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André Bensoussan was a talented engineer who worked with Tom Van Vleck on the Multics operating system. They were tasked with creating a subsystem called the VTOC manager, which was essentially a virtual memory manager. André took on the challenge of designing, implementing, and testing this manager. He meticulously sat at his desk, drawing numerous […]
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In this web content, the author talks about his experience visiting Deep Springs College, a unique school in the desert that emphasizes academics, labor, and self-governance. The author describes the unusual admissions process, where he was interviewed by the students themselves. The author also discusses the work he was assigned during his visit, which involved […]
The author acknowledges that the Kalman Filter can be difficult to understand due to its reliance on advanced math. However, they argue that it is not necessary to fully grasp the mathematical derivation in order to use the filter effectively. The Kalman Filter is described as an algorithm that can estimate both observable and unobservable […]
“E/acc” or effective accelerationism is a new tech ideology gaining momentum online. The founders of e/acc believe that the tech industry has become too stagnant and risk-averse, and they advocate for more ideas, growth, competition, and action. While e/acc’s lack of clarity has led to some criticism and confusion, it has gained support from notable […]
AMD has been working on making it easier for developers to port codebases from NVIDIA’s CUDA API to run on their HIP/ROCm stack. They have recently made progress in achieving binary compatibility, allowing many CUDA applications to run on ROCm without the need for source code modifications. This “skunkworks” project, known as ZLUDA, was initially […]
In this paper, the author aims to address the issue of pseudo-histories surrounding the development of quantum physics. They specifically investigate the myth of the ultraviolet catastrophe and its supposed role in motivating Planck’s introduction of quantum physics. However, upon closer examination, it is revealed that this story has the timeline completely reversed. The ultraviolet […]
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has adopted a scorched-earth brand of accounting after its 2022 merger, utilizing drastic measures to reduce debt. One controversial decision was deleting the finished feature film “Batgirl,” claiming it was unreleasable and using it as a tax write-off. Now, they are attempting to do the same with another film, “Coyote vs. […]
The number of cousins that Canadian children have is declining due to decreasing fertility rates, according to a kinship study. The study projected a 38% decrease in living relatives for individuals aged 65 in 2095 compared to 1950. The composition of family networks is also expected to change, with grandparents and great-grandparents living longer, but […]
The author reflects on the evolution of the modern data stack (MDS) and its current state in the industry. They note that the MDS was once a well-defined idea representing a set of products that leveraged the cloud and interacted via SQL. However, as the market trend gained momentum, the term “modern data stack” transitioned […]
By the afternoon of Dec. 13, 2022, winter had finally arrived in Nome, Alaska. The town, famous for its Iditarod sled dog race, was covered in a fresh blanket of snow. Curtis Worland, a musher and court services officer, took a break from work to visit his kennel. Worland had been dealing with an increasing […]