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Rich Comment Blocks in Clojure
A blog about life between two parens.
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Generating MIDI Music with GPT-2
Generating Irish/folk/classical music in ABC format using GPT-2-117M, with good results.
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Geeking Out with UEFI
Some people may think some of my past posts get into the weeds, exploring the technical depths of Windows Autopilot, Intune, Windows 10, ConfigMgr, etc. But I would say those generally only g…
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Engineers produce a fisheye lens that’s completely flat
Engineers at MIT and UMass Lowell have designed a wide-angle lens that is completely flat. It is the first flat fisheye lens to produce crisp, 180-degree panoramic images.
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The Polygons of Another World: IBM PC
This article is part of a study about the ports of Another World. It is highly recommended to read Another World 101 before reading this.
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Multi-account containers add-on sync feature
The Multi-Account Containers Add-on will now sync your container configuration and site assignments. Firefox Multi-Account Containers allows users to separate their online identities into different tab types called Containers. Each ...
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Machine Learning, Kolmogorov Complexity, and Squishy Bunnies (2019)
Computer Science, Machine Learning, Programming, Art, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Short Fiction
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Serving Dynamic Vector Tiles from PostGIS
Guide to building up a tile server and map client from scratch with PostGIS and PostgreSQL.
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Rust testing or verifying: Why not both?
Dijkstra famously dissed testing by saying “Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!” As if you should choose one over the other. I don’t see them as opposites but as complementary techniques that should both be used to improve the quality of your code.
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Options for giving math talks and lectures online
As part of social distancing efforts to slow down the spread of the novel coronavirus, several universities have now transitioned, or begun transitioning, to online teaching models. (My home unive…
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You can't make C++ not ugly, but you can't not try (2010)
...everything that's wrong with C++ comes down to that. Background: I've been programming in C++ since about 1993; that's 17 years now. As...
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What's wrong with social science and how to fix it
Replication, citations, power, incentives, and more.
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Buffer overflow when pwfeedback is set in sudoers
Sudo’s pwfeedback option can be used to provide visual feedback when the user is inputting their password. For each key press, an asterisk is printed. This option was added in response to user confusion over how the standard Password: prompt disables the echoing of key presses. While pwfeedback is not enabled by…
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Coping with Cats
I love my two cats dearly and they bring a lot of joy to my life, but they also bring other things, like poop, and fur. When I tried to research mitigations for any of these it was 100% SEO listic…
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Pseudonymity as a Trivial Concession to Genius
Update (6/24): For further thoughts and context about this unfolding saga, see this excellent piece by Tom Chivers (author of The AI Does Not Hate You, so far the only book about the rationalist co…
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Toddlers who use touchscreens show attention differences
New research from Dr Rachael Bedford as part of the TABLET project recruited 12-month-old infants who had different levels of touchscreen usage.
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Big Sur on Unsupported Macs
My macOS Big Sur Patcher allowed countless users of older Macs to enjoy the new design and features of macOS Big Sur.
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Excess mortality from March to December of 2020
Explore data on COVID-19 excess mortality across the world.
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Two Months with Powershell on a Unix
Software development blog of Joe Wright
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Between two Lisps
Out of all Lisps the ones I’ve come to appreciate the most are Scheme and Common Lisp.
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Significant sex differences in Covid-19 immune response
Yale researchers have identified significant differences in how the immune systems of women and men respond to the virus that causes COVID-19.
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We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline
Streaming pipelines on AWS can be expensive. Here’s how we cut AWS costs 67% without reserved instances or savings plans
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