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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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SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching (2016)

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JUNE 13, 2025

SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching Author: Wojciech MuÅa Added on: 2016-11-28 Updated on: 2018-02-14 (spelling), 2017-04-29 (ARMv8 results) Introduction Popular programming languages provide methods or functions which locate a substring in a given string.

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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.

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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MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years

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JANUARY 22, 2025

has been registered previously — in December 2016 by someone using the email address um-i-delo@yandex.ru. Passive DNS records from DomainTools.com show that between 2016 and 2018 the domain was connected to an Internet server in Germany, and that the domain was left to expire in 2018. .” One final note: The domain akam.ne

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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.

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.

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.

AI paper by 4 Chinese paved way for ChatGPT, AlphaGo. It’s set for greater glory by 2030

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APRIL 19, 2025

The most-cited scientific paper of the 21st century was written by four Chinese researchers in 2016, and it is on track to become the most-cited

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'Pokémon Go' Maker Nears $3.5B Deal to Sell Games Unit

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

the company behind the 2016 hit Pokmon Go, is in talks to sell its video-game business to Saudi Arabia-owned Scopely Inc., Niantic Inc., according to several people familiar with the discussions.

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?

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.

Nitrogen Triiodide (2016)

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MAY 29, 2025

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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.

Why 300 Companies Use This Startup’s AI To Slash Costs

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APRIL 10, 2025

Itwas 2016, and May Habib was in the most important meeting of her life. Businesses have poured millions into AI hoping for big returns in the future. This startup is saving them millions in labor costs today. The Lebanese-Canadian entrepreneur had just moved to San Francisco from Dubai and was

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Converting a Git repo from tabs to spaces (2016)

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MAY 2, 2025

This post is about the thing in the title. I used to work for Yelp. For historical reasons probably the initial developers preferred it their mostly-Python codebase had always been in

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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.

The Company Testing Wall Street’s Appetite for A.I. Computing Power

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MARCH 18, 2025

In 2016, three New York commodities traders Michael Intrator, Brian Venturo and Brannin McBee fell in love with CoreWeave, which provides computing power for A.I., was founded by three Bitcoin enthusiasts. The company is now set to make the first prominent A.I. initial public offering.

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Comparison of configuration file languages (2016)

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

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

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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Unprojecting Text with Ellipses (2016)

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MAY 19, 2024

Using transformed ellipses to estimate perspective transformations of text.

Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The untold story of EgyptAir flight 804

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DECEMBER 24, 2024

In 2016, an EgyptAir A320 spiraled into the Mediterranean, killing 66 people. Was it an act of sabotage, or something even scarier?

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…

Sunset Geometry (2016)

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MARCH 15, 2025

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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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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.

HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere

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MARCH 14, 2025

HTTP/3 has been in development since at least 2016, while QUIC (the protocol beneath it) was first introduced by Google way back in 2013. Both are now.

Japanese WW2 "Fu-Go" Balloon Bombs (2016)

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JANUARY 31, 2025

On November 3, 1944, Japan released fusen bakudan, or balloon bombs, into the Pacific jet stream. Japans latest weapon, the balloon bombs were intended to cause damage and spread panic in the continental United States.

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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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?

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…

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…

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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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.

ChatGPT's viral Studio Ghibli-style images: 'An insult to life itself'

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MARCH 28, 2025

Wise words from legendary Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, whose comments on AI in 2016 I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."

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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.

Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016)

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APRIL 2, 2025

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Why the Number Line Freaks Me Out (2016)

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FEBRUARY 16, 2025

“Welcome to math class, boys and girls! Today we’ll be drawing a picture that gestures beyond the limits of mortal comprehension.”

Solar Plant Accidentally Incinerates Up to 6k Birds a Year (2016)

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FEBRUARY 2, 2025

A rare and unusual type of solar power plant that concentrates sunlight in California is accidentally killing up to 6,000 birds every year, with staff reporting that the birds keep flying into its concentrated beams of sunlight, and spontaneously bursting into flames.

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.

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.

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.

Mastering Programming - by Kent Beck (2016)

Quick Steps to Learn Data Science As a Beginner

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

SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching (2016)

Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016)

What is Responsible AI and Why Do We Need It?

MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years

Professional Corner-Cutting (2016)

Hookworm gave the South a bad name (2016)

H.264 Is Magic (2016)

AI paper by 4 Chinese paved way for ChatGPT, AlphaGo. It’s set for greater glory by 2030

'Pokémon Go' Maker Nears $3.5B Deal to Sell Games Unit

Euphemisms are best changed frequently (2016)

The Recovery of Case (2016)

Nitrogen Triiodide (2016)

Avoiding Sun as Dangerous as Smoking (2016)

Why 300 Companies Use This Startup’s AI To Slash Costs

Converting a Git repo from tabs to spaces (2016)

How WASD became the standard PC control scheme (2016)

The Company Testing Wall Street’s Appetite for A.I. Computing Power

Comparison of configuration file languages (2016)

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

Unprojecting Text with Ellipses (2016)

Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The untold story of EgyptAir flight 804

Hyper-Reality (2016) [video]

Sunset Geometry (2016)

AWS kills Snowmobile data transfer truck

Oliver Heaviside and the coaxial cable (2016)

HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere

Japanese WW2 "Fu-Go" Balloon Bombs (2016)

Pokemon Go players are actually training a giant AI model

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

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

Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels? (2016)

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

The right way to sauce pasta (2016)

ChatGPT's viral Studio Ghibli-style images: 'An insult to life itself'

Applying Grease to TLS Extensibility (2016)

Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016)

Why the Number Line Freaks Me Out (2016)

Solar Plant Accidentally Incinerates Up to 6k Birds a Year (2016)

How not to bomb your offer negotiation (2016)

Enphase Envoy-S data scraping (2016)

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

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