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Saturday, June 23, 18:20 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Casey Johnston, writing for The Outline: Apple did not immediately return a request from this reporter for comments on whether repairs may now be done on site at stores to shorten the time customers must be without their computers; whether the keyboard design has changed such that a repair may eliminate the problem rather than prop up a faulty design; or whether Apple anticipates releasing updated hardware that is not so prone to failure at any point in the future. Perhaps their keybo

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Saturday, June 23, 13:23 UTC @ John D. Cook

In the previous post I said that the Jacobi functions are like trig functions. That’s true if you look along the real axis. If you look at the rest of the complex plane you’ll see how they can be very different. The sine function is periodic along the real axis, but it grows exponentially along […]

Saturday, June 23, 13:16 UTC @ Backreaction

Particle physics. Artist’s impression. Professor Ben Allanach is a particle physicist at Cambridge University. He just wrote an advertisement for my book that appeared on Aeon some days ago under the title “Going Nowhere Fast”. I’m kidding of course, Allanach’s essay has no relation to my book. At least not that I know of. But it’s not a coincidence he writes about the very problems that I

Saturday, June 23, 13:16 UTC @ Backreaction

Particle physics. Artist’s impression. Professor Ben Allanach is a particle physicist at Cambridge University. He just wrote an advertisement for my book that appeared on Aeon some days ago under the title “Going Nowhere Fast”. I’m kidding of course, Allanach’s essay has no relation to my book. At least not that I know of. But it’s not a coincidence he writes about the very problems that I

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Saturday, June 23, 00:51 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

I've been watching the rise and maturing of AWS lambda and similar offerings with excitement. I've also shipped several microservices in both node and Java that are entirely serverless, making use of API gateway, lambda, dynamo db, sqs, kinesis, and others.For the simple case, I found the experience to be great. Deployment was simple and made use of shell scripts and the excellent AWS CLI.I've been hesitant to build anything serious with it tho. The primary concern has been visibility into the app.

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Friday, June 22, 21:59 UTC @ Ole Begemann

Possibly the most controversial new feature in Swift 4.2 is dynamic member lookup, introduced by Swift Evolution proposal SE-0195. @dynamicMemberLookup is a new attribute that can be applied to a class, struct, enum, or protocol declaration.

Friday, June 22, 21:36 UTC @ Hacker Noon - Medium

Friday, June 22, 21:10 UTC @ Daring Fireball

New Apple support document: Apple has determined that a small percentage of the keyboards in certain MacBook and MacBook Pro models may exhibit one or more of the following behaviors: Letters or characters repeat unexpectedly Letters or characters do not appear Key(s) feel “sticky” or do not respond in a consistent manner Apple or an Apple Authorized Service Provider will service eligible MacBook and MacBook Pro keyboards, free

Friday, June 22, 20:38 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Mark Gurman, in a Bloomberg piece headlined “Why Apple’s AirPower Wireless Charger Is Taking So Long to Make”: An executive at an Apple partner that manufactures third-party wireless chargers for iPhones, who asked not to be identified, said the multi-device charging mechanism is challenging to build because it likely requires different sized charging components for the three types of devices, which would all overlap across the mat. The AirPower charger is also mo

Friday, June 22, 20:12 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Stephen Rodrick, writing for Rolling Stone: “My son had to hear about how his old man lost all his money from kids at school, that’s not right,” says Depp. He rubs his eyes with his tobacco-stained hands. He says one of the proudest moments of his life was when Jack said he’d started a band and Depp asked what they were called. “The kid says ‘Clown Boner.’” Depp smiles proudly. “We don’t need a paternity test. That’s

Friday, June 22, 19:40 UTC @ Hacker Noon - Medium

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Friday, June 22, 18:12 UTC @ Gorilla Logic

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 important asset in Gorilla Logic…our […] The post Member of the Band – Carrie Borzillo Lead Live Ops Producer

Friday, June 22, 17:39 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

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Friday, June 22, 17:31 UTC @ Computational Complexity

I've been meaning to post on THE MUFFIN PROBLEM for at least a year. Its a project I've been working on for two years, but every time I wanted to post on it I thought. I'm in the middle of a new result. I'll wait until I get it! However, I was sort of forced to finally post on it since Ken Regan (with my blessing) posted on it. In fact its better this way- you can goto his post for the math and I get to just tell you other stuff. The problem was fi

Friday, June 22, 17:02 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

La teoría de la relatividad general de Einstein describe la gravitación. La mayoría de los tests de precisión de esta teoría se han obtenido a escala del sistema solar. Usando el efecto de lente gravitacional se pueden realizar tests […] Leer más

Friday, June 22, 16:51 UTC @ John D. Cook

Jacobi’s elliptic functions are sorta like trig functions. His functions sn and cn have names that reminiscent of sine and cosine for good reason. These functions come up in applications such as the nonlinear pendulum (i.e. when θ is too large to assume θ is a good enough approximation to sin θ) and in conformal […]

Friday, June 22, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Sirui Sun, Product Manager In Google Cloud Platform, customer data stored at rest is always encrypted by default using multiple layers of encryption technology. We also offer a continuum of encryption key management options to help meet the security requirements of your organization. Did you know there is now beta functionality you can use to

Friday, June 22, 14:58 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

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Friday, June 22, 14:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Robert Sadowski, Trust and Security Marketing, Google Cloud We aim to be the most secure cloud, but what does that mean? If you’re coming to Google Cloud Next '18 next month in San Francisco, now is your chance to identify and understand the technologies and best practices that set Google Cloud Platform (GCP) apart from other cloud providers. There

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Friday, June 22, 10:48 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

He participado en la primera hora del episodio 168 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox, iTunes], titulado “Ratas, Móviles y ¿Cáncer?; Estrella de Tabby; Agujeros Negros que se comen estrellas; Enzima Rubisco”, 21 Jun 2018. “La tertulia […]

Friday, June 22, 10:32 UTC @ Hacker Noon - Medium

Friday, June 22, 09:31 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Friday, June 22, 09:15 UTC @ Y Combinator

Jared Friedman and Matt Long discuss Work at a Startup and the Work at a Startup Expo on July 28th.

Friday, June 22, 07:02 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

Ya puedes escuchar el podcast iVoox del Programa 352 de La Fábrica de la Ciencia, “Metano en Marte, fusión por confinamiento inercial y otras noticias de la Mula-Naukas con F. Villatoro”, en el que Jorge Onsulve Orellana, @jonsulve, me […] L

Friday, June 22, 04:23 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

We're ending the week with the following activities from the Apache community: Support Apache –help offset the ASF's day-to-day operating expenses. Every dollar counts. - Increase your support of the ASF with a corporate matching gift http://... ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Fo

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Friday, June 22, 02:29 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

I’ve been thinking about what to write about this essay by Ben Allanach, which gives his take on the current state of HEP theory. Allanach is a specialist on the phenomenology of SUSY models, but here he announces that he’s … Continue reading →

Friday, June 22, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

We examine the problem of almost-uniform sampling proper $q$-colorings of a graph whose maximum degree is $\Delta$. A famous result, discovered independently by Jerrum(1995) and Salas and Sokal(1997), is that, assuming $q > (2+\delta) \Delta$, the Glauber dynamics (a.k.a. single-site dynamics) for this problem has mixing time $O(n \log n)$, where $n$ is the number of vertices, and thus provides a nearly linear time sampling algorithm for this problem. A natural question is the extent to which this alg

Friday, June 22, 01:30 UTC @ cs.CG updates on arXiv.org

Purpose: The class of models that can be represented by STL files is larger than the class of models that can be printed using additive manufacturing technologies. Stated differently, there exist well-formed STL files that cannot be printed. In this paper such a gap is formalized and a fully automatic procedure is described to turn any such file into a printable model. Approach: Based on well-established concepts from combinatorial topology, we provide an unambiguous description of all the mathem

Friday, June 22, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

Many randomized algorithms can be derandomized efficiently using either the method of conditional expectations or probability spaces with low independence. A series of papers, beginning with work by Luby (1988), showed that in many cases these techniques can be combined to give deterministic parallel (NC) algorithms for a variety of combinatorial optimization problems, with low time- and processor-complexity. We extend and generalize a technique of Luby for efficiently handling bilinear objective

Friday, June 22, 01:30 UTC @ cs.CC updates on arXiv.org

Kolmogorov-Martin-Lof randomness concept is extended from computable to enumerable distributions. This allows definitions of various other properties, such as mutual information in infinite sequences. Enumerable distributions (as well as distributions faced in some finite multi-party settings) are SEMIMEASURES, not measures; handling those requires some care.

Friday, June 22, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

Data compression plays a crucial part in the cloud based systems of today. One the fundaments of compression is quasi-periodicity, for which there are several models. We build upon the most popular quasi-periodicity model for strings, i.e., covers, generalizing it to trees. We introduce a new type of cover automata, which we call \textbf{D}eterministic \textbf{T}ree \textbf{A}utomata. Then, we formulate a cover problem on these DTA and study its complexity, in both sequential and parallel setting

Friday, June 22, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

In CPM 2017, Amir et al. introduce a problem, named \emph{approximate string cover} (\textbf{ACP}), motivated by many aplications including coding and automata theory, formal language theory, combinatorics and molecular biology. A \emph{cover} of a string $T$ is a string $C$ for which every letter of $T$ lies within some occurrence of $C$. The input of the \textbf{ACP} problem consists of a string $T$ and an integer $m$ (less than the length of $T$), and the goal is to find a string $C$ of length $m$ tha

Friday, June 22, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

The problem of attaining energy efficiency in distributed systems is of importance, but a general, non-domain-specific theory of energy-minimal scheduling is far from developed. In this paper, we classify the problems of energy-minimal scheduling and present theoretical foundations of the same. We derive results concerning energy-minimal scheduling of independent jobs in a distributed system with functionally similar machines with different working and idle power ratings. The machines considered in our s

Friday, June 22, 01:30 UTC @ cs.CG updates on arXiv.org

This tutorial presents topological methods for the analysis and visualization of scientific data from a user's perspective, with the Topology ToolKit (TTK), a recently released open-source library for topological data analysis. Topological methods have gained considerably in popularity and maturity over the last twenty years and success stories of established methods have been documented in a wide range of applications (combustion, chemistry, astrophysics, material sciences, etc.) with both acquired and

Friday, June 22, 01:30 UTC @ cs.CC updates on arXiv.org

In this paper, we study the relationship of parametrised enumeration complexity classes defined by Creignou et al. (MFCS 2013). Specifically, we introduce two hierarchies (IncFPTa and CapIncFPTa) of enumeration complexity classes for incremental fpt-time in terms of exponent slices and show how they interleave. Furthermore, we define several parametrised function classes and, in particular, introduce the parametrised counterpart of the class of nondeterministic multivalued functions with values that are

Friday, June 22, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

The $k$-terminal cut problem is defined on an edge-weighted graph with $k$ distinct vertices called "terminals." The goal is to remove a minimum weight collection of edges from the graph such that there is no path between any pair of terminals. The $k$-terminal cut problem is known to be NP-hard. There has been interest in determining special classes of graphs for which $k$-terminal cut can be solved in polynomial time. One special class of graphs is the class of $\gamma$-stable graphs, a notion

Friday, June 22, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

We present a unified polynomial-time approximation scheme (PTAS) for the prize collecting traveling salesman problem (PCTSP) and the prize collecting Steiner tree problem (PCSTP) in doubling metrics. Given a metric space and a penalty function on a subset of points known as terminals, a solution is a subgraph on points in the metric space, whose cost is the weight of its edges plus the penalty due to terminals not covered by the subgraph. Under our unified framework, the solution subgraph needs to be Eul

Friday, June 22, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

M\"omke and Svensson presented a beautiful new approach for the traveling salesman problem on a graph metric (graph-TSP), which yields a $4/3$-approximation guarantee on subcubic graphs as well as a substantial improvement over the $3/2$-approximation guarantee of Christofides' algorithm on general graphs. The crux of their approach is to compute an upper bound on the minimum cost of a circulation in a particular network, $C(G,T)$, where $G$ is the input graph and $T$ is a carefully chosen spanning tree.

Friday, June 22, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

String covers are a powerful tool for analyzing the quasi-periodicity of 1-dimensional data and find applications in automata theory, computational biology, coding and the analysis of transactional data. A \emph{cover} of a string $T$ is a string $C$ for which every letter of $T$ lies within some occurrence of $C$. String covers have been generalized in many ways, leading to \emph{k-covers}, \emph{$\lambda$-covers}, \emph{approximate covers} and were studied in different contexts such as \emph{indetermin

Friday, June 22, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

The NP-hard Maximum Planar Subgraph problem asks for a planar subgraph $H$ of a given graph $G$ such that $H$ has maximum edge cardinality. For more than two decades, the only known non-trivial exact algorithm was based on integer linear programming and Kuratowski's famous planarity criterion. We build upon this approach and present new constraint classes, together with a lifting of the polyhedron, to obtain provably stronger LP-relaxations, and in turn faster algorithms in practice. The new constraints

Friday, June 22, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

We define the Homomorphism Extension (HomExt) problem: given a group $G$, a subgroup $M \leq G$ and a homomorphism $\varphi: M \to H$, decide whether or not there exists a homomorphism $\widetilde{\varphi}: G\to H$ extending $\varphi$, i.e., $\widetilde{\varphi}|_M = \varphi$. This problem arose in the context of list-decoding homomorphism codes but is also of independent interest, both as a problem in computational group theory and as a new and natural problem in NP of unsettled complexity status.

Friday, June 22, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

Motivated by crowdsourced computation, peer-grading, and recommendation systems, Braver- man et al. [STOC'16] recently studied the query and round complexity of classic and popu- lar problems such as finding the maximum (max), finding all elements above a certain value (threshold-v) or computing the top-k elements of an array (top-k) in a noisy environment. An illustrating example is the task of selecting papers for a conference. This task is challenging due the crowdsourcing-nature of peer reviews: (1)

Friday, June 22, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

Suppose that two independent sets $I$ and $J$ of a graph with $\vert I \vert = \vert J \vert$ are given, and a token is placed on each vertex in $I$. The Sliding Token problem is to determine whether there exists a sequence of independent sets which transforms $I$ into $J$ so that each independent set in the sequence results from the previous one by sliding exactly one token along an edge in the graph. It is one of the representative reconfiguration problems that attract the attention from the viewpoint

Friday, June 22, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

The pairing heap is a classical heap data structure introduced in 1986 by Fredman, Sedgewick, Sleator, and Tarjan. It is remarkable both for its simplicity and for its excellent performance in practice. The "magic" of pairing heaps lies in the restructuring that happens after the deletion of the smallest item. The resulting collection of trees is consolidated in two rounds: a left-to-right pairing round, followed by a right-to-left accumulation round. Fredman et al. showed, via an elegant correspondence

Thursday, June 21, 18:57 UTC @ Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP

A novel cake-cutting puzzle reveals curiosities about numbers Alan Frank introduced the “Muffins Problem” nine years ago. Erich Friedman and Veit Elser found some early general results. Now Bill Gasarch along with John Dickerson of the University of Maryland have led a team of undergraduates and high-schoolers (Guangqi Cui, Naveen Durvasula, Erik Metz, Jacob Prinz, […]

Thursday, June 21, 18:00 UTC @ Y Combinator

Are you a software engineer interested in joining a startup? This July 28, come to Y Combinator HQ for our Work at a Startup Expo. You can meet the founders of 35 rapidly growing YC companies and figure out the right startup for you.

Thursday, June 21, 18:00 UTC @ Y Combinator

Work at a Startup is like a common application for engineers to apply to many YC companies simultaneously. If you’re interested in joining a startup, we hope you’ll create a profile at workatastartup.com.

