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The Square Root of NOT » American Scientist
Digital computers are built out of circuits that have definite, discrete states: on or off, zero or one, high voltage or low voltage. Engineers go to great lengths to make sure these circuits never settle into some intermediate condition. Quantum-mechanical systems, as it happens, offer a guarantee…
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Haskell Propaganda: OOP programming couples code and data together in unnatural ways. Typeclasses are a better way of structuring logic.
Hasnain says:
"What I wish I knew when Learning Haskell".
Slide 36 does it for me:
Questions we ask when studying category theory
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Why am I still single?
Posted on 2013-04-14T12:51:27+0000
A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: Zerocoin: making Bitcoin anonymous
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OMG Ponies!!! (Aka Humanity: Epic Fail) - Jon Skeet: Coding Blog
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The Tyranny of the Taxi Medallions
The life of a taxi driver is hard. When cabbies start a shift, they owe about $100 to their company as payment just for the opportunity drive a taxi. They might not break even until halfway through...
learnfun and playfun: A general technique for automating NES games
Video, research paper, and software for learning how to play NES games and then automatically playing them.
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The DDoS That Almost Broke the Internet - CloudFlare blog
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Hasnain says:
This is a pretty good read, just at the right level in terms of technical details.
Posted on 2013-03-27T18:19:48+0000
Online Dispute Becomes Internet-Snarling Attack
A squabble between a group battling spam and a Dutch company that hosts Web sites said to be sending it has escalated into an attack clogging up key online infrastructure worldwide.
Hasnain says:
Cyberbunker claims that they fended off a SWAT team as well - not so difficult given that they're located inside a NATO bunker designed to withstand a 20 megaton blast and the SWAT team was using a battering ram.
Posted on 2013-03-27T14:22:27+0000