Nathan Gathright: I read through the “Apple Podcasters Program Agreement” and related documentation so you don’t have to. Here’s a thread of 11 things that caught my eye that I hadn’t seen mentioned anywhere else. […] 10. 💸 Just like the App Store, Tweet
The bizarre genome of the world’s most mysterious flowering plants shows how far parasites will go in stealing, deleting and duplicating DNA. The post DNA of Giant ‘Corpse Flower’ Parasite Surprises Biologists first appeared on Quanta Magazine . Tweet
Spotify recently published an account of their journey towards a unified codebase for their web and desktop clients. Spotify's team was the owner of a web-player and a separate, full-featured desktop client. Due to having to implement many features twice Tweet
IQ Capital invests £0.5-10m at Seed and Series A in disruptive UK-based tech companies capable of dominating global markets. This year we’re excited to welcome them as BoS Conf Online supporters and, of course, as conference participants themselves. Tweet
JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 featuring support for Java 16, a new preview feature that instantly renders HTML changes, and support for WSL 2. is supported and it’s possible to run applications on Docker, WSL 2, or via SSH. Various other im Tweet
[This is a transcript of the video embedded below.] Elon Musk has announced he is sponsoring a competition for the best carbon removal ideas with a fifty million dollar prize for the winner. The competition will open on April twenty-second, twenty-twen Tweet
[This is a transcript of the video embedded below.] Elon Musk has announced he is sponsoring a competition for the best carbon removal ideas with a fifty million dollar prize for the winner. The competition will open on April twenty-second, twenty-twen Tweet
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a non-profit organization, recently published its findings on the state of cloud security practices which shows accelerating cloud adoption, but a need for more sophisticated security approaches. By Jared Ruckle Tweet
Of course the privilege to change other peoples password can be encapsulated into a role, so you have an additional authentication by using the role password before you get such powerful privileges. root@solaris:/etc# roleadd -A solaris.passwd.nocheck,sola Tweet
Dan Moren has a good rundown of some details from today’s announcements : An AirTag that has been separated from its owner for a long period of time will make an audible noise when it’s moved, as part of a privacy feature to let you know there’s a ta Tweet
2021-04-21 03:31:42 @ Apple Developer News and Updates
Make sure your apps make the most of iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and watchOS 7. Build your apps with the Xcode 12.5 Release Candidate, update your product pages, and submit them for review. iPhone and iPad apps. Starting April 26, 2021, all iPhone and iPad app Tweet
Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are general-purpose optimization algorithms, inspired by natural evolution. Recent theoretical studies have shown that EAs can achieve good approximation guarantees for solving the problem classes of submodular optimization, Tweet
We study a variant of Set Cover where each element of the universe has some demand that determines how many times the element needs to be covered. Moreover, we examine two generalizations of this problem when a set can be included multiple times and when Tweet
StoqMA characterizes the computational hardness of stoquastic local Hamiltonians, which is a family of Hamiltonians that does not suffer from the sign problem. Although error reduction is commonplace for many complexity classes, such as BPP, BQP, MA, QMA, Tweet
Planar graphs can be represented as intersection graphs of different types of geometric objects in the plane, e.g., circles (Koebe, 1936), line segments (Chalopin \& Gon{\c{c}}alves, 2009), \textsc{L}-shapes (Gon{\c{c}}alves~et al., 2018). Furthermore Tweet
In \cite{entombed}, John Aycock and Tara Copplestone pose an open question, namely the explanation of the mysterious lookup table used in the Entombed Game's Algorithm for two dimensional maze generation. The question attracted media attention (BBC etc) a Tweet
We present an algorithm that, given finite simplicial sets $X$, $A$, $Y$ with an action of a finite group $G$, computes the set $[X,Y]^A_G$ of homotopy classes of equivariant maps $\ell \colon X \to Y$ extending a given equivariant map $f \colon A \to Y$ Tweet
A watchman path is a path such that a direct line of sight exists between each point in some region and some point along the path. Here, we study the online watchman path problem outside a convex polygon, i.e., in $\mathbb{R}^2\setminus \Omega$, where $\O Tweet
In this work we solve the problem of robustly learning a high-dimensional Gaussian mixture model with $k$ components from $\epsilon$-corrupted samples up to accuracy $\widetilde{O}(\epsilon)$ in total variation distance for any constant $k$ and with mild Tweet
