Some notes on things I find interesting and important. - frankmcsherry/blog

Expressive code in C++

The whole point of modern surveillance is to treat people differently, and facial recognition technologies are only a small part of that.

A remarkably accurate algorithm for predicting protein folds.

WinWorld is an online museum dedicated to providing free and open access to one of the largest archives of abandonware software and information on the web.

Login management service sulks in days-long TITSUP* for some

Just over 50 percent of the world’s population, or some 3.8 billion people, now live in households with enough discretionary spending to be considered middle class or rich.

I realized, a lot of people depends on actix. And it would be unfair to just delete repos. I promote @JohnTitor to project leader. He did very good job helping me for the last year. I hope new comm...

For the past three years, I've been participating in adding just-in-time compilation (JIT) to CRuby. Now, CRuby has the method-based just-in-time compiler (MJIT), which improves performance for

In a standard algorithms course we are taught that quicksort is $O(n \log n)$ on average and $O(n^2)$ in the worst case. At the same time, other sorting algorithms are studied which are $O(n \log n...

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Survey authors: "We now observe an Alice in Wonderland moment of elite buoyancy and mass despair."