Jul 25, 2021 · 107 minute read · rust · async So! Rust futures! Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Until it’s not. So let’s do the easy thing, and then instead of waiting for the hard thing to sneak up on … Read more
This post is also available in: 日本語 (Japanese) Executive Summary REvil has emerged as one of the world’s most notorious ransomware operators. In just the past month, it extracted an $11 million payment from the U.S. subsidiary of the world’s … Read more
From time to time, somebody reports a bug to some project about their program crashing on Alpine. Usually, one of two things happens: the developer doesn’t care and doesn’t fix the issue, because it works under GNU/Linux, or the developer … Read more
Multiple Neighborhood Cellular Automata (MNCA) are an extension of traditional cellular automata like Conway’s Game of Life, developed in 2014 while I was experimenting with neighborhood configurations. MNCA produce complex emergent patterns, often featuring robust local structures similar to solitons. … Read more
Many SaaS businesses devote a great deal of resource into winning new customers, but far less into maintaining their existing customer base. Churn rates describe just how good a business is at keeping its existing customers, and is a crucial … Read more
Oliver April 16th, 2021 Now that you’ve had a chance to read the Intro to Indirect Time-of-Flight (ToF) post, let’s dig a little deeper into the mechanics behind the Microsoft implementation of time-of-flight depth sensing, as well as a couple … Read more
Hanie Sedghi, Google Research and Preetum Nakkiran, Harvard University Understanding generalization is one of the fundamental unsolved problems in deep learning. Why does optimizing a model on a finite set of training data lead to good performance on a held-out … Read more
In this issue: Understanding Coinbase Security Different Abstractions Facebook Futurism SPAC Apathy Understanding Coinbase Is Coinbase an exchange, a broker, a hard-money bank, or a for-profit branch of a religion? In one sense, Coinbase is an exchange: it’s a venue … Read more
Research highlights By Chiyuan Zhang, Samy Bengio, Moritz Hardt, Benjamin Recht, Oriol Vinyals Communications of the ACM, March 2021, Vol. 64 No. 3, Pages 107-11510.1145/3446776Comments Credit: Wordquant [embedded content] Despite their massive size, successful deep artificial neural networks can exhibit … Read more
A Practical Analysis by Rodrigo Copetti Looking at the evolution of video game consoles is fascinating, while conventional PCs tend evolve ‘incrementally’, new generation of consoles introduce completely new ways of working. What you see here are a series of … Read more