Thursday, June 21, 16:18 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Valentin Hamburger, Regional Customer Engineer, Google Cloud Platform Google Stackdriver lets you track your cloud-powered applications with monitoring, logging and diagnostics. Using Stackdriver to monitor Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS) projects has many advantages—you get detailed performance data and can set up tailored alerts. However, we know from our customers that man

Thursday, June 21, 14:02 UTC @ Quanta Magazine

Computer scientists have been searching for years for a type of problem that a quantum computer can solve but that any possible future classical computer cannot. Now they’ve found one.

Thursday, June 21, 14:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Rochana Golani, Director, Google Cloud Learning and Enablement Cloud is no longer an emerging technology. Now that businesses large and small are realizing the potential of cloud services, the need to hire individuals who can manage cloud workloads has sky-rocketed. Today, we’re launching a new

Thursday, June 21, 09:29 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

Según el telescopio espacial Planck de la ESA, la materia oscura es el 26.8% y la materia bariónica el 4.9% de la densidad total de energía del universo. Aún no sabemos dónde se encuentra entre el 30% y el […] Leer más

Thursday, June 21, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD Security Advisories

Thursday, June 21, 01:19 UTC @ John D. Cook

The complex numbers make a field out of pairs of real numbers. The quaternions almost make a field out of four-tuples of numbers, though multiplication is not commutatative. Technically, quaternions form a division algebra. Frobenius’s theorem says only real vector spaces that can be made into division algebras are the real numbers, complex numbers, and […]

Wednesday, June 20, 18:45 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Jason Snell, writing at Macworld: So this time I’m going to try something different. I am going to force myself to make those hard decisions, as if I were an Apple executive. What do I think is the most likely course of action for Apple’s service? It’s time to stop hedging and risk being dead wrong in public. (The good news is, if I make bad decisions, more than a billion dollars in content investment won’t go to waste.) He thinks they’ll charge sepa

Wednesday, June 20, 17:51 UTC @ Daring Fireball

It’s a simple enough app, and seemingly has a good index of podcasts to search for. But the playback interface is a bit spartan — they keep the album art way too small. Anyway, this seems like a well-deserved finally — Apple dominates the podcast playback landscape in a way that is vastly disproportionate to iOS’s market share, and all the while Google has been just sitting on the sidelines.

Wednesday, June 20, 17:45 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Jon Brodkin, writing for Ars Technica: Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) recently urged all four major carriers to stop the practice, and today he published responses he received from Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile USA, and Sprint. Wyden’s statement praised Verizon for “taking quick action to protect its customers’ privacy and security,” but he criticized the other carriers for not making the same promise. “After my investigation and follow-up reports re

Wednesday, June 20, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Tony Lusk, Customer Engineer Who enjoys doing risky development on their SAP system? No one. But if you need to build enterprise apps that use your SAP backend, not doing development is a non-starter. One solution is to apply Gartner’s Bimodal IT, the practice of managing two separate but coherent styles of work: one focused on predictability; the other on exploration. This is an a

Wednesday, June 20, 13:28 UTC @ Quanta Magazine

The more closely geneticists look at complex traits and diseases, the harder it gets to find active genes that don’t play some part in them.

Wednesday, June 20, 09:16 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

La fusión por confinamiento inercial inducida por láser en el NIF (National Ignition Facility), EE UU, avanza paso a paso. Aún queda mucho para lograr la ignición de la fusión con Q > 1, generar más energía de la […] Leer más

Tuesday, June 19, 23:34 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Dahlia Lithwick, writing for Slate: The Trump administration is playing a game of choose your own facts, but every single version of this story ends with screaming children in cages. Great rundown on the utter incoherence of the Trump administration’s messaging on this disgraceful policy.

Tuesday, June 19, 23:07 UTC @ Daring Fireball

I love dictionaries. For as long as I can remember, I’ve made a habit of looking up every single word I encounter that I don’t know or am even unsure about. The fact that MacOS and iOS have built-in dictionaries that you can invoke via a contextual menu item is one of my favorite features of both OSes. Part of that is the extraordinary convenience, and part is that both systems use the same excellent source: New Oxford American Dictionary. (MacOS also includes the excellent

Tuesday, June 19, 22:19 UTC @ TED Blog

Updated June 20, 2018: An independently organized TEDx event recently posted, and subsequently removed, a talk from the TEDx YouTube channel that the event organizer titled: “Why our perception of pedophilia has to change.” In the TEDx talk, a speaker described pedophilia as a condition some people are born with, and suggested that if we recognize […]

Tuesday, June 19, 20:52 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Tuesday, June 19, 20:20 UTC @ Quanta Magazine

Being able to think like a physicist helps Carina Curto, a mathematician-turned-neuroscientist, pull insights about the human brain out of theoretical models.

Tuesday, June 19, 20:16 UTC @ Daring Fireball

The pop-up cameras are certainly an original idea (but not a good one), but it’s jaw-dropping how much Oppo (apparently pronounced “OH-poe”) made their “Color OS” Android skin look like iOS, from the home screen to the camera app. This looks nothing like stock Android as seen on a Pixel. ★

Tuesday, June 19, 20:03 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Elon Musk, in a company-wide email: The full extent of his actions are not yet clear, but what he has admitted to so far is pretty bad. His stated motivation is that he wanted a promotion that he did not receive. In light of these actions, not promoting him was definitely the right move. However, there may be considerably more to this situation than meets the eye, so the investigation will continue in depth this week. We need to figure out if he was acting alone or with others

Tuesday, June 19, 19:18 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Peter Kafka, writing for Recode in the wake of Apple’s content deal with Oprah Winfrey: Some industry observers expect Apple to make some or all of the content available for free for users of Apple’s TV app, which Apple first introduced as a would-be TV guide/hub a couple years ago, and is installed by default on all of its devices. Apple has told some industry executives it intends to strengthen that hub by making it a focal point to sell subscriptions to other compa

Tuesday, June 19, 18:44 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Drew McCormack: I don’t want to get into a point-by-point debate on the topic; instead, I want to do something that I haven’t seen anyone do: try to understand why Apple don’t want the sort of free trials that are being demanded. Apple currently allows free trials in two forms: if you sell subscriptions, you can give customers a free month to try the app; and, you can give your app away free, and offer a free In-App Purchase (IAP) to unlock all features for a fix

Tuesday, June 19, 18:01 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Brennan Saeta, TensorFlow Tech Lead for Cloud TPUs Deep neural networks have enabled breakthroughs across a variety of business and research challenges, including translating text between languages, transcribing speech, classifying image content, and mastering the game of Go. Because training and running deep learning models can be extremely computationally demanding, we rely on

Tuesday, June 19, 18:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Yoshi Tamura, Product Manager, Google Kubernetes Engine [Editor's note: This is one of many posts on enterprise features enabled by Kubernetes Engine 1.10. For the full coverage, follow along here.] Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of GPUs in

Tuesday, June 19, 17:44 UTC @ Daring Fireball

This whole bit hinges on last week’s video of a mic’d up umpire tossing Mets manager Terry Collins from a 2016 game against the Dodgers. Genius. ★

Tuesday, June 19, 16:03 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Our Brain-Inspired Computing group at IBM Research-Almaden will be presenting at the 2018 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2018) our most recent paper titled “A Low Power, High Throughput, Fully Event-Based Stereo System.” The paper describes an end-to-end stereo vision system that uses exclusively spiking neural network computation and can run […] The post Stereo Vi

Tuesday, June 19, 14:58 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

The July 1 issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomy Society includes an article evaluating the standard multiverse prediction of the cosmological constant, with result: The predicted (median) value is 50–60 times larger than the observed value. The … Continue reading →

Tuesday, June 19, 14:50 UTC @ John D. Cook

Here are three things about dominoes, two easy and one more advanced. Counting First, how many pieces are there in a set of dominoes? A domino corresponds to an unordered pair of numbers from 0 to n. The most popular form has n = 6, but there are variations with other values of n. You can show that […]

Tuesday, June 19, 13:22 UTC @ Hacker Noon - Medium

Tuesday, June 19, 12:59 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Julien Phalip, Solutions Architect If you manage database systems for large web applications, your job can be quite challenging. When unforeseen situations arise, making configuration changes can be complex and risky due to the stateful nature of those database systems. And before launching a new application, you have to do a lot of capacity planning, such as the number of virtual machines (VMs), the amount of disk storage, and the optimal network configura

Tuesday, June 19, 11:45 UTC @ Quality Coding

Every WWDC, I hope for improvements to unit testing — but have learned to expect disappointment. So at WWDC 2018, I was surprised to have my low expectations thwarted! Xcode 10 brings changes that will improve my test-centric workflow. For several years, Apple’s changes for test support have underwhelmed me. They focused on: Xcode Bots […]

Tuesday, June 19, 09:49 UTC @ Backreaction

Ben Carson, trying tomake sense of the multiverse. The idea that we live in a multiverse – an infinite collection of universes from which ours is merely one – is interesting but unscientific. It postulates the existence of entities that are unnecessary to describe what we observe. All those other universes are inaccessible to experiment. Science, therefore, cannot say anything about their

Tuesday, June 19, 09:49 UTC @ Backreaction

Ben Carson, trying tomake sense of the multiverse. The idea that we live in a multiverse – an infinite collection of universes from which ours is merely one – is interesting but unscientific. It postulates the existence of entities that are unnecessary to describe what we observe. All those other universes are inaccessible to experiment. Science, therefore, cannot say anything about their

Tuesday, June 19, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD News Flash

On June 19, 1993 the name FreeBSD was officially agreed on and has been used ever since. Find out more about how to celebrate this important day with us.

Tuesday, June 19, 04:00 UTC @ This Week in Rust

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 or send us a pull request. Want to get involved?

Tuesday, June 19, 02:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Today, an artificial intelligence (AI) system engaged in the first ever live, public debates with humans. At an event held at IBM’s Watson West site in San Francisco, a champion debater and IBM’s AI system, Project Debater, began by preparing arguments for and against the statement: “We should subsidize space exploration.” Both sides then delivered […] The post AI Learns the Art of Debate appeared firs

Tuesday, June 19, 01:00 UTC @ Azimuth

  Two more students in the Applied Category Theory 2018 school wrote a blog article about something they read: • Eliana Lorch and Joshua Tan, The behavioral approach to systems theory, 15 June 2018. Eliana Lorch is a mathematician based in San Francisco. Joshua Tan is a grad student in computer science at the University […]

Tuesday, June 19, 00:00 UTC @ objc.io

Our current Swift Talk series looks at different techniques to refactor a large view controller, using an example from the open source Wikipedia iOS app. In the first three episodes, we extract pure functions,

Monday, June 18, 20:37 UTC @ TED Blog

We all have a story to tell. And in my work as curator of the TEDWomen conference, I’ve had the pleasure of providing a platform to some of the best stories and storytellers out there. Beyond their TED Talk, of course, many TEDWomen speakers are also accomplished authors — and if you liked them on the […]

Monday, June 18, 20:35 UTC @ Lua: news

The second work version of Lua 5.4 has been released for testing.

Monday, June 18, 20:09 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Snap Kit lets developers integrate some of Snapchat’s best features like Bitmoji and Stories — and lets your community share their favorite moments from your app with their friends on Snapchat. All of this without compromising any private account data! Visit kit.snapchat.com for documentation and more info.

Monday, June 18, 18:54 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Federico Viticci: While it’s still too early to comment on the long-term impact of Shortcuts, I can at least attempt to understand the potential of this new technology. In this article, I’ll try to explain the differences between Siri shortcuts and the Shortcuts app, as well as answering some common questions about how much Shortcuts borrows from the original Workflow app. Apple has packed a lot of new features under that one word, shortcuts,

Monday, June 18, 18:42 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Gordon Gottsegen, reporting for CNet: Even though the iPhone 3GS will be sold as “brand new,” don’t expect it to work the same as a recently released iPhone. The iPhone 3GS was discontinued back in 2012, and it only runs iOS 6. As a result, many apps (and even iMessages) won’t work on the phone. The iPhone predates Lightning cables, too, so you’ll be stuck using an old-school 30-pin connector. Still, SK Telink is selling the iPhone 3GS for o

Monday, June 18, 17:55 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Brian Krebs: Craig Young, a researcher with security firm Tripwire, said he discovered an authentication weakness that leaks incredibly accurate location information about users of both the smart speaker and home assistant Google Home, and Chromecast, a small electronic device that makes it simple to stream TV shows, movies and games to a digital television or monitor. Young said the attack works by asking the Google device for a list of nearby wireless networks and then sendin

Monday, June 18, 17:37 UTC @ Daring Fireball

New iOS app and web service that makes it easy for people to book appointments with you. From their blog announcement, on what makes WhenWorks unique: There are many competitive services in this space. What they all have in common is that they are purely web-based solutions. What makes WhenWorks unique is that it is a mobile app that integrates directly with the Calendar app on your iOS device, i

Monday, June 18, 17:14 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Lauren Goode, writing for Wired: If you know the company Square, it’s probably because you’ve paid in a store using a Square “stand”, a dock that supports a tablet, or you’ve swiped your card through Square Reader, a smartphone dongle that processes payments. These products have a soothing, decidedly Apple-y aesthetic, from the simple dongle to the all-white stand that typically houses an iPad. But since late last year, Square has been quietly selling its own cus

Monday, June 18, 14:22 UTC @ Quanta Magazine

How many colors do you need to color an infinite plane so that no points 1 unit apart are the same color?

Monday, June 18, 07:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Kirill Tropin, Product Manager, Google Cloud Click here for the Finnish version, thank you! Our sixteenth Google Cloud Platform (GCP) region, located in Finland, is now open for you to build applications and store your data.

Monday, June 18, 02:31 UTC @ Computational Complexity

Sunday, June 17, 03:11 UTC @ x.ai

If you’ve ever been curious what I might look like accepting an award, please indulge in the epicness of my victory pose below. Sure, I got a little excited, and perhaps I had one too many Red Bulls to counteract the jet lag, but you gotta lean into your wins as an entrepreneur! However, Amy… The post x.ai wins CogX best AI product award appeared first on x.ai.

