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Mastering Programming - by Kent Beck (2016)

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

FEBRUARY 5, 2016 · FACEBOOK This was one of those posts that I threw together, thought nothing of, & then it blew up. Until recently this was my most-read post ever. From years [decades] of watching master programmers, I have observed certain common patterns in their workflows.

Quick Steps to Learn Data Science As a Beginner

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JANUARY 17, 2021

Data Science and its applications first caught my attention in 2016. ArticleVideos This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. The post Quick Steps to Learn Data Science As a Beginner appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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A Hands-On Introduction to Hugging Face’s AutoNLP 101

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MARCH 11, 2021

ArticleVideo Book Hugging Face, founded in 2016, has revolutionized the way people approach Natural Language Processing in this day and age. Based in New. The post A Hands-On Introduction to Hugging Face’s AutoNLP 101 appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016)

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MARCH 2, 2024

Check out Speldosa - The Wintergatan Music Box![link] link] as AU/VST/AAX: [link] on App Store for Ipad and Iphone.

When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist Ebooks (2016)

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AUGUST 15, 2024

A talk given at the ebookcraft conference, March 30, 2016

Professional Corner-Cutting (2016)

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MAY 12, 2024

Steve Jobs famously cared about the unseen backs of cabinets. Antique furniture built with hand tools isn’t like that at all. Cabinetmakers made each part to the tolerance that mattered.

H.264 Is Magic (2016)

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JUNE 14, 2024

A high level walkthrough of the basics of video compression techniques used in MPEG, AVC/H.264, 264, codecs.

What is Responsible AI and Why Do We Need It?

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AUGUST 19, 2023

Tay’s introduction to Twitter on March 23, 2016, showcased how AI when exposed to inappropriate content, can quickly devolve into generating offensive and harmful responses. Introduction The infamous case of Microsoft’s AI chatbot Tay is a stark reminder of the potential pitfalls in AI deployment.

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Euphemisms are best changed frequently (2016)

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AUGUST 21, 2024

Euphemisms are like underwear: best changed frequently. What work are they doing in our language and why do they expire?

Unprojecting Text with Ellipses (2016)

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MAY 19, 2024

Using transformed ellipses to estimate perspective transformations of text.

Hyper-Reality (2016) [video]

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Hyper-Reality presents a provocative and kaleidoscopic new vision of the future, where physical and virtual realities have merged, and the city is saturated…

Hookworm gave the South a bad name (2016)

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Today, hundreds of millions of people in dozens of nations around the world suffer from hookworm infection.

Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels? (2016)

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MAY 15, 2024

This is a reader question from "jlforrest" that seems worth answering in more detail than just a single sentence: I understand the need for a cache but I don’t understand why there are multiple levels of cache instead of having just one larger level. In other words, let’s say the L1 cache is 32K, the…

Page Dewarping (2016)

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MAY 12, 2024

Flattening images of curled pages, as an optimization problem.

Avoiding Sun as Dangerous as Smoking (2016)

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AUGUST 20, 2024

Researchers find that over 20 years, women with greater sun exposure live longer and have lower risk for cardiovascular disease and noncancer/non-CVD diseases than sun avoiders.

Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian deaths, study finds

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JANUARY 23, 2024

Single-vehicle, single-pedestrian crash data for 2016-2021 finds hoods a problem.

How WASD became the standard PC control scheme (2016)

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AUGUST 3, 2024

Had history gone differently, it might have been EDSF or even ASXC.

How not to bomb your offer negotiation (2016)

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

So you know the first 6 rules. You’ve maneuvered through the initial offer conversation, you’ve lined up counteroffers from other companies, and now it’s time to move into the actual negotiating.

The right way to sauce pasta (2016)

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JANUARY 28, 2024

Pasta heated in the skillet with sauce has a vastly different and superior flavor and texture compared with pasta that is simply sauced on the plate. No matter how great a sauce you can make, if you don't sauce your pasta correctly, you're missing out on one of life's greatest pleasures.

AWS kills Snowmobile data transfer truck

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APRIL 18, 2024

Amazon Web Services says it has better and more cost-efficient ways to move data to the cloud than by using the semi truck it introduced in 2016.

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The Recovery of Case (2016)

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

Jean-Roger Vergnaud’s famous 1977 letter to Noam Chomsky and Howard Lasnik assumed that case is obligatory. As Juan Uriagereka and David Berlinski argue, Vergnaud’s case filter was a vindication of the principles and parameters approach to language. Case is an aspect of Universal Grammar itself.

A Journey to the Medical Netherworld (2016)

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MAY 26, 2024

If your child gets sick, hope for something mechanical. Failing that, wish for something commonplace. This is a mother's quest to find her daughter a diagnosis.

The Beautiful Islands of San Serriffe (2016)

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APRIL 22, 2024

Some printers at a newspaper in the UK made a funny joke about fake islands

Applying Grease to TLS Extensibility (2016)

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FEBRUARY 17, 2024

This document describes GREASE (Generate Random Extensions And Sustain Extensibility), a mechanism to prevent extensibility failures in the TLS ecosystem. It reserves a set of TLS protocol values that may be advertised by clients to ensure servers correctly handle unknown values.

Comparison of configuration file languages (2016)

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Knocker uppers: Waking up the workers in industrial Britain (2016)

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OCTOBER 19, 2024

As the clocks go forward for the start of British Summer Time, many of us will rue the loss of an hour in bed. But how did people get to work on time before alarm clocks?

