2013 - Data Science Current

How short can Git abbreviate? (2013)

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APRIL 22, 2024

How short can a Git hash be abbreviated? A full SHA-1 hash is 160 bits, 40 hex characters, which is a bit long to talk about and retype when you're not just copy-pasting. Therefore most people will use just the first few characters to refer to commits, but how safe is this? I know of…

Ancient astronaut theorists faked a Hindu nuclear explosion (2013)

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JUNE 16, 2023

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A moment of financial clarification (2013)

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MARCH 4, 2024

Every once in a while someone in the comments here says, usually as an aside to something else, that no one becomes a writer to get rich. So as a point of clarification, and to give everyone else who is slightly exasperated by this sort of comment something to point at: Hey, I became a…

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Typesetting the LaTeX Way (2013)

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MARCH 29, 2024

Full time geek and research student with a passion for developing great software, often late at night.

Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – $230M AI Twist on an Old Scam (2023)

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APRIL 17, 2024

Humane AI (Humane, hereafter) combines the mid-2010s failed concept of using a laser projector to project on the body with the early 2000s failed projector phone (something I wrote about in 2013), …

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The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 (2013)

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

Josh wrote recently about a serious security bug that appeared in Debian Linux back in 2006, and whether it was really a backdoor inserted by the NSA. (He

The Oxford Comma and the Internet (2013)

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The Oxford comma (also known as the serial comma) is that extra comma that you sometimes get at the end of a list, before the and or the or. She wrote novels, essays, and JavaScript” uses an Oxford comma. “He He bought apples, butter and the ranch”. Angus Croll | Twitter Engineer, JavaScript Obsessive, Literature Junkie.

The Isle of Doctor Seaborg (2013)

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FEBRUARY 11, 2024

On the hypothetical "Island of Stability" which might allow for long-lived atoms of never-before-seen elements.

New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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From L3 to seL4: 20 years of L4 microkernels (2013) [video]

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APRIL 14, 2024

The L4 microkernel has undergone 20 years of use and evolution. It has an active user and developer community, and there are commercial versions which are de.

How to Make a Cantenna (2013)

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Create a cantenna to drastically extend your Wi-Fi signal! Works great with a router that has external antennas, like the old-school classic WRT54G. Requirements For This Walkthrough Materials 1. A wireless router [[link]

Steven Spielberg Predicts 'Implosion' of Film Industry (2013)

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NOVEMBER 19, 2023

George Lucas echoed Spielberg's sentiments at an event touting the opening of a new USC School of Cinematic Arts building, saying big changes are in store.

Why Life Does Not Really Exist (2013)

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

I have been fascinated with living things since childhood. Growing up in northern California, I spent a lot of time playing outdoors among plants and animals.

The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods

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JANUARY 3, 2024

Since 2013, Backblaze has written about the failure rates of drives. Let's take that a step further and look at Drive Stats in our fleet of storage servers.

Knight vs. Snail (2013)

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JUNE 7, 2023

Recently a group of us went into our manuscripts store to have a look at some medieval genealogical rolls. We were examining Royal MS 14 B V, an English roll from the last part of the 13th century that contains quite a lot of marginalia, when one of our post-medieval.

What Happened to Jai Alai? (2013)

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JULY 18, 2023

Once the next big thing in American sports, Jai Alai has all but completely disappeared over the past 20 years. But in Miami, the game is still played for much smaller crowds and stakes.

Harry Browne’s 17 Golden Rules of Financial Safety (2013)

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

When you read in the news that a person whom you know as rich and wealthy is in financial trouble or has declared bankruptcy, it is easy to feel a sense of futility about managing your own money. You start to think that if such a rich person, who has access to the best financial…

Mozilla will be retiring the Mozilla Location Service

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MARCH 16, 2024

In 2013, Mozilla launched MLS as an open. The accuracy of Mozilla Location Service (MLS) has steadily declined. With no plans to restart the stumbler program or increase investments to MLS we have made the decision to retire the service.

Entropy and Life (2013)

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JULY 8, 2023

Entropy is a measure of how many configurations could yield the same macrostate, and thus how probable the macrostate is. It can be a measure of information, or a measure of disorder in a physical system. But what about the entropy of biological systems? Relatively few configurations yield life, compared to the many that don't.…

Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Since launching in 2013, the Signal Protocol—our end-to-end encryption technology—has become the de facto standard for private commu. Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging app, and our cryptographic technologies provide extra layers of privacy beyond the Signal app itself.

Death Metal English (2013)

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JULY 21, 2023

Death metal has a unique approach to the language. Here's how it works.

Bartók's Monster – Stalking the dead composer through Transylvania (2013)

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MARCH 29, 2024

Stalking the dead composer through Transylvania

Xerox scanners randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (2013)

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JUNE 12, 2023

Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents Please see the „condensed time line“ section (the next one) for a time line of how the Xerox saga unfolded. It for example depicts that I did not push the thing to the public right away, but gave Xerox a lot of time before I did so.

Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

After its publication in 2013, the Signal Protocol was adopted not only by Signal but well beyond. The Signal Protocol is a set of cryptographic specifications that provides end-to-end encryption for private communications exchanged daily by billions of people around the world. Technical informat.

Earthquakes make gold veins in an instant (2013)

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

Nature - Pressure changes cause precious metal to deposit each time the crust moves.

The ten year anniversary of the Healthcare.gov rescue

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

Ten years ago today, on Friday, October 18, 2013, the effort to fix HealthCare.gov began in earnest. At 7:15 A.M. Eastern time, a small group assembled next to the entrance to the West Wing of the White House. The group included Todd Park, Brian.

