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The interesting fingerprints are the ones which are different than the surrounding material.

Thanks for doing this research! The information is organized clearly by date, technology and predecessor/descendant. But,technology continues to improve, and this site has no datab…

Karpathy's nanoGPT has a full training pipeline using Shakespeare. [1] The use case for this is learning in simple example. [1] https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT

No one has mentioned 2FA. I suspect the passwords are not all that is needed.

The Future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed. William Gibson What is the skill tree of development, and how do we speed run it?

If you are looking for this sort of community, you may find Jane Miller a good guide. https://janemiller.xyz/death-care/#moon She offers regular group meetings on how to navigate t…

DSS: Diagonal State Spaces are as Effective as Structured State Spaces ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14343 ) S4D: On the Parameterization and Initialization of Diagonal State Space …

I read a new paper a day with a study group, and when I do not understand something, look at the prior work references. A well written paper is an introduction to the area, and few…

Brendan Greg, illustrating the effectiveness of dtrace, by shouting in a datacenter[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

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Mar Hicks' book Programmed Inequality [1] is some of the story of how post-war Britain lost the lead in computing. [1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262535182/programmed-inequality.…

I also only spoke with Nova once. She was kind and helpful beyond what I could have hoped for. Her energy and enthusiasm for life shone like a bright star. She will be missed.

Following these practices should help software producers reduce the number of vulnerabilities in released software, mitigate the potential impact of the exploitation of undetected …

It reminds me more of SomaFM's Mission Control[1], which plays music overlaid with NASA mission audio. [1] https://somafm.com/missioncontrol/

FreeCodeCamp is good. Practical tutorials to build real things all the way up to deep theory.

There is a convention in functional languages that consists on passing the "data" or "object" that will be processed by the function as the last parameter to a function. This is co…

Ubuntu has a built in screen reader, Orca [1]. "Welcome to Orca Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader that provides access to the graphical desktop vi…

Poker chip flipping puzzle

Correction: "Logical Dilemmas" by John Dawson

I recommend the book (free online): https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/causal-inference-... and the associated Coursera course. It's both simple and subtle to be able to ge…