October 2021 Archive
1561.
Porting WebGL Shaders to WebGPU (construct.net)
1562.
Ozy Media Says It Is Shutting Down (nytimes.com)
1563.
Self-driving Waymo cars clog up dead-end San Francisco street (bbc.com)
1564.
Paradoxical Compression with VDF (github.com)
1565.
SQL for Distributed Systems (babbling.fish)
1566.
Cloudflare’s Pace of Innovation (blog.cloudflare.com)
1567.
An Engineer's Guide to Building a Database for Data-Intensive Applications (singlestore.com)
1568.
Pull Requests vs. Pair Programming (chemaclass.es)
1569.
Builder Pattern in Rust (greyblake.com)
1570.
Cryptocurrency mining using integrated photonics (phe.tue.nl)
1571.
Elite MBAs are no Longer Relevant
1572.
The monopoly strategy behind the Google/Microsoft mobile patent wars (pluralistic.net)
1573.
How Debian cron handles DST transitions (blog.healthchecks.io)
1574.
Dark Matter Alternative Passes Big Test (physics.aps.org)
1575.
US Justice Department Launches a National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (therecord.media)
1576.
Why kidney failure led me to found an Health Tech Startup
1577.
One Typed Page (onetypedpage.com)
1578.
Small Language Models Are Also Few-Shot Learners (aclanthology.org)
1579.
Facebook apologises as services including Instagram hit again (bbc.co.uk)
1580.
You Already Know Formal Methods (galois.com)
1581.
In Major Shift, NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan (vanityfair.com)
1582.
History of Mathematics Project (history-of-mathematics.org)
1583.
Fastmail currently down/under attack (fastmailstatus.com)
1584.
Trapped in amber: Fossilized dinosaur-era crab bridges evolutionary gap (arstechnica.com)
1585.
Up to 600 watts of power for graphics cards with the new PCIe 5.0 powerconnector (igorslab.de)
1586.
Why Mathematics is Boring (2007) [pdf] (math.ucr.edu)
1587.
How to Ship the World’s Largest Space Telescope 5,800 Miles Across the Ocean (nasa.gov)
1588.
The Secret Society of Lightning Strike Survivors (narratively.com)
1589.
Austria to introduce new carbon tax next year (apnews.com)
1590.
Poincaré, Heisenberg, Gödel and the limits of scientific knowledge (arxiv.org)