A farewell to The Quick Brown Fox.

Humans 101 How the ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Color Wheel Explains Humanity Move over, Myers-Briggs Hi, all! You’re probably here looking for my color wheel article. Well, Medium put it behind a …

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna announced today that the company would no longer sell facial recognition services, calling for a “national dialogue” on whether it should be used at all. He also voiced support for a new bill aiming to reduce police violence and increase…

Martin Hellman, Taher Elgamal, and Tom Jermoluk were instrumental in shaping how the Internet works. Now they're looking at what’s next for web security

Individual’s decisions, from what product to buy to whether to engage in risky behavior, often depend on the choices, behaviors, or states of other people. People, however, rarely have global knowledge of the states of others, but must estimate them from…

Design Doc: Use JavaScript instead of TypeScript for internal Deno Code Update June 10 2020: I saw that this design doc was being discussed more widely. Most people don't have the context to understand this narrow technical document - it is only applicable…

One immediate thing seems clear about 2020: it’s a good year to cover your face. Online, we’re working to scale and improve Signal for everyone that is relying on it, but as one small offline way to help support everyone self-organizing for change in the…

I have to apologize because this is not the normal sort of question for this site, but there have been times in the past where MO was remarkably helpful and kind to undergrads with similar types of

In a previous role, I was an engineering manager for a well-known company for a particular tech stack. One way we sorted through all the applications was requiring coding tests for potential candidates. One truly stood out, and it taught me to think about…

Radix sort sorts n w-bit integers by splitting them up into chunks of log⁡n\log nlogn bits each, and sorting each chunk in linear time. Thus it achieves O(nw/log⁡n)O(nw/\log n)O(nw/logn) time.

Markets/evolution as backstops/ground truths for reinforcement learning/optimization: on some connections between Coase’s theory of the firm/linear optimization/DRL/evolution/multicellular life/pain/Internet communities as multi-level optimization problems.

A simple yet exhaustive model that describes the things you need to grok and have a thorough understanding of to become an expert in the field.

If students want to retain information, they should repeat their studies, right? Maybe not.

Log what files are accessed by any Linux process. Contribute to spieglt/whatfiles development by creating an account on GitHub.

Libmish adds a command prompt to your program, and telnet access. With your own commands. - GitHub - buserror/libmish: Libmish adds a command prompt to your program, and telnet access. With your ow...

Like the rest of the world, we are horrified by the videos of George Floyd’s murder. Once again, police brutality was documented by brave bystanders exercising their First Amendment rights. Their

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