David Post, who twice served as a law clerk for Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Most of what I know about writing I learned from her. The rules are actually pretty simple: Every word matters. Don’t make the simple complicated, make the complicated as simple as i Tweet
From Neil A. Lewis’s front-page story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s nomination to the Supreme Court: In 1960, a dean at the Harvard Law School, Albert Sachs, proposed one of his star students to Justice Felix Frankfurter of the Supreme Court as a law clerk Tweet
Nina Holden won the 2021 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for her work on random surfaces and the mathematics of quantum gravity. I’d like to tell you what she did… but I’m so far behind I’ll just explain a bit of the backgroun Tweet
Nina Holden won the 2021 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for her work on random surfaces and the mathematics of quantum gravity. I’d like to tell you what she did… but I’m so far behind I’ll just explain a bit of the backgroun Tweet
The previous post looked at driving a vibrating system with square waves rather than the more customary sine waves. You could think of a square wave as a crude approximation to a sine wave. A sawtooth wave is another crude approximation to a sine wave, an Tweet
What happens when you drive a vibrating system with a square wave rather than a sine wave? Do you still see the same kinds of behavior, such as beats and resonance? When does the difference between a square wave and a sine wave matter most? Those are the Tweet
CNCF released their second quarterly technology radar focused on Observability. The goal of the radar is to “share what tools are actively being used by end users, the tools they would recommend, and their patterns of usage” when adopting cloud-native t Tweet
2020-09-19 14:41:18 @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
svú He participado en el episodio 285 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox, iTunes], titulado “Ep285: ¿Vida en Venus?; El Agua de la Tierra; Materia Oscura”, 17 sep 2020. «La tertulia semanal en la […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 285: Fos Tweet
2020-09-19 14:09:54 @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
Ya conoces la noticia científica de esta semana, la observación en la atmósfera de Venus de fosfano (PH3), también llamado fosfina, nombre obsoleto según la IUPAC. Se ha publicado en […] La entrada Sobre la formación abiótica de fosfano (fosfina) Tweet
[This is a transcript of the video embedded below. Some parts of the text may not make sense without the graphics in the video.] If you punch your credit card number into a website and hit “submit”, I bet you don’t want to have twenty fraudulent charges o Tweet
[This is a transcript of the video embedded below. Some parts of the text may not make sense without the graphics in the video.] If you punch your credit card number into a website and hit “submit”, I bet you don’t want to have twenty fraudulent charges o Tweet
Posted by David Ko, Engineering Director; Jeff Lim, Software Engineer; Pankaj Gupta, Director of Engineering; Will Horn, Software Engineer Three years ago, when we launched Google Pay India (then called Tez), our vision was to create a simple and Tweet
Ok, so I guess I'm doing this. In hopes of participating in the Autumn Lisp 2020 Game Jam , I'm going to write a multiplayer game. It's going to deal with players in several ways, implement 1FA, and probably end up being asymmetric and heavily infulence Tweet
Nina Totenberg, for NPR: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the demure firebrand who in her 80s became a legal, cultural and feminist icon, died Friday. The Supreme Court announced her death, saying the cause was complications from metastatic cancer of the Tweet
Apple has released the first public version of iOS 14, which brings a number of new features such as app clips, widgets, improved Swift UI, ARKit, Core ML, and more. Developers received iOS and Xcode GM version a mere 24 hours in advance, though, which l Tweet
This template engine is interesting because it allows mixing lisp code blocks and HTML in a way simple enough to be used by non-lisp developers and designers. It's interesting feature is that each template definition includes the arguments list. Here Tweet
Long before most of us shifted, almost overnight, to a full-time, work-from-home model, our Gorillas have been successfully running distributed PI Planning with our clients (you can read about our lessons learned about PI Planning here and here). Our most Tweet
Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors: But all of those figures compare the A14 in the iPad Air to the A12 processor in the previous model, not the A13 processor found in the iPhone 11 series. Now, Apple would likely claim that it’s only fair to make a c Tweet
Juli Clover, MacRumors: Apple today seeded the first betas of upcoming iOS 14.2 and iPadOS 14.2 updates to developers, just one day after releasing the iOS 14 update and a few hours after hinting at the iOS 14.2 beta in an Xcode beta update. So wh Tweet
Steve Kovach, reporting for CNBC: The Commerce Department announced it will ban U.S. business transactions with China-owned social apps WeChat and TikTok on Sunday. The announcement sets up two different time frames for WeChat and TikTok, with a ful Tweet
Comment Over the years, the cadence of the annual iOS release schedule has settled to become very predictable. First betas arrive in early June, then update every few weeks until the mid-September event where t Tweet
Zoom is launching a major security and privacy requirement for their customers. Beginning on September 27, Zoom will require all... The post Secure Scheduling with Zoom Passcodes and x.ai appeared first on x.ai . Tweet
TOP TIP: Recreate the Business Of Software Conference Travel Experience. We can’t wait to see you on Monday for the first BoS Conference USA Online. We know that some people miss the thrill of business travel but the good news is that you can recrea Tweet
Greetings everyone --it's time to review the Apache community's activities from the past week: ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Tweet
At the recent Google's Cloud Next virtual conference, Google announced the public beta of API Gateway, a fully-managed Google Cloud service to create and monitor APIs for serverless workloads. By Renato Losio Tweet
2020-09-18 09:26:53 @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
Te recomiendo escuchar el segundo podcast de la tercera temporada, el episodio T03E02, «Un nuevo dolmen en Antequera», 17 sep 2020 [min 46:00–56:30], del programa de radio “Ciencia para todos”, […] La entrada Ciencia para todos T03E02: Un nuevo d Tweet
Apple’s product photography is nonpareil, but there are some things you need to see in person. Color is one. And for how things *feel*, well, you obviously need to have whatever it is in hand — or in this case, on wrist. Tweet
Owen S. Good, reporting for Polygon: The Trump administration wants to know more about U.S. video game companies’ involvement with China’s Tencent Holdings, whose relationships with American firms includes full ownership of Riot Games, a significant m Tweet
The New York Times: The exact ownership structure of TikTok under the proposed deal is unclear. That simple sentence really says it all when it comes to how bananas this whole saga is. This is supposedly a deal that just needs to be signed, not a Tweet
We give an efficient algorithm to strongly refute \emph{semi-random} instances of all Boolean constraint satisfaction problems. The number of constraints required by our algorithm matches (up to polylogarithmic factors) the best-known bounds for efficient Tweet
We investigate the List $H$-Coloring problem, the generalization of graph coloring that asks whether an input graph $G$ admits a homomorphism to the undirected graph $H$ (possibly with loops), such that each vertex $v \in V(G)$ is mapped to a vertex on it Tweet
Boosting is a general method to convert a weak learner (which generates hypotheses that are just slightly better than random) into a strong learner (which generates hypotheses that are much better than random). Recently, Arunachalam and Maity gave the fir Tweet
In the (binary) Distinct Vectors problem we are given a binary matrix A with pairwise different rows and want to select at most k columns such that, restricting the matrix to these columns, all rows are still pairwise different. A result by Froese et al. Tweet
In this paper we improve the lower bound of Chatterjee et al.\ (ECCC 2019) to an $\Omega(n^2)$ lower bound for unlayered Algebraic Branching Programs. We also study the impact layerization has on Algebraic Branching Programs. We exhibit a polynomial th Tweet
An important problem in terrain analysis is modeling how water flows across a terrain creating floods by forming channels and filling depressions. In this paper we study a number of \emph{flow-query} related problems: Given a terrain $\Sigma$, represented Tweet
Conformal mapping, a classical topic in complex analysis and differential geometry, has become a subject of great interest in the area of surface parameterization in recent decades with various applications in science and engineering. However, most of the Tweet
