A Heterogeneous Supercomputer in Every Pocket (2012)

Or, A Heterogeneous Supercomputer in Every Pocket   In the twilight of Moore’s Law, the transitions to multicore processors, GPU computing, and HaaS cloud computing are not separate trends, bu… | Continue reading


@herbsutter.com | 5 years ago

Code prediction with a neural network (2018)

TLDR; I used Python to create a neural network that implements an F# function to predict C# code. The network was compiled to a CoreML model and runs on iOS to be used in my app Continuous to provide keyboard suggestions. | Continue reading


@praeclarum.org | 5 years ago

Facebook says service hindered by lack of local news

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook's effort to establish a service that provides its users with local news and information is being hindered by the lack of outlets where the company's technicians can find... | Continue reading


@apnews.com | 5 years ago

Interview with the Pragmatic Programmer, Andy Hunt

Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas wrote the seminal software development book, The Pragmatic Programmer, were original authors of the Agile Manifesto, and started a publishing company.Andy discusses the book, their publishing company, the future of agile development, and even sci-fi nove … | Continue reading


@testandcode.com | 5 years ago

An online platform is disrupting traditional student internships

For many college graduates, it’s becoming clear that the dream they were sold is far from the reality… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

US Army applying new areas of math

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@johndcook.com | 5 years ago

Minnesota Teachers Invented a Proto-Internet Focus on Community Not Commerce

In 1971, three student-teachers in the Minneapolis public school system created the computer game The Oregon Trail for students in their American history c | Continue reading


@zocalopublicsquare.org | 5 years ago

The Internet Is Enabling a New Kind of Poorly Paid Hell

For some Americans, sub-minimum-wage online tasks are the only work available. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 5 years ago

‘Deadwood’ Movie Trailer Reveals Tense New Footage, Confirms May Premiere Date

The Deadwood movie will gallop onto HBO this May, reuniting almost the entire original cast. Watch the new trailer now. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 5 years ago

Dogfish Head SuperEIGHT, A Super Gose Beer With the Perfect pH Level to Develop Kodak Super 8 Film

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery partnered up with Kodak to develop SuperEight, a puckery super Gose that has the perfect pH level to, in combination with other | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Two arrested for hiding cameras in motel rooms and charging for livestreams

Two arrested for hiding cameras in motel rooms and charging for access to livestreams | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 5 years ago

A Julia Interpreter and Debugger

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@julialang.org | 5 years ago

DC AG filing shows Facebook knew about Cambridge A long before first report

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@mobile.twitter.com | 5 years ago

Lemonde.fr blog platform was hacked

InternetActu.net sur LeMonde.fr | Continue reading


@internetactu.blog.lemonde.fr | 5 years ago

A Few of My Favorite Sigmoids (2018)

Blog of Raph Levien. | Continue reading


@raphlinus.github.io | 5 years ago

Football Alters the Brains of Kids as Young as 8 (2016)

It may be time to end youth football. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 5 years ago

What’s Eating Dan?

From America's Test Kitchen and Dan Souza, the editor-in-chief of Cook's Illustrated, a YouTube series called What's Eating Dan? I | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 5 years ago

Edvard Munch's Scream Isn't Screaming, Says British Museum

Look at Edvard Munch’s Scream and what do you see? | Continue reading


@telegraph.co.uk | 5 years ago

Currently Crowdfunding: A Speaker Made of Plastic Waste, a Portable Bike E-Motor, and More

Navigating the world of crowdfunding can be overwhelming, to put it lightly. Which projects are worth backing? Where's the filter to weed out the hundreds of useless smart devices? To make the process less frustrating, we scour the various online crowdfunding platforms to put tog … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

Hackers Take Down Safari, VMWare and Oracle at Pwn2Own

On the first day of Pwn2Own 2019 hackers poked holes in Apple Safari, VMware Workstation and Oracle VirtualBox. | Continue reading


@threatpost.com | 5 years ago

AsciiDoc book writing tips (2014)

Context, context, it’s all about context I started a little while ago to write a book. Yeah, I know, who would have thought, right? But that’s besides the point. Initially I used a writer specific app for Mac called Ulysses and while the app is really great, it has two disadvanta … | Continue reading


@alexchiri.com | 5 years ago

Facebook acknowledges it stored millions of passwords in plain text for years

The security blog KrebsOnSecurity says some 600 million Facebook users may have had their passwords stored in plain text. | Continue reading


@bostonglobe.com | 5 years ago

Economic growth does not guarantee rising happiness

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@conomist.com | 5 years ago

Look at Yourself Objectively (2012)

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@aaronsw.com | 5 years ago

US nuclear is dying, but it produced more electricity in 2018 than ever before

Nuclear retirements happen slowly, and the US fleet had more uptime than ever before. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 5 years ago

Your AirPods Will Die Soon

The surprisingly short life of new electronic devices | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 5 years ago

What Is the C— Programming Language?