C++ left arrow operator (2016)

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MARCH 24, 2024

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New £4M hub for metabolic psychiatry

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APRIL 26, 2024

2016 Lister Fellow Danny Smith will head up one of five new UKRI research hubs dedicated to severe mental illness (SMI). The Edinburgh hub, opening this month, will explore the correlation between metabolic disorders and severe mental health conditions.

Quartz Crystals – Twinning (2016)

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APRIL 7, 2024

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Entropy Explained, with Sheep (2016)

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OCTOBER 12, 2024

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Enphase Envoy-S data scraping (2016)

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JANUARY 19, 2024

If you are interested in other Enphase information the following other pages may also be of interest: What is inside the Enphase Envoy-S (teardown) Reverse Engineering the Enphase Installer Toolkit Enphase Envoy-S Open Ports! I've recently had to interface with an EnPhase Envoy Solar PV system. The annoying thing is the lack of documentation.

Oliver Heaviside and the coaxial cable (2016)

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

136 years ago today, on April 6 1880, Oliver Heaviside was granted British Patent 1407 for the coaxial cable. Heaviside was 30 years old and had left formal education at the age of 16. He taught himself physics, mathematics, and electrical engineering while working as a telegraph operator.

A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016)

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

It’s been a weird week for America’s most valuable company—a firm whose tech products have such consumer goodwill they got away with forcing us to listen to.

J.G. Ballard predicted the rise of social media (2016)

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MAY 7, 2024

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One man saved a generation of premature babies (2016)

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

For years doctors in the US made little attempt to save the lives of premature babies, but there was one place distressed parents could turn for help - a sideshow on Coney Island.

Google DeepMind’s CEO Says Its Next Algorithm Will Eclipse ChatGPT

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JUNE 26, 2023

Demis Hassabis says the company is working on a system called Gemini that will tap techniques that helped AlphaGo defeat a Go champion in 2016.

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8 years later: A world Go champion's reflections on AlphaGo

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MARCH 19, 2024

Editor’s note: Lee Sae Dol is a professional Go player who played a now-famous public match against AlphaGo, Google DeepMind’s AI system, back in 2016.As That changed in 2016 when I played a five-match game of Go against AlphaGo, Google’s AI system. As a world Go champion, I’d only ever played the game against other humans.

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Patagonia's New Study Finds Fleece Jackets Are a Serious Pollutant (2016)

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MAY 6, 2024

Patagonia recently commissioned a study to find out how many synthetic microfibers—the tiny bits of plastic that marine scientists say could be jeopardizing our oceans (and us)—are being shed from its jackets in the wash. The results aren't pretty.

How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Learn to improve the brightness and clarity of images in your mind's eye. Image Streaming is an easy technique to learn. Is it a cure for aphantasia?

Communicating with aliens one day could be much easier if we study the way AI agents speak with each other

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of … Decoding emergent languages in AI can have many benefits.

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Concrete clickbait: next time you share a spomenik photo, think abt what it mean (2016)

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Photos of Yugoslav monuments known as spomeniks are often shared online, exoticised and wrenched from context. But now, argues Owen Hatherley, it is…

Pokemon Go players are actually training a giant AI model

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In 2016, Pokemon Go was about as wholesome as video games got, as it largely involved walking around your neighborhood and meeting up with strangers. One of the most popular mobile games is also an AI trainer. In 2024, nothing is allowed to be wholesome, apparently. Based on a blog post by developer …

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The Sociological Study of Mental Illness: A Historical Perspective (2016)

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JUNE 15, 2024

Mental illness, as the eminent historian of psychiatry Michael MacDonald once aptly remarked, “is the most solitary of afflictions to the people who experience it; but it is the most social of maladies to those who observe its effects.”

The mystery of why left-handers are so much rarer (2016)

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Relatively few people are lefties, and it’s a puzzle why.

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Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016)

When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist Ebooks (2016)

Professional Corner-Cutting (2016)

H.264 Is Magic (2016)

What is Responsible AI and Why Do We Need It?

Euphemisms are best changed frequently (2016)

Unprojecting Text with Ellipses (2016)

Hyper-Reality (2016) [video]

Hookworm gave the South a bad name (2016)

Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels? (2016)

Page Dewarping (2016)

Avoiding Sun as Dangerous as Smoking (2016)

Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian deaths, study finds

How WASD became the standard PC control scheme (2016)

How not to bomb your offer negotiation (2016)

The right way to sauce pasta (2016)

AWS kills Snowmobile data transfer truck

The Recovery of Case (2016)

A Journey to the Medical Netherworld (2016)

The Beautiful Islands of San Serriffe (2016)

Applying Grease to TLS Extensibility (2016)

Comparison of configuration file languages (2016)

Knocker uppers: Waking up the workers in industrial Britain (2016)

C++ left arrow operator (2016)

New £4M hub for metabolic psychiatry

Quartz Crystals – Twinning (2016)

Entropy Explained, with Sheep (2016)

Enphase Envoy-S data scraping (2016)

Oliver Heaviside and the coaxial cable (2016)

A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016)

J.G. Ballard predicted the rise of social media (2016)

One man saved a generation of premature babies (2016)

Google DeepMind’s CEO Says Its Next Algorithm Will Eclipse ChatGPT

8 years later: A world Go champion's reflections on AlphaGo

Patagonia's New Study Finds Fleece Jackets Are a Serious Pollutant (2016)

How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)

Communicating with aliens one day could be much easier if we study the way AI agents speak with each other

Concrete clickbait: next time you share a spomenik photo, think abt what it mean (2016)

Pokemon Go players are actually training a giant AI model

The Sociological Study of Mental Illness: A Historical Perspective (2016)

The mystery of why left-handers are so much rarer (2016)

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