In this paper, we consider robust optimization problems in high dimensions. Because a real-world dataset may contain significant noise or even specially crafted samples from some attacker, we are particularly interested in the optimization problems with a Tweet
In a recent paper Avis, Bremner, Tiwary and Watanabe gave a method for constructing linear programs (LPs) based on algorithms written in a simple programming language called Sparks. If an algorithm produces the solution $x$ to a problem in polynomial time Tweet
Consider a set of voters $V$, represented by a multiset in a metric space $(X,d)$. The voters have to reach a decision - a point in $X$. A choice $p\in X$ is called a $\beta$-plurality point for $V$, if for any other choice $q\in X$ it holds that $|\{v\in Tweet
The Neighbor-Joining algorithm is a popular distance-based phylogenetic method that computes a tree metric from a dissimilarity map arising from biological data. Realizing dissimilarity maps as points in Euclidean space, the algorithm partitions the input Tweet
In 2012 Driemel et al. \cite{DBLP:journals/dcg/DriemelHW12} introduced the concept of $c$-packed curves as a realistic input model. In the case when $c$ is a constant they gave a near linear time $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximation algorithm for computing the Tweet
In multi-capacity ridesharing, multiple requests (e.g., customers, food items, parcels) with different origin and destination pairs travel in one resource. In recent years, online multi-capacity ridesharing services (i.e., where assignments are made onlin Tweet
There has been a recent wave of interest in intermediate trust models for differential privacy that eliminate the need for a fully trusted central data collector, but overcome the limitations of local differential privacy. This interest has led to the int Tweet
We give an efficient algorithm to strongly refute \emph{semi-random} instances of all Boolean constraint satisfaction problems. The number of constraints required by our algorithm matches (up to polylogarithmic factors) the best-known bounds for efficient Tweet
We introduce and study two natural generalizations of the Connected VertexCover (VC) problem: the $p$-Edge-Connected and $p$-Vertex-Connected VC problem (where $p \geq 2$ is a fixed integer). Like Connected VC, both new VC problems are FPT, but do not adm Tweet
We study here several variants of the covariates fine balance problem where we generalize some of these problems and introduce a number of others. We present here a comprehensive complexity study of the covariates problems providing polynomial time algori Tweet
In this paper we consider the fundamental problem of finding subgraphs in highly dynamic distributed networks - networks which allow an arbitrary number of links to be inserted / deleted per round. We show that the problems of $k$-clique membership listin Tweet
Quantum state tomography is a powerful, but resource-intensive, general solution for numerous quantum information processing tasks. This motivates the design of robust tomography procedures that use relevant resources as sparingly as possible. Important c Tweet
We consider a generalization of the fundamental online metrical service systems (MSS) problem where the feasible region can be transformed between requests. In this problem, which we call T-MSS, an algorithm maintains a point in a metric space and has to Tweet
We consider the problem of encoding a set of vectors into a minimal number of bits while preserving information on their Euclidean geometry. We show that this task can be accomplished by applying a Johnson-Lindenstrauss embedding and subsequently binarizi Tweet
We provide new algorithms for maintaining approximate distances in a weighted undirected graph $G = (V, E)$ subject to edge deletions. Our first result is an algorithm that maintains $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate distances from a set of $s$ sources in $\tild Tweet
We develop primal-dual coordinate methods for solving bilinear saddle-point problems of the form $\min_{x \in \mathcal{X}} \max_{y\in\mathcal{Y}} y^\top A x$ which contain linear programming, classification, and regression as special cases. Our methods pu Tweet
GraphBLAS is an interface for implementing graph algorithms. Algorithms implemented using the GraphBLAS interface are cast in terms of linear algebra-like operations. However, many graph algorithms are canonically described in terms of operations on verti Tweet
In a recent paper Avis, Bremner, Tiwary and Watanabe gave a method for constructing linear programs (LPs) based on algorithms written in a simple programming language called Sparks. If an algorithm produces the solution $x$ to a problem in polynomial time Tweet
