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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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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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U.S. facing most intense flu season in at least 15 years

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FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Last week, that number was clearly higher than the peak of any winter flu season since 2009-2010. One indicator of flu activity is the percentage of doctors office visits driven by flu-like symptoms.

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.

Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake (2009) [video]

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

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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.

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.

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?

Two Hard Things (2009)

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JANUARY 19, 2025

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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.

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&#8217…

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:

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:ð§µ #1 - Marc Tessier-Lavigne Genentech pointed out problems in his 2009 Nature paper in 2012. After an expose by @tab_delete, he.â¦

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.

Quantum Soccer (2009)

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MARCH 12, 2024

Illustrations for Border Guards by Greg Egan

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.

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?

What DNS Is Not (2009)

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

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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.

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?

Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)

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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

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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.

Beej's Quick Guide to GDB (2009)

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NOVEMBER 5, 2023

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C’s Biggest Mistake (2009)

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JULY 2, 2023

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Victorian Artistic Printing (2009)

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AUGUST 14, 2024

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Why Twitter is such a big deal (2009)

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JANUARY 19, 2025

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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.

If GPUs Are So Good, Why Do We Still Use CPUs at All?

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JANUARY 7, 2025

Theres this old video from 2009 thats been going viral on Twitter recently.

Linux ate my RAM (2009)

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

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Tail Recursion Elimination (2009)

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MAY 25, 2024

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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…

The Epic Story of Container Shipping (2009)

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APRIL 10, 2023

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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…

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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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 […]

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.

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.

Tech Trend: Shanzhai (2009)

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JANUARY 24, 2024

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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.

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

Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications (2009)

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JULY 11, 2024

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What Is Fundamental? (2009)

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DECEMBER 2, 2023

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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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Self and Self: Whys and Wherefores (2009) [video]

Leveraging ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis Tests to Analyze the Impact of the Great Recession on Housing Prices

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U.S. facing most intense flu season in at least 15 years

Kernel.org servers infected with backdoors for two years from 2009

Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake (2009) [video]

Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011

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Private space-junk probe snaps historic photo of discarded rocket in orbit

How fast can a human possibly run 100 meters?

Two Hard Things (2009)

Extinct goat was cold-blooded (2009)

The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Office" (2009)

Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? (2009)

Six top Alzheimer's researchers accused of fraud

Consciousness and Anaesthesia (2009)

Quantum Soccer (2009)

The world of Yakuza fan magazines (2009)

How long does Apple support Mac firmware?

What DNS Is Not (2009)

In Praise of Difficult Children (2009)

How not to sort by average rating (2009)

Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)

This Boat Don't Float (2009)

Beej's Quick Guide to GDB (2009)

C’s Biggest Mistake (2009)

Victorian Artistic Printing (2009)

Why Twitter is such a big deal (2009)

The history of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (2009)

If GPUs Are So Good, Why Do We Still Use CPUs at All?

Linux ate my RAM (2009)

Tail Recursion Elimination (2009)

Lush: My favorite small programming language

The Epic Story of Container Shipping (2009)

It's easy to underprice your product (2009)

How to solve the "Mastermind" guessing game? (2009)

Five-Disk Floppy Raid: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (2009)

Popular Science Magazine Archives May 1872-March 2009

The real realtime preemption end game

Tech Trend: Shanzhai (2009)

Unlocking a Gary TL-15 Round-Door Safe (2009)

Lessons from 15 Years of Indie App Development

Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications (2009)

What Is Fundamental? (2009)

DeWitt and Stonebraker's "MapReduce: A major step backwards" (2009)

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