I was watching a video on beekeeping and how three different groups of beekeepers came to 3 different conclusions on the same beehive. The answers were very surprising and touched on emotional intelligence in a way I had never considered … Read more
As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, many countries imposed strict lockdown measures, with workplaces and businesses closing and people forced to remain at home. Measures also included school closures, with exceptions for young people whose parents were classified as … Read more
GitHub – dandrino/terrain-erosion-3-ways: Three Ways of Generating Terrain with Erosion Features {{ message }} You can’t perform that action at this time. You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. You signed out in another … Read more
Everyone is excited that after a decade or so of devs asking for generics, the Go programming language is getting generic types and functions in Go 1.18 in Q1 2022. Generics are no doubt going to lead to a lot … Read more
This week is bringing several fresh signals of a warming planet and the deepening perils that come alongside higher temperatures. 1. This year is a lock (at least 99% chance) to rank among the 10 hottest in temperature records that … Read more
Elixir provides a very powerful suite of tools that devs can use to observe the behavior of their code and debug errors. There are several different strategies you can use to debug code in Elixir. While it is hard to … Read more
Three Sins of Authors in Computer Science and Math Over the last seven years, I’ve read perhaps four hundred papers in computer science and math. Thirty or so were well-written. These anomalies aside, extracting meaning from most of the papers … Read more
Enabling & Support 18/10/2021 18232 views 98 likes On 22 September, around midday, ESA’s Integral spacecraft went into emergency Safe Mode. One of the spacecraft’s three active ‘reaction wheels’ had turned off without warning and stopped spinning, causing a ripple … Read more
On Sept. 7, U.S. citizens, Marc Baier, 49, and Ryan Adams, 34, and a former U.S. citizen, Daniel Gericke, 40, all former employees of the U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) or the U.S. military, entered into a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) … Read more
[embedded content] Uri: Hello. I’m delighted to be here today with three Stanford professors – philosopher Rob Reich, political scientist Jeremy Weinstein and computer scientist Mehran Sahami – who are authors of the new book System Error: Where Big Tech … Read more