Steve Jobs emails Eric Schmidt March 7, 2007

The new biography Steve Jobs contains a remarkable claim about the power supply of the Apple II and its designer Rod Holt: [1] Instead o...

On October 9, the work will be performed in Bonn, Germany, and a recording will be released

In this paper we explore the specific role of randomness in financial markets, inspired by the beneficial role of noise in many physical systems and in previous applications to complex socio-economic systems. After a short introduction, we study the performance…

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An esoteric data type built entirely of NaNs. Contribute to thoppe/NansAreNumbers development by creating an account on GitHub.

Security focused static analysis tool for Android and Java applications.

Performance highlight of the week for @rustlang: The new pass manager in LLVM 13 (now in nightly) leads to significantly better compile times. Almost every benchmark shows improvements between 5-20% (Right: % change in instruction count; Left: times above…

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Enterprise-ready zero-trust access platform built on WireGuard®. - firezone/firezone

Time to put on my Cloud Economics Pants and do a bit of math around @Cloudflare's R2 pricing model as described herein. blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-r2…

Photo by Alex Wong on UnsplashWe all heard that story before: The big monolith which brings so much business value and faithfully serves our customers is starting to slow us down. The product vision is evolving towards reactive features, which means reacting…

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Winchester Cathedral, N transept W, 1080s Usually the idea of what a cathedral ought to be, that is, a colossal church building with a vast hall-like interior verging on the sublime, is said to ori…

King Crimson's Discipline is an adventurous, experimental and ground-breaking collection from one of rock’s truly singular bands

Extend your Template Haskell knowledge by learning about typed Template Haskell, a part of TH that lets you provide stronger, static guarantees about the correctness of your meta-programs.

The 1980s battle over safety belt laws reflected widespread ambivalence over the role and value of government regulation.