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Study finds that mindfulness is associated with reduced procrastination
A study that was recently published in Personality and Individual Differences sheds light on the relationship between mindfulness and procrastination .
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Playing with model trains and calling it graph theory
You’ve probably played with model trains, for instance with something like the Brio set shown below.1 And if you’ve built a layout with a model train set, yo...
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Nordic Valley’s brilliant, zero-budget solution to trail/lift status
I love clever solutions to complex problems. I seldom engage in daisyslots casino gambling just to solve complex algorithms and devise strategies. I've covered dozens of them over the years. But today, man, today's might just take the cake.Here's the thing: trail status widgets can get tricky.For example, Winter…
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Jumping Back and Forth
The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.
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Emulator basics: a stack and register machine
Writing an x86 emulator from scratch in JavaScript: 1. a stack and register machine
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Things You Can’t Say About Assange or WikiLeaks
A complete copy of the 140 things that WikiLeaks said journalists weren’t supposed to say about Julian Assange
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FreeBSD – A lesson in poor defaults
This page lists some of the changes I make to a vanilla install of FreeBSD for security hardening. Some changes to increase network performance or make things a bit more sane are also included. It only covers basic changes that a sysadmin can make to a running system.
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NextDNS Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver
NextDNS Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver Program Committing to Data Retention and Transparency Requirements that Respect User Privacy Firefox a
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Fighting vendor lock-in and designing testable serverless apps
Here is how you can fight vendor lock-in beyond testing on a serverless app, using hexagonal architecture.
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Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss the past, present, and future of coding
What inspires someone to become a software developer? Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss how the culture of coding has evolved over the decades and where they hope it’s headed next.
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It's Not Sabotage, They're Drowning
As you gain visibility into system problems, you’ll often experience push back like this: I refactored the code from untested and untestable, to testable with 40% test coverage. The senior ar…
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Trying to improve buffet lines using simulations
I have suspected for years that the classic buffet line system is a deeply flawed method, so I decide to simulate different methods to find out better ways
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License Plate Detection Without Machine Learning
Learn how to detect vehicles license plates without heavy Machine Learning techniques, just standard image processing routines.
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Deep Learning in the Real World: Dealing with Non-Differentiable Loss Functions
Over the past few years, deep learning has been taking by storm many industries. From voice recognition to image analysis and synthesis, neural networks have turned out to be very efficient at solv…
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Making Containers More Isolated: An Overview of Sandboxed Container Technologies
Currently available container-based infrastructure has limitations because containers are not truly sandboxed and share the host OS kernel. The root of the problem is the weak separation between containers when the host OS creates a virtualized userland for each container. This blog covers four unique projects from…
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Erlang OTP 21.3
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Open-Sourcing Ax and BoTorch: New AI Tools for Adaptive Experimentation
We are open-sourcing BoTorch and Ax, two new tools that leverage adaptive experimentation to efficiently tackle optimization challenges in tuning software configurations, machine learning hyperparameters, ranking systems, and more.
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Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube
That's why we update our recommendations system all the time—we want to make sure we’re suggesting videos that people actually want to watch.
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Love It or Hate It, Java Continues to Evolve
Simon Ritter, Deputy CTO of Azul, covers evolutions in Java including, 6-month release cycle, a change to the switch expression in JDK 13 and more.
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Tethered Jailbreaks Are Back
Earlier today, a new iPhone Boot ROM exploit, checkm8 (or Apollo or Moonshine), was published on GitHub by axi0mX, affecting the iPhone 4S through the iPhone X. The vulnerability was patched in devices with A12 and A13 CPUs. As of this writing, the iPhone XS, XS Max, XR, 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max […]
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Jack Dorsey Needs to Step Down
To: Omid R. Kordestani Executive Chairman Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market Street, Suite 900 San Francisco, CA 94103