We provide an approximation algorithm for k-means clustering in the one-round (aka non-interactive) local model of differential privacy (DP). This algorithm achieves an approximation ratio arbitrarily close to the best non private approximation algorithm, Tweet
Semi-online algorithms that are allowed to perform a bounded amount of repacking achieve guaranteed good worst-case behaviour in a more realistic setting. Most of the previous works focused on minimization problems that aim to minimize some costs. In this Tweet
In the literature on parameterized graph problems, there has been an increased effort in recent years aimed at exploring novel notions of graph edit-distance that are more powerful than the size of a modulator to a specific graph class. In this line of re Tweet
In \cite{entombed}, John Aycock and Tara Copplestone pose an open question, namely the explanation of the mysterious lookup table used in the Entombed Game's Algorithm for two dimensional maze generation. The question attracted media attention (BBC etc) a Tweet
We study a variant of Set Cover where each element of the universe has some demand that determines how many times the element needs to be covered. Moreover, we examine two generalizations of this problem when a set can be included multiple times and when Tweet
We investigate the existence of approximation algorithms for maximization of submodular functions, that run in fixed parameter tractable (FPT) time. Given a non-decreasing submodular set function $v: 2^X \to \mathbb{R}$ the goal is to select a subset $S$ Tweet
A maximal repetition, or run, in a string, is a maximal periodic substring whose smallest period is at most half the length of the substring. In this paper, we consider runs that correspond to a path on a trie, or in other words, on a rooted edge-labeled Tweet
Chunking data is obviously no new concept; however, I had never found any data structures that used chunking as the basis of their implementation. I figured that by using chunking alongside concurrency, I could create an extremely fast run-time in regards Tweet
2021-04-21 03:23:32 @ Apple Developer News and Updates
With the upcoming public release of iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, and tvOS 14.5, all apps must use the AppTrackingTransparency framework to request the user’s permission to track them or to access their device's advertising identifier. Unless you receive permiss Tweet
Starting on April 20, 2021, quarterly update releases of OpenJDK are disabling TLS1.0 and TLS1.1 availability by default in all versions of OpenJDK. Amazon Corretto will be keeping TLS1.0 and TLS1.1 available by default for a while longer. Feedback from cu Tweet
Launched at AWS re:Invent 2017, Amazon SageMaker is a fully-managed service that has already helped tens of thousands of customers quickly build and deploy their machine learning (ML) workflows on AWS. To help them get the most ML bang for their buck, we’v Tweet
Posted by Harsh Dattani, Community Manager University professors have a large impact by educating the next generation of developers and engineers. Google Developers wants to enable university faculty with the best curriculum on Android d Tweet
In October 2020 there were 619 new codes added to the list of ICD-10 diagnosis codes. Some of these make sense, such as four codes added for COVID: U07.1 COVID-19 Z11.52 Encounter for screening for COVID-19 Z20.822 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to Tweet
In a new paper published in Frontiers in Digital Health journal, we present the first empirical evidence of tablet-based automatic assessments of patients using speech analysis — successfully detecting mild cognitive impairment (MCI), the transitional sta Tweet
Andy Greenberg, writing for Wired: Of all the mysteries and injustices of the McDonald’s ice cream machine, the one that Jeremy O’Sullivan insists you understand first is its secret passcode. Much crazier story than you’d think. (Here’s a cache Tweet
A bunch of us are organizing a workshop on applications of category theory to robotics, as part of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation: • 2021 Workshop on Compositional Robotics: Mathematics and Tools, online, 31 May 2021. Organize Tweet
A bunch of us are organizing a workshop on applications of category theory to robotics, as part of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation: • 2021 Workshop on Compositional Robotics: Mathematics and Tools, online, 31 May 2021. Organize Tweet
In the first three months of 2021, the FreeRTOS.org blog published several posts, containing both deep technical content and FreeRTOS improvement updates. Check out the roundup of article summaries below for topics of interest to you. As always, we would l Tweet
Mark Story and Priscila Oliveira recently shared lessons learned when converting Sentry’s frontend codebase (one-year effort, 100,000 lines of code) to TypeScript. The pair described a gradual conversion process in which TypeScript progressively replaced Tweet
Playing with arithmetic can lead us to unexpected and profound discoveries that point toward deeper mathematics and sometimes even deeper science. The post The Puzzling Power of Simple Arithmetic first appeared on Quanta Magazine . The p Tweet
