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http://www.realtransit.org/nec7.php has some interesting charts and analysis of the speed limits on the various segments of the Northeast Corridor. Note that the values shown are n…

Not a book, but https://hackattic.com/ is in this vein. It's not the standard coding challenge website it may seem to be, instead a collection of small projects representative of t…

Summit and Sierra are two planned DOE machines with hardware developed in collaboration with IBM and Nvidia. They're slated to feature Volta GPU, a generation past P100's Pascal. M…

To corroborate its seriousness, I actually had a ticket issued to BER in 2012 that was changed to TXL about a month before the flight.

As far as JavaScript performance goes, they seem on par according to their own benchmarks at http://arewefastyet.com/ .

Another worthwhile list to look at is the Green500 [1], which ranks machines based on MFLOPS/Watt. With the exception of a few GPU and Xeon Phi heavy machines at the top, the high …

There seems to be a lot available for multimedia with C++. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh45275...

Menkes van den Briel did some work on airplane boarding. He has really nice explanations and videos here: http://leeds-faculty.colorado.edu/vandenbr/projects/boarding...

The arrow operator and identifiers with leading underscores seem to be glossed over or skipped fairly often in education. It's intimidating to look at code that uses them if you do…

I bet there's a market in the opposite, too.

Here's the friendly version of the official announcement: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/products/professional-grade/thinkp...

Here's a Greasemonkey script for unfriend notifications. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/58852