Josh Dawsey, reporting for The Washington Post: Olivia Troye, who worked as homeland security, counterterrorism and coronavirus adviser to Vice President Pence for two years, said that the administration’s response cost lives and that she will vote fo Tweet
We’re constantly rolling out new features, and we’re continuing the summer momentum we started in June and continued through July... The post September Scheduling Sets Sights On Speed and Security appeared first on x.ai . Tweet
Rene Ritchie: I wanted to do something different with this iOS 14 review. I’ve already posted in-depth explainers and a technical preview. So, this time, I wanted to focus on opinion. Mine, and my special guest’s — John Gruber of Daring Fireball and T Tweet
This is an interesting templating library. The most interesting features are: named template pieces can call each other; debug mode allows to inspect generated code; different escape methods. Here is how template functions can be reused: POFTHE Tweet
Peter Kafka returns to the show to discuss the news from Apple’s “Time Flies” event — new Apple Watches, new non-Pro iPads, and particularly the Apple One services bundle. Sponsored by: Linode : Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Li Tweet
At a new faculty orientation, a professor encouraged us rookies to teach intro courses and to keep coming back to teach them periodically. I didn’t fully appreciate what he said at the time, though I remembered it, even though I left academia a coup Tweet
InfoQ Live brings together world-class practitioners such as John Willis, senior director in Red Hat's Global Transformation Office, and Sarah Wells, technical director for operations and reliability @FT, to share their valuable insights and practical ad Tweet
Columns like "In test" often lead to teams having more work in progress and less work actually being finished. Removing such columns can increase collaboration between testers and developers and enable teams to deliver faster. By Ben Linders Tweet
In a recent blog post, Google announced the expansion of its Confidential Computing Portfolio with the addition of Confidential Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Nodes. Furthermore, the public cloud vendor will make Confidential Virtual Machines (VMs) publi Tweet
The new IBM-HBCU Quantum Center announced at this week at IBM’s Quantum Summit is a multi-year investment that will bring together researchers and students across a network of 13 HBCUs. The post HBCU Center Driving Diversity and Inclusion in Quantum Co Tweet
Earlier this week, Microsoft released .NET 5.0 RC1, the first "go live" release of .NET 5 before its official debut in November. .NET 5 is a unified platform for the .NET ecosystem, wrapping together all of its components into one cross-platform package. Tweet
Chaim Gartenberg, writing for The Verge: Sony has announced that the PlayStation 5 will cost $499.99 when it launches on November 12th, alongside the $399.99 Digital Edition. Preorders will begin on September 17th at “ select retailers .” The pricin Tweet
QuantumSheet GITHUB.COM QuantumSheet is a web based computer algebra system, or as they like to call it themselves, a fancy calculator. This tool was built using Sympy , a Python algebra system that allows you to solve equations, perform calculus Tweet
Benjamin Beltzer is an early engineer at Berbix (S18), a startup building identity verification and fraud deterrence as a service. He previously founded his own company and worked… Tweet
This library is a port of Django templates. Its coolest feature are: template inheritance; autoreload; internationalization. Also, there is nice documentation . In presence of documentation, I won't provide many examples. Instead, let's implement Tweet
Posted by The Coral Team Moving into the fall, the Coral platform continues to grow with the release of the M.2 Accelerator with Dual Edge TPU. Its first application is in Google’s Series One room kits where it helps to remove interrupti Tweet
Swift 5.3 is now officially released! 🎉 Swift 5.3 continues to focus on language refinements, the developer experience, and expanding the Swift ecosystem to enable more opportunities to write Swift. These sketch notes, created by Amy Tsai , illustrate Tweet
Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust ! Rust is a systems language pursuing the trifecta: safety, concurrency, and speed. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tweet us at @ThisWeekInRust Tweet
Back to Kenny Courser’s thesis: • Kenny Courser, Open Systems: A Double Categorical Perspective, Ph.D. thesis, U. C. Riverside, 2020. One thing Kenny does here is explain the flaws in a well-known framework for studying open systems: decorated cospans. Dec Tweet