A team of researchers from MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab have announced the ThreeDWorld Transport Challenge, a benchmark task for embodied AI agents. The challenge is to improve research on AI agents that can control a simulated mobile robot that is Tweet
Allen William Johnson [1] discovered the following magic square whose entries are all squares. The following Python code verifies that this is a magic square. import numpy as np M = np.array( [[ 30**2, 246**2, 172**2, 45**2], [ 93**2, 116**2, 66**2, 258** Tweet
Gradle, the customizable open source build automation tool, has released version 7 with support for JDK 16, faster incremental builds, improved build reliability, and native support for new Macs with Apple Silicon processors. Preview features like depend Tweet
Recently, Cloudflare announced the general availability (GA) of Cloudflare Workers Unbound, a platform for applications like image processing or complex algorithms that need longer execution times. By Steef-Jan Wiggers Tweet
Nabil Hachica, Android Engineer, from MongoDB Realm shares their story of creating a pure Kotlin-first SDK for use by developers. Realm is an open-source, easy-to-use local database that helps mobile developers to build better apps faster. It launched 8 ye Tweet
Nabil Hachica, Android Engineer, from MongoDB Realm shares their story of creating a pure Kotlin-first SDK for use by developers. Realm is an open-source, easy-to-use local database that helps mobile developers to build better apps faster. It launched 8 ye Tweet
Rich Mirinov will be leading a breakout session at BoS Conf Spring.Online 26-27 April. Rich is a seasoned executive and serial entrepreneur – he has been the ‘product guy’ (as CEO/VP Product) at six startups. With deep technical roots in B2B infrastr Tweet
There is a lot of talk about Mars right now, and understandably so. The flight of Ingenuity today was awesome. As Daniel Oberhaus pointed out on Twitter, … the atmosphere on the surface of Mars is so thin that it’s the equivalent of flying at ~100k Tweet
13 different bags including the popular Synik 30 backpack and Monster Truck tote will be restocked on 4/22 at 7:00am. What’s with the restock, you may ask? At any given time, some TOM BIHN bags are sold out / in production, and here’s why: a control-freak Tweet
Dan Williams, reporting for Reuters: Israelis went about barefaced on Sunday after the order to wear masks outdoors was rescinded in another step towards relative normality thanks to the country’s mass-vaccination against COVID-19. With about 81% of c Tweet
Dr. Paul E. Sax, writing for the New England Journal of Medicine’s Journal Watch: But what about the community solidarity engendered by wearing a mask outside in public? Isn’t this worth something? A way of showing that I’m 100% part of Team Mask? May Tweet
The OpenJDK project has proposed JEP-411 as a means of deprecating the SecurityManager. If accepted, this would be the first step in a multi-year process in which the OpenJDK Quality Outreach Campaign can guide affected projects towards alternatives befo Tweet
Consider this lambda expression: (lambda (x) (sqrt x)) . This function simply calls sqrt on its argument and returns whatever sqrt returns. There is no argument you could provide to this function that would cause it to return a different res Tweet
Two new approaches allow deep neural networks to solve entire families of partial differential equations, making it easier to model complicated systems and to do so orders of magnitude faster. The post Latest Neural Nets Solve World’s Hardest Equations Tweet
José Adorno, writing for 9to5Mac: A new study reveals that Apple TV+ has the highest-quality content when compared to Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video, Disney+, and Hulu. The analysis from Self Financial uses IMDb scores with US customer data . The st Tweet
Good column by David Leonhardt for The New York Times today: “We’re not going to get to a place of zero risk,” Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns Hopkins epidemiologist, told me during a virtual Times event last week . “I don’t think that’s the right metric for Tweet
Brian Fung, reporting for CNN: The letter — addressed to Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Ken Buck and obtained by CNN — explained that since the app was removed from Apple’s platform in January for violations of its policies, Parler “has proposed updates to it Tweet
Derek Thompson, writing for The Atlantic: But as more and more of the population is vaccinated, governments need to give Americans an off-ramp to the post-pandemic world. Ending outdoor mask mandates — or at the very least telling people when they can Tweet
Jackie Salo, reporting for The New York Post: Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday said Republicans who want to lift COVID-19 restrictions but don’t want to get vaccinated don’t “make any sense.” “It’s almost paradoxical that on the one hand, they want to be Tweet
