Did Germany experience rapid industrial expansion in the 19th century due to an absence of copyright law? A German historian argues that the massive proliferation of books, and thus knowledge, laid the foundation for the country's industrial might.
I’m sort of obsessed about iteration speed. I’ve written about this in the past and it deserves more posts in the future, but the quick summary is that iteration speed is always going to be the strongest competitive advantage in this industry. There’s of course many ways we can iterate faster, but for today let’s focus on two particular aspects of it: testing and deploying more often.
For something that we spend a third of our lives doing (if we’re lucky), sleep is something that we know relatively little about. “Sleep is actually a relatively recent discovery,” says Daniel Gartenberg, a sleep scientist who is currently an assistant adjunct professor in biobehavioral health at Penn State. “Scientists only started looking at sleep...
In January of 2013, some nice folks at Intel released a Software Occlusion Culling demo with full source code. I spent about two weekends playing around with the code, and after realizing that it made a great example for various things I'd been meaning to write about for a long time, started churning out blog…
This post is part of a series - go here for the index. Welcome back! The previous post gave us a lot of theoretical groundwork on triangles. This time, let's turn it into a working triangle rasterizer. Again, no profiling or optimization this time, but there will be code, and it should get us set…
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The purpose of deep learning is to learn a representation of high dimensional and noisy data using a sequence of differentiable functions, i.e., geometric transformations, that can perhaps be used…
The good news about Erlang can be summed up at this: Erlang is the culmination of twenty-five years of correct design decisions in the language and platform. Whenever I've wondered about how something in Erlang works, I have never been disappointed in the answer. I almost always leave with the impression that the designers did the “right thing”. I suppose this is in contrast to Java, which does the pedantic thing, Perl, which does the kludgy thing, Ruby, which has two independent implementations of the wrong thing, and C, which doesn't do anything.
While the modern programming language Haxe is well-known in some circles, many developers have never heard of it. Yet since it first appeared in 2005, it's been battle-tested by its loyal---if rather quiet---following. It boasts a pragmatic and mature combination of features for development in business, gaming, and even academic contexts.
This article assumes some computer science knowledge on the reader’s part, in particular how recursion works, and how the tree data structure works. It would also be beneficial to have some prior…
At some point, you can’t get any further with linked lists, selection sort, and voodoo Big O, and you have to go get a real algorithms textbook and learn all that horrible math, at least a little. But which book? There are tons of them. I haven’t read every algorithms book out there, but I…
The HashSet<T> collection type was first introduced in C# v3 and with .NET 3.5. This article will explore features of Hashset and also compare its performance with List.
OpenGL 4 with OpenTK in C# Part 1: Initialize the GameWindow; Author: Eowind; Updated: 27 Jan 2017; Section: OpenGL; Chapter: Multimedia; Updated: 27 Jan 2017
A simple open-source scene manager, and WavefrontOBJ file loader in C# and OpenGL (OpenTK). Runs on MacOS, Windows, and Linux.; Author: David Jeske; Updated: 27 Dec 2014; Section: OpenGL; Chapter: Multimedia; Updated: 27 Dec 2014
Many deep learning frameworks have been released over the past few years. Among them, PyTorch from Facebook AI Research is very unique and has gained widespread adoption because of its elegance…
More than 3,000 Google employees have signed an open letter to management, urging the company to pull out of a Pentagon program that uses artificial intelligence to aid with video imagery used by drones.
How would you fit an equation to the shape of an egg? This site suggests an equation of the form Note that if k = 0 we get an ellipse. The larger the parameter k is, the more asymmetric the shape is about the y-axis. Let's try that out in Mathematica: ContourPlot Here's another plot with k = 0.05. This one's a little
One of the biggest casualties of the digital age has been the fine skill of handwriting, and the opportunities to show off one's artsy and satisfyingly precise
HTTP headers are an important way of controlling how caches and browsers process your web content. But many are used incorrectly or pointlessly, which adds overhead at a critical time in the loading of your page, and may not work as you intended.
Speakers hesitate or make brief pauses filled with sounds like 'uh' or 'uhm' mostly before nouns. Such slow-down effects are far less frequent before verbs, as researchers working together with an international team have now discovered by looking at examples from different languages.