Back to Kenny Courser’s thesis: • Kenny Courser, Open Systems: A Double Categorical Perspective, Ph.D. thesis, U. C. Riverside, 2020. One thing Kenny does here is explain the flaws in a well-known framework for studying open systems: decorated cospans. Dec Tweet
Closed quasigeodesics on the dodecahedron (\(\mathbb{M}\)), paths that start at a vertex and go straight across each edge until coming back to the same vertex from the other side. Original paper, arXiv:1811.04131, doi:10.1080/10586458.2020.1712564. I saw t Tweet
2020-09-16 00:13:26 @ Apple Developer News and Updates
With the tvOS 14 SDK, games now have multiuser support and you can offer gamers a wider range of controller and input device options than ever before. You can augment custom video players with Picture in Picture and system-provided controls. And take Tweet
2020-09-16 00:12:15 @ Apple Developer News and Updates
Deliver even more powerful and personal apps for Apple Watch with the new capabilities of watchOS 7. Brand new APIs and tools, like multiple complications APIs, SwiftUI Complications, and Xcode Previews, make it easier than ever to create unique Tweet
2020-09-16 00:10:18 @ Apple Developer News and Updates
Make sure your apps are ready when iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 become available to customers worldwide. Give users a quick way to engage with a part of your app at the right moment with App Clips. Let users experience your app right on their iPhon Tweet
James Batchelor, reporting for GamesIndustry: Sony has reached out to GamesIndustry.biz with the following statement denying the Bloomberg report: “While we do not release details related to manufacturing, the information provided by Bloomberg is fa Tweet
In 2017, we launched Amazon Transcribe, an automatic speech recognition service that makes it easy for developers to add a speech-to-text capability to their applications. Since then, we added support for more languages, enabling customers globally to Tweet
Scientific American: Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in its 175-year history. This year we are compelled to do so. We do not do this lightly. The evidence and the science show that Donald Trump has badly damaged the U Tweet
2020-09-15 18:55:52 @ Apple Developer News and Updates
Level up your apps and games with the Game Controller framework and easily build in support for popular console game controllers and MFi accessories on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. The precise control and tactile feedback provided by a game control Tweet
2020-09-15 18:24:01 @ Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Happy birthday to Ken Ken Regan is of course my partner on GLL. He is faculty in the computer science department at the University of Buffalo. His PhD was in 1986 from Oxford University and it was titled On the separation of complexity classes. He was the Tweet
Posted by Takuo Suzuki, Developer Relations Program Manager The Google for Startups Accelerator helps founders across the globe solve for important economic and societal challenges, while helping them grow and scale their business. Due to Tweet
In a given week, each member of your team will spend 5-10 hours scheduling meetings manually. This time can be reclaimed and your team’s productivity can be unlocked by implementing an automated scheduling solution like x.ai. It’s never been easier to tak Tweet
NativeScript 7 aligns with modern JavaScript standards by targeting es2017+. Additionally, it streamlines app configuration by consolidating it in a single file and replaces JavaScriptCore with V8 for iOS apps. By Sergio De Simone Tweet
Today, we are announcing the roadmap that we think will take us from the noisy, small-scale devices of today to the million-plus qubit devices of the future. We are currently developing a suite of increasingly larger and better chips, with a 1,000-qubit-p Tweet
There Are 6 Returning Speakers At BoS Conference USA Online This September We’re delighted to welcome April Dunford, Jason Fried, Bob Moesta, Alex Osterwalder, Rich Mironov, and Tendayi Viki back to the BoS stage – albeit an online one this ye Tweet
The factorial of a positive integer n is the product of the numbers from 1 up to and including n: n! = 1 × 2 × 3 × … × n. The superfactorial of n is the product of the factorials of the numbers from 1 up to and including n: S(n) = 1! × […] The pos Tweet
Email. It feels like a chore. It’s overwhelming, it’s messy, it’s relentless. It’s necessary, but hopelessly broken. That’s why we fixed it. Introducing HEY. HEY’s fresh approach transforms email into something you want to use, not something you’re fo Tweet
