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John Boyer, blind software engineer, dies
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Born blind, John Boyer couldn't find enough Braille books to read. The Madison man created software to open access for others
Frustrated as a kid over too few Braille textbooks to satisfy his scientific curiosity, John Boyer developed software to change that.
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UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet
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Techdirt
UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas For Directly Regulating The Internet, Service Providers
The UK government has made no secret of its desire to convert providing encryption into a criminal act. The fact that some things are beyond the government’s reach is unacceptable. While lawm…
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Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
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Bounded Rationality
Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
Here's a topic I thought that I would never get around to learning because it was "too hard".
When I first started learning about Bayesian methods, I knew enough that I
should learn a thing or two abo
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Google has gotten so cheap, employees now have to share desks
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Ars Technica
Google has gotten so cheap, employees now have to share desks
Google's cost-cutters take aim at the company's office space and workspace culture.
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Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?
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Krebs on Security
Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?
A security firm has discovered that a five-year-old crafty botnet known as Mylobot appears to be powering a residential proxy service called BHProxies, which offers paying customers the ability to route their web traffic anonymously through compromised computers.…
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High-skilled visa holders at risk of deportation amid tech layoffs
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WHO says avian flu cases in humans ‘worrying’ after girl’s death in Cambodia
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the Guardian
WHO says avian flu cases in humans ‘worrying’ after girl’s death in Cambodia
Child died and father tested positive for H5N1, prompting fears of possible person-to-person transmission
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SPLADE for Sparse Vector Search Explained
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www.pinecone.io
SPLADE for Sparse Vector Search Explained
This article will cover the latest in learnable sparse embeddings with SPLADE — the Sparse Lexical and Expansion model.
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Let It Fail
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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
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Missing Semester
The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
Master powerful tools that will make you a more productive computer scientist and programmer.
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My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account
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Ask HN: Found a leak of US citizens personal data. Should I report it?
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Daily.place
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Daily place
Create your perfect space to focus on your daily tasks.
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Buddhist Temple Left Without Monks After They All Test Positive for Meth
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VICE
Buddhist Temple Left Without Monks After They All Test Positive for Meth
It follows a string of criminal scandals involving monks in Thailand, where authorities are reporting record-breaking quantities of synthetic drugs.
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Elixir for Humans Who Know Python
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hibox.live
Elixir for Humans Who Know Python
A guide to the Elixir programming language for programmers who know Python.
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Upwork just stole $10k from me
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X (formerly Twitter)
Ilya Novohatskyi on X
Upwork just stole $10k from me and permanently suspended my Top Rated account.
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WebGPU Error Handling best practices
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Toji.dev
WebGPU Error Handling best practices
Brandon Jones - Graphics and XR on the web
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Why Mac speakers sound so good
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Treehouse Mastodon
Hector Martin (@marcan@treehouse.systems)
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For those wondering why the hell we need all this safety system stuff for the speakers: because the speakers sound nice and loud and crisp, but only if you drive them well past the max "always safe" volume level. With current kernel settings…
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Open Airport Map
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Signal says it'll shut down in UK if Online Safety Bill approved
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The Register
Signal says it'll shut down in UK if Online Safety Bill approved
Plan to scan encrypted content to protect children could drive businesses away
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Things I Won't Work With: Thioacetone
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Science
Things I Won't Work WIth: Thioacetone
My recent entries in this category have, for the most part, been hazardous in a direct (not to say crude, or even vulgar) manner. These are compounds that explode with bizarre violence even in laughably small amounts, leaving ruined equipment and shattered…
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