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Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley billionaires, such as Peter Thiel, Marc Andreesen, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg, have been heavily influenced by science fiction. Science fiction has had a significant impact on media, with a large percentage of big-budget movies being science fiction or fantasy blockbusters. However, science fiction’s influence goes beyond media and […]
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Svalbard’s location at 78 degrees north makes it an ideal spot for downloading data from satellites in polar orbits. SvalSat, the northernmost ground station in the world, was established in 1997 but faced challenges in transferring large volumes of data to the mainland. In 2004, a subsea fibre connection was successfully established between Longyearbyen and […]
Nordic has joined an industry consortium to promote the adoption of an open-source chip architecture called RISC-V. This move might raise questions about Nordic’s relationship with Arm, as Arm has been used in Nordic’s products since 2012. However, Nordic sees RISC-V as a complementary alternative to Arm, especially in power consumption-critical mobile and IoT applications. […]
Rainbow is a project that offers documentation for various protocols and mappers. The Rainbow Net protocol documentation is available, along with the NES Rainbow mapper documentation for the NES Mega Drive/Genesis (work in progress). The Mega Drive/Genesis Rainbow mapper documentation is also being worked on. If you have any feedback or would like to create […]
In this article, the author discusses the phenomenon of blindly following trends in the tech industry, comparing it to the apocryphal Lemming-like behavior. They highlight that this trend-following behavior is not exclusive to software engineering but can be seen in other aspects of the industry as well. The author mentions that in 2022, a few […]
The article discusses the growing interest in AI from governments and the need for discipline in government technology investment. The authors argue that many government technology projects fail due to a lack of clear rationale, inadequate funding, and top-down approaches to development. They highlight examples like Quaero and Gaia-X, which had confused rationales and unrealistic […]
In this tutorial, the author demonstrates how to use blavaan for structural equation models (SEMs) and model assessment. The tutorial focuses on Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) as a special case of SEMs. The author provides an example of a two-factor model with six items and explains the various components of the model. The author then […]
Apple’s new family 9 GPU architecture in A17 Pro and the M3 family of chips offers improved performance and power efficiency for various applications. The GPUs use Metal API to run Metal Shading Language programs, which allow for parallel execution and improved app performance. The new shader core architecture, dynamic shader core memory, and flexible […]
There is a misconception that typing speed doesn’t matter as long as it is above 80 words per minute (wpm). However, this is not true. While high throughput is not an issue, latency is. Faster typing allows writers to experiment with different sentence structures and quickly delete or restructure sentences. Similarly, coders can think about […]
After loading lcl.lua, the Lua VM is ready to run Common Lisp code. The lisp functions can be directly called by Lua or by the host application according to the calling convention. Symbols can be called directly by utilizing the symbol metatable and the __call metamethod. For example, the read-from-string lisp function, located in the […]