Conversation is the platform where minds meet: the venue where information is shared, ideas cocreated, cultural norms shaped, and social bonds forg...

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” – Ernest Hemingway Introduction  Looking back, I always struggled with writing. I felt pain every time I try to…

Haxophone, an electronic musical instrument that resembles a saxophone - cardonabits/haxo-hw

Just say no to legitimacy-inferring regulation

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UK coverage kicks off with focus on treatment of migrant workers and gay people, and corruption at Fifa

Some thoughts on habit forming technology.

Before Bankman-Fried’s transition from financial genius to possible financial criminal, he received little scrutiny in the media.

We analyze the knowledge acquired by AlphaZero, a neural network engine that learns
chess solely by playing against itself yet becomes capable of o...

I used Ghidra twice, so that means I'm officially an expert in reverse engineering

The traditional technique called edo-kiriko is primarily used for drinking glasses, but one company has used it to make watch dials, too.

Palm Cove (also commonly known as Cannon Lake) is Intel’s 10 nm die shrink of the Skylake core. In Intel’s “Tick Tock” strategy of alternating major microarchitecture change…

Eskom has run out of cash to buy diesel and the company says it will not overspend as in the past. This means extreme load shedding is on the cards.

Berkson's paradox, also known as Berkson's bias, collider bias, or Berkson's fallacy, is a result in conditional probability and statistics which is often found to be counterintuitive, and hence a veridical paradox. It is a complicating factor arising in…

I’ve been using Apache Kafka for about a year now and I’ve wanted a desktop client from the beginning. I couldn’t find one I liked – the best I’ve found is Confluent’s Cloud UI, but that’s neither a desktop app, nor is it a great experience1 – so, a couple…

From 2014 to 2021, Kite was a startup using AI to help developers write code. We have stopped working on Kite, and are no longer supporting the Kite software. Thank you to everyone who used our product, and thank you to our team members and investors who…

Recently I approved a pull request from a colleague, that had the following description: “That’s a hacky way of doing this, but I don’t have time today to come up with a better im…