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The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is, and a lecturer at UCLA keeps it in his spare time. We counted who writes the software under your phone, from the code itself.
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I've Been Deindexed by Google!
I don't remember exactly when but, earlier in the year, I decided I didn't want this website to be indexed by search engines anymore. A lot of it has to do w...
Entities: Google
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A rant about APIs
I have had the displeasure of integrating with a few different APIs over the past few weeks while working to automate Vori’s onboarding flow. These APIs have been for systems including contract rendering and e-signature collection, invoicing/billing...
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Monte-Carlo simulations - Eli Bendersky's website
Monte Carlo simulations (or methods) is the technique of applying randomness and the Law of large numbers to the solution of various scientific and engineering problems. One of its first documented uses was by Stanislaw Ulam and John von Neumann for nuclear...
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On using AI as a writing assistant · Nina I. Shamsi
I am a bad writer because I am the worst at explaining things.
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The Mathocalypse
Last night my 9-year-old son was taunting my wife, complexity theorist Dana Moshkovitz, as follows: "mommy, I heard you got cooked! I heard that a robot solved the math problem you worked on for your whole career! OOF!" While my son was being a brat, he...
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
Topics: Programming
Entities: Programming
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When Submarine Cables Go Dark: Understanding and Preparing for the Risks of Taiwan's International Internet Disconnection
Irvin Chen (陳心一)ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-1059-7130Open Culture Foundation (ocf.tw)MozTW, Mozilla Taiwan Community (moztw.org)
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Calling a function in C without naming it | Wiro's World
My school has a controlled remote code execution environment to automatically grade the code we submit. The system checks execution, verifies proper formatting and surely has other checks not shown to the user (e.g. a code plagiarism detection tool1). The...
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On Git Refs
I have recently improved my mental model of Git. Consider these two git commands: