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A few weeks ago I wrote about Kuhn’s theory of paradigm shifts and how it relates to Bayesian inference. In this post I want to back up a little bit and explain what Bayesian inference is, and eventually rediscover the idea of a paradigm shift just from…

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This tutorial covers migrating from GRUB2 to systemd-boot on Linux systems running Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver. To keep things interesting, the test case covers Secure Boot, custom kernels (and postinstall hooks), and dm-crypt.

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We took a big step toward improving Internet privacy and security with the launch of the 1.1.1.1 public DNS resolver. And we really meant privacy first. We were not satisfied with the status quo and believed that secure DNS resolution with transparent privacy…

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I said something about Perl 6 the other day, and someone replied asking whether anyone actually uses Perl 6. My first thought was I bet more people use Perl 6 than Haskell, and it's well known that people use Haskell. I looked at the TIOBE Index to see whether…