US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers
The US government is trying to bring back nuclear safety employees it fired on Thursday, but is struggling to let them know they should return to work, NBC News has reported. The National Nuclear Security Administration workers were among hundreds of employees in the energy department who received termination letters. An email obtained by NBC […]
Softmax forever, or why I like softmax
[UPDATE: Feb 8 2025] my amazing colleague Max Shen noticed a sign mistake in my derivation of the partial derivative of the log-harmonic function below. i taught my first full-semester course on in fall 2015 (whoa, a decade ago!) you can find the lecture note from this course at https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.07916. in one of the lectures, […]
Dinner at a North Korean Restaurant in Shanghai
Shrouded in secrecy and isolated from the world, North Korea exudes an air of mystery. Hardly anything is known about the country except media stories about their dear leader, Kim Jong Un – his unrivalled cult-style of governance that has bred a nation of adoring people who hang on to his every command. And yet, amidst the […]
Gixy: Nginx Configuration Static Analyzer
Tip This is an actively maintained fork of the original Gixy project by Yandex LLC. Gixy is a tool to analyze Nginx configuration. The main goal of Gixy is to prevent security misconfiguration and automate flaw detection. Currently supported Python versions are 3.6 through 3.13. Disclaimer: Gixy is well tested only on GNU/Linux, other OSs […]
What will happen if you do an entire woodworking project using a VR headset? [video]
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GulfOfMexico: Perfect Programming Language
New: DreamBerd has been renamed to Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Mexico is a perfect programming language. These are its features!When you’ve finished reading through all the features, check out the examples. Exclamation Marks! Be bold! End every statement with an exclamation mark! print(“Hello world”)! If you’re feeling extra-bold, you can use even more!!! print(“Hello […]
The Sims Game Design Documents (1997)
Name Last modified Size Description Parent Directory – 3DPeopleQuestion.pdf 2012-12-20 10:41 215K AnimationClassBreakd..> 2012-12-20 12:07 48K AnimationDocumentati..> 2012-12-20 10:27 156K ArtDepartmentPostMor..> 2012-12-20 10:21 106K BrainstormProblemLis..> 2012-12-20 10:23 57K Ch00-TableOfContents..> 2012-12-20 10:55 64K Ch01-Goals.pdf 2012-12-20 10:54 67K Ch02-World.pdf 2012-12-20 10:52 416K Ch03-Objects.pdf 2012-12-20 10:53 1.5M […]
How X-Plane Works
X-Plane works by reading in the geometric shape of any aircraft and then figuring out how that aircraft will fly. It does this by an engineering process called “blade element theory”, which involves breaking the aircraft down into many small elements and then finding the forces on each little element many times per second. These […]
Will AI take web developer jobs?
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is revolutionizing the web development industry, but is it a threat to web developers? There’s been lots of talk online about A.I. taking peoples jobs. I recently watched this great video from Justin Jackson on why he thinks AI won’t replace web developers: In short – I agree. A.I. isn’t going to […]
Create a QubesOS Gaming HVM with GPU PCI passthrough (2023)
To have an ‘HVM’ for gaming, you must have A dedicated GPU. By dedicated, it means: it is a secondary GPU, not the GPU used to display dom0. In 2023, ‘Nvidia’ and ‘Amd’ GPU work. Not tested with Intel GPUs. External GPU using thunderbolt work (Create a Gaming HVM – #8 by solene) A lot […]