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Yeah, articles like this sure attract a lot of instant experts. Of course, they have absolutely no idea of what the evidence looks like -- such as, say, the near-perfect blackbody …

One time I got on to a bus and sat in front of an old gentleman who kept looking up at me occasionally. When he got off the bus and walked passed me he said: "Whatever it is, don't…

PHP is not dead. It remains about as popular now as it has been for some time, and shows no signs whatsoever of dying. There's not a lot of new or interesting stuff being done in P…

AVX rolls up all the previous SSE versions, and provides 3-operand versions of those instructions. Also 256b versions of most FP (AVX) and int (AVX2) insns. We don't really think o…

The "level" of a programming language is largely based on a function of the degree to which the language provides abstractions that separate the programmer from the details of the …

This went downhill pretty fast. https://www.wired.com/2015/07/online-anonymity-project-proxy...

Coursera Machine Learning is one of the best places to start, but there are countless resources. There's a huge, wonderful open list of links at Github[1]. I definitely recommend y…

I have been trying to answer this question for myself, and one measure I've taken towards this goal is to record all of my mathematical reading, work, and random thoughts in a jour…

The rhetoric of "not allowing a safe space for terrorists to communicate" is complete bullshit. Terrorists can communicate using a book cipher or pick from any of a huge number of …

This character is "OGHAM SPACE MARK"[1], which is a space character. So the code is equivalent to alert(2+ 40). From what I know, any unicode character in the Zs class is a white s…