Sunday, June 17, 01:00 UTC @ Azimuth

  As part of the Applied Category Theory 2018 school, Maru Sarazola wrote a blog article on open dynamical systems and their steady states. Check it out: • Maru Sarazola, Dynamical systems and their steady states, 2 April 2018. She compares two papers: • David Spivak, The steady states of coupled dynamical systems compose according […]

Saturday, June 16, 13:55 UTC @ John D. Cook

I asked two questions on twitter yesterday. The previous post summarized the results for a question about books that I asked from my personal Twitter account. This post will summarize the results of a question I asked from @AnalysisFact. If a genie offered to give you a thorough understanding of one theorem, what theorem would […]

Saturday, June 16, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD News Flash

The third RC build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

Saturday, June 16, 07:15 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

La actividad sísmica del fondo oceánico afecta a las señales que se propagan en los cables de fibra óptica submarinos. Su efecto es muy pequeño, por fortuna, pero se puede detectar mediante técnicas de metrología de última generación. El […]

Saturday, June 16, 03:03 UTC @ John D. Cook

I asked on Twitter today for books that people would like to have read, but don’t want to put in the time and effort to read. What’s a book you would like to have read but don’t want to read? — John D. Cook (@JohnDCook) June 15, 2018 Here are the responses I got, organized […]

Friday, June 15, 23:29 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Eliz Kilic: It’s been almost 4 years since its first introduction, yet people don’t know/use 3D Touch. Why would they? Even tech-savvy users don’t know which buttons offer 3D touch. Let alone regular users. What would happen if we decide to make all links same color and style as the regular text? People would not know what to click on right? Why is 3D Touch be any different? We rely on our vision to decide actionability before anything else. If you can’t distinguish 3D

Friday, June 15, 22:01 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Serenity Caldwell returns to the show for a post-WWDC wrap-up discussion. Topics include iOS 12, Memoji, Siri Shortcuts, Screen Time, Apple Books, MacOS 10.14 Mojave, dark mode, UIKit apps on the Mac, and more. Brought to you by these outstanding sponsors: Casper: You can be sure of your purchase with Casper’s 100 night risk-free, sleep-on-it trial. Squarespace: Make your next move. Vis

Friday, June 15, 21:00 UTC @ Planet Lisp

Since approximately forever, sbcl has advertised the possibility of tracing individual methods of a generic function by passing :methods t as an argument to trace. Until recently, tracing methods was only supported using the :encapsulate nil style of tracing, modifying the compiled code for funct

Friday, June 15, 19:36 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Apple press release: Apple today announced a unique, multi-year content partnership with Oprah Winfrey, the esteemed producer, actress, talk show host, philanthropist and CEO of OWN. Together, Winfrey and Apple will create original programs that embrace her incomparable ability to connect with audiences around the world. Winfrey’s projects will be released as part of a lineup of original content from Apple. Yet another sign that Apple is dead serio

Friday, June 15, 16:51 UTC @ Azimuth

A lot happened at Applied Category Theory 2018. Even as it’s still winding down, we’re already starting to plan a followup in 2019, to be held in Oxford. Here are some notes Joshua Tan sent out: Discussions: Minutes from the discussions can be found here. Photos: Ross Duncan took some very glamorous photos of the […]

Friday, June 15, 16:15 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

Happy Friday! Let's review what the Apache community has worked on over the past week: ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Next Board Meeting: 20 June. Board calendar and minutes http://... ApacheCon™ –the ASF's official global conference series. - 24-27 September: Registration

Friday, June 15, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Sankari Venkataraman, Technical Program Manager We are happy to announce that Partner Interconnect, launched in beta in April, is now generally available. Partner Interconnect lets you connect your on-premises resources to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) from the

Friday, June 15, 15:52 UTC @ TED Blog

  The past few weeks have brimmed over with TED-related news. Below, some highlights. Exploring the ocean like never before. A school of ocean-loving TED speakers have teamed up to launch OceanX, an international initiative dedicated to discovering more of our oceans in an effort to “inspire a human connection to the sea.” The coalition […]

Friday, June 15, 14:05 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Deep learning engines can derive knowledge from vast stores of data but have an almost unquenchable appetite for compute power that limits their applications. Accelerator chips with lower power requirements and faster speeds are already in the making. One type, called analog accelerators, will reduce the movement of data during computation to deliver exponential gains […] The post Machin

Friday, June 15, 13:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Rami Shalom, JD Velasquez and Mary Koes, Product Managers In advance of the new simplified Stackdriver pricing that will go into effect on June 30, we want to make sure everyone gets a chance to try Stackdriver. That’s why we’ve decided to offer the full power of Stackdriver, including premium m

Friday, June 15, 10:18 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Dupsy Abiola, Founder & CEO, Intern Avenue Dupsy shares five of the rules she lives by and tells the stories behind them. From finding the right advice for you, changing direction, through navigating the sometimes murky world of investors to how to pitch your business effectively to customers, partners, investors you’ll learn some great lessons […] The post Rules To Liv

Friday, June 15, 07:00 UTC @ Backreaction

I have a new paper on the arXiv, which came out of a collaboration with Tobias Mistele and Tom Price. We fed a neural network with data about the publication activity of physicists and tried to make a “fake” prediction, for which we used data from the years 1996 up to 2008 to predict the next ten years. Data come from the arXiv via the Open Archives Initiative. To train the network, we took a

Friday, June 15, 07:00 UTC @ Backreaction

I have a new paper on the arXiv, which came out of a collaboration with Tobias Mistele and Tom Price. We fed a neural network with data about the publication activity of physicists and tried to make a “fake” prediction, for which we used data from the years 1996 up to 2008 to predict the next ten years. Data come from the arXiv via the Open Archives Initiative. To train the network, we took a

Friday, June 15, 04:52 UTC @ Azimuth

Two more students in the Applied Category Theory 2018 school wrote a blog article about a paper they read: • Tai-Danae Bradley and Brad Theilman, Cognition, convexity and category theory, The n-Category Café, 10 March 2018. Tai-Danae Bradley is a mathematics PhD student at the CUNY Graduate Center and well-known math blogger. Brad Theilman is […]

Friday, June 15, 00:20 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Quentin Carnicelli: At the time of the writing, with the exception of the $5,000 iMac Pro, no Macintosh has been updated at all in the past year. […] Rather than attempting to wow the world with “innovative” new designs like the failed Mac Pro, Apple could and should simply provide updates and speed bumps to the entire lineup on a much more frequent basis. The much smaller Apple of the mid-2000s managed this with ease. Their current failure to keep the Mac lineup fres

Thursday, June 14, 19:44 UTC @ Computational Complexity

Thanks to Grigory Yaroslavtsev for taking over the Theory Jobs Spreadsheet. Details on Grigory's blog. Check out who is going where next year.

Thursday, June 14, 17:54 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Donald Trump, in Singapore, asked whether he believes Kim Jong-un will actually destroy a nuclear site and return American POW remains: “Honestly, I think he’s going to do these things. I may be wrong, I mean I may stand before you in six months and say, hey, I was wrong — I don’t know that I’ll ever admit that, but I’ll find some kind of an excuse.” That’s the most honest thing he has said as president.

Thursday, June 14, 17:51 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors back in March: The Mac mini was last updated 1245 days ago, in October of 2014. (And that was a lackluster upgrade.) Taking a cue from my dreams about what a modern Mac mini might be like, I bought a tiny Intel NUC PC and

Thursday, June 14, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Samir Hammoudi, Gaming Technical Specialist, Google Cloud Dragon Ball Legends, a new mobile game from Bandai Namco Entertainment (BNE), is based on its popular Dragon Ball Z franchise, and is rolling out to gamers around the world as we speak. But planning the cloud infrastructure to power the

Thursday, June 14, 14:46 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

“¿Es reversible el cambio climatico antropogenico? Impacto del “agujero de ozono” en el clima del hemisferio Sur” se titula la charla divulgativa de Manuel Pulido (Data Assimilation Reseach Centre, University of Reading, UK). Se celebrará hoy 14 de junio […] <

Thursday, June 14, 14:46 UTC @ John D. Cook

Here are a couple of linear algebra identities that can be very useful, but aren’t that widely known, somewhere between common knowledge and arcane. Neither result assumes any matrix has low rank, but their most common application, at least in my experience, is in the context of something of low rank added to something of […]

Thursday, June 14, 14:02 UTC @ Quanta Magazine

In a renewed attempt at a grand unified theory of brain function, physicists now argue that brains optimize performance by staying near — though not exactly at — the critical point between two phases.

Thursday, June 14, 13:39 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Seth Godin, Author The man needs no introduction, but here it is anyway. Seth Godin is the founder of Yoyodyne and Squidoo, and the author of seminal books such as ‘Purple Cow’, ‘Tribes’, and ‘Linchpin’. He’s been in the business for 33 years: at BoS USA 2017, he shared 7 important lessons he’s learned during that […] The post

Thursday, June 14, 12:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Introducing the world’s smartest, most powerful supercomputer In 2014, the US Department of Energy (DoE) kicked off a multi-year collaboration between Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) called CORAL, the next major phase in the DoE’s scientific computing roadmap and path to exascale computing. They selected […] The post We’ve

Thursday, June 14, 00:00 UTC @ objc.io

When we want to quickly test the performance of some code, we paste the following function into our project: @discardableResult func measure<A>(name: String = "", _ block: () -> A) -> A { let startTime = CACurrentMediaTime() let result = block() let timeElapsed = CACurrentMediaTime() - startTime print("Time: \(name) - \(timeElapsed)") return result } The above helper measures the execution time of the function we pass in, and

Wednesday, June 13, 23:19 UTC @ Daring Fireball

I don’t know why this is only going viral now, because it’s a game from last year, but this is amazingly entertaining. The backstory: in the 2015 playoffs, Dodgers second baseman Chase Utley slid hard into second base and Mets second baseman Ruben Tejada wound up with a broken leg. It was an ugly but legal play and it resulted in MLB changing the rules on how you could slide into bases. This

Wednesday, June 13, 19:52 UTC @ Daring Fireball

9to5Mac, back in February: According to a new report from Macotakara, Apple is on schedule to begin selling AirPower sometime in March through its own retail stores, as well as resellers such as Best Buy. The report doesn’t offer a specific release date, with the blog’s source only saying that the release will occur sometime next month. At this point Apple is under three months away from

Wednesday, June 13, 19:31 UTC @ Daring Fireball

I laughed my way through this interview with my friend Lê, owner of Hop Sing Laundromat, by Philly Mag’s Victor Fiorillo: One spirit I cannot stand… is — wait a minute. You’re trying to get me in fucking trouble. I already get enough hate mail. [Another off-the-record-conversation]. OK. OK. One spirit I cannot stand is any stupid thing that is praised by a quote-unquote mixologist. Make sure you put the quote-unquote around that word. They are fucking idiots

Wednesday, June 13, 18:16 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Yours truly, a year ago, making the case for trackpad support on iPad keyboards: In short, when you’re using the iPad’s on-screen keyboard, you have a crummy (or at the very least sub-par) keyboard for typing but a nice interface for moving the insertion point around. When you’re using the Smart Keyboard (or any other hardware keyboard) you have a decent keyboard for typing but no good way to move the insertion point or select text. Using your finger to touch the screen is impre

Wednesday, June 13, 18:12 UTC @ John D. Cook

Here are two apparently unrelated things you may have seen before. The first is an observation going back to Euler that the polynomial produces a long sequence of primes. Namely, the values are prime for n = 1, 2, 3, …, 40. The second is that the number is extraordinarily close to an integer. This number […]

Wednesday, June 13, 16:17 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Sarah Frier and Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg: As Apple’s annual developer conference got underway on June 4, the Cupertino, California-based company made many new pronouncements on stage, including new controls that limit tracking of web browsing. But the phone maker didn’t publicly mention updated App Store Review Guidelines that now bar developers from making databases of address book information they gather from iPhone users. Sharing and selling that database with third

Wednesday, June 13, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Michael Behr, Software Engineer; Ian Swett, Software Engineer For four years now, Google has been using QUIC, a UDP-based encrypted transport protocol optimized for HTTPS, to deliver traffic for our products – from Google Web Search, to YouTube, to this very blog. If you’re reading this in Chrome, you’re probably using QUIC right now. QUIC makes the web faster, particularly for slow connections, and now your cloud services can enjoy that speed: today,

Wednesday, June 13, 15:15 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

QISKit ACQUA bridges classical, quantum computing Working with real quantum computers just got easier for experts in chemistry, artificial intelligence and optimization. Building on QISKit, our open source quantum information science kit for software development, we’ve released ACQUA – Algorithms and Circuits for QUantum Applications. This new open source software allows classical computer applications to […] The post

Wednesday, June 13, 14:22 UTC @ John D. Cook

There’s a proposal for California to split into three states. If that happens, what would happen to the US flag? The US flag has had 13 stripes from the beginning, representing the first 13 states. The number of stars has increased over time as the number of states has increased. Currently there are 50 stars, […]

Wednesday, June 13, 13:23 UTC @ Martin Fowler

We've got a cover design for the second edition of Refactoring. As with any book in my signature series, I needed to decide which bridge would feature in the photo. more…

Wednesday, June 13, 13:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Could tiny ink spots, the size of a pinhead, fight counterfeiting medical tests? We believe the answer is yes. This week at the Biosensors 2018 conference in Miami, I’m presenting a new research paper demonstrating how optical security codes, created by inkjet spotting patterns, can be used in combination with smartphones for authenticating medical tests. […] The post Ink Spots to Put

Wednesday, June 13, 13:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Grace Mollison, Cloud Solutions Architect Do you run and administer applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)? Do you need to group or classify your GCP resources to satisfy compliance demands? Do you need to manage traffic going to and from a VM, monitor specific resources, or see those resources by billing account? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’ll be glad to know that GCP pro

Wednesday, June 13, 09:15 UTC @ Y Combinator

Adora Cheung is a partner at YC and she also cofounded Homejoy, which went through YC in the Summer 2010 batch. If you have questions for a future office hours episode, just tweet them our way.

Wednesday, June 13, 01:15 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Andrew Webster, reporting for The Verge: The biggest game in the world is coming to the hottest gaming platform. After a few leaks and rumors, today Epic Games officially announced that Fortnite is coming the Nintendo Switch. And it’s coming very soon: it’s available as a free download today. Unlike other online games such as Rocket League that have been ported to the platform, it doesn’t appear that Fortnite on the Switch will include any Nintendo-specific content, so you can k

Wednesday, June 13, 01:00 UTC @ John D. Cook

The partition function p(n) counts the number of ways n unlabeled things can be partitioned into non-empty sets. (Contrast with Bell numbers that count partitions of labeled things.) There’s no simple expression for p(n), but Ramanujan discovered a fairly simple asymptotic approximation: How accurate is this approximation? Here’s a little Matheamtica code to see. p[n_] := PartitionsP[n] approx[n_] […]

Tuesday, June 12, 17:17 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Tuesday, June 12, 17:03 UTC @ John D. Cook

I like Perl’s pattern matching features more than Perl as a programming language. I’d like to take advantage of the former without having to go any deeper than necessary into the latter. The book Minimal Perl is useful in this regard. It has chapters on Perl as a better grep, a better awk, a better […]

Tuesday, June 12, 16:20 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Tuesday, June 12, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Steren Giannini, Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform Developers love Google App Engine’s zero-config deployments, zero server management and auto-scaling capabilities. At Google Cloud, our goal is to help you be more productive by supporting more popular programming languages. Starting today, you can now deploy your

Tuesday, June 12, 11:25 UTC @ John D. Cook

I just finished listening to the latest episode of Twenty Thousand Hertz, the story behind “Deep Note,” the THX logo sound. There are a couple mathematical details of the sound that I’d like to explore here: random number generation, and especially Pythagorean tuning. Random number generation First is that part of the construction of the […]

Tuesday, June 12, 06:11 UTC @ Backreaction

Today is the official publication date of my book “Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray.” There’s an interview with me in the current issue of “Der Spiegel” (in German) with a fancy photo, and an excerpt at Scientific American. In the book I don’t say much about myself or my own research. I felt that was both superfluous and not particularly interesting. However, a lot of people have

Tuesday, June 12, 06:11 UTC @ Backreaction

Today is the official publication date of my book “Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray.” There’s an interview with me in the current issue of “Der Spiegel” (in German) with a fancy photo, and an excerpt at Scientific American. In the book I don’t say much about myself or my own research. I felt that was both superfluous and not particularly interesting. However, a lot of people have

Tuesday, June 12, 04:00 UTC @ This Week in Rust

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 or send us a pull request. Want to get involved?

