recent influx in outright scams. Let me step you through a couple of examples. A typical click-bait headline…
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Debugging in Vim
Vim 8.1 was released in May 2018. The “main new feature” was official support for running a terminal within vim. Along with this came a built-in debugger plugin, termdebug, which provid…
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Addition Font
Shaping When laying out text using a font file, the code points in the string are mapped one-to-one to glyphs inside the file. A glyph...
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How the quantum search algorithm works
An explanation of how the quantum search algorithm works, & introduction to the design of quantum algorithms
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Increasingly Competitive College Admissions: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
0: Introduction This is from businessstudent.com: Acceptance rates at top colleges have declined by about half over the past decade or so, raising concern about intensifying academic competition. T…
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Technical Recruiting Needs to Focus on Selling the Position
Developer and writer.
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Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B
Get the latest Carbonite news, products, and solutions.