The New York Times: All adults in every U.S. state, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico are now eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine, meeting the April 19 deadline that President Biden set two weeks ago. “For months I’ve been telling Americans to get vacci Tweet
Nick Heer, quoting from and commenting upon a line from the aforelinked Washington Post story on how the FBI cracked the San Bernardino iPhone in 2016: Apple has a tense relationship with security research firms. Wilder said the company believes res Tweet
Ellen Nakashima and Reed Albergotti, reporting last week for The Washington Post: Azimuth specialized in finding significant vulnerabilities. Dowd, a former IBM X-Force researcher whom one peer called “the Mozart of exploit design,” had found one in o Tweet
Yizhou Zhang, assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, presented bidirectional algebraic effects, a new programming abstraction that subsumes current control flow patterns (e.g., exceptions, promises, generators) while supporting bidirectional Tweet
On September 30, 2020 a small group of community members came together to throw our first CDK Day, with people joining us from around the world to celebrate the family of products built on the Cloud Development Kit: AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), CDK Tweet
A cryptographic hash is also known as a one-way function because given an input x, one can quickly compute the hash h(x), but it is extremely time-consuming to try to recover x if you only know h(x). Even if the hashing algorithm is considered “brok Tweet
Nowadays, there is an app for just about anything. Due to the rapid expansion of use-cases for mobile apps, there are now more than two million applications in the App Store. But we all have those applications in our phones that we’ve used only once and ul Tweet
BoS regulars will be familiar with Balsamiq and their CEO Peldi. In fact, for most of us, it would be a surprise not to see him at a BoS event. We’re therefore delighted to announce that Balsamiq are once again supporting BoS in 2021 because Balsami Tweet
Learn about different ways to create Kubernetes Watches using the Java API client. The post Using Watch with the Kubernetes API first appeared on Baeldung . Tweet
This week’s Java news roundup features news from OpenJDK promoting JEP 411 to Candidate status, Kotlin 1.5.0-RC, Piranha Cloud 21.4.0, Weld CDI point releases, CloudBees releasing Jenkins X 3.0, numerous Spring project-related point releases and release Tweet
It's been a busy week for the .NET community, with the release of new Visual Studio previews (Windows and Mac), updates to .NET Core 3.1 and 2.1, new releases from the Azure team, and more. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET Tweet
This is a Guest Post by David Marcus. He gives a puzzle and its solution, which is interesting, and then speculates as to why some people get it wrong. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE PROBLEM: Tweet
Amazon recently announced the release of OpenSearch, a fork derived from versions 7.10.2 of ElasticSearch and Kibana. OpenSearch is licensed under the Apache License, V2 (ALv2). Elastic recently made adjustments to their Elastic License to simplify the u Tweet
How to process sub-command style command line arguments is a question that arises more and more. Many of the basic option handling libraries can not handle this at all, or they make it very difficult to do so. One of the newer libraries in the option p Tweet
Bridgecrew has announced the first 2.x version of Checkov. Checkov is an open-source scanner for infrastructure as code (IaC). The 2.0 release includes a re-architected backend that is now graph-based allowing for better processing of multi-resource quer Tweet
New projects : cluffer — Library providing a protocol for text-editor buffers. — FreeBSD, see file LICENSE.text data-frame — Data frames for Common Lisp — MS-PL dfio — Common Lisp library Tweet
Microsoft announced the preview of Rust for Windows, which aims to enable creating Rust apps for Windows using any Windows API. By Sergio De Simone Tweet
2021-04-18 21:24:27 @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
Eva Caballero me entrevistó en el programa La Mecánica del Caracol de Radio Euskadi a modo de reseña del libro de Janna Levin, «El blues de los agujeros negros. Y […] La entrada Reseña de «El blues de los agujeros negros» de Janna Levin en La Mec Tweet
I ran across the word duodecimal recently, the Latin-derived term for base 12, and realized it’s been years, maybe decades, since I’d heard that term. I’ve used hexadecimal explicitly in 30 different blog posts, and implicitly in more, b Tweet
My thanks to Raycast for sponsoring last week at DF. Raycast is a new “Spotlight on steroids” utility for the Mac. I’ve been using it all week and it’s great — very fast, looks cool, and richly extensible through custom script commands . Raycast can fu Tweet
Kim Lyons, reporting for The Verge: Charles “Chuck” Geschke, a co-founder of Adobe who helped develop the PDF, has died at age 81, the company said in a statement . […] Geschke earned a doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and t Tweet