Tuesday, June 12, 01:02 UTC @ TED Blog

At the intersections where we meet and collaborate, we can pool our collective wisdom to seek solutions to the world’s greatest problems. But true change begs for more than incremental steps and passive reactions — we need to galvanize transformation to create our collective future. To celebrate the effort of bold thinkers building a better […

Monday, June 11, 23:46 UTC @ Daring Fireball

With over 4 million members and more than 20,000 classes, Skillshare is basically Netflix for online learning. Interested in app development or data science? How about UX design or SEO? Mobile photography, film making, creative writing, even coffee brewing? Skillshare truly has it all. And for this week only, Skillshare is offering the first 1,000 Daring Fireball readers TWO FREE months of Skillshare Premium. Whether you’re looking to gain technical skills,

Monday, June 11, 20:45 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Alan Burdick, writing for The New Yorker: The unsettling thing about spending two days at a convention of people who believe that Earth is flat isn’t the possibility that you, too, might come to accept their world view, although I did worry a little about that. Rather, it’s the very real likelihood that, after sitting through hours of presentations on “scientism,” lightning angels, and nasa’s many conspiracies — the moon-landing hoax, the International Fake Station, so

Monday, June 11, 20:01 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Dominik Wagner: It seems to have been driven by the needs of the compiler and the gaps that needed to be filled for the static analyzer. Those seem to have been super-charged instead of catering to app developer’s actual needs: efficient, hassle free, productive (iOS) App development. It is meant to offer progressive disclosure and be simple, to be used in playgrounds and learning. At the same time learning and reading through the Swift book and standard

Monday, June 11, 19:49 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Good rundown of some under-the-radar features from Rene Ritchie. ★

Monday, June 11, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Chris Kleban, Product Manager Not everyone needs the extra performance that GPUs bring to a compute workload, but those who do, really do. Earlier this year, we announced that you could attach GPUs to Preemptible VMs on

Monday, June 11, 13:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Melody Meckfessel, VP of Engineering The promise of higher service availability, reduced costs, and faster delivery is driving organizations to adopt public cloud services at a rapid pace. This includes organizations in highly regulated domains like financial services, healthcare, and government. However, the benefits promised by a well-designed cloud platform cannot be achieved with poor implementations that simply move traditional data center operations t

Monday, June 11, 11:58 UTC @ Backreaction

Here is the other video trailer for my book "Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray".  Since I have been asked repeatedly, let me emphasize again that the book is aimed at non-experts, or "the interested lay-reader" as they say. You do not need to bring any background knowledge in math or physics and, no, there are no equations in the book, just a few numbers. It's really about the

Monday, June 11, 11:58 UTC @ Backreaction

Here is the other video trailer for my book "Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray".  Since I have been asked repeatedly, let me emphasize again that the book is aimed at non-experts, or "the interested lay-reader" as they say. You do not need to bring any background knowledge in math or physics and, no, there are no equations in the book, just a few numbers. It's really about the

Monday, June 11, 09:38 UTC @ Use Your Loaf

It might have been a year with a focus on stability and performance but there are still lots of new videos to catch up on. Here are the sessions I found most interesting this year. Platforms State of The Union? The Platforms State of the Union is usually a good start for an overview of what’s changed this year across macOS, iOS, watchOS and tvOS. If you are only intereste

Monday, June 11, 04:45 UTC @ Computational Complexity

(This post overlaps a prior one here. The paper I am blogging about was also blogged about by Lipton here. The paper itself is on arxiv here. My slides for a talk I will be giving on this material are here)'

Sunday, June 10, 18:06 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose, John Gruber is joined by Greg Joswiak and Mike Rockwell to discuss the news from WWDC: ARKit 2, the new USDZ file format, iOS 12, MacOS 10.14 “Mojave”, UIKit apps on MacOS, and more. Sponsored by:

Sunday, June 10, 15:53 UTC @ gilded : rust

Before I explain this example I will explain one more syntax: 'a: 'b: 'a counts as a copy of 'b. 'a: 'b + 'c: 'a counts as a copy of 'b and as a copy of 'c. Non-lexical lifetimes allows the compiler to check each branch of code separately. There are 3 borrows in this code. Lets call the one on line 6 'x1_num, on line 13 'x2_num and on line

Sunday, June 10, 06:37 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

Los láseres de silicio son el santo grial de la optoelectrónica integrada en chip. Se conocen varios diseños, como el láser de tipo Raman o el de tipo Kerr, pero sus propiedades depende mucho de las del material usado […] Leer más

Saturday, June 09, 20:43 UTC @ Daring Fireball

My thanks to Instabug for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed (as well as The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2018). Tens of thousands of companies like Lyft, eBay, and T-Mobile rely on Instabug to iterate faster and enhance their app quality. With just one line of code, your beta testers and users can now report bugs and submit detailed feedback by just shaking their phones. Instabug automatically captures a screenshot, screen recordings, all device details and repro-steps with each bug report to b

Saturday, June 09, 18:35 UTC @ Ole Begemann

New in Swift 4.2, the compiler can generate a collection of an enum’s cases, relieving you from the error-prone task of maintaining such a list yourself. The Swift Evolution proposal that introduced this feature is SE-0194. The CaseIterable protocol For

Saturday, June 09, 11:41 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

La frase “se observa un buen acuerdo con las predicciones del modelo estándar” parece decorar todos los artículos sobre física de partículas basados en colisiones del LHC. Sin embargo, no se debe olvidar que en las primeras observaciones de […]

Saturday, June 09, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD News Flash

The second RC build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

Saturday, June 09, 07:01 UTC @ Backreaction

I’ve been told that one now does video trailers for books and so here’s me explaining what led me to write the book.

Saturday, June 09, 07:01 UTC @ Backreaction

I’ve been told that one now does video trailers for books and so here’s me explaining what led me to write the book.

Saturday, June 09, 06:10 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

El rover MSL Curiosity (NASA) en el cráter Gale (cerca del ecuador de Marte) observó metano en la atmósfera marciana en 2014 (aunque ya había indicios desde 1999). Su origen puede ser geológico (como la serpentinización), pero muchos sueñan […] Leer más

Friday, June 08, 22:39 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Heather Kelly, reporting for CNN: For a period of four days in May, about 14 million Facebook users around the world had their default sharing setting for all new posts set to public, the company revealed Thursday. The bug, which affected those users from May 18 to May 22, occurred while Facebook was testing a new feature. David Frum: It’s so weird that this nev

Friday, June 08, 19:49 UTC @ Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP

A pretty neat paper about a pretty neat theorem [ GLL edited ] Mark Villarino, William Gasarch, and Kenneth Regan are terrific writers. Bill is a co-author of a famous blog located here. Ken is a co-author of another blog that we will not mention. Today I would like to talk about one of their […]

Friday, June 08, 19:10 UTC @ gilded : rust

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Friday, June 08, 19:08 UTC @ Hacker Noon - Medium

Friday, June 08, 18:07 UTC @ Y Combinator

Here are some of our favorite Hacker News comments from April and May: A HN user writes about exchanging emails with John Carmack in the way Carmack writes about emailing Steve Jobs, then Carmack joins the thread; Responding to post about Mandaeism, an ancient Gnostic religion, a HN user turns out to have been raised in it.

Friday, June 08, 16:39 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Adam Kilgore, writing for The Washington Post: First, the Washington Capitals won the National Hockey League championship Thursday night. And then, as their red-rocking fans were passing out in a fit of euphoria back East, they took full advantage of the location in which they claimed the franchise’s first Stanley Cup. They hit the club, prize in hand, and they partied. Some say the sun doesn’t rise in Vegas. The Caps, led by their captain, were up to the challenge of findi

Friday, June 08, 16:05 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

The week has skipped by, and the Apache community has been active with the following projects: Success at Apache –a monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". - The Chance to Influence the World by Weiwei Yang https://... ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Next Board Meeting: 20 June.

Friday, June 08, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Dmytro Melnyk, Product Marketing Manager Do you want to build applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) but have no idea where to start? That was me, just a few months ago, before I joined the Google Cloud compute team. To prepare for my interview, I watched a bunch of GCP Next 2017 talks, to get up

Friday, June 08, 12:23 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Friday, June 08, 09:39 UTC @ Backreaction

Science Magazine had my book “Lost in Math” reviewed by Dr. Djuna Lize Croon, a postdoctoral associate at the Department of Physics at Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire, USA. Dr. Croon has worked on the very research topics that my book exposes as mathematical fantasies, such as “extra natural inflation” or “holographic composite Higgs models,” so choosing her to review my book is an

Friday, June 08, 09:39 UTC @ Backreaction

Science Magazine had my book “Lost in Math” reviewed by Dr. Djuna Lize Croon, a postdoctoral associate at the Department of Physics at Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire, USA. Dr. Croon has worked on the very research topics that my book exposes as mathematical fantasies, such as “extra natural inflation” or “holographic composite Higgs models,” so choosing her to review my book is an

Friday, June 08, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD News Flash

Portions of the FreeBSD cluster will be offline Saturday, June 9th for an extended maintenance window for electrical work. Services will be affected, most notably mailing list traffic and a portion of our web services.

Friday, June 08, 07:44 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Simon Johnson, UK General Manager, Freshworks Establishing a presence in new territories is inevitable for any software business that aims to be a global leader in its field but often companies underestimate the complexity of the process. It is rarely as simple as opening a sales office in a serviced office and letting the new […] The post Taking on a New Territory | S

Friday, June 08, 06:43 UTC @ Backreaction

It was June 4th, 2018, when Robbert Dijkgraaf, director of the world-renown Princeton Institute for Advanded Study, announced his breakthrough insight. After decades of investigating string theory, Dijkgraaf has concluded that there are no laws of physics. Guess that’s it, then, folks. Don’t forget to turn off the light when you close the lab door for the last time. Dijkgraaf knows what he is

Friday, June 08, 06:43 UTC @ Backreaction

It was June 4th, 2018, when Robbert Dijkgraaf, director of the world-renown Princeton Institute for Advanded Study, announced his breakthrough insight. After decades of investigating string theory, Dijkgraaf has concluded that there are no laws of physics. Guess that’s it, then, folks. Don’t forget to turn off the light when you close the lab door for the last time. Dijkgraaf knows what he is

Friday, June 08, 05:01 UTC @ TED Blog

Inspired by JD Schramm’s powerful TEDTalk on surviving a suicide attempt, this list of resources has been updated to help you widen your understanding of mental health, depression, suicide and suicide prevention. Whether you’re an attempt survivor, a concerned family member or friend, or struggling with suicidal thoughts yourself, this list offers helpful resources and hotlines

Friday, June 08, 01:54 UTC @ John D. Cook

Stirling numbers are something like binomial coefficients. They come in two varieties, imaginatively called the first kind and second kind. Unfortunately it is the second kind that are simpler to describe and that come up more often in applications, so we’ll start there. Stirling numbers of the second kind The Stirling number of the second […]

Thursday, June 07, 23:23 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

Sabine Hossenfelder’s new book Lost in Math should be starting to appear in bookstores around now. It’s very good and you should get a copy. I hope that the book will receive a lot of attention, but suspect that much … Continue reading →

Thursday, June 07, 21:36 UTC @ John D. Cook

Start with the sequence of positive integers: 1, 2, 3, 4, … Now take partial sums, the nth term of the new series being the sum of the first n terms of the previous series. This gives us the triangular numbers, so called because they count the number of coins at each level of a […]

Thursday, June 07, 21:09 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Thursday, June 07, 18:42 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

Now back from a week away, mostly spent in Cambridge. Among the accumulated items of interest: Inference has a review of my book, Woit’s Way, by Andrew Jordan. I like the way it starts out: Quantum Theory, Groups and Representations … Continue reading →

Thursday, June 07, 16:59 UTC @ Ole Begemann

Working with random numbers in Swift used to be a bit of pain because there was no native random number API. Developers had to fall back on C APIs provided by the operating system, which are often easy to misuse. Moreover, the preferred random number API differs between platforms (e.g. arc4random vs. rand vs.

Thursday, June 07, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Manish Dalwadi, Product Manager, Bryan Nairn, Product Marketing Manager Today we are excited to announce beta availability of sole-tenant nodes on Google Compute Engine. Sole-tenant nodes are physical Compute Engine servers designed for your dedicated use. Normally, VM instances run on physical hosts that may be shared by many customers. With sole-tenant nodes, you have the host all

Thursday, June 07, 15:56 UTC @ x.ai

If you’re using our AI scheduling assistants Amy + Andrew in your workplace, but your coworkers aren’t, there’s a new way to help everyone schedule faster—sign up for Team or Enterprise edition! Even if (for some unfathomable reason) your coworkers don’t want to sign up for access to Amy themselves, as long as your organization… The post x.ai can now check coworker availability appeared first o

Thursday, June 07, 13:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Niel Markwick, Solutions Architect and Robert Saxby, Big Data Specialist Cloud Spanner is a relational and horizontally scalable database service, built from a cloud/distributed design perspective. It brings efficiency and high availability for developers and database administrators (DBAs), and differs structurally from typical databases you’re used to. In this blog series, we’ll explore so

Wednesday, June 06, 23:40 UTC @ Computational Complexity

When teaching P vs NP the questions arises (and if not then I bring it up) what if you have algorithm in P that takes n^{100} time?. Or even n^{5} time which might be too long. I have given the following answers for years; however, I post this and will use your comments as a sanity check. In fact, I suspect I am wrong on some points. 1) IF SAT was in P then something very clever was done. Even if its n^{100} it was very clever. That cleverness will almost surely result in other be

Wednesday, June 06, 21:15 UTC @ Azimuth

  In my online course we’re now into the third chapter of Fong and Spivak’s book Seven Sketches. Now we’re talking about databases! To some extent this is just an excuse to (finally) introduce categories, functors, natural transformations, adjoint functors and Kan extensions. Great stuff, and databases are a great source of easy examples. But […]

Wednesday, June 06, 20:44 UTC @ Ole Begemann

I made an Xcode playground to showcase many of the new features coming in Swift 4.2, like I did last year for Swift 4.0. You can download it on GitHub. The easiest way to run the playground is to install the most recent beta version of Xcode 10 (which ships with Swift 4.2). You can also run it in Xcode 9.4, but

Wednesday, June 06, 20:08 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

I was sorry to learn today of the death on April 15th of H. Dieter Zeh, one of the major figures responsible for improving our understanding of the physics involved in the measurement problem and related interpretational issues in quantum … Continue reading →

Wednesday, June 06, 18:00 UTC @ News - Apple Developer

For app developers and their teams, iTunes Connect is now called App Store Connect. And with the new App Store Connect app, it’s even easier to manage your apps, view trends, respond to reviews, and reply to active Resolution Center issues, all on your iOS device. You can also receive push notifications for changes in your app status and new customer reviews.Learn more about App Store Connect

Wednesday, June 06, 17:43 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Software-equivalent accuracy achieved with analog memory for faster, lower power neural network training Imagine personalized Artificial Intelligence (AI), where your smartphone becomes more like an intelligent assistant – recognizing your voice even in a noisy room, understanding the context of different social situations or presenting only the information that’s truly relevant to you, plucked out […] The post

Wednesday, June 06, 17:29 UTC @ Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP

Workshop happening this week—anyone can view it live IAS Weyl bio source Hermann Weyl was one of the first members of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He made important contributions to many fields and even more contributions to groups. His work in group representation theory and polynomial invariant theory is being employed in […]

Wednesday, June 06, 14:30 UTC @ 250bpm-blogs

This article is a transcript of a lecture given at BorgesConf 2014 in Viterbo, Italy. Hi, everybody! Before getting to my topic I would like to thank Alvaro for organizing this awesome event. I think that he deserves three huzzas. So here we go: Huzza! Huzza! Huzza! I was also asked to mention that Medioera festival begins here in Viterbo in just few days. Those of you who are interested in digital culture may consider prolonging your stay h

Wednesday, June 06, 13:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Babu Prasad Elumalai, Technical Lead, SAP on GCP Since we announced our partnership with SAP in early 2017, we’ve rapidly expanded our support for SAP HANA, SAP’s in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system. From the beginning, we knew we’d need to build tools that integrate SAP HANA with

