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If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you’ll know that maps and history are two of my favorite things. I love history because I love learning about the vast panoply of the human experience, the millions … Read more

Viewing my binary file with ImHex. The pattern language pane, on the right, provides the highlighting and data on the left. I’ve got a binary file with a custom made binary format, and a spec for that binary format. How … Read more

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Complex Numbers Despite the name, complex numbers are easier to understand than they sound. A complex number is actually made of two numbers, or components, a real component and an imaginary component. Think of a complex number as a point … Read more

Introduction In this post, we explore subdivision surfaces and displacement mapping within the rayverse, using the rayvertex, rayimage, and rayrender packages. We demonstrate how to create detailed and smooth 3D models by subdividing meshes and applying displacement textures. These techniques … Read more

May 15, 2024 Why rate limit? Imagine a Twitch chat with many active participants and just one spammer. Without rate limiting, the sole spammer can easily dominate the entire conversation. With rate limiting, each user has a fair chance to … Read more

Special thanks to those below for supporting the original video behind this post, and to current patrons for funding ongoing projects. If you find these lessons valuable, consider joining. .chanceA ZookAaron BinnsAda CohenAdam CedroneAdam Dřínekaeroeng15Alan SteinAlbin EgasseAlex Alex HackmanAlexandru IrimieaAlexis … Read more

January 10, 2021 Ohm is an open-source parsing toolkit for JavaScript which Alex Warth and I have been working on since 2014. You can use it to parse custom file formats or quickly build parsers, interpreters, and compilers for programming … Read more

That is… if I start with a blank drive, a drive made completely of 0x00s, and then do mkfs.ext4, what does the drive, now embossed with ext4, look like? I mean, what I wanted to see, is what it takes … Read more

August 21, 2023 Editors’ notes This article has been reviewed according to Science X’s editorial process and policies. Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content’s credibility: fact-checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread Ok! Biphoton state holographic reconstruction. Image … Read more