Don’t Make Fun of Renowned Dan Brown (2013)

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JULY 21, 2023

Renowned author Dan Brown woke up in his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house – and immediately he felt angry. Most people would have thought that the 48-year-old man had no reason to be angry. After all, the famous writer had a new book coming out. But that was the problem. A…

Best engineering interview question I've gotten

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MARCH 24, 2024

It was at MemSQL circa 2013. It’s been a while since I was on the receiving end of a software engineering interview. But I still remember my favorite interview question. They haven’t even kept their name, so I assume they’re not still relying on this specific interview question. I don’t feel bad for revealing it.

Toyota: Car location data of 2 million customers exposed for ten years

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MAY 12, 2023

Toyota Motor Corporation disclosed a data breach on its cloud environment that exposed the car-location information of 2,150,000 customers for ten years, between November 6, 2013, and April 17, 2023. [.]

Removing Garbage Collection from the Rust Language (2013)

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I've been floating ways to simplify the memory management story in Rust around the core team lately. Memory management is a contentious topic, since we've worked hard to get to the current state of things, and with the push toward stability lately, there is a (quite reasonable!) resistance to any changes at this state.

Use the moment-ratio diagram to visualize the sampling distribution of skewness and kurtosis

SAS Software

APRIL 22, 2024

As I show in my book (Simulating Data with SAS, Wicklin, 2013), you first plot the skewness and kurtosis of the sample on the moment-ratio diagram to see what common [.] The moment-ratio diagram is a tool that is useful when choosing a distribution that models a sample of univariate data.

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Draft No. 4 (2013)

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JULY 22, 2023

Replacing the words in boxes.

Oral History of Brian L. Halla [pdf] (2013)

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APRIL 27, 2024

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How to write a novel using the snowflake method (2013)

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

How to write a novel: Award-winning novelist Randy Ingermanson teaches his wildly popular Snowflake Method for designing and writing a novel.

Z85: Format for representing binary data as printable text

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MARCH 17, 2024

Preamble Copyright (c) 2013 iMatix Corporation. This document specifies Z85, a format for representing binary data as printable text. Z85 is a derivative of existing Ascii85 encoding mechanisms, modified for better usability, particularly for use in source code.

Project Oberon (New Edition 2013)

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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Frutiger Aero

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Gloss) is a broad design style and aesthetic that was prevalent in advertising, media, stock imagery and technology from roughly 2004 to 2013, following the end of the Y2K era and overlapping with the McBling, Surf Crush, and ElectroPop 08 aesthetics. This article is part of a series on the Frutiger Family Frutiger Aero (also known as Web 2.0

UCLA floor tiles decoded, pay homage to first internet message (2013)

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AUGUST 19, 2023

A hidden message left by a UCLA architect in 2011 was recently uncovered in Boelter Hall, where sharp-eyed passersby can spot a coded note in the pattern of floor tiles.

Modern Life Is Rubbish: Tao Lin’s Taipei (2013)

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JUNE 9, 2023

There is a small, deadly class of book that makes you never want to set pen to paper again. Tao Lin's novel is a grave case of this kind, where you are faced with the consequences of writing down all the things you do or think. What if they sound like this? Colorless, witless, humorless.

Closure, from why the lucky stiff (2013)

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JULY 7, 2023

Thanks, _why. Contribute to steveklabnik/CLOSURE development by creating an account on GitHub.

A Brief History of NSA Backdoors (2013)

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

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My Hardest Bug Ever (2013)

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MARCH 7, 2023

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Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google

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JUNE 21, 2023

In June 2013, Waze was acquired by Google for $1.15B. It's been 10 years since Google acquired Waze, and I thought it would be the right time to tell the story and some of what I learned. In those days, billions were large numbers; Aileen Lee would coin the term âunicornâ a few m

How short can Git abbreviate? (2013)

Ancient astronaut theorists faked a Hindu nuclear explosion (2013)

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A moment of financial clarification (2013)

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Typesetting the LaTeX Way (2013)

Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – $230M AI Twist on an Old Scam (2023)

The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 (2013)

The Oxford Comma and the Internet (2013)

The Isle of Doctor Seaborg (2013)

New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

From L3 to seL4: 20 years of L4 microkernels (2013) [video]

How to Make a Cantenna (2013)

Steven Spielberg Predicts 'Implosion' of Film Industry (2013)

Why Life Does Not Really Exist (2013)

The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods

Knight vs. Snail (2013)

What Happened to Jai Alai? (2013)

Harry Browne’s 17 Golden Rules of Financial Safety (2013)

Mozilla will be retiring the Mozilla Location Service

Entropy and Life (2013)

Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive

Death Metal English (2013)

Bartók's Monster – Stalking the dead composer through Transylvania (2013)

Xerox scanners randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (2013)

Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol

Earthquakes make gold veins in an instant (2013)

The ten year anniversary of the Healthcare.gov rescue

Don’t Make Fun of Renowned Dan Brown (2013)

Best engineering interview question I've gotten

Toyota: Car location data of 2 million customers exposed for ten years

Removing Garbage Collection from the Rust Language (2013)

Use the moment-ratio diagram to visualize the sampling distribution of skewness and kurtosis

Draft No. 4 (2013)

Oral History of Brian L. Halla [pdf] (2013)

How to write a novel using the snowflake method (2013)

Z85: Format for representing binary data as printable text

Project Oberon (New Edition 2013)

Frutiger Aero

UCLA floor tiles decoded, pay homage to first internet message (2013)

Modern Life Is Rubbish: Tao Lin’s Taipei (2013)

Closure, from why the lucky stiff (2013)

A Brief History of NSA Backdoors (2013)

My Hardest Bug Ever (2013)

Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google

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