Wednesday, June 06, 12:31 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Wednesday, June 06, 10:00 UTC @ Gorilla Logic

Tapping into their experience, tech smarts and gut instincts to deliver 5-star quality apps for our clients is what our Gorillas live for – that, and a really good soccer match! Passionate about the quality behind their applications, our Gorillas take QA testing very seriously. So, we’re excited to announce that Gorilla Logic has earned […] The post

Tuesday, June 05, 19:55 UTC @ John D. Cook

The nth Bell number is the number of ways to partition a set of n labeled items. It’s also equal to the following sum. You may have to look at that sum twice to see it correctly. It looks a lot like the sum for en except the roles of k and n are reversed in […]

Tuesday, June 05, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Nikhil Jindal & Greg Harmon, Software Engineers, Google Cloud Platform; Matthew DeLio, Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform Increasingly, many enterprise Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers use multiple Google Kubernetes Engine clusters to host their applications, for better resilience, scalability, isolation and complian

Tuesday, June 05, 14:13 UTC @ ACM Queue - All Queue Content

This installment of Research for Practice features a curated selection from Gustavo Alonso, who provides an overview of recent developments utilizing FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) in datacenters. As Moore's Law has slowed and the computational overheads of datacenter workloads such as model serving and data processing have continued to rise, FPGAs offer an increasingly attractive point in the trade-off between power and performance. Gustavo's selections highlight early successes and practical deplo

Tuesday, June 05, 10:00 UTC @ Gorilla Logic

In this blog series, you will explore the rise of IoT and how Gorillas are adapting to the trend. In this post, I introduce IoT from an embedded software – or systems – perspective. In the next post, I will show how Gorillas have developed full-fledged serverless solutions using AWS. About two years ago I […] The post IoT Insights Part 1: A Story of Embedded S

Tuesday, June 05, 06:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Dissolved Ocean Carbon (DOC) in the ocean is one of the largest pools of reduced carbon on Earth. It’s about 200 times larger than the living biosphere and comparable in size to the atmospheric CO2 reservoir.  Due to its complexity, less than 10 percent of dissolved organic carbon has been characterized.  It’s important to understand […] The post Ocean Carbon Imaged on the Atomic Scale

Tuesday, June 05, 04:00 UTC @ This Week in Rust

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 or send us a pull request. Want to get involved?

Tuesday, June 05, 02:56 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

At Quanta magazine, IAS director and string theorist Robbert Dijkgraaf has signed up to the multiverse mania bandwagon with an article announcing There are no laws of physics. There’s only the landscape. Dijkgraaf’s version of the string landscape ideology is: … Continue reading →

Tuesday, June 05, 00:52 UTC @ John D. Cook

If you average a large number independent versions of the same random variable, the central limit theorem says the average will be approximately normal. That is the absolute error in approximating the density of the average by the density of a normal random variable will be small. (Terms and conditions apply. See notes here.) But […]

Tuesday, June 05, 00:00 UTC @ objc.io

In Swift Talk #103, Refactoring Large View Controllers (a public episode), we extract two pure functions out of an existing view controller. We chose to use the Wikipedia iOS app because it’s a large, well written, and open-source application. In the PlacesViewController, there is a method that computes whether or

Monday, June 04, 23:19 UTC @ tecosystems

In a move that Jason Fried expected but that Bryan Cantrill and everyone else until about a week ago) thought would happen when pigs flew (except that it turns out that Cantrill actually did predict this), Microsoft announced yesterday that it had acquired GitHub for $7.5B in an all stock transaction. Notably, the deal was

Monday, June 04, 23:19 UTC @ tecosystems

In a move that Jason Fried expected but that Bryan Cantrill and everyone else until about a week ago) thought would happen when pigs flew (except that it turns out that Cantrill actually did predict this), Microsoft announced yesterday that it had acquired GitHub for $7.5B in an all stock transaction. Notably, the deal was

Monday, June 04, 19:24 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Monday, June 04, 19:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Weston Hutchins, Product Manager, Google Kubernetes Engine Editor's note: This is one of many posts on enterprise features you’ll find in Kubernetes Engine 1.10. For the full coverage, follow along here. A highly available Kubernetes cluster is a key requirement for most production applications. However,

Monday, June 04, 18:52 UTC @ Y Combinator

We launched a Series A program 6 months ago, but we started prototyping the program 6 months before that with a few companies. In that year, we’ve learned a huge amount about what works and what doesn’t work when raising an A. We’re now ready to launch the next phase of the program: working with companies that are ready for a Series A in batches, just like regular YC.

Monday, June 04, 18:00 UTC @ News - Apple Developer

The App Store Review Guidelines have been updated. We review all apps submitted to the App Store in an effort to determine whether they are reliable, perform as expected, and are free of offensive material. As you plan and develop your app, make sure to use these updated guidelines.Read the App Store Review Guidelines

Monday, June 04, 18:00 UTC @ News - Apple Developer

The reimagined Mac App Store arrives with a new look and new editorial content that inspires and informs. Organized around the specific things customers love to do on Mac, along with insightful stories, curated collections, and videos, the Mac App Store on macOS Mojave beautifully showcases your apps and makes them even easier to find.Learn more about the Mac App Store

Monday, June 04, 18:00 UTC @ News - Apple Developer

Siri can now intelligently pair users’ daily routines with your apps to suggest convenient shortcuts right when they’re needed. Use the Shortcuts API to help users quickly accomplish tasks related to your app, directly from the lock screen, in Spotlight, or from the Siri watch face.Learn more about Siri Shortcuts

Monday, June 04, 18:00 UTC @ News - Apple Developer

Download the Xcode 10 beta, which includes the SDKs for iOS 12, watchOS 5, tvOS 12, and macOS Mojave. With powerful advancements in Apple software and tools, you can build your most interactive, intelligent, and engaging experiences yet.Learn more

Monday, June 04, 18:00 UTC @ News - Apple Developer

With Core ML 2, you can process models faster than ever, make them smaller, and much more. And now, you can easily build and train models using the new Create ML framework, with no machine learning expertise required.Learn more about machine learning

Monday, June 04, 18:00 UTC @ News - Apple Developer

iOS is the biggest AR platform in the world, and now you can create even more incredible experiences with ARKit 2. Multiple users can use their iOS device to simultaneously view AR experiences or play multiplayer games, as bystanders spectate. AR experiences can be saved and resumed at a later time in the same state. And you can incorporate real-world objects into your AR experiences, giving your users greater immersive opportunities.Learn more about ARKit 2

Monday, June 04, 17:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Christine Cignoli, GCP blog editor When it comes to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), every month is chock full of news and information. We’re kicking off a monthly recap of key moments you may have missed. What caught your attention this month: Announcements about open source projects were some of the most-read this month.

Monday, June 04, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Grace Mollison, Cloud Solutions Architect Cloud computing has changed many traditional IT practices, and one particularly useful change has been in the area of disaster recovery (DR). Our team helps Google Cloud Platform (GCP) users build their infrastructures with cloud, and we’ve seen some great results when they use

Monday, June 04, 14:41 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

The annual Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), a premier event in computer vision, takes place this month in Salt Lake City. CVPR is a highly competitive conference and accepted fewer than 1,000 of 3,300 submissions in 2018. IBM Research AI will present multiple technical papers and host two workshops at CVPR 2018. […] The post Expanding AI’s Field of Computer Vision at

Monday, June 04, 10:05 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

by Weiwei Yang I submitted my first patch to Apache Hadoop in 2015, a very simple bug fix with just a few lines of changes. However the feeling is still vivid to me when the patch was accepted, I felt great accomplishment. It was not about how big the change was, but rather because I knew even a small change would help a lot of people. This is the best thing I like about working in Open Source, the work I've done has the chance to influ

Monday, June 04, 09:00 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

Open Source Content Delivery Network used by Cisco, Comcast, Cox, Qwilt, and others serves 30+ petabytes of content each day. Wakefield, MA —4 June 2018— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache® Traffic Control™ as a To

Monday, June 04, 00:00 UTC @ The Syndicate

In our previous post, we described the example Corporate Directory app that we built using the SAP Cloud Platform for iOS SDK. Now let’s take a look at how we started the project in SAP’s Cloud Portal, and how we used the SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS Assistant to generate an Xcode project. Getting Started First we set up our SAP Cloud Platform account, and installed the

Sunday, June 03, 11:49 UTC @ Martin Fowler

Worm's Head, Swansea, Wales (2017)

Sunday, June 03, 10:15 UTC @ Backreaction

Lara. I had just returned from my trip to Dublin when the door rang and the UPS man dumped two big boxes on our doorstep. My husband has a habit of ordering books by the dozens, so my first thought was that this time he’d really outdone himself. Alas, the UPS guy pointed out, the boxes were addressed to me. I signed, feeling guilty for having forgotten I ordered something from Lebanon, that

Sunday, June 03, 10:15 UTC @ Backreaction

Lara. I had just returned from my trip to Dublin when the door rang and the UPS man dumped two big boxes on our doorstep. My husband has a habit of ordering books by the dozens, so my first thought was that this time he’d really outdone himself. Alas, the UPS guy pointed out, the boxes were addressed to me. I signed, feeling guilty for having forgotten I ordered something from Lebanon, that

Saturday, June 02, 17:12 UTC @ Azimuth

Big news! An experiment called MiniBooNE at Fermilab in Chicago has found more evidence that neutrinos are not acting as the Standard Model says they should: • The MiniBooNE Collaboration, Observation of a significant excess of electron-like events in the MiniBooNE short-baseline neutrino experiment. In brief, the experiment creates a beam of muon neutrinos (or […]

Saturday, June 02, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD News Flash

The first RC build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

Friday, June 01, 22:45 UTC @ John D. Cook

I was playing around with something this afternoon and stumbled on something like Gibbs phenomena or Runge phenomena for the Central Limit Theorem. The first place most people encounter Gibbs phenomena is in Fourier series for a step function. The Fourier series develops “bat ears” near the discontinuity. Here’s an example I blogged about before […]

Friday, June 01, 21:10 UTC @ Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP

A possible source of interesting primes Study.com source Pierre de Fermat was fluent in six languages. Yes I thought we would talk about Fermat today. Something I did not know about him is: he was fluent in French, Latin, Greek, Italian, Spanish, and Occitan. I am impressed since I never could handle another language, though […]

Friday, June 01, 20:00 UTC @ x.ai

The Time Lords Manual is a series of 1-minute reads on how to become a master of your time. (You can read the Time Lords Manifesto here). Keeping track of how you fill your day is one of the easiest ways to identify and cut down on wasted time. This theory, which we call Ticker… The post Time Lord’s Manual: Ticker Tracking appeared first on x.ai.

Friday, June 01, 18:09 UTC @ Computational Complexity

The quantum complexity world is a rocking with the paper released yesterday by Ran Raz and Avishay Tal, Oracle Separation of BQP and PH, resolving a question open since quantum complexity got its start over two decades ago. Scott Aaronson's 2010 paper that sets some of the groundwork for the Raz-Tal result gives a nice overview of the question. All of you readers should be fam

Friday, June 01, 15:45 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

Welcome, June! The Apache community is wrapping up the week with the following activities: ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Next Board Meeting: 20 June. Board calendar and minutes http://... ASF Sponsorship –individual donors and corporate sponsors who support the ASF. - The Apache

Friday, June 01, 15:28 UTC @ John D. Cook

Let me say up front that relying on the normal distribution as an accurate model of extreme events is foolish under most circumstances. The main reason to calculate the probability of, say, a 40 sigma event is to show how absurd it is to talk about 40 sigma events. See my previous post on six-sigma […]

Friday, June 01, 12:50 UTC @ Planet Lisp

The computer on which I make Quicklisp builds stopped working a little while ago, and I haven't had time to dive in and work on it. As soon as it's fixed, I'll prepare and release a new dist. Sorry about the inconvenience!

Friday, June 01, 10:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

We announced in January four challenges and prizes to encourage people to take the quantum leap by taking advantage of the IBM Q Experience and the IBM QISKit development platform. One of those challenges, Teach Me QISKit, offered a $1,000 prize for the best interactive self-paced tutorial (based on Jupyter Notebooks) that explains a specific […] The post Teach Me QISKit: We have a winner! appeared f

Friday, June 01, 09:56 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Marty Cagan, Founder, Silicon Valley Product Group Marty Cagan has worked with some of the biggest tech product companies in the world. He was involved in the early stages of Netscape and eBay, and has since formed SVPG, who work with tech product teams to help them make the most of their products. With SVPG, Marty […] The post Customers Are Not The Source Of Innovation | Marty Cagan | CEO Tales appeared

Friday, June 01, 09:53 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Last week some of the smartest minds in the software game gathered in London for Business of Software Conference Europe. For those not able to make it this year, here’s a recap through the eyes of the organisers, speakers, and attendees. Below you’ll find the Slide Decks from the talks, book and podcast recommendations from […] The post Slides, Notes, �

Friday, June 01, 09:26 UTC @ Complex Projective 4-Space

David Davis has proposed two geopolitical ideas: For Northern Ireland to have dual EU/UK status; For there to be a 10-mile ‘trade buffer zone’ between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The second is more interesting from a mathematical … Continue reading →

Friday, June 01, 04:02 UTC @ APIDesign - Blogs

After few months the newest version of Bck2Brwsr VM is here. It contains: Fast emulation of long numbers based

Thursday, May 31, 22:17 UTC @ Daring Fireball

iOS’s “Erase all data on this iPhone after 10 failed passcode attempts” feature is far more clever than I realized, and it’s highly unlikely that your kids or jackass drinking buddies could ever trigger it.

Thursday, May 31, 21:07 UTC @ Gorilla Logic

Gorilla Logic is proud to be ranked among the best App Development companies in Denver by Clutch, a platform that identifies market leaders by conducting unbiased reviews and summarizing service offerings. While the Gorilla Logic headquarters is in Colorado, and we love working with our local clients, we have clients all over the country.  It […] The post

Thursday, May 31, 20:53 UTC @ TED Blog

Dr. Seth Berkley is an epidemiologist and the CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, a global health organization dedicated to improving access to vaccines in developing countries. When he last spoke at TED, in 2015, Seth showed the audience two experimental vaccines for Ebola — both of them in active testing at the time, as […]

Thursday, May 31, 19:41 UTC @ John D. Cook

I saw on Twitter this afternoon a paraphrase of a quote from Nassim Taleb to the effect that if you see a six-sigma event, that’s evidence that it wasn’t really a six-sigma event. What does that mean? Six sigma means six standard deviations away from the mean of a probability distribution, sigma (σ) being the […]

Thursday, May 31, 18:00 UTC @ News - Apple Developer

Search Ads provides an efficient and easy way to promote your app at the top of App Store search results. Now you can create more ad variations using all of the screenshots and app previews from your App Store product page.Learn more

Thursday, May 31, 15:09 UTC @ Computational Complexity

I stumbled upon an old blog post on the Lesswrong weblog that quotes several famous mathematicians on the connections, or lack thereof, between mathematics competitions and mathematics research. Let me tell you how a seventh grade math contest altered the course of my life. In 1975 I attended seventh grade in a middle school in upstate New Jersey. The school divided the students

Thursday, May 31, 13:00 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

Augments ASF Platinum Sponsorship with Targeted Sponsorship at the Platinum Level Wakefield, MA —31 May 2018— The Apache® Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today expanded support provided by Oath, a long-term ASF Platinum Sponsor. Oath, a subsidiary of Verizon, r

Thursday, May 31, 12:19 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

TRAPPIST-1 is a planetary system located 12 parsecs (39 light years) away from the Solar system, near the ecliptic, within the constellation of Aquarius. Around a star which is 12 times smaller than the Sun and only slightly larger than Jupiter, there are at least seven planets in orbit. The first interplanetary listening observation made […] The post TRAPPIST-1: Interplanetary

Thursday, May 31, 09:15 UTC @ Y Combinator

Liz Wessel is the cofounder and CEO of WayUp. WayUp is a job and internship platform for college students and recent graduates. They were part of the Winter 2015 YC batch.

