Interruptions and context switching are the two most costly factors that directly impact a programmer's daily productivity. Although there is no permanent way to avoid them, there are some interesting strategies to minimize their impact. The Cost of an Interruption…

ChatGPT is now banned in Italy.

Physics library for simulating particles . Contribute to cmcdev-code/Physics development by creating an account on GitHub.

Source code for the X Recommendation Algorithm. Contribute to twitter/the-algorithm development by creating an account on GitHub.

Update: I gave a talk on this topic at P99 CONF 2023 and at PyCon IL 2024 (Hebrew).
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Earlier this year, when BuzzFeed announced plans to start publishing AI-assisted content, its CEO Jonah Peretti promised the tech would be held to a high standard. “I think tha…

I tried creating a custom ray/path tracing renderer. Featuring: maths, shaders, and cats!
This project was written in C# and HLSL, and uses the Unity game engine.

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Note to readers: this is an April Fools post, intended to satirize bad arguments made against Rust. I have mixed feelings about it now, as I think people who understood the context appreciated the humor, but some people were confused. That’s partly because…

It's a term coined to describe work that is meaningless or unnecessary. These jobs have become prevalent in the modern work environment, particularly in the corporate world and the software industry. Such jobs thrive in rigid corporate cultures, 'zombie projects'…

In distributed systems, logical clocks play a key role in the ordering of system events. What are the various logical clock designs, and how do they help with event ordering? This article answers these questions.

Twitter just publish the code that powers their recommendation engine. Today, we're diving into the mysterious world of Tweepcred, the service behind the scenes that calculates a user's Reputation on Twitter.

Bloomberg's OSPO and Corporate Philanthropy teams partnered to enable direct employee engagement to help sustain open source projects critical to our work.

According to the Coding Competitions site, Google Code Jam is being discontinued, as well as Kick Start. Here is a link for more information. This year, they instead plan to hold four "farewell rounds" with no prizes on April 15th. According to the FAQ, rounds…

In this third article of our series on the making of a 64kB intro, we present how we use and combine a few simple techniques to create a variety of procedural 3D meshes for very few bytes.

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Like electronics or photonics, magnonics is an engineering subfield that aims to advance information technologies when it comes to speed, device architecture, and energy consumption. A magnon corresponds ...

Authors: Craig Box (ARMO), Ben Hirschberg (ARMO)
Admission control is an important part of the Kubernetes control plane, with several internal features depending on the ability to approve or change an API object as it is submitted to the server. It is also…