Time seems simple. But we engineers lose sleep over something as basic as keeping clocks in sync. Here’s why…

Last year, Lemire wrote about an optimized variation of the Euclidean algorithm for computing the greatest common divisor of two numbers, called binary Euclidean algorithm or Stein’s algorithm. It’s a best-of-class implementation, though it’s currently only…

Our beloved, irreplaceable daughter Annie should’ve been celebrating her 30th birthday this week. Instead, we’re left marking that milestone without her -- remembering all that she was and grieving all that should have been.

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How We Lost Communication to Entertainment par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

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Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference in 1984

Richard Stallman quotes from the documentary
Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age
1985

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Neither investors nor industrial buyers can get enough of the precious metal, while a glut of crude has swamped energy markets and depressed fuel prices.

Rainbow Six Siege appears to have been hacked as global server outages hit all platforms, with players reporting billions of credits, dev skins, and random bans while Ubisoft calls it a server incident.

In the summer of 1918, Emmy Noether published the theorem that now bears her name, establishing a profound two-way connection between symmetries and conservation laws. The influence of this...

Martin Oppenheimer is professor emeritus of sociology at Rutgers University, and has written extensively about the civil rights movement. Betty Medsger, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret... READ MORE

NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

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> In banking, telecom, and payments, reliability is not a nice to have. It is table stakes. The most reliable systems I have worked on reduce entire classes of bugs before the code even runs. Functional programming and Algebraic Data Types (ADTs) let you…