Understanding why and how chemotherapy resistance occurs is a major step toward optimizing treatments for cancer. A team of scientists including Markus Seeliger, from the Stony Brook Cancer Center and Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, believe they have … Read more
What led you to your first big project, on error-correcting codes? My adviser had suggested trying to better understand probabilistically checkable proofs — one of the major developments of theoretical computer science of the time. I had this idea of … Read more
With all the news about the Apple M2 and the people excited to sunset their couple years old computers, I feel compelled to share my reality (and that of many others outside the HN bubble). I’m a 27 years old … Read more
Thinking about programming as just math and engineering robs programmers of critical skills they need to build effective technology image created by storyset For the last three years the emphasis in my career has been safety. I was first exposed … Read more
Blue-green algae, a type of cyanobacteria, set in a container on a windowsill powered a computer continuously for six months using photosynthesis Technology 12 May 2022 By Matthew Sparkes A container holding blue-green algae that powered a computer P. Bombelli … Read more
December 18, 2020 This is the story of how I prepared for a decade to graduate in 3 months. In 2012, I dropped out of college, where I was studying computer science, after just one semester. I already knew … Read more
Your computer is a distributed system Most computers are essentially a distributed system internally, and provide their more familiar programming interface as an abstraction on top of that. Piercing through these abstractions can yield greater performance, but most programmers do … Read more
import std/strscans proc jecho(x: varargs[string, `$`]) = for el in x: stdout.write(el & ” “) stdout.write(‘n’) stdout.flushfile proc stt(input: string; strVal: var string; start: int; n: int): int = if input[start .. start + “pad”.high] == “pad”: strVal = “pad” … Read more
Our species owes a lot to opposable thumbs. But if evolution had given us extra thumbs, things probably wouldn’t have improved much. One thumb per hand is enough. Not so for neural networks, the leading artificial intelligence systems for performing … Read more
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