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Computational algebraic geometry for high school students
Can high school students really learn algebraic geometry? And what could it teach us about mathematics education?
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The Future Shape of Ruby Objects
These are the notes for a talk I gave at RubyKaigi 2021, which is why they’re written as if we were talking and going through some slides and code together.
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What’s Wrong with “Multiplication Is Repeated Addition”? (2008)
[Photo by Alejandra Mavroski.] Myrtle called it The article that launched a thousand posts…, and counting comments on this and several other blogs, that may not be too much of an exaggeration…
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Effective altruism is not effective
Blog by academic philosopher on ethics, philosophy, politics, economics, theory, and current affairs
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Importance of muscle mass, strength and cardiorespiratory fitness for longevity
"If you have the aspiration of kicking ass when you're 85, you can't afford to be average when you're 50." —Peter Attia
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NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20M SIM Swap Theft
A 24-year-old New York man who bragged about helping to steal more than $20 million worth of cryptocurrency from a technology executive has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Nicholas Truglia was part of a group alleged to have stolen more than $100 million from cryptocurrency investors using…
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The Lost Apps of the 80s
In an email conversation, Ray Ozzie and I talked about all the writing tools of the 80s that didn't transiiton to the web.
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Upcoming Features in Go 1.18
Go 1.18 will be a significant release of the programming language that will contain some major features that I’m excited about. The upcoming version is scheduled for early 2022. The first beta should be out in a month. Let’s take a look at some of the new features that will be available.
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Minimal APIs at a glance in .NET 6
David Fowler doesn't have a blog. I think the psychic weight of having a blog ...
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Leaving Debian
Today's story is an insider view of Debian. One of the oldest Linux distributions and probably one of the longest-running volunteer-based open-source projects. Joey Hess is my guest, and he dedicated significant parts of his adult life to working on Debian. He's going to share what that was like. The good and the bad…
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Paper Notes
How I finally became the kind of person who carries a paper notebook and a pen
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Uptime Lab's CM4 Blade Adds NVMe, TPM 2.0 to Raspberry Pi
A few weeks ago, I received two early copies of Uptime.Lab's CM4 Blade. The Blade is built for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, which has the same processor as the Pi 4 and Pi 400, but without any of the built-in IO ports. You plug the CM4 into the Blade, then the Blade breaks out the connections to add some…
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50 Years of Text Games – A 2021 Journey from Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon
A 2021 Journey from Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon
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How I built the world's first 3D ultrasonic scanner
Here's how I built an ultrasonic 3d scanner that works in the air, using off-the-shelf components.
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Half of curl’s vulnerabilities are C mistakes
I spent a lot of time and effort digging up the numbers and facts for this post! Lots of people keep referring to the awesome summary put together by a friendly pseudonymous "Tim" which says that "53 out of 95" (55.7%) security flaws in curl could've been prevented if curl had been written in Rust. … Continue reading…
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My Road to Erlang (2008)
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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What happens in an IPO? – A Beginner's Guide (Part 2/2)
I like to learn about business through writing. Day Job: Helping founders with their VC pitches at deckrooster.com. Past: Goldman Sachs, IIM Bangalore
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The cost of two weeks in an pediatric/infant ICU
Curious how much common medications such as acetaminophen/paracetamol cost in an ICU? What about the actual daily room cost in an ICU? Or, specific treatments/labs? What about diaper cream? I'm…
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Storming Reddit's Moat
A Guide to Reddit, Its Key Competitive Advantages, and How to Unbundle It
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Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar
Back in May 27, 2020 Microsoft published a blog post describing a new feature in Notepad:
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I Failed to Transform the Enterprise
how management power plays win out over measurable profit increases, risk mitigations and years of track record
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How PHP Opcache Works
The opcache PHP extension implements various functionality to speed up PHP in a transparent manner. As the name indicates, its origin and primary purpose is opcode caching, but nowadays it also contains an optimizer and just-in-time compiler. However, this blog post will focus only on the opcode caching aspect.
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The Problem with Macros
So we’re supposed to be writing a game, right? But in order to make progress, we have to fix a bug. And in order to fix the bug, we have to write a test. And in order to write a test, we have to write a test framework. And in order to write a test framework, we have to understand a thing or two about macros. Okay. So…
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“Space age electronics”: Inside a GE thin-film paperweight from the 1960s
In the early 1960s, General Electric developed a technology called thin-film electronics. 1 These circuits were built from thin films of ...