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The Ising model: a cartoon picture of magnets that became ubiquitous in science
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Quanta Magazine
The Cartoon Picture of Magnets That Has Transformed Science
One hundred years after it was proposed, the Ising model is used to understand everything from magnets to brains.
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Turn recipe websites into plain text
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Commodore Basic as a Scripting Language
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GitHub
GitHub - mist64/cbmbasic: cbmbasic, a portable version of Commodore's version of Microsoft BASIC 6502 as found on the Commodore…
cbmbasic, a portable version of Commodore's version of Microsoft BASIC 6502 as found on the Commodore 64 - mist64/cbmbasic
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There is now a European standard for measuring how easy it is to repair stuff
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iFixit
Fixers Know What ‘Repairable’ Means—Now There’s a Standard for It
Three years of arguing with industry finally paid off, as the European standard EN45554 was published—a standard for measuring how easy it is to repair stuff.
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Clock Signal: A latency-hating emulator of 8- and 16-bit platforms
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GitHub
GitHub - TomHarte/CLK: A latency-hating emulator of: the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe…
A latency-hating emulator of: the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Enterprise 64/128, Commodore Vic-20 a...
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Big Sur on Unsupported Macs
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Fix Your Timestep
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Gaffer On Games
Fix Your Timestep! | Gaffer On Games
Hello readers, I’m no longer posting new content on gafferongames.com
Please check out my new blog at mas-bandwidth.com! Introduction Hi, I’m Glenn Fiedler and welcome to Game Physics.
In the previous article we discussed how to integrate the equations of…
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Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks
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The Conversation
Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks
No 'blue wall of silence:' A military lawyer explains why the US armed forces take accountability and justice seriously.
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There is no more Perl at JP Morgan
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The HFT Guy
JP Morgan, the largest US bank, retired their last Perl software in 2019
There is no more Perl at JP Morgan, the largest investment bank in the US. The last Perl code was decommissioned in 2019. Disclaimer: I am writing this to illustrate discovering and dealing with an…
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Numerical Linear Algebra for Programmers Book
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Numerical Linear Algebra for Programmers
Numerical Linear Algebra for Programmers: An Interactive Tutorial with GPU, CUDA, OpenCL, MKL, Java, and Clojure
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* a book for programmers
* interactive & dynamic
* direct link from theory to implementation
* incredible speed
* Nvidia GPU (CUDA…
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Humans Navigate with Stereo Olfaction
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PNAS
Humans navigate with stereo olfaction
The human brain exploits subtle differences between the inputs to the paired eyes and ears to construct three-dimensional experiences and navigate the environment. Whether and how it does so for olfaction is unclear, although humans also have two separate…
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Why Birds Can Fly over Mount Everest
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Nautilus
Why Birds Can Fly Over Mount Everest
Dear Bella,I’m going to imitate Rudyard Kipling and tell you a just-so story. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the…
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What's Behind Technological Hype?
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Issues in Science and Technology
What’s Behind Technological Hype?
Many highly touted new technologies and start-ups are seriously over-hyped. Buying into this hype hurts the economy and actual innovation.
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Virgin Australia administrators agree to sell airline to Bain Capital
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the Guardian
Virgin Australia administrators agree to sell airline to American private equity firm Bain Capital
Administrators Deloitte say the deal, which still needs creditor approval, would retain thousands of jobs and recapitalise the airline
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Relax for the Same Result (2015)
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Derek Sivers
Relax for the same result
A few years ago, I lived in Santa Monica, California, right on the beach.
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Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update'to prevent confusion'
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ZDNet
Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update by IT pros 'to prevent confusion'
Microsoft has made a change, acknowledged publicly this week, in how manual deferral of Windows 10 feature updates will be handled by business users starting with the May 2020/2004 update.
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Software Entropy
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Camhashemi
Software Entropy
Defining Entropy Entropy is a measure of chaos, or disorder, in a system.
My college physics professor described entropy using two shoe closets.
Imagine a clean shoe closet, where all shoes are paired and sorted by color. The closet’s entropy is the total…
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Microsoft to permanently close nearly all of its retail stores
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The Verge
Microsoft to permanently close all of its retail stores
Just four locations will remain open. The rest are closing.
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The secretive government agency planting 'cyanide bombs' across the US
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the Guardian
The secretive government agency planting 'cyanide bombs' across the US
Wildlife Services kills thousands of animals at ranchers and farmers’ behest. But it operates with little oversight – and critics describe it as out of control
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Permacomputing
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Mobilewalla used cellphone data to estimate the demographics of protesters
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BuzzFeed News
Almost 17,000 Protesters Had No Idea A Tech Company Was Tracing Their Location
Data company Mobilewalla used cellphone information to estimate the demographics of protesters. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says it’s “shady” and concerning.
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