Thursday, May 31, 06:29 UTC @ Backreaction

The collaboration of a neutrino experiment called MiniBooNe just published their new results: Observation of a Significant Excess of Electron-Like Events in the MiniBooNE Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiment MiniBooNE Collaboration arXiv:1805.12028 [hep-ex] It’s a rather unassuming paper, but it deserves a signal boost because for once we have an anomaly that did not vanish with further

Thursday, May 31, 06:29 UTC @ Backreaction

The collaboration of a neutrino experiment called MiniBooNe just published their new results: Observation of a Significant Excess of Electron-Like Events in the MiniBooNE Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiment MiniBooNE Collaboration arXiv:1805.12028 [hep-ex] It’s a rather unassuming paper, but it deserves a signal boost because for once we have an anomaly that did not vanish with further

Thursday, May 31, 03:02 UTC @ John D. Cook

Calendars are based on three frequencies: the rotation of the Earth on its axis, the rotation of the moon around the Earth, and the rotation of the Earth around the sun. Calendars are complicated because none of these periods is a simple multiple of any other. The ratios are certainly not integers, but they’re not […]

Wednesday, May 30, 15:11 UTC @ tecosystems

this is why you stream the keynote pic.twitter.com/UTxysJ2zXK — steve o'grady (@sogrady) March 20, 2018 When RedMonk hosted the first Monktoberfest, we had never organized an event before. We had co-hosted events a few times and run countless informal developer meetups over beers, but never been the sole organizer responsible for everything from attendance to

Wednesday, May 30, 15:11 UTC @ tecosystems

this is why you stream the keynote pic.twitter.com/UTxysJ2zXK — steve o'grady (@sogrady) March 20, 2018 When RedMonk hosted the first Monktoberfest, we had never organized an event before. We had co-hosted events a few times and run countless informal developer meetups over beers, but never been the sole organizer responsible for everything from attendance to

Wednesday, May 30, 04:22 UTC @ Computational Complexity

I recently go the following email (I blocked out identifying information of who send it and what college is involved. I doubt I needed to legally but... you never know.) I include my comments on the email in cap letters. I am NOT flattered by the email. I have LESS regard for those who send it. I will say that the school is respectable and I had heard of them. I'm just surprised they heard of me. (The letter was typeset fine- if there are problems with typesetting belo

Wednesday, May 30, 01:31 UTC @ John D. Cook

Erik Erlandson sent me a note saying he found my post on computing the soft maximum helpful. (If you’re unfamiliar with the soft maximum, here’s a brief description of what it is and how you might use it.) Erik writes I used your post on practical techniques for computing smooth max, which will probably be […]

Tuesday, May 29, 17:24 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

The past month has seen quite a few events and articles celebrating the 100th anniversary of Richard Feynman’s birth (see for example here, here, here and here). Feynman was one of the great figures of twentieth century physics, with a … Continue reading →

Tuesday, May 29, 15:39 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Tuesday, May 29, 12:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Recently, I wrote about the state of our climate and outlined our understanding of the science.  Now, let’s talk about the economic impact of these changes, some of which the U.S. Government Accountability Office has summarized in this map reflecting the end of the century. Urban areas We can explore some of these implications.  In […] The post The Economic and Societal Impact of Climate Change

Tuesday, May 29, 04:00 UTC @ This Week in Rust

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 or send us a pull request. Want to get involved?

Tuesday, May 29, 00:00 UTC @ The Syndicate

When SAP announced their collaboration with Apple providing an SDK to build iOS apps, we were really excited to see what kind of apps we could build for our enterprise client base. After spending some time with the tutorials that the SAP team put together and talking with the SAP and Apple teams, we decided to build an example app that functions as a corporate directory and contact list. Why a Corporate Directory / Contact List? We have our o

Tuesday, May 29, 00:00 UTC @ objc.io

In last week’s Swift Tip, we showed a simple way to configure view controllers by adding a configure method: func configure(context: NSManagedObjectContext, recording: Recording) { self.context = context self.recording = recording } In our new book, App Architecture, we show an alterna

Monday, May 28, 20:23 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

Jim Holt has a new book out, a collection of essays entitled When Einstein Walked with Gödel. I wrote enthusiastically about his last book (Why Does the World Exist?) here and, if you have any interest at all in the … Continue reading →

Monday, May 28, 15:52 UTC @ Backreaction

Simplicity in photographic art. “Monday Blues Chat” By Erin Photography In my upcoming book “Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray,” I explain what makes a theory beautiful in the eyes of a physicist and how beauty matters for their research. For this, I interviewed about a dozen theoretical physicists (full list here) and spoke to many more. I also read every book I could find on the

Monday, May 28, 15:52 UTC @ Backreaction

Simplicity in photographic art. “Monday Blues Chat” By Erin Photography In my upcoming book “Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray,” I explain what makes a theory beautiful in the eyes of a physicist and how beauty matters for their research. For this, I interviewed about a dozen theoretical physicists (full list here) and spoke to many more. I also read every book I could find on the

Saturday, May 26, 19:48 UTC @ John D. Cook

NASA’s Galileo mission was primarily designed to explore Jupiter and its moons. In 1989, the Galileo probe started out traveling away from Jupiter in order to do a gravity assist swing around Venus. About a year later it also did a gravity assist maneuver around Earth. Carl Sagan suggested that when passing Earth, the Galileo […]

Saturday, May 26, 08:02 UTC @ Planet Lisp

At the 2018 European Lisp Symposium, the most obviously actionable feedback for SBCL from a presentation was from Didier's remorseless deconstruction of SBCL's support for method combinations (along with the lack of explicitness about behavioural details in the ANS

Saturday, May 26, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD News Flash

The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

Saturday, May 26, 00:27 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

One could describe a pirate as a sailor with a missing eye, or a tripod could be thought of as a table with a missing leg. Descriptions like these, based on what is missing, are called contrastive explanations. Such explanations are a requirement for doctors when evaluating patients. Just saying that the heart beat was […] The post Contrastive Explanations Help AI Explain Itself by Identifying What

Friday, May 25, 20:34 UTC @ Indie Stack

There’s a general consensus among many Mac and (mostly) iOS developers, that AppKit is “old and busted” and UIKit is “new and refined.” I am still fairly limited in my experience with UIKit, but in many ways I agree that in developing the framework, they left some of the more annoying baggage of AppKit behind. … Continue reading Icon for File with UIKit

Friday, May 25, 19:55 UTC @ TED Blog

What’s it like to stand in the wings, preparing to give your TED Talk and share a big idea to create ripples of change? This video, captured at TED2018, gives a taste of that. It follows the first speakers of The Audacious Project, TED’s new initiative to fund big ideas for global change. These speakers […]

Friday, May 25, 19:15 UTC @ tecosystems

Once upon a time, there was an open source project called OpenStack. From humble beginnings across a couple of Python projects scattered across NASA and Rackspace, it grew at an incredible rate to truly outsized proportions. At the height of its trajectory, its ambitions – stated or otherwise – were nothing less than providing open

Friday, May 25, 19:15 UTC @ tecosystems

Once upon a time, there was an open source project called OpenStack. From humble beginnings across a couple of Python projects scattered across NASA and Rackspace, it grew at an incredible rate to truly outsized proportions. At the height of its trajectory, its ambitions – stated or otherwise – were nothing less than providing open

Friday, May 25, 13:13 UTC @ 250bpm-blogs

Introduction In the past I've reviewed Eliezer Yudkowsky's "Inadequate Equilibria" book. My main complaint was that while it explains the problem of suboptimal Nash equilibria very well, it doesn't propose any solutions. Instead, it says that we should be aware of such coordination failures and we should expect ourselves to fare better than the official institutions

Friday, May 25, 12:35 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

Ah, May ... you flew by too quickly. Let's look back at what the Apache community has been up to this week: ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Next Board Meeting: 20 June. Board calendar and minutes http://... ApacheCon™ –the ASF's official global conference series. - 11-14 Jun

Friday, May 25, 09:30 UTC @ Y Combinator

Simon Benjamin is a Professor of Quantum Technologies at Oxford. He is also the Principle Investigator for Oxford's project on Quantum Optimisation and Machine Learning.

Friday, May 25, 07:25 UTC @ Ole Begemann

Happy GDPR day! We’ll have to wait and see what effect the new regulation has in practice, but I’m convinced that we as a society must do something to control limitless data collection by the richest and most powerful organizations in the world (that includes both state actors and the big Internet companies). I applaud the EU for taking a stance, even if the end result may be flawed and may even end up strengthening

Friday, May 25, 00:00 UTC @ Pedro Piñera

I never thought I’d be writing about this, but I’m suffering from the XXI century illness, stress. It’s been some months with my feelings being a roller coaster. Things that used to motivate me, like going running, or meeting friends, became not enjoyable anymore. Some days I even felt a sharp pain in the chest when I was in an overwhelming situation. What’s happening? I had a chat with my girlfriend and explained her all my feelings and what I thought had led me to this situatio

Thursday, May 24, 22:20 UTC @ Azimuth

This looks great too: • Workshop on Compositional Approaches in Physics, Natural Language Processing, and Social Sciences, 2 September 2018, Nice, France. Compositional Approaches for Physics, NLP, and Social Sciences (CAPNS 2018) will be colocated with QI 2018. The workshop is a continuation and extension of the Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of […]

Thursday, May 24, 21:49 UTC @ Azimuth

Simon Willerton pointed out a wonderful workshop, which unfortunately neither he nor I can attend… nor Jamie Vicary, who is at Birmingham: • Tropical Mathematics & Optimisation for Railways, University of Birmingham, School of Engineering, Monday 18 June 2018. If you can go, please do—and report back! Tropical algebra involves the numbers made into a […]

Thursday, May 24, 18:27 UTC @ Hacker Noon - Medium

Thursday, May 24, 17:48 UTC @ ACM Queue - All Queue Content

This article presents equations that relate to workload utilization scaling at a per-DVFS subsystem level. A relation between frequency, utilization, and scale factor (which itself varies with frequency) is established. The verification of these equations turns out to be tricky, since inherent to workload, the utilization also varies seemingly in an unspecified manner at the granularity of governance samples. Thus, a novel approach called histogram ridge trace is applied. Quantifying the scaling impact is c

Thursday, May 24, 15:30 UTC @ x.ai

When I first arrived here 2.5 years ago, my challenge was not getting people interested in AI or even the very narrow application that we’re building (an AI scheduling assistant). AI then was like cryptocurrencies now, at the height of the hype cycle. No, my challenge was explaining how it actually worked and what it… The post WIRED magazine on how x.ai is building AI today appeared first on

Thursday, May 24, 15:15 UTC @ Computational Complexity

I got an interesting email question. Suppose I give you a set of points S of the form (x,y). He suggested ideally they would be pairs of a real numbers. Supposing there is a causal relationship between x and y of some kind, we want to know know if it is more likely that the x value causes the y value or

Thursday, May 24, 12:30 UTC @ Ole Begemann

The final version of App Architecture: iOS Application Design Patterns in Sw

Wednesday, May 23, 15:47 UTC @ Terra Incognita

I made an introductory talk on word embeddings in the past and this write-up is an extended version of the part about philosophical ideas behind word vectors. The aim of this article is to provide an introduction to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s main ideas on linguistics that are closely related to techniques that are distributional (I’ll talk what this...

Wednesday, May 23, 13:13 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

In collaboration with ETH Zurich, our team at IBM Research – Zurich published an article reviewing the interaction of liquid flows with biological cells. Our work was featured on the cover of the May 23 issue of Chemical Reviews, a highly-cited peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Chemical Society. The article highlights the importance […] The post Hydrodynamics in Cell Studies

Wednesday, May 23, 12:47 UTC @ Backreaction

I know, you have all missed my awesome chord progressions, but do not despair, I have relief for your bored ears. I am finally reasonably happy with the vocal recordings if not with the processing, or the singing, or the lyrics. But working on that. The video was painful, both figuratively and literally; I am clearly too old to crouch on the floor for extended periods and had to hobble stairs

Wednesday, May 23, 12:47 UTC @ Backreaction

I know, you have all missed my awesome chord progressions, but do not despair, I have relief for your bored ears. I am finally reasonably happy with the vocal recordings if not with the processing, or the singing, or the lyrics. But working on that. The video was painful, both figuratively and literally; I am clearly too old to crouch on the floor for extended periods and had to hobble stairs

Wednesday, May 23, 11:45 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Today IBM Research is introducing IBM Crypto Anchor Verifier, a new technology that brings innovations in AI and optical imaging together to help prove the identity and authenticity of objects. We’re rolling this technology out with one of our first clients, GIA (Gemological Institute of America), to help them evaluate and grade diamonds. A fusion […] The post Pairing AI with Optical Scanning fo

Wednesday, May 23, 10:00 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

Open Source component-oriented Web framework used by the Brazilian Air Force, Emirates Real Estate Investment Trust, German National Library of Science and Technology, Japan National Police Agency, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Orange Moldova, Savings Banks Group Finland, Taiwan High Speed Rail, and Topicus B.V., among other organizations. Wakefield, MA —23 May 2018— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF),

Wednesday, May 23, 02:38 UTC @ Coding on the edges

Quicksort has a reputation for speed. In school, you learn that it is O(n log n) … the optimum for all single-threaded, comparison-based sorts. In fact, when combined with median-of-three pivot selection, tiny-partition insertion-sort, and special equal-keys handling (qv Top … Continue reading →

Tuesday, May 22, 22:28 UTC @ Daring Fireball

A recording is *not* a demo.

Tuesday, May 22, 21:44 UTC @ tecosystems

For a decade, at least, observers of the company have speculated about whether Red Hat would or should enter the database market. The primary argument, one made in this space eight years ago, has historically been that Red Hat is de facto leaving potential dollars on the table by limiting itself to operating platform and

Tuesday, May 22, 21:44 UTC @ tecosystems

For a decade, at least, observers of the company have speculated about whether Red Hat would or should enter the database market. The primary argument, one made in this space eight years ago, has historically been that Red Hat is de facto leaving potential dollars on the table by limiting itself to operating platform and

Tuesday, May 22, 20:47 UTC @ gilded : rust

The recent furor over the stabilization of impl Trait in argument position highlights the fact that some people perceive the RFC process as having insufficient visibility in the community. I'd like to share some thoughts on this. A few times in my years following Rust (mostly via this subreddit and TWIR as linked in the subreddit) I've been surprised by what appears to be a sudden stabilization without much debate. I believe this is a symptom of

Tuesday, May 22, 20:20 UTC @ Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP

A diversion in mathematical consistency Cropped from source Terrence Howard is an actor and singer who has been in a number of films and TV series. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in the movie Hustle & Flow. He currently stars in the TV series Empire. Today Ken and I want […]

Tuesday, May 22, 20:12 UTC @ John D. Cook

Most basic combinatorial problems can be solved in terms of multiplication, permutations, and combinations. The next step beyond the basics, in my experience, is counting selections with replacement. Often when I run into a problem that is not quite transparent, it boils down to this. Examples of selection with replacement Here are three problems that […]

Tuesday, May 22, 17:10 UTC @ John D. Cook

It’s easy to create rational approximations for π. Every time you write down π to a few decimal places, that’s a rational approximation. For example, 3.14 = 314/100. But that’s not the best approximation. Think of the denominator of your fraction as something you have to buy. If you have enough budget to buy a three-digit […]

Tuesday, May 22, 15:31 UTC @ Y Combinator

One of the hardest questions to answer when considering an A is “when is my company ready?” I’ve been returning to this problem nearly every day since we started the Series A program and I’ve started to build a framework for how to solve it.

