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Practical Facts about the Human Brain

I don’t think it’d have been possible for me to connect with the topic of emotional resilience without a really solid amount of scientific evidence and brain facts supporting it. As a self-identified left-brained male, I need a lot of safety signals from the world of science to really allow myself to go deeper into […]

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Audio Processing for Dummies

In my spare time I’m an emergency services volunteer, and one of the tasks our unit has is to run the radio network and keep track of what’s happening. This can be a pretty stressful job, especially when there’s lots of radio traffic, and it’s not unusual to miss words or entire transmissions. To help with a personal…

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Sqlite 3.30.0

This page provides a high-level summary of changes to SQLite. For more detail, see the Fossil checkin logs at https://sqlite.org/src/timeline and https://sqlite.org/src/timeline?t=release . See the chronology a succinct listing of releases.

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Game Loop

If there is one pattern this book couldn’t live without, this is it. Game loops are the quintessential example of a “game programming pattern”. Almost every game has one, no two are exactly alike, and relatively few programs outside of games use them.