Tech companies nowadays swear by data-driven decisions. It can be good for specific business KPIs, however, if taken too far it can lead to incorrect optimisations (too local), social pressure on your employees, incorrect business decisions, metrics with…

Robots. Cyborgs. Androids. Space stations. They all make up the manga and anime genre known as mecha. Read about the history of mecha, and…

Is the traditional 2D imaging model nearing the end of its usefulness, or does it have a shiny future in the “modern graphics” world? I spent a week on a research retreat in a cottage in the woods to answer this question, as it shapes the future of UI toolkits.…

ARM64 is a computer architecture that competes with the popular Intel x86-64 architecture used for the CPUs in desktops, laptops, and so on. ARM64 is common in mobile phones1, as well as Graviton-based Amazon EC2 instances, the Raspberry Pi 3 and 4, and the…

What are the underlying forces that account for the success of software engineering CEOs?

The dream accurate approximate set cardinality estimator based on 3-bit HyperLogLog. More accurate than Redis HyperLogLog. - wangyi-fudan/wyHLL

Why we need more people creating Part Time and how you can do it too.

Jonathan Rée introduces his unconventional history of philosophy in the English-speaking world from 1601 to 1950 with a declaration: Today’s philosophers

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Government agrees to proposal from leftwing party Más País allowing companies to test reduced hours

Just my thoughts, right or wrong

The FASTEST QUALITY hash function, random number generators (PRNG) and hash map. - wangyi-fudan/wyhash

A hearing of the House Subcommittee focused on anti-trust and monopoly abuses examines the role of the corporate media in these growing pathologies.

Federal law enforcement has been asking for a backdoor to read Americans’ encrypted communications for years now. FBI Director Christopher Wray did it again last week in testimony to the Senate

Seeking to lessen its dependence on Apple and Google, Facebook is going all-in on Oculus.

We presented Fission's approach to local first apps on IPFS to the Local Offline Collaboration SIG on March 10th, 2021.

Really disappointed with @GooglePlayDev @googledevs Our app was banned because the button says "Report User" and not just "Report"

In 1907 proposal for daylight savings time – with the clocks changing by 20 minutes on each of four Sundays in April, for 1 hr 20 total and back again in September…

A key disadvantage suggested was that the cows wouldn’t give milk earlier…