Writing a programming language starts with its grammar. But what is a grammar in the context of computation? And how does one go about writing one? This week Marianne talks with computational linguist Jeff Heinz about Alan Turing, Noam Chomsky and what context…

With the recent outage on AWS last week, there have been a lot of discussions about various architectures and how effective they would've been to combat the downtime. Since these vary a lot in cost, complexity, and tradeoffs, I want to go through a couple…

Ethr is a Comprehensive Network Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP & ICMP. - microsoft/ethr

It is an odd artifact of history that private markets have zero liquidity, public markets have hyper-liquidity, and there is nothing in…

Journalists have used scrapers to collect data that rooted out extremist cops, tracked lobbyists, and uncovered an underground market for adopted children

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This series is now available in audio format. You can find the playlist here. This is the first part of a three four part (I, II, III, IV) look at the Dothraki, the fictional horse-borne nomads of …

We use the synthetic control method to analyze the effect of face masks on the spread
of COVID-19 in Germany. Our identification approach exploits ...

Before achieving art stardom, Takashi Murakami was making drab, traditional paintings, aspired to be an animator, and dreamt of moving to New York.

Disclaimer: I’ve spend hours researching this topic and simplifying things for you.It gets a bit nerdy, but if you apply these techniques…

Project Loom is one of the major “projects” in which Java is moved forward, alongside the perhaps better known projects Amber and Valhalla. It will bring “virtual” threads with low resource footprint and low cost of blocking to the Java plaform. Here is my…

<p>It was 1981. Computing was in its infancy. And the designers at Xerox needed a solution…</p>

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