Shannon Palus, writing for Slate: In other words, as the pandemic has progressed, so has our understanding of what safety measures are truly most useful, and which aren’t worth the alcohol wipes. And I would like to calmly suggest that now is the time Tweet
Carol E. Lee, reporting for NBC News: They’re the most elite, lethally trained members of the U.S. military, widely considered the best of the best. And yet in secret Facebook groups exclusively for special operations forces that were accessed by NBC Tweet
Govind Persad and William F. Parker, in an op-ed for The Washington Post: Looking at ACIP’s roster helps diagnose its mistake. Its voting members are almost all doctors far more familiar with rare vaccine side effects than with marshaling scarce pub Tweet
From Softwar , Matthew Symonds’s 2004 biography of Larry Ellison: One telephone conversation with Gates in 1993 sticks in Ellison’s mind. “It was the most interesting conversation I’ve ever had with Bill, and the most revealing. It was around eleven Tweet
2021-04-18 15:25:29 @ Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Given the millennia that people have contemplated prime numbers, our continuing ignorance concerning the primes is stultifying—Richard Crandall and Carl Pomerance Sources: her site, Oberlin interview Lola Thompson is an Associate Professor of Mathema Tweet
Netflix has recently open-sourced ConsoleMe, a AWS multi-account management service, and its CLI utility, Weep. The tools provide a central control plane for permissions management across all of AWS accounts of an organization and help to implement the p Tweet
I was searching for a command line option parser that can handle git-style sub-commands and found a whole bunch of libraries. It appears as if libraries on this topic proliferate more than usual. I evaluated them only to the point where I could decide Tweet
Two important methods for computing area of polygons in the plane are Pick’s theorem and the shoelace formula. For a simple lattice polygon (a polygon with a single non-crossing boundary cycle, all of whose vertex coordinates are integers) with \(i\) integ Tweet
Jeff Bezos: If you want to be successful in business (in life, actually), you have to create more than you consume. Your goal should be to create value for everyone you interact with. Any business that doesn’t create value for those it touches, even i Tweet
The New York Times: About 31 percent of adults in the United States have now been fully vaccinated. Scientists have estimated that 70 to 90 percent of the total population must acquire resistance to the virus to reach herd immunity. But in hundreds of Tweet
[This is a transcript of the video embedded below.] In science fiction, hyper drives allow spaceships to travel faster than light by going through higher dimensions. And physicists have studied the question whether such extra dimensions exist for real in Tweet
[This is a transcript of the video embedded below.] In science fiction, hyper drives allow spaceships to travel faster than light by going through higher dimensions. And physicists have studied the question whether such extra dimensions exist for real in Tweet
Tim Burgess will be leading a Breakout discussion at BoS Conf Spring.Online 26-27 April on the topic: “Hiring Challenges Across Territories.” Pandemics aside, operating remotely comes with a lot of benefits for both employer and empl Tweet
Learn how to create single-node and multi-node setups of Apache Kafka in Docker The post Guide to Setting Up Apache Kafka Using Docker first appeared on Baeldung . Related Stories Difference Tweet
Learn about the package-info.java file, what its purpose is, and how we can use it to specify package-level Javadocs and annotations. The post The package-info.java File first appeared on Baeldung . Tweet
The deadline for submitting papers is coming up soon: May 10th. • Fourth Annual International Conference on Applied Category Theory (ACT 2021), July 12–16, 2021, online and at the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. Plans to run Tweet
The deadline for submitting papers is coming up soon: May 10th. • Fourth Annual International Conference on Applied Category Theory (ACT 2021), July 12–16, 2021, online and at the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. Plans to run Tweet
Helpful page for Chrome users from the EFF: Google is running a Chrome “origin trial” to test out an experimental new tracking feature called Federated Learning of Cohorts (aka “FLoC”). According to Google , the trial currently affects 0.5% of users Tweet
Dieter Bohn, also doing some real work at The Verge today: Google is going it alone with its proposed advertising technology to replace third-party cookies. Every major browser that uses the open source Chromium project has declined to use it, and i Tweet
Nilay Patel, doing some actual work at The Verge for once: Unfortunately it has been six months since the iPhone 12 was announced, and there is a pitiful shortage of MagSafe car chargers. In fact, there are no officially-sanctioned MagSafe car cha Tweet