C – – is a compiler language created by Simon Peyton Jones and Norman Ramsey that’s intended to be the output of compilers used in high level languages.  A great way to remember the purpose of the language and its relation to C is to think of it as a low level C, hence the … | Continue reading


@codesmithdev.com | 5 years ago

What makes code slow to execute (2018)

Besides the algorithm, what else can makes code slow to execute on the machine? The answer is “data locality” | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

(2/4) “There was an eighty percent chance of miscarriage.  I...

(2/4) “There was an eighty percent chance of miscarriage.  I walked around every day not knowing if my daughter was still alive.  Every two weeks I went to the doctor to check for a heartbeat.  I always asked them to face the ultrasound screen away from me. I couldn’t bear to loo … | Continue reading


@humansofnewyork.com | 5 years ago

Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

Use the color wheel to select a style you like. Then pick a hex code. | Continue reading


@colorsupplyyy.com | 5 years ago

The Producer Playbook: Guidelines and Best Practices for Producers and PM's

Producer Playbook Guidelines and best practices for producers and project managers. Written by Wes Jones Edited by Lindsay Brady Kristen Goodhue Table of Contents Introduction ……………………………………………………… 2 Writing ……………………………………………………… 3 Legal Documents ……………………………………………………… ... | Continue reading


@docs.google.com | 5 years ago

Lumotive Says It Has a Practical Solid-State Lidar

Fine-tunable liquid crystals steer the beam electronically—with no moving parts | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 5 years ago

The Internet Is Divided On How Many Times You Say ‘Chugga Chugga’ Before ‘Choo Choo’

Parents are going crazy over the internet being divided on how many times you say "chugga chugga" before 'choo choo' and we can't agree either. | Continue reading


@kidsactivitiesblog.com | 5 years ago

The uncomfortable distinction that is destroying my generation

“It’s not that I’m lazy. It’s that I just don’t care.” | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Indiana teachers shot with plastic pellets during active shooter training

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@eu.indystar.com | 5 years ago

Apple’s plans for its new TV service: Sell other people’s TV services

Apple’s TV plans, explained. (Spoiler: Apple isn’t taking on Netflix yet.) | Continue reading


@recode.net | 5 years ago

Should you resend emails to subscribers when they don’t open?

The question is not 'can you' resend emails to subscribers. It's 'should you' resend emails when subscribers don't open your emails. Is it a good way to manage email subscribers? Let's find out: | Continue reading


@gethighlights.co | 5 years ago

AI can mistakenly see cancer in medical scans after tiny image tweaks

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@newscientist.com | 5 years ago

Fug Madness 2019, Round One: Katy Perry Looked Worse Than You Remembered

And actually, so did a LOT of other people. Get ready! | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 5 years ago

Engineers demonstrate metamaterials that can solve equations

The field of metamaterials involves designing complicated, composite structures, some of which can manipulate electromagnetic waves in ways that are impossible in naturally occurring materials. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

Two-step path to shrinking worker bee gonads

The dramatic difference in gonad size between honey bee queens and their female workers in response to their distinct diets requires the switching on of a specific genetic program, according to a new study publishing March 21 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Annika Roth … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

Inert nitrogen forced to react with itself

Constituting over 78 % of the air we breathe, nitrogen is the element found the most often in its pure form on earth. The reason for the abundance of elemental nitrogen is the incredible stability and inertness of dinitrogen (N2), a molecule comprising two nitrogen atoms and the … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

Plant immunity cut to size

An international team based in Ghent, Belgium (VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology) and Basel, Switzerland (University of Basel), found a link between a class of enzymes and immune signals that is rapidly triggered upon physical damage in plants. This new discovery will in … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

MoviePass Founder Launching PreShow, a Way to See Free Theatrical Movies via Terrifying ‘Black Mirror’ Tech

The app PreShow will allow users to earn free movie tickets, as long as they sit through 15-20 minutes of ads they can't look away from. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 5 years ago

RedMonk Top Languages over Time: January 2019

This iteration of the RedMonk Programming Language Rankings is brought to you by IBM. From Java to Node.js, IBM remains at the forefront of open source innovation. Try our code | Continue reading


@redmonk.com | 5 years ago

Civilization VI explains what it's tracking about you and why

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@rockpapershotgun.com | 5 years ago

130 EU businesses sign open letter against Copyright directive Art. 11 and 13

Nextcloud is an open source, self-hosted file share and communication platform. Access & sync your files, contacts, calendars & communicate and collaborate across your devices. You decide what happens with your data, where it is and who can access it! | Continue reading


@nextcloud.com | 5 years ago

If you want to fix San Francisco, don’t blame the NIMBYs – tax the rich

Walker’s latest book is all about "the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area." | Continue reading


@recode.net | 5 years ago