Self and Self: Whys and Wherefores (2009) [video]
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JUNE 24, 2024
(September 30, 2009) David Unger, from IBM Research, discusses how his experience in computer science has led him to the conclusion that even if your ideas s.
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Kernel.org servers infected with backdoors for two years from 2009
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MAY 15, 2024
Ebury backdoors SSH servers in hosting providers, giving the malware extraordinary reach.
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Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake (2009) [video]
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FEBRUARY 28, 2023
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Private space-junk probe snaps historic photo of discarded rocket in orbit
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APRIL 27, 2024
The private ADRAS-J probe snapped an epic, up-close image of its rendezvous target, a Japanese rocket stage that's been circling Earth since 2009.
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NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Between 2009 and 2012, Apple iPhones and iPod Touches included a feature called “Send to YouTube” that allowed users to upload videos directly to YouTube from the Photos app.
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How fast can a human possibly run 100 meters?
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JULY 22, 2024
seconds, set in 2009. The all-time record is Usain Bolt's 9.58 What is the fastest time, ultimately, for an ideal human body?
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Extinct goat was cold-blooded (2009)
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OCTOBER 13, 2023
(PhysOrg.com) -- An extinct goat that lived on a barren Mediterranean island survived for millions of years by reducing in size and by becoming cold-blooded, which has never before been discovered in mammals.
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In Praise of Difficult Children (2009)
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JANUARY 20, 2024
It isn’t simply that rules are made to be broken: the rules tell you that there is something to break. If there was no.
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Leveraging ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis Tests to Analyze the Impact of the Great Recession on Housing Prices
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FEBRUARY 22, 2024
The years 2007 to 2009 marked a tumultuous time for the US housing market. In the world of real estate, numerous factors influence property prices. The economy, market demand, location, and even the year a property is sold can play significant roles.
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Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? (2009)
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OCTOBER 6, 2024
A young economist I know, Patrick DeJarnette, believes a much more radical change in currency is warranted. Here is what Patrick writes: Late one night I was curious how efficient the “penny, nickel, dime, quarter” system was, so I wrote a little script to compare all possible 4-coin systems, with the following stipulations:
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The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Office" (2009)
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AUGUST 10, 2024
My neighbor introduced me to The Office back in 2005. Since then, I’ve watched every episode of both the British and American versions. I’ve watched the show obsessively because I’…
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Six top Alzheimer's researchers accused of fraud
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OCTOBER 20, 2024
@moreisdifferent: List of high-level Alzheimer's researchers accused of credible fraud:𧵠#1 - Marc Tessier-Lavigne Genentech pointed out problems in his 2009 Nature paper in 2012. After an expose by @tab_delete, he.â¦
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How long does Apple support Mac firmware?
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AUGUST 6, 2024
Results from 40 different models since 2009. How long does Apple continue to provide firmware updates for a model once it has been introduced?
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The world of Yakuza fan magazines (2009)
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FEBRUARY 15, 2024
By Jake Adelstein TOKYO: The Japanese mafia, better known as the yakuza, has been the subject of fan magazines for decades.
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How not to sort by average rating (2009)
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OCTOBER 25, 2024
Users are rating items on your website. How do you know what the highest-rated items are?
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Consciousness and Anaesthesia (2009)
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JUNE 14, 2023
When we are anesthetized, we expect consciousness to vanish. But does it always? Although anesthesia undoubtedly induces unresponsiveness and amnesia, the extent to which it causes unconsciousness is harder to establish. For instance, certain anesthetics.
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Lessons from 15 Years of Indie App Development
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NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Exactly 15 years ago on November 9th, 2009, I got my first MacBook and started learning how to build apps. I was fascinated with the idea that you can build something that other people will find useful and enjoy using. I also heard about those "indie developers" on Twitter who
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How to solve the "Mastermind" guessing game? (2009)
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JANUARY 12, 2024
How would you create an algorithm to solve the following puzzle, "Mastermind"? Your Your opponent has chosen four different colours from a set of six (yellow, blue, green, red, orange, purple).
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This Boat Don't Float (2009)
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AUGUST 19, 2023
Dreaming of a Huck Finn-style adventure on the Mississippi, a young couple are instead afoul of the law.
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The history of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (2009)
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AUGUST 13, 2024
Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is one of those ideas that had been building for a very long time, and became a practical reality when the appearance of mass market applications coincided with the availability of efficient software and electronic technologies.
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Lush: My favorite small programming language
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NOVEMBER 19, 2024
I meant to write about this when I started my blog in 2009. Eventually Lush kind of faded out of my consciousness, as it was a lot easier to get work doing stuff in R or Matlab or whatever. The guy who was maintaining the code moved on to other things. The guys who wrote…
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Five-Disk Floppy Raid: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (2009)
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DECEMBER 6, 2023
A “Floppy RAID” might sound like the title of a frustrating niche adult movie, but it isn’t. Instead, it is a homebrew project by Daniel Blade Olson* which cobbles together five 3.5” floppy drives into a redundant disk array. RAID means either extra speed or extra data security, but Olson’s version offers neither. The setup […]
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Popular Science Magazine Archives May 1872-March 2009
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OCTOBER 6, 2024
Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.
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Unlocking a Gary TL-15 Round-Door Safe (2009)
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JULY 2, 2024
Many characteristics of a safe and its lock can be determined by the safecracker even when no published or personal records can be found. Often, a logical approach is enough to.
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The real realtime preemption end game
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NOVEMBER 16, 2023
For much of that time, it has seemed like only a little more work was needed to get across the finish line; thus we ran headlines like the realtime preemption endgame — in 2009. The addition of realtime support to Linux is a long story; it first shows up in LWN in 2004.
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Major Alzheimer paper retracted by former Stanford president after a decade
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DECEMBER 31, 2023
A 2009 study, cited as a “key scientific discovery” by Genentech as it sought a higher valuation, has now been retracted by former University head Marc Tessier-Lavigne. It is his fourth retraction in as many months.
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DeWitt and Stonebraker's "MapReduce: A major step backwards" (2009)
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MARCH 30, 2024
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It's easy to underprice your product (2009)
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JULY 18, 2023
What's the right price for your product? According to Steve Blank, it's apparently $0. And it's also $1 million. Listen to this wonderful story to learn how Steve uses these two prices to create a bounding box around the highest price customers will pay for a product. And see why he thinks "It's very…
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Recreating the THX Deep Note (2009)
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SEPTEMBER 3, 2023
We dissect the building blocks of the infamous THX Deep Sound and recreate it by synthesizing the sound in Supercollider programming environment.
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How to save an old printer from the e-waste pile with a Raspberry Pi
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JUNE 12, 2024
A family member has a Canon PIXMA MP250 printer, originally released in 2009. It has been a very reliable piece of hardware, especially for a printer. Then came Windows 10. The printer would not work out of the box with it and the official drivers got stuck during installation.
147 My Visit to Deep Springs College (2009)
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FEBRUARY 12, 2024
You should neither trust outward appearances, nor let them intimidate you. There is always a discord between the appearance that a person or organization projects, and their actual nature. For this reason, always be careful about the people and organizations in whom you place your trust.
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