Today’s indoor cat is a tiger robbed of his dominion, a Lamborghini left idling in the garage.

I haven’t posted here much lately, and I admit, it’s because I’ve gotten sidetracked thinking about curves again. I did my PhD thesis on curves, so spent years thinking about them, then put that on hold for a while, aside from some work in crunching font…

On Thursday, the Australian government and its Labor partners rammed a shockingly invasive anti-encryption law through Parliament, over the objections of experts, businesses, and civil rights groups. It endangers the security of everyone who uses online services…

As a general rule, the kernel is supposed to use the least amount of CPU
time possible; any time taken by the kernel is not available for the
applications the user actually wants to run. As a result, not a lot of
thought has gone into optimizing the execution…

Rocket is a web framework for the Rust
programming language that makes it simple to write fast web applications
without sacrificing flexibility or type safety.

A common probiotic holds the key

Aly Song/ReutersA security guard keeps watch as he walks past a logo of Google in Shanghai, China.Jack Poulson, who quit Google in September over its search

Growth in smartphone sales stopped surging years ago. In the next decade, they’re likely to decline. What does that world look like?

Play around with Minecraft’s insides!

What My Father Taught Me About Communication In Amateur Radio

Tumblr posters of porn and kink fear a ban on naughty content will eviscerate not only their blogs, but the communities they’ve built on the networks.

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David Edwards spoke at the DASER on November 15, 2018. David Edwards, Harvard University Professor, Founder of Le Laboratoire in Paris, France, and Cambridge...

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The long read: Beijing is buying up media outlets and training scores of foreign journalists to ‘tell China’s story well’ – as part of a worldwide influence campaign of astonishing scope and ambition

Composable transformations of Python+NumPy programs: differentiate, vectorize, JIT to GPU/TPU, and more - jax-ml/jax