Tuesday, May 22, 09:06 UTC @ gilded : rust

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Tuesday, May 22, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD News Flash

Tuesday, May 22, 07:50 UTC @ APIDesign - Blogs

Stefan asked who shall be responsible for integration in the MultiGitRepository setup? Should there be an integration guy? No, its 21st century and we know how to use Git, right? The right tool is called pull request!

Tuesday, May 22, 02:03 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

I’ve been trying to find time to write about some books I’ve been reading. Maybe later this week. In the meantime, some things that may be of interest: This week in Norway there will be various events in celebration of … Continue reading →

Tuesday, May 22, 00:00 UTC @ objc.io

Love them or hate them, Storyboards are used in many iOS projects. In this week’s Swift Tip, we look at a simple way to make them more robust. When you present a new view controller using Storyboards, it’s usually a multi-step process: first, the segue is triggered, and at a later step, you configure the segue. This makes it easy to miss configuration code. For example, in the code below, we set the two properties that the PlayViewController needs:

Tuesday, May 22, 00:00 UTC @ The Syndicate

Congrats on making it past the phone screen! You have proven that you possess the skill of speech, have not appeared overtly threatening, and the company is willing to spend more of their time vetting you. Whether you’re a senior developer, or a first-timer, you may be worried about what comes next. The interview styles at tech companies vary widely, but there are some universal pro tips that can shift the process in your favor. Specific is terrific Know and s

Monday, May 21, 18:53 UTC @ John D. Cook

Here’s an interesting problem that came out of a logistic regression application. The input variable was between 0 and 1, and someone asked when and where the logistic transformation f(x) = 1/(1 + exp(a + bx)) has a fixed point, i.e. f(x) = x. So given logistic regression parameters a and b, when does the logistic curve given by y […]

Monday, May 21, 11:59 UTC @ ACM Queue - All Queue Content

Applications are no longer islands. Not only do they frequently run distributed and replicated over many cloud-based computers, but they also run over many hand-held computers. This makes it challenging to talk about a single truth at a single place or time. In addition, most modern applications interact with other applications. These interactions settle out to impact understanding. Over time, a shared opinion emerges just as new interactions add increasing uncertainty. Many business, personal, and computat

Monday, May 21, 10:33 UTC @ Use Your Loaf

What is a lazy stored property in Swift? How and when should you use it? A quick guide to get you started and some key points to remember. First a recap of the most common ways to declare and initialize stored properties in Swift: Direct Assignment The simplest form of initializer for constant and variable stored properties by direct assignment of an intial value: // constant let fontSize: CGFloat = 24.0 // variable var spacing: C

Monday, May 21, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD News Flash

Monday, May 21, 02:44 UTC @ Computational Complexity

Quad VDW Theorem: For all c there exists W=W(c) such that for all c-colorings of {1,...,W} there exists a,d such that a and a+d2 are the same color. What is known about W(c)? The first proof of Quad VDW was nonconstructive. The second proof was constructive but used VDW's theorem and gave terrible bounds, even for W(2). EASY: Show W(2)=5 ON A HS MATH COMP: Show that for all 3-colorings of {1,...,2003} there exists two numbers

Sunday, May 20, 10:25 UTC @ Recent commits to luajit-2.0

Sunday, May 20, 02:34 UTC @ Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP

Should we expect simplicity in a theory named for complexity? Amer. Phy. Soc. interview source Sabine Hossenfelder is a physicist at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies who works on quantum gravity. She is also noted for her BackRe(Action) blog. She has a forthcoming book Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray. Its thesis […]

Sunday, May 20, 00:11 UTC @ John D. Cook

A new video from 3Blue1Brown is about visualizing derivatives as stretching and shrinking factors. Along the way they consider the function f(x) = 1 + 1/x. Iterations of f converge on the golden ratio, no matter where you start (with one exception). The video creates a graph where they connect values of x on one […]

Saturday, May 19, 21:32 UTC @ Azimuth

  My student Brandon Coya finished his thesis, and successfully defended it last Tuesday! • Brandon Coya, Circuits, Bond Graphs, and Signal-Flow Diagrams: A Categorical Perspective, Ph.D. thesis, U. C. Riverside, 2018. It’s about networks in engineering. He uses category theory to study the diagrams engineers like to draw, and functors to understand how these […]

Saturday, May 19, 13:44 UTC @ Complex Projective 4-Space

Congratulations to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry on what is undoubtedly the most energetic Royal Wedding! In other news, following on from Aubrey de Grey’s 5-chromatic unit-distance graph, there has been an effort to study the algebraic structure of the … Continue reading →

Saturday, May 19, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD News Flash

The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

Friday, May 18, 18:38 UTC @ Miguel de Icaza

With Xamarin.Forms 3.0 in addition to the many new feature work that we did, we have been doing some general optimizations across the board, from compile times to startup times and wanted to share some recent results on the net effect on one of our larger sample apps. These are the results when doing a cold start for the SmartHotel360 application on Android when compiled for 32bits (armeabi-v7a) on a Google

Friday, May 18, 17:52 UTC @ x.ai

One of the things we value most at x.ai is a relentless approach to bettering our product and ourselves.  We’re building technology for which no prior model exists for us to learn from. Because we’re writing the precedents ourselves, we have to leave our egos at the door and constantly question one another.  Are we… The post How the x.ai process evolves appeared first on x

Friday, May 18, 12:42 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

Hey, Friday: we've had a productive week in ApacheLand! Let's take a look at our achievements: ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Next Board Meeting: 20 June. Board calendar and minutes http://... ApacheCon™ –the ASF's official global conference series. - Apache Roadshow Eu

Friday, May 18, 12:34 UTC @ Backreaction

[Image: Everett Collection] In the years of World War II, National Socialists executed about six million Jews. The events did not have a single cause, but most historians agree that a major reason was social reinforcement, more widely known as “group think.” The Germans who went along with the Nazis’ organized mass murder were not psychopaths. By all accounts they were “normal people.” They

Friday, May 18, 12:34 UTC @ Backreaction

[Image: Everett Collection] In the years of World War II, National Socialists executed about six million Jews. The events did not have a single cause, but most historians agree that a major reason was social reinforcement, more widely known as “group think.” The Germans who went along with the Nazis’ organized mass murder were not psychopaths. By all accounts they were “normal people.” They

Friday, May 18, 02:36 UTC @ Daring Fireball

The fact that I had an answer to my question in just 22 minutes shows that having a large follower count on Twitter is a bit of a super power.

Thursday, May 17, 22:09 UTC @ joe cieplinski

I’m not particularly interested in whether or not the Google Duplex demo was faked. (The fact that Google didn’t even think to address the ethics of the technology was far more interesting—and frightning—to me.) But if I had to guess: Google made a real phone call,

Thursday, May 17, 21:44 UTC @ Planet Lisp

Hello there, it has been a very long time since I posted here, but most recently, thanks to a couple of pesky bug reports on HEΛP by Mirko Vukovic, and because I had a couple of days relatively free, I was able to go back to do some programming, fix (some of) the bugs and post here. Here is the story. There were two bugs which I had to deal with (there are more, of course). A bug tr

Thursday, May 17, 14:43 UTC @ John D. Cook

I just made one of those O’Reilly parody book covers.     It’s a joke on Judea Pearl, expert in causal inference, and the Perl programming language, known for its unusual, terse syntax. Related:

Thursday, May 17, 14:16 UTC @ John D. Cook

When I was a teenager, my uncle gave me a calculus book and told me that mastering calculus was the most important thing I could do for starting out in math. So I learned the basics of calculus from that book. Later I read Michael Spivak’s two calculus books. I took courses that built on […]

Thursday, May 17, 12:37 UTC @ Computational Complexity

In 1937, a year after Turing had his seminal paper, Ronald Coase published a paper The Nature of the Firm to give a framework to why we have companies and how large they become. In a perfect market economy we shouldn't need a firm at all, everyone is just an independent contractor and market pricing will drive efficient use of labor. Coase notes there are costs to creating contracts and on

Thursday, May 17, 11:00 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Walk on Music. Let’s play, match the speaker to the walk-on music. Each speaker at BoS Conference gets to choose their own walk on music unless they are brave enough to leave it to us… Here is the walk on music for this year’s Business of Software Conference Europe. Can you match the music to […] The post Speaker Walk on Music, BoS Conference Europe 2018. app

Thursday, May 17, 10:50 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

Community-driven conference series to gather dozens of Apache projects and their communities in Montréal to share and learn about the latest Open Source innovations in Big Data, Cloud, Finance, IoT, Machine Learning, Search, Servers, and more in a collaborative, vendor-neutral environment Wakefield, MA —17 May 2018— The Apache® Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and

Thursday, May 17, 05:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

IBM built the first vacuum tube “supercomputer” in 1944, the Mark I. The first digital mainframe, the IBM 1401, came along 15 years later in 1959. The IBM 360 mainframe made history when it was released in 1964 but it would be another 17 years before the PC arrived – a computer that people could […] The post First IBM Q Hub in Asia to Spur Academic, Commercial Quantum Ecosystem appeared first on

Wednesday, May 16, 22:43 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Twitter may not care about a native Mac client, but the users of these apps, and the developers who make them, certainly do.

Wednesday, May 16, 15:33 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

About one-third of the total disease burden in developing countries results from brain disorders such as epilepsy, schizophrenia, and depression. These neuropsychiatric disorders are prevalent in low- to middle-income countries due to various factors, e.g. difficult births, malnutrition, and exposure to infectious diseases and toxins. Around 80 percent of the world’s epilepsy occurs in low- […] The post

Wednesday, May 16, 14:00 UTC @ John D. Cook

The two-sample t-test is a way to test whether two data sets come from distributions with the same mean. I wrote a few days ago about how the test performs under ideal circumstances, as well as less than ideal circumstances. This is an analogous post for testing whether two data sets come from distributions with the same […]

Wednesday, May 16, 09:30 UTC @ Y Combinator

John Preskill is a theoretical physicist and the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech. In this episode we cover what John’s been focusing on for years: quantum information, quantum computing, and quantum error correction.

Tuesday, May 15, 18:37 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Tuesday, May 15, 13:45 UTC @ Planet Lisp

See: http://... You join a team of developers, scientists, engineers and business developers that develop, operate and commercialize SynaptiQ worldwide. You work in a Linux-based Java, Clojure and Common Lisp environment. Your focus is on the development, maintenance, design and unit testing of SynaptiQ's real-time aggregation and alerting engine that proc

Tuesday, May 15, 12:00 UTC @ John D. Cook

To first approximation, Earth is a sphere. A more accurate description is that the earth is an oblate spheroid, the polar axis being a little shorter than the equatorial diameter. See details here. Other planets are also oblate spheroids as well. Jupiter is further from spherical than the earth is more oblate. The general equation […]

Tuesday, May 15, 11:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

One of the largest growing demographics in the EU is individuals aged 65 and over, and two thirds of this group are in situation of multimorbidity, i.e., perons who suffer from two or more chronic diseases. The ineffective treatment of multimorbidity has been pointed out as an urgent problem to address by the Academy of […] The post Using IoT, AI and cloud technologies to advance home-based inte

Tuesday, May 15, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD News Flash

Tuesday, May 15, 06:11 UTC @ Backreaction

I have a new paper out today and it wouldn’t have happened without this blog. A year ago, I wrote a blogpost declaring that “academia is fucked up,” to quote myself because my words are the best words. In that blogpost, I had some suggestions how to improve the situation, for example by offering ways to quantify scientific activity other than counting papers and citations. But ranting on a

Tuesday, May 15, 06:11 UTC @ Backreaction

I have a new paper out today and it wouldn’t have happened without this blog. A year ago, I wrote a blogpost declaring that “academia is fucked up,” to quote myself because my words are the best words. In that blogpost, I had some suggestions how to improve the situation, for example by offering ways to quantify scientific activity other than counting papers and citations. But ranting on a

Tuesday, May 15, 03:47 UTC @ Computational Complexity

On my final in Aut Theory I wanted to ask a TRUE/FALSE/UNKNOWN TO SCIENCE question but did not want them to guess. Hence I had +4 for a right answer, -3 for a wrong answer. Here is the question: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For each of the following say if its TRUE, FALSE, or UNKNOWN TO SCIENCE. No Proof Required BUT you get +4 for every right answer and -3 for every wrong answer and 0 for an answer left blank. So

Tuesday, May 15, 00:00 UTC @ objc.io

“Most writing about app architecture tries to sell you on a specific solution. We believe almost any architecture can work well, if applied correctly.” — Chris Eidhof 📗   App Architecture We’re very happy to announce the full release of our new book,

Monday, May 14, 23:34 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

There’s a HEPAP meeting today, with news about the US HEP budget situation, presentations here. Since the 2016 election physicists have been worried about how the Republican Congress and Trump administration will treat scientific research in general and physics research … Continue reading →

Monday, May 14, 19:09 UTC @ Sean Carroll

In completely separate video news, here are videos of lectures I gave at CERN several years ago: “Cosmology for Particle Physicists” (May 2005). These are slightly technical — at the very least they presume you know calculus and basic physics … Continue reading →

Monday, May 14, 14:06 UTC @ ACM Queue - All Queue Content

This article takes a closer look at two storage system design approaches used in a majority of modern databases (read-optimized B-trees and write-optimized LSM (log-structured merge)-trees) and describes their use cases and tradeoffs.

