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Tightening up Privacy in Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Why New Technology Is a Hard Sell
Let me tell you about the only time in history a new technology has been adopted by almost everyone virtually…
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Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice
Erik Bernhardsson
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With friends like these
I was going to focus this week on the first task of the 20th Weekly Challenge ...but what can I say? The task was a break a string specified on the command-line into runs of identical characters:
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ZFS on Linux still has annoying issues with ARC size
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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Decision Disagreement Framework
How do you disagree with a decision that is not in the best interest of the company? As a leader, how do you enable your team to disagree in a productive way? Learn how with Matter's Decision Disagreement Framework.
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Software woven into wire: Core rope and the Apollo Guidance Computer
Onboard the Apollo spacecraft, the revolutionary Apollo Guidance Computer helped navigate to the Moon and land on its surface. One of the f...
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Modchips of the State
Collection of my projects and hacks.
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Personalized news recommendations and privacy are not mutually exclusive
Why personalized news recommendations and privacy are not mutually exclusive
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Schumpeter on Strategy
It’s Friday and I’m procrastinating, so here you go. Let’s talk about Joseph Schumpeter. Good old John Joseph Jingleheimer Schumpeter, as he wasn’t called. Schumpeter once w…
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AMD products are not susceptible to SPOILER exploit
Download drivers and software for AMD products — includes Windows and Linux support, auto-detect tools & detailed guides for installation.
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My 2019 Mathematics a to Z: Linear Programming
Today’s A To Z term is another proposed by @aajohannas. I couldn’t find a place to fit this in the essay proper. But it’s too good to leave out. The simplex method, discussed with…
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Cracking open the black box of automated machine learning
ATMSeer is an interactive visualization tool for users to see and control algorithms and hyperparameters of machine-learning (AutoML) systems. The work was developed by researchers in the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and Zhejiang…
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Programmer’s Guide to Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs
They say “performance is king’… It was true a decade ago and it certainly is now. With more and more data the world generates each day, we need more and more computing power to process it. It used to be the case that some SW vendors preferred to wait for a new generation of HW to speed up their application and did not…
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Anatomy of a High-Performance Convolution
It's no surprise that modern deep-learning libraries have production-level, highly-optimized implementations of most operations. But just what is the black magic that these libraries use that we mere mortals don't? What exactly does one do to "optimize" or accelerate neural networks operations?
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Beginner's Guide to Attention Mechanisms and Memory Networks
SkyMind AI — humanoid robotics and the case for physical AI. Curated rather than complete: deliberate selection, checked content and clear structure…
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Record Numbers of Americans Want to Leave the U.S
Record numbers of Americans have wanted to leave the U.S. since Donald Trump became president, including 40% of women younger than 30.
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Linux doesn't have Photoshop
Linux doesn’t have Photoshop. One common rant I get to hear when I try to help someone to switch to Linux. It is almost 2020 and say what? people still agree with this statement.
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Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse
I stuck with Windows 10 as my primary OS for 6 years, despite being a Ruby developer. In this blog post I would like to cover why this happened.
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99% code coverage (2017)
Do we have a good safety net to change this legacy code?
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Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums
Google purchased Picasa, a super efficient photo editor that offered seamless integration with online publishing (e.g., you add a photo to an album on your desktop computer and […]
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How do I delete bytes from the beginning of a file? (2010)
It's easy to append bytes to the end of a file: Just open it for writing, seek to the end, and start writing. It's also easy to delete bytes from the end
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Making SetInterval Declarative with React Hooks
How I learned to stop worrying and love refs.
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Coalfire Comments on Penetration Tests for Iowa Judicial Branch
Coalfire is a cybersecurity and compliance services company that works with enterprises and tech businesses in FedRAMP, cloud migration, AI Risk, pen…
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Twitter Thread Compiler Apps and Copyright Ethics
Twitter threads are a pain to read! So let's just steal them, right? Umm... Nope, probably wrong. I'm going to say very wrong. Think about it.