Simit, a new language for physical simulations that lets the programmer view the system both as a linked data structure in the form of a hypergraph, and as a set of global vectors, matrices and tensors depending on what is convenient at any given time.
https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/97075#files-area
https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/97075#files-area
Burnout is caused by mismatch between unconscious needs and job demands
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160811171643.htm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160811171643.htm
thankfully everybody knows OO is not a silver bullet, but studying rants of experienced OO designers is still useful
http://www.bon-method.com/book_print_a4.pdf
http://www.bon-method.com/book_print_a4.pdf
http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03960
hmm, need to publish my JSON CRDT maybe... at least it seems more usable than this one
hmm, need to publish my JSON CRDT maybe... at least it seems more usable than this one
This take on "the Unix philosophy" is hilariously on point. [ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4ycum1/microsoft_open_sources_powershell_brings_it_to/d6n06xy ]
http://midipix.org/
midipix is a development environment that lets you create programs for Windows using the standard C and POSIX APIs. No compromises made, no shortcuts taken.
midipix is a development environment that lets you create programs for Windows using the standard C and POSIX APIs. No compromises made, no shortcuts taken.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/funder/nasa/
"Now, it is NASA policy that any research articles funded by the agency have to be posted on Pubspace within a year of publication."
"Now, it is NASA policy that any research articles funded by the agency have to be posted on Pubspace within a year of publication."
HoloLens runs on a custom 24-core Tensilica processor
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/22/microsoft_hololens_hpu/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/22/microsoft_hololens_hpu/
www.theregister.co.uk
Microsoft's HoloLens secret sauce: A 28nm customized 24-core DSP engine built by TSMC
How to make your own virtual reality brain
Autonomous Dynamic Soaring UAV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m76Mx9m2nM&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m76Mx9m2nM&feature=youtu.be
YouTube
Flying a solar-powered 26-hour Search-and-Rescue mission
*Tackling the Refugee Crisis: AtlantikSolar's fully-autonomous 26-hour Search-and-Rescue flight.* Atlantik-Solar is a novel kind of solar-powered Unmanned Ae...
C# 7: Pattern Matching, Tuples (+named tuples, destructuring), Out Cells, Ref Cells (limited borrowing), Generalized Async (foreach-like duck typing)
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/08/24/whats-new-in-csharp-7-0/
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/08/24/whats-new-in-csharp-7-0/
Microsoft News
What’s New in C# 7.0
Update (4/2017): See New Features in C# 7.0, the update to this post. What follows is a description of all the planned language features in C# 7.0. With the release of Visual Studio “15” Preview 4, most of these features are coming alive.