The New York Times: The authorities were searching for a motive on Friday after a gunman stormed a FedEx facility in Indianapolis late Thursday, fatally shooting eight people and injuring at least seven others in a fast-moving, chaotic scene that emer Tweet
Stephen Hackett: We’re all familiar with the Mac’s startup chime. While it has changed over the years, it has greeted users with its friendly tone for decades. What you may not know is that for years, the Mac also came with a death sound, that would Tweet
Comment I’m sure I’m not the only one who has a constant stream of ideas related to software I either work on now, or may work on in the future. The quality of my ideas varies wildly, and it’s often the worst ide Tweet
I don’t see the appeal of this dingus at all. It’s magnetic, and it works with MagSafe iPhones, but the charger itself doesn’t support MagSafe. It’s just a lousy 5W Qi charger that has a circle of magnets to help it stay in place — charging is going to be Tweet
In 2016 Rob Castaneda, CEO of ServiceRocket, spoke about the three mistakes he made that almost killed his company. Rob never took funding and built ServiceRocket from his bedroom in Sydney to an operation in four countries employing over 200 people. Serv Tweet
Learn how to build a simple Spring application to demonstrate how to display various types of errors in Thymeleaf. The post Displaying Error Messages with Thymeleaf in Spring first appeared on Baeldung . Tweet
Much like a pod of whales or a pack of wolves, did you know that a group of gorillas is called a band? In this blog series, we’re going to introduce you to members of our band—engineers, technical recruiters, PMs, designers, and more who make up the most i Tweet
Joe Leech will be leading a breakout session at BoS Conf Spring.Online 26-27 April on the topic: “Why Don’t Your Customers Care About Your Website?” A recovering neuroscientist, Joe has also spent time as an elementary/primary school Tweet
2021-04-16 09:47:46 @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
He participado en el episodio 315 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox, iTunes], titulado “Ep315: Vacunas; Egiptología; Evento Adams; Materia Oscura en Júpiter; Magnetismo Oscuro; Fermiones de Majorana», 15 abr 2021. «La tertulia semanal [… Tweet
It's Friday already --the week has zipped by. Let's take a look at what the Apache community has been up to: The Apache Software Foundation – the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source p Tweet
Sometimes it’s useful to enrich your zone configuration with some additional data, so someone can look into the zone config and know for example who is responsible for the zone. Tweet
Today is Jackie Robinson Day in MLB. To celebrate, here’s the great Buck O’Neil sharing a Jackie Robinson story with David Letterman. Quite a few lessons here that are as apt today as they were then. ★ Tweet
GSMArena on a new report from Ming-Chi Kuo: Starting with next year’s iPhone 14 lineup — it will consist of two 6.1-inch iPhones and two 6.7-inch iPhones. That means that Apple will stop making the 5.4-inch iPhone mini starting from next year — there Tweet
The University of Oxford: COVID-19 leads to a several-times higher risk of cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) blood clots than current COVID-19 vaccines. Researchers at the University of Oxford have today reported that the risk of the rare blood clott Tweet
Miles Parks, reporting for NPR: CNN. ABC News. The New York Times. Fox News. Those are the publishers of four of the five most popular Facebook posts of articles about the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine this week. They’re ranked 2 to 5 in to Tweet
Keller’s conjecture (\(\mathbb{M}\)), another new Good Article on Wikipedia. The conjecture was falsified in 1992 with all remaining cases solved by 2019, but the name stuck. It’s about tilings of \(n\)-space by unit cubes, and pairs of cubes that share \( Tweet
YouGov: Fieldwork for the latest Economist/YouGov poll on vaccine safety perceptions was in the midst of being conducted when the Centers for Disease Control made the decision to suspend the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine . The CDC has re Tweet
Kosta Eleftheriou on Twitter: This @AppStore app pretends to be a silly platformer game for children 4+, but if I set my VPN to Turkey and relaunch it becomes an online casino that doesn’t even use Apple’s IAP. In other countries, the same app sho Tweet
With summer just around the corner, YC startups have projects that could benefit from the help of industrious student interns. Over 20 startups have posted open positions on… Tweet
Fun, fair, and informative video from Joanna Stern at the Wall Street Journal on the showdown between Apple and Facebook (and war of words between Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg) over iOS 14.5’s imminent crackdown on surveillance advertising. Or as Nicole Tweet
Earlier this year, I set up a power lifting cage for myself and restarted my journey of rapidly building strength. Every other day I perform squats, once a week I perform a deadlift, I alternate between bench presses and overhead … Things I ca Tweet