Sunday, May 13, 20:00 UTC @ composition.al

Friends, I have some big news! After defending my Ph.D. in 2014, I joined Intel Labs as a research scientist. While at Intel, I’ve gotten to work on some really

Saturday, May 12, 10:07 UTC @ 250bpm-blogs

Scott Aaronson, in his blog post about common knowledge, writes: If you read accounts of Nazi Germany, or the USSR, or North Korea or other despotic regimes today, you can easily be overwhelmed by this sense of, “so why didn’t all the sane people just rise up and overthrow the totalitarian monsters? Surely there were more sane peop

Saturday, May 12, 02:23 UTC @ Azimuth

guest post by Christian Williams Mike Stay has been doing some really cool stuff since earning his doctorate. He’s been collaborating with Greg Meredith, who studied the π-calculus with Abramsky, and then conducted impactful research and design in the software industry before some big ideas led him into the new frontier of decentralization. They and a great […]

Friday, May 11, 19:33 UTC @ tecosystems

Particularly for those who have been in the industry long enough to remember when it was compared to cancer, we live in a veritable golden age for open source software. Once a bizarre, improbable model for generating commercial returns if not building software, it is increasingly and overwhelmingly the default approach. As Cloudera’s Mike Olson

Friday, May 11, 19:33 UTC @ tecosystems

Particularly for those who have been in the industry long enough to remember when it was compared to cancer, we live in a veritable golden age for open source software. Once a bizarre, improbable model for generating commercial returns if not building software, it is increasingly and overwhelmingly the default approach. As Cloudera’s Mike Olson

Friday, May 11, 19:26 UTC @ Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog

The Gentle Art of Levitation 2010 by James Chapman, Pierre-Evariste Dagand, Conor McBride, Peter Morrisy We present a closed dependent type theory whose inductive types are given not by a scheme for generative declarations, but by encoding in a universe. Each inductive datatype arises by interpreting its description—a first-class value in a datatype of descriptions. Moreover, the latter itself has a description. Datatype-

Friday, May 11, 16:40 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

And Friday is back! Let's review our weekly activities... Success at Apache –a monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". - Dip into the Apache Way by Nick Couchman https://... ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Next Board Meeting: 16 May. Board calendar and minutes

Friday, May 11, 16:14 UTC @ Backreaction

Strings. [image: freeimages.com] “Greetings Dr. Hossenfelder! I am a Princeton physics major who regularly reads your wonderful blog. I recently came across a curious passage in Brian Greene’s introduction to a reprint edition of Einstein's Meaning of Relativity which claims that: “Superstring theory successfully merges general relativity and quantum mechanics [...] Moreover, not only

Friday, May 11, 16:14 UTC @ Backreaction

Strings. [image: freeimages.com] “Greetings Dr. Hossenfelder! I am a Princeton physics major who regularly reads your wonderful blog. I recently came across a curious passage in Brian Greene’s introduction to a reprint edition of Einstein's Meaning of Relativity which claims that: “Superstring theory successfully merges general relativity and quantum mechanics [...] Moreover, not only

Friday, May 11, 09:29 UTC @ Computational Complexity

Thursday, May 10, 21:39 UTC @ Cocoa Is My Girlfriend

Recently, I saw a post from Dave DeLong and knowing his history with the framework I read it with extreme curiosity. Unfortunately, that read led to this post as I disagree strongly with a number of the laws he has laid down. Since I know people are going to be asking me about this post […]

Thursday, May 10, 14:57 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Want to know what the smart people are reading? Of course you do. it is one of the things that makes them smart! We asked the speakers from Business of Software Conference Europe 2018, (May 21-22nd, London), what book has had the biggest influence on their career and what they’re reading now. Here’s what they […] The post Business of Software Conference Europe 2018 Speaker

Thursday, May 10, 14:48 UTC @ Sean Carroll

Some of you might be familiar with the Moving Naturalism Forward workshop I organized way back in 2012. For two and a half days, an interdisciplinary group of naturalists (in the sense of “not believing in the supernatural”) sat around … Continue reading →

Thursday, May 10, 10:00 UTC @ Swift.org

The Swift community is growing and Swift Forums are growing with it. The number of projects in the Swift ecosystem keeps expanding and developers are using them more and more to help build their apps. While not officially a part of the language, they exist to provide a leg up on development with optimizations to accomplish specific sets of tasks. As a developer, there are times when you want to interact with like-minded people who are working with or e

Wednesday, May 09, 12:25 UTC @ Computational Complexity

(Don't forget to vote for SIGACT posistions:here 9th workshop on Flexible network design, May 22-25 at College Park, here.) My first poston G4G13 is arguably here. To see why its debatable, see that post. FOXTROT HALF-EMPTY, HALF-FULL PROBLEM, INCLUDING 13 by Thoma

Tuesday, May 08, 19:17 UTC @ Planet Lisp

I presented some of the work on teaching algorithms and data structures at the 2018 European Lisp Symposium Given that I wanted to go to the symposium (and I'm glad I did!), the most economical method for going was if I presented research work - because then there was a reasonable chance that my employer wo

Tuesday, May 08, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD Security Advisories

Tuesday, May 08, 00:00 UTC @ objc.io

Since the first public release of Swift (4 years ago in June!), there’s been much debate about whether Swift is a functional language. Rather than engaging in that discussion, we believe it’s more productive to explore useful techniques from functional programming that you can use today. In Episode 19 of Swift Talk, we looked into replacing NSSortDescriptor with a function:

Monday, May 07, 20:57 UTC @ The Search for Planet Nine

Hi, everyone! I’m Tali, an undergrad at the University of Michigan. Last summer, I worked on a Planet Nine project with Konstantin and Mike, and although we didn’t find Planet Nine (yet!), we did look further into the stability of objects in the presence of Planet Nine. Turns out, not everything is stable! I

Monday, May 07, 20:00 UTC @ Indie Stack

In some scenarios it might be useful to declare a typealias internally to a module, to make it easier to implement the functionality of the module itself, but less useful to export that typealias to clients of the module. For example, consider an image manipulation framework that can work with NSImage or UIImage instances, depending … Continue reading Internal Typealias Promotion

Monday, May 07, 18:00 UTC @ News - Apple Developer

iOS 11 delivers innovative features and the redesigned App Store to hundreds of millions of customers around the world. Your apps can deliver more intelligent, unified, and immersive experiences with Core ML, ARKit, new camera APIs, new SiriKit domains, Apple Music integration, drag and drop for iPad, and more. Starting July 2018, all iOS app updates submitted to the App Store must be built with the iOS 11 SDK and must support the Super Retina display of iPhone X.Learn more about submitting iOS apps to the

Monday, May 07, 14:49 UTC @ ACM Queue - All Queue Content

Clearly, your management has never heard the phrase, "You get what you pay for." Or perhaps they heard it and didn't realize it applied to them. The savings in cloud computing comes at the expense of a loss of control over your systems, which is summed up best in the popular nerd sticker that says, "The Cloud is Just Other People's Computers." Some providers now have something called Metal-as-a-Service, which I really think ought to mean that an '80s metal band shows up at your office, plays a gig, smashes

Monday, May 07, 12:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

User interfaces to artificial intelligence (AI) applications are increasingly using natural language. But while today’s chatbots and AI agents can recognize natural language, like English or Spanish, they still cannot engage with humans in natural conversation. For example, virtual agents often give away the punchline of their own jokes. Today’s Chatbot 1 Human: Tell me […] The post

Monday, May 07, 10:59 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

by Nick Couchman Like other recent contributors to this blog, I am not a developer by trade. My day job is as a Linux Systems Engineer and team manager, and, truth be told, my programming skills are not something I would rely on to make a living. Despite these facts, I've found something beyond acceptance in being a part of the Apache Guacamole project: mentoring. Most of my experience with The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) ha

Monday, May 07, 10:57 UTC @ Planet Lisp

Seen this post mentioned several times on Twitter, but not on Planet Lisp yet. So, here it is: A new way of blogging about Common Lisp by Yehonathan Sharvit (@viebel).

Monday, May 07, 00:00 UTC @ The Syndicate

Introduction “What time is it?” has been an important question to humans for quite some time. For most of history, we only cared what time it was here: When will it get dark? When will it get light? When will this woolly mammoth fall into my cunning spike trap? Then, things got more complicated. I’ve sailed halfway around the world, and the people here think it’s the year 4567, not 1800, what’s up with that? I have a teleconference next week with my client,

Saturday, May 05, 17:56 UTC @ Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP

Triangulating proofs to seek a shorter path Cropped from 2016 Newsday source Mehtaab Sawhney is an undergraduate student at MIT. His work caught my eye on finding his recent paper with David Stoner about permutations that map all three-term arithmetic progressions mod to non-progressions. Here a progression is an ordered triple where . The paper […]

Saturday, May 05, 02:59 UTC @ Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog

Comprehending Ringads 2016 by Jeremy Gibbons Ringad comprehensions represent a convenient notation for expressing database queries. The ringad structure alone does not provide a good explanation or an efficient implementation of relational joins; but by allowing heterogeneous comprehensions, involving both bag and indexed table ringads, we show how to accommodate these too. Indexed/parametric/gra

Friday, May 04, 22:20 UTC @ Gorilla Logic

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 important asset in Gorilla Logic…our […] The post Member of the Band – Backend Engineer Ruben Jimenez appeared first

Friday, May 04, 15:51 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

It's time for our weekly review of the Apache community's activities. Here we go, and "May the 4th" be with you! The Apache Software Foundation Welcomes 51 New Members https://... ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Next Board Meeting: 16 May. Board calendar and minutes

Friday, May 04, 15:18 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

The ability to infer abstract high-level concepts from raw sensory inputs is a key part of human intelligence. Developing models that recapitulate this ability is an important goal in AI research. A fundamental challenge in this respect is disentangling the underlying factors of variation that give rise to the observed data. For example, factors of […] The post Disentanglement of Latent Factors

Friday, May 04, 10:54 UTC @ APIDesign - Blogs

Turns out that one gets very useful MultiGitRepository#Appendix_A:_Local_Collaboration_Area: the master branch in each slave repository of the MultiGitRepository setup is in fact the best place for team members to collaborate without publishing the changes to the final integr

Friday, May 04, 09:29 UTC @ Planet Lisp

A few weeks ago, I attended the 2018 European Lisp Symposium. If you were at the 2017 iteration, you might (as I do) have been left with an abiding image of greyness. That was not at all to fault the location (Brussels) or the organization (co-located with ) of the symposium; however, the weather

Thursday, May 03, 13:30 UTC @ Journal of Computational Geometry

Consider the following problem: Given a planar graph $G$, what is the maximum number $p$ such that $G$ has a planar straight-line drawing with $p$ collinear vertices? This problem resides at the core of several graph drawing problems, including universal point subsets, untangling, and column planarity. The following results are known for it: Every $n$-vertex planar graph has a planar straight-line drawing with $\Omega(\sqrt{n})$ collinear vertices; for every $n$, there is an $n$-vertex planar graph whose

Thursday, May 03, 11:28 UTC @ 250bpm-blogs

I come from Slovakia. Despite being a programer, I grew up and lived in the artist community of Bratislava. Nowadays, though, I am living in Switzerland. I knew that some of the artists from my home city have established ateliers in the old thread factory. Actually, I've spent quite a few days on the premises. But since I moved away, I've heard that the artists haven't managed to make a deal with the owner of the building and that they had to move away. I've also h

Thursday, May 03, 11:12 UTC @ Computational Complexity

The ACM Future of Computing Academy suggests that "peer reviewers should require that papers and proposals rigorously consider all reasonable broader impacts, both positive and negative." Here is the broader impacts section of a future imagined grant proposal. My latest cryptocurrency paper will allow people to sell all sorts of paraphernalia, illegal, immoral and fattening, while avoiding paying taxes. D

Thursday, May 03, 10:30 UTC @ Backreaction

The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club By Eileen Pollack Beacon Press (15 Sep 2015) Eileen Pollack set out to become an astrophysicist but switched to a career in writing after completing her undergraduate degree. In “The Only Woman In The Room” she explores the difficulties she faced that eventually led her to abandon science as a profession. Pollack’s book is mostly

Thursday, May 03, 10:30 UTC @ Backreaction

The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club By Eileen Pollack Beacon Press (15 Sep 2015) Eileen Pollack set out to become an astrophysicist but switched to a career in writing after completing her undergraduate degree. In “The Only Woman In The Room” she explores the difficulties she faced that eventually led her to abandon science as a profession. Pollack’s book is mostly

Thursday, May 03, 09:00 UTC @ Swift.org

We are delighted to announce a significant expansion of our Swift.org continuous integration testing system. Members of the Swift community have been hard at work to support Swift on a number of new platforms, and we have extended the Swift CI system to support community-hosted nodes for testing additional platforms. Community members can volunteer to host nodes for additional platforms and are responsible for maintaining the host system. New nodes can be initiated by creating a pull request at: <

Wednesday, May 02, 23:25 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Lobe is to CoreML what Illustrator was to PostScript — a profoundly powerful tool that exposes the underlying technology to non-experts through an intuitive visual interface.

Wednesday, May 02, 14:32 UTC @ Indie Stack

Recently, as a consequence of working with the CGImageSource API, I found myself in a situation where I had hold of a CFNumber and wanted to get its value, as a CGFloat, in Swift. CFNumber wraps numeric values in such a way that, to get the value out, you have to specify both the desired … Continue reading Getting a CFNumber’s Value in Swift

Wednesday, May 02, 14:06 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) welcomes the following new Members who were elected during the annual ASF Members' Meeting on 20-22 March 2018: Anthony Baker, Bryan Bende, Steve Blackmon, Karsten Braeckelmann, Mark Bretl, Jesús Camacho Rodríguez, Jason Dai, Wido den Hollander, Deepak Dixit, Jonathan Eagles, Stefan Eissing, Deron Eriksson, Joey Frazee, Fabian Hueske, Furkan Kamaci, Holden Ka

Wednesday, May 02, 13:17 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Machine learning is transforming myriad aspects of our lives: our personal assistants, our shopping habits, our daily commutes—even our financial and healthcare systems. But AI models are not infallible: they may be vulnerable to adversarial attack, raising security concerns and potentially compromising people’s confidence in them. Just how vulnerable are they? Until recently, there was […] The post

Wednesday, May 02, 12:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Researchers to study climate, environmental sciences I’m delighted to announce that Emory University, Far Eastern Federal University and Delft University have received grants to use the IBM World Community Grid to study research problems in climate and environmental sciences. Emory University Researchers from Emory University will investigate the impact of climate change on public health.  While the relationship […] The post

Wednesday, May 02, 00:00 UTC @ Planet Lisp

10 years ago, I published a short blog entitled "Lisp, Jazz, Aikido", barely scratching the surface of what I found to be commonalities between the 3 disciplines. At the time, I had the intuition that those ideas were the tip of a potentially big iceberg, and I ended the blog with the following sentence: "I'd like to write a proper essay about these things when I find the time... someday." Well, 10 yea

Tuesday, May 01, 18:20 UTC @ Gorilla Logic

We are excited to announce that Gorilla Logic has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) as a Consulting Partner. With a long history of successful AWS web services implementations, we are looking forward to working even more closely with AWS as an Amazon Web Services Partner. Being an APN member gives us an […] The post Gorilla Logic Joins Amazon Web Services

Tuesday, May 01, 17:30 UTC @ gilded : rust

Have you tried rewriting it in rust? Well I didn't expect the bloody Rust Evangelism Strike Force. bursts through conveniently placed door NOBODY EXPECTS THE RUST EVANGELISM STRIKE FORCE! Our chief feature is safety. Safety and speed. Our two main features are safety and speed. And fearless concurrency. Three! Our three main features are safety, speed, and fearless concurrency. And

Tuesday, May 01, 16:12 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

HPC Deployment of QISKit The recent surge of interest in quantum computing is largely due to the approach of “quantum advantage,” a point at which quantum computers will exceed the capabilities of the largest classical supercomputers when applied to a relevant and important application use case. Conversely, quantum computing simulation is a vital component in […] The post An Open High-Performance Simula

Tuesday, May 01, 08:14 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Company Culture is your organisation’s operating system. Good company culture is more than a ping-pong table or beers on a Friday – it’s about creating an environment for your employees to thrive in. But how do you build that? And how do you scale it? This Business of Software Playlist is here to help answer […] The post How To Build Great Company Culture: A BoS Playlist a

Tuesday, May 01, 01:55 UTC @ Planet Lisp

Matt Emerson opened the conference keynote talk on Clozure CL. He also touched on using and celebrating CL. It provided a jolt of enthusiasm and positivity to kick off a fun conference. And it made me want to use Clozure CL more often and learn how to effectively hack on and with it.Nicolas Hafner's talk on shaders was interesting, but partway through the talk he revealed that the slideshow system itself was an interactive Common Lisp program. Along with standard slideshow behavior, it displayed a

Tuesday, May 01, 00:53 UTC @ Daring Fireball

It’s no longer called “Marzipan”, almost certainly isn’t coming this year, and is probably a declarative user interface API.

Tuesday, May 01, 00:00 UTC @ objc.io

In our latest Swift Talk series, Building a Form Library, we refactor a hand-coded settings form into a reusable, declarative library. In Episode 98, we carry out a refactoring that has often proved useful. Given multiple functions with the same set of parameters, we can extract those parameters into a separate type