Topic A look at why switching to reverse z for a perspective projection matrix has such a dramatic effect. Motivation Reverse z is something I wanted to implement for the longest time. I wanted to

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Abstract: If you’ve ever written some code – Python, R, or Stata, it really doesn’t matter – and used several different types of keyboard to do that, you may have noticed that writing code is easier o

Recent Groundbreaking Discoveries in Mathematics The Hat and the Spectre Learn about the exciting recent discoveries of the Hat (also known as the “einstein tile”) and its close relative, the Spectr

What you need to know Microsoft is planning to roll out a new AI feature dubbed "Windows Recall" on new Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs this month. The feature remembers everything you've done on your compu

Introduction Ludic is a lightweight framework for building HTML pages with a component approach similar to React. It is built to be used together with htmx.org so that developers don't need to write

The tl;dr is that search got really good suddenly and really easy to build because of AI. For instance, this is the search experience I recently made for my side project website Braggoscope. Braggos

In a play published in 1662, a playwright imagined a bizarre educational set-up for women. In a ‘female academy’ (also the name of the play), young women of ‘honourable Birth’ and ‘ancient descent’ ar

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Before PC users can enjoy everything Windows 11 has on tap, they must first enter an e-mail address that’s linked to a Microsoft account. If you don’t have one, you’ll be asked to create one before yo

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I recently made a change in a codebase I've been working on which illustrated an interesting trade-off around modeling in software. The project was Taverner, an IRC server written in Fennel. In parti

I've been interested in (relatively) low-level programming for quite some time. I know C, I can read assembly (write - not so much) and I have basic understanding of CPU (registers, cache, stack and w

I quit my previous job at Robinhood in late November of 2023 mainly for health reasons. I’ve been in various interviews since then. Things have fallen off for one reason or another but I just gotta sa

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Introduction Two years ago, something very strange happened to me while working from my home network. I was exploiting a blind XXE vulnerability that required an external HTTP server to smuggle out f

Koheesio CI/CD Package Meta Koheesio, named after the Finnish word for cohesion, is a robust Python framework for building efficient data pipelines. It promotes modularity and collaboration, enablin

Hong Kong CNN — China’s Chang’e-6 lunar lander successfully touched down on the far side of the moon Sunday morning Beijing time, in a significant step for the ambitious mission that could advance th

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Intel’s P-Core’s lineage can be traced all the way back to the P6 architecture that was originally found in the Pentium Pro. From the Pentium Pro to Pentium III to Sandy Bridge to Golden Cove, Intel’s

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Intel this morning is lifting the lid on some of the finer architectural and technical details about its upcoming Lunar Lake SoC – the chip that will be the next generation of Core Ultra mobile proces

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Microsoft is about to launch a new AI-powered Recall feature that screenshots everything you do on your PC. Recall is part of the new Copilot Plus PCs that are debuting on June 18th, but experts who h

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