Great review from Marques Brownlee — as ever — of one of the most interesting Android phones on the market. But what struck me was OnePlus’s custom interface for zooming the camera. You can see it in action starting around the 14:27 mark of the video . Tweet
Katie Robertson, reporting for The New York Times: The company, one of the largest news organizations in the world, announced the new paywall on Thursday, as well as a redesigned website aimed at a “professional” audience wanting business, financial a Tweet
Some populations of neurons simultaneously process sensations and memories. New work shows how the brain rotates those representations to prevent interference. The post The Brain ‘Rotates’ Memories to Save Them From New Sensations first appeared on Q Tweet
Our study "Comparison of methods to reduce bias from clinical prediction models of postpartum depression” examines healthcare data and machine learning models routinely used in both research and application to address bias in healthcare AI. The post IB Tweet
Mathematics notation changes slowly over time, generally for the better. I can’t think of an instance that I think was a step backward. Gauss introduced the notation [x] for the greatest integer less than or equal to x in 1808. The notation was stan Tweet
2021-04-15 15:31:22 @ Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense—Roger Penrose Scott Answers Big Questions source Scott Aaronson has just been named the 2020 ACM Prize in Computing for groundbreaking contributions to quantum computing, Penrose’s comment notwithstan Tweet
The latest release of Prometheus (v2.26.0), an open source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit, rolled out native AWS Signature Version 4 authentication support. With this new feature, the Prometheus server is able to directly make remote-write API cal Tweet
First, congratulations to fellow complexity theorist and blogger Scott Aaronson for receiving the 2020 ACM Prize in Computing for "groundbreaking contributions to quantum computing". The prize is ACM's highest honor for mid-career researchers. We Tweet
Congratulations to everyone who ran Al Franken — clearly the best and most engaging communicator the Democrats have had since Bill Clinton — out of the Senate over a bunch of bullshit that everyone now regrets . But, on the other hand, if he were still i Tweet
At the 2021 virtual edition of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), researchers at IBM will present five full papers, two workshop papers, and two demos. The post Pushing the boundaries of human-AI interaction at IUI 2 Tweet
Start with a unit circle and draw the largest square you can inside the circle and the smallest square you can outside the circle. In geometry lingo these are the inscribed and circumscribed squares. The circle fits inside the square better than the squar Tweet
Using novel deep learning architectures, we have developed an AI that could help organizations, enterprises, and data scientists to easily extract data from vast collections of documents. Our technology allows users to quickly customize high-quality extra Tweet
Business of Software is a paid conference with limited sponsorship. We focus on delivering value to our customers – the attendees. We know this means not everyone who would like to can afford the cost of attendance. We’re delighted and grateful that Tweet
In this short tutorial, we're going to implement a utility method for converting Enumeration objects to the Java Stream API The post Convert a Java Enumeration Into a Stream first appeared on Baeldung . Tweet
Asia Orangio will be leading a breakout session at BoS Conf Spring.Online 26-27 April on the topic: “How Founders Can Get Better at Marketing.” If the open Q&A session we had with Asia a few weeks ago is anything to by (it is) th Tweet
Todd Vaziri: Twin Pines Mall became Lone Pine Mall after Marty changed the future in “Back to the Future” (1985). Is that an Easter Egg or a Thing in the Movie? Let’s find out! Great Scott is this well-done. ★ Tweet
Remember RCS — the cross-platform successor to SMS that (supposedly) had the support of all the U.S. carriers and Google? A supposedly modern messaging protocol that wasn’t going to support end-to-end encryption — and something that Apple never said a Tweet
“Black dwarf supernovae”. They sound quite dramatic! And indeed, they may be the last really exciting events in the Universe. It’s too early to be sure. There could be plenty of things about astrophysics we don’t understand yet̵ Tweet
“Black dwarf supernovae”. They sound quite dramatic! And indeed, they may be the last really exciting events in the Universe. It’s too early to be sure. There could be plenty of things about astrophysics we don’t understand yet̵ Tweet
Modern Apps Live is a series of events about modern application development that will be live-streaming on Twitch in May. Session topics include serverless, containers, and mobile and front-end development. If you’re not familiar, modern app Tweet