Security is hard. Security is not composable, either.
TLDR: Abusing CPU power management to completely take over ARM TrustZone (and probably Intel SGX too), by inducing physical faults while trusted code is running.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity17/technical-sessions/presentation/tang
TLDR: Abusing CPU power management to completely take over ARM TrustZone (and probably Intel SGX too), by inducing physical faults while trusted code is running.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity17/technical-sessions/presentation/tang
one more point against large, open offices
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21528171
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21528171
PubMed
Sickness absence associated with shared and open-plan offices--a national cross sectional questionnaire survey - PubMed
Occupants sharing an office and occupants in open-plan offices (>6 occupants) had significantly more days of sickness absence than occupants in cellular offices.
I was surprised (though it's obvious in hindsight) to discover that noise removal always results in information loss and hence can't always help legibility — though under certain conditions it sure helps
RNNoise: Learning Noise Suppression
https://people.xiph.org/~jm/demo/rnnoise/
RNNoise: Learning Noise Suppression
https://people.xiph.org/~jm/demo/rnnoise/
Julia seems to be quietly amassing momentum
http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/comparison-differential-equation-solver-suites-matlab-r-julia-python-c-fortran/
http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/comparison-differential-equation-solver-suites-matlab-r-julia-python-c-fortran/
Stochastic Lifestyle
A Comparison Between Differential Equation Solver Suites In MATLAB, R, Julia, Python, C, Mathematica, Maple, and Fortran - Stochastic…
Many times a scientist is choosing a programming language or a software for a specific purpose. For the field of scientific computing, the methods for solving differential equations are one of the important areas. What I would like to do is take the time…
every technology sufficiently advanced becomes programmable, intentionally... or not.
https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us-17-Tsai-A-New-Era-Of-SSRF-Exploiting-URL-Parser-In-Trending-Programming-Languages.pdf
https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us-17-Tsai-A-New-Era-Of-SSRF-Exploiting-URL-Parser-In-Trending-Programming-Languages.pdf
Live International Space Station telemetry
https://isslive.com/displays/index.html
https://isslive.com/displays/index.html
License Zero: An interesting take on the Open Source sustainability problem
https://writing.kemitchell.com/2017/09/12/The-License-Zero-Manifesto.html
https://writing.kemitchell.com/2017/09/12/The-License-Zero-Manifesto.html
jQuery is so 2006...
http://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/
http://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/
Joel Grus
Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow
interviewer: Welcome, can I get you coffee or anything? Do you need a break? me: No, I've probably had too much coffee already! interviewer: Great, great. And are you OK with writing code on the...
Voevodsky is no more 😢
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/obituaries/vladimir-voevodsky-revolutionary-mathematician-dies-at-51.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/obituaries/vladimir-voevodsky-revolutionary-mathematician-dies-at-51.html
NY Times
Vladimir Voevodsky, Revolutionary Mathematician, Dies at 51 (Published 2017)
A once-restless student who flunked out of college went on to found entirely new fields of mathematics. “He has given us a new constitution,” a colleague said.
The beginnings of TypeScript, 2010-2011
https://hackernoon.com/the-first-typescript-demo-905ea095a70f
https://hackernoon.com/the-first-typescript-demo-905ea095a70f
Hackernoon
The first TypeScript demo
This strongly smells like a dawn of the real cyberpunk, not movie-like one.
http://blog.ycombinator.com/the-hidden-forces-behind-toutiao-chinas-content-king/
http://blog.ycombinator.com/the-hidden-forces-behind-toutiao-chinas-content-king/
building inside flood reservoirs? what could possibly go wrong?
https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/harvey-reservoirs
https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/harvey-reservoirs
ProPublica
Everyone knew Houston’s reservoirs would flood — except for the people who bought homes inside them
Despite concerns about flooding in and around the Addicks and Barker reservoirs, government officials prioritized development.