Joanna Stern, writing for The Wall Street Journal ( News+ ): It isn’t always clear when something is ready. Take my grilling. Sometimes I remove steak well before or after I should’ve. You might say it’s a “tough” call. But there’s nothing tough abo Tweet
Two years ago Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) T3 instances were first made available, offering a very cost effective way to run general purpose workloads. While current T3 instances offer sufficient compute performance for many use cases, many cust Tweet
My big question and deepest concern regarding Apple’s leadership, especially now that Ive is gone and Phil Schiller has moved on to fellowship with only the App Store and events on his plate, is whose taste is driving product development? Tweet
Jim VandeHei, writing for Axios: Every year, China grows bigger and more powerful, most recently seizing control of Hong Kong and trying to buy allies at U.S. expense. Xi Jinping said this week that China’s progress in fighting the virus, including Tweet
Sharon LaFraniere, reporting for The New York Times: “You understand that they’re going to have to kill me, and unfortunately, I think that’s where this is going,” Mr. Caputo, a Trump loyalist installed by the White House in April, told followers in a Tweet
Spinneret is a sexp based templating engine similar to cl-who, reviewed in post number #0075 . Today we'll reimplement the snippets from the cl-who post and I'll show you a few features I'm especially like in Spinneret. The first example is very simp Tweet
Posted by Charles Maxson, Developer Advocate, G Suite Millions of users know G Suite as a collection of communication and productivity apps that enables teams to easily create, communicate, collaborate, and discover content to supercharge teamwork. Tweet
Last seek I blogged about two math problems of interest to me here . One of them two people posted answers, which was great since I didn't know how to solve them and now I do. Yeah! I blogged about that here . The other problem got Tweet
A novel form of immunological memory that was mostly ignored for a century extends the benefits of vaccines. It could be of help in ending the COVID-19 pandemic. Tweet
Web applications interacting with AWS in a number of ways may need to represent and display sets of information in the form of charts, diagrams, or graphs. Common examples of that information includes small amounts of data coming from AWS Costs & Usage Tweet
The event of the year is on! Join us on October 12–15 for 4 days of Kotlin as we host the Kotlin 1.4 Online Event. You can tune in at any point during the event to listen to the talks, chat with the team, and ask the speakers questions. In addition to this Tweet
The event of the year is on! Join us on October 12–15 for 4 days of Kotlin as we host the Kotlin 1.4 Online Event. You can tune in at any point during the event to listen to the talks, chat with the team, and ask the speakers questions. In addition to this Tweet
Prince William, Yemi Alade, Monica Araya, Xiye Bastida, Jesper Brodin, Don Cheadle, Dave Clark, Christiana Figueres, Al Gore, António Guterres, Chris Hemsworth, Kara Hurst, Lisa Jackson, Rose Mutiso, Johan Rockström, Prince Royce, Mark Ruffalo, Sigrid, Jad Tweet
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced two new technologies to combat disinformation: a Video Authenticator tool, and technology to either detect manipulated content or assure people that the media they're viewing is authentic. By Steef-Jan Wiggers Tweet
My thanks to ODA for sponsor DF last week to promote their lineup of slim, modular, and long-lasting bags that adapt to your needs, wherever you go — from weekday to weekend, from work to play, from daily essentials to carrying tech gear. ODA bags are con Tweet
Microsoft’s entire statement: ByteDance let us know today they would not be selling TikTok’s US operations to Microsoft. We are confident our proposal would have been good for TikTok’s users, while protecting national security interests. To do this, w Tweet
2020-09-13 20:27:14 @ Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Continuous can beat discrete Nisheeth Vishnoi is a professor at Yale University in the computer science department. The faculty there is impressive and includes many of the top researchers in the world. The CS faculty is pretty good too. As Nisheeth’ Tweet
AWS recently introduced a new provisioned IOPS volume type (io2) for high-performance databases and workloads that offers a durability of 99.999% and the ability to provision up to 500 IOPS for every GiB of storage. By Renato Losio Tweet
Originally planned for release last February, C++20 has now received the final technical approval and will be published foreseeably by the end of the year. C++20 will include modules, coroutines, and concepts among its major new features. By Sergio De Tweet