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Early Chinese World Maps (2010)
I recently came across this fascinating world map while researching the history of the Jesuit missions in seventeenth century China . Appar...
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Millions of Binaries Later: A Look into Linux Hardening in the Wild
With Sophos Cloud Native Security, you can easily integrate protection across multiple environments while minimizing detection time and response.
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The Single Rotation rule: simple and rich reversible cellular automaton (2013)
See also other posts tagged Single Rotation . In the previous post I have presented the Reversible Cellular Automata simulator , along ...
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Project Zipline – High-throughput low-latency compression
The Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2019 kicks off today in San Jose where a vibrant and growing community is sharing the latest in innovation to make hardware more efficient, flexible, and scalable.
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Supporters of Mexico’s Soda Tax Targeted with NSO Exploit Links (2017)
An investigation revealing that Mexican soda tax supporters were targeted with NSO Group's government-exclusive spyware and exploit framework.
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Building a State of the Art Bacterial Classifier with Fast.ai and Paperspace
In this post, we’re going to be demonstrating how to to build a state of the art Bacterial Classification model on Gradient using the Fast.ai machine learning library.
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Starting a Business with a Co-Founder: Economics and Control
Discuss these two things before the business makes money. Make decisions on the important, specific issues raised by this post.
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Overpaid CEOs 2019
As You Sow reports on the most overpaid CEOs of the S&P 500 and whether financial managers held companies accountable for excessive compensation.
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Parsing C++ is literally undecidable (2013)
Many programmers are aware that C++ templates are Turing-complete, andthis was proved in the 2003 paper C++ Templates areTuring Complete.
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Gmail really wants me to say yes
Works for me. I’m down. Absolutely.
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Apple Names Deirdre O’Brien Senior Vice President of Retail and People
Apple today announced that Deirdre O’Brien is taking on new responsibilities for Apple’s retail and online stores in an expanded role.
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The mystery of my desktop that locks up when it gets too cold
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Prolog's Death (2010)
Maarten van Emden just posted a terrific and authoritative account of one episode in the history of Prolog under the title “Who Killed Prolog” (and, tantalizingly, promises another epis…
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Mathematical Jargon Failures
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016)
The Apple event tomorrow morning (US Pacific time), takes place at Town Hall, Building 4, Apple, Inc. in Cupertino. It has been almost 15 years since I visited there the last time. 'Hint: It&...
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Ketogenic diet helps tame flu virus in mice
Mice fed a ketogenic — or very low-carb — diet were better able to combat the flu virus than mice fed food high in carbohydrates, according to a new Yale study.
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The Broken Chain Problem
The Emperor’s Nose (Richard Feynman) A village in a remote corner of an empire decided to erect a statue of the emperor. The village scu...
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House of Representatives Passes Net Neutrality Protections
In a vote of 232-190, the House of Representatives passed the Save the Internet Act (H.R. 1644). This is a major step forward in the fight for net neutrality protections, and it’s because you spoke up about what you want.The Save the Internet Act was written to restore the strong and hard-fought...
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To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot
How we’re getting feedback from the Reddit community
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Kyoto Tycoon in 2019
I've been interested in using Kyoto Tycoon for some time. Kyoto Tycoon, successor to Tokyo Tyrant , is a key/value database with a number of desirable features:
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The Problem With Hexagons
H exagons are ubiquitous in wargames now (indeed, both Philip Sabin’s War: Studying Conflict Through Simulation Games and Peter Perla’s The Art of Wargaming feature hexagons on their book covers), but this wasn’t always the case. My first wargame – the first board wargame for many of us – was Avalon Hill’s original…
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Offline-Pedia converts old televisions into Wikipedia readers (2018)
There are villages in the Ecuadorian Andes that are so small you cannot find them on a map. Cajas Juridica is one such place, located just 13km north of the equator. But two engineering students, Joshua Salazar and Jorge Vega, and the staff of Yachay Tech University have figured out a way to give discarded….
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Fixed Layout Prototyping – Hexagonal Electronics Breadboard
daverowntree has one repository available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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Modern Text Rendering with Linux
Introduction