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Human hearing is very prone to priming: if you know what to expect, you can easily hear it even if the original sound is quite garbled. My favorite demo is by Michael Shermer (afte…

It is. You're free to start learning. Today's announcement means more translations in European languauges.

It is completely free, globally. This announcement was more about translations, really.

https://www.elementsofai.com It's not a course where you learn how to implement algorithms, but a general introduction to the concepts and problems that typically are treated under…

DrRacket? ( https://racket-lang.org ) That is what I gave my mom when she asked what she could try programming on. It features a simple whole window editor/repl where you can get s…

Tip: Claude Shannon's new biography [ https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Play-Shannon-Invented-Informatio... ] is an enjoyable read.

I found the O'Reilly book Mastering Bitcoin excellent. It's been a while since a tech book gave me such enjoyment. In an age when when word innovation typically is used to mean "I …

"Tomorrow is the question" is also available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjVURhB4bsE Less free, more rooted in traditional tonality, yet playful and creative.

I believe Erlang will be supported, so just enlist :)

Products that make their users look like dorks seldom succeed.

Some breeds of dogs are very good listeners. I've heard of libraries where they occasionally have a dog around for children to read to: it apparently is a good experience to learn …

A friend entered a fake birthday when joining FB, thinking it was not really something FB needs to know about. The amount of greetings and happy wishes on one random winter day gre…

+1 to this. No matter what you end up doing in your career, having a good idea about what's going on the wire is never wasted.

Damn. A time machine is what I want for Christmas. Or a recording of this lecture. Any ideas on if this was recorded?

Closures/lambdas in Java may affect how implementations of other JVM languages implement their corresponding features. This may affect interoperability between languages positively…

I've now been involved in two projects where I would have needed a queue with following characteristics: - simple pub-sub, queue-like: m producers, n consumers - decent performance…

Results are out. http://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=5111 Quite a few of those who voted yes added comments about the yes being on technical merit, not licensing.

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