It’s not every day that you get to debug what may well be a packet of death. It was certainly the first time for me.
What do I mean by “a packet of death”? A software bug where the network stack crashes in reaction to a single received network packet, taking…

TL;DR: How to reason about people who are smarter than you. A few proposals, interspersed with reinforcement learning and humorous fiction. Ending on a surprising connection to logical inductors.

A new ransomware reporting bill introduced to the House of Representatives proposes putting new requirements on financial institutions, some of which are likely to be controversial. Any payment of over $100,000 would require the victim to first obtain special…

A language with lexical effect handlers and lightweight effect polymorphism

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Practical Machine Learning To Estimate Traffic Flow In San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Amazon has amassed a vast storehouse of consumer data. Internal documents reveal how it built a lobbying juggernaut that gutted privacy legislation in two dozen states.

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China's Foreign Ministry on Friday stuck to its line that it wasn't aware of the controversy surrounding tennis professional Peng Shuai, who disappeared after accusing a former top official of sexually assaulting her.

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A case study in how identity politics poisons science