Oooooh one of my favorite topics. A quick thread. If your counterparty is X then Y is the shibboleth that most quickly gets you past the initial script stage. https://t.co/mXD0JvNamX

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0:00 Intro
0:53 The FACOM 128B
1:53 History of relay computers
5:16 Trip to Mt Fuji and Fujitsu's Numazu plant
6:12 Detailed look at the FACOM 128B
10:33 Simple example: 3+3, deciphering the lights
12:49 Calculating square root of 2
13:44 Crossbar mechanical…

I was an average student in school. Though I was surrounded by high achievers, and never questioned the importance of being extraordinary, I somehow never expected myself to rise to their levels. The most common remark I found in my annual report cards read…

Researchers have identified a metal that conducts electricity without conducting heat - an incredibly useful property that defies our current understanding of how conductors work.

People who suddenly start speaking with a foreign accent are rare, making it hard to investigate. A recent study by doctors and linguists offers insight into its triggers and what we're really hearing.

The minimal javascript library to create flowcharts ✨ - alyssaxuu/flowy

Kali Linux 2019.4 was released last week and with it comes an 'Undercover' mode that can be used to quickly make the Kali desktop look like Windows 10.

The right-wing members of the National Labor Relations Board want to make it legal for corporations to spy on workers.

Over the past year, I have spent a lot of time digging into cloud infrastructure and technical tools as a space for investing. One of the emergent behaviors of technology trends is the accelerating advantage of being a winner, played out with network effects…

A computability proof of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem equally as strong as Gödel’s version, but much easier to deduce

In the last post of the series I explained how to get started programming an STM32 microcontroller without any library dependencies. Today we will improve the LED blinking example from last post with the CMSIS library, making it more readable and adding precise…

Developer tools that support multiple programming languages generally have very limited, regex-based code-analysis capabilities. Tree-sitter is a new parsing system that aims to change this paradigm. It provides a uniform C API for parsing an ever-growing…

There is a joke in healthcare: everything revolves around the 3Ps: Provider, Payer & Pharma. If you include the P in Patient, then its not a joke anymore! Healthcare is the biggest, baddest wolf in town and represents the largest chunk of GDP after defense…

Physicists have long searched for hypothesized dark matter particles called WIMPs. Now, focus may be shifting to the axion — an ultra-lightweight particle whose existence would solve two mysteries at…

One of the interesting “what ifs” of history is “what if the 70s-80s commies used computers to do their planned economy.” Men like Kantorovich,  Nikolay Fedorenko and Victor…

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