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Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Guest post by Greg Kuperberg: Archimedes’ other principle and quantum supremacy

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Applied machine learning at Facebook: a datacenter infrastructure perspective | the morning paper

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Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (part 3 of N) — The Coding Nest

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Chronic Mania and Persistent Euphoric States | Sarah Constantin

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Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (part 2 of N) — The Coding Nest

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Where Do Interrupts Happen? | Performance Matters

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An Overview of Deterministic Database Systems

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For Black CEOs in Silicon Valley, Humiliation Is a Part of Doing Business

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Bold New Nuclear Reactor Designs Promise Safe, Clean Electricity.

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On Coding, Ego and Attention

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Perceptions of Musical Octaves Are Learned, Not Wired in the Brain | Quanta Magazine

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mtime comparison considered harmful - apenwarr

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10 Reading habits that changed my life | by Manjot Pahwa | Medium

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Spreading rock dust on fields could remove vast amounts of CO2 from air | Environment | The Guardian

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Contact area–dependent cell communication and the morphological invariance of ascidian embryogenesis | Science

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Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus | In the Pipeline

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Andrew Skodol: Personality disorders in DSM-5

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Optimizing 128-bit Division – Experimental chill

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Who’s Behind Wednesday’s Epic Twitter Hack? — Krebs on Security

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Nuclear blast sends star hurtling across galaxy - BBC News

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A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography

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Orthodox Privilege

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The invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities was initially met with skepticism

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Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Do we need a Theory of Everything?

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Estimating the burden of SARS-CoV-2 in France | Science

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Contrarian view on closing files.

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THRONES WREATHED IN SHADOW: TACITUS AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF AUTHORITARIANISM

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Neural Supersampling for Real-time Rendering - Facebook Research

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From context collapse to content collapse | ROUGH TYPE

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Sphere Eversion

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Hoare’s Rebuttal and Bubble Sort’s Comeback

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The True Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Never Truly Ate the South | Science | Smithsonian Magazine

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Map Of Computing Architectures for AWS

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Apple and Facebook

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95%-ile isn't that good

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Performant front-end architecture | DebugBear

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xi-editor retrospective | Raph Levien’s blog

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i hate the future: Deep Chernoff Faces

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A Giant Saharan Dust Storm Is Giving Earth Life - The Atlantic

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Fixing the train-test resolution discrepancy

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Those confounded vitamins: what can we learn from the differences between observational versus randomised trial evidence?

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Risk-Aversion Sets Life Value

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Reverse engineering Blind's API and client side encryption - JonLuca's Blog

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Faster Integer Parsing

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Is WebP really better than JPEG? - siipo.la

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A Cookbook for Machine Learning: Vol 1

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Hash table performance and memory efficiency

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Day Traders Might Have Fun Saving Hertz From Bankruptcy

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People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share a Cluster of Psychological Features - Scientific American

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Generics and Compile-Time in Rust | TiDB

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All Circuits are Busy Now: The 1990 AT&T Long Distance Network Collapse

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Evolution of facial muscle anatomy in dogs | PNAS

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Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ | Science | AAAS

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Never Hertz to Ask – alexdanco.com

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Remote access to production infrastructure (death to the VPN!) – Matt's Life Bytes

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[2001.04502] GW190425 is inconsistent with being a binary neutron star born from a fast merging channel

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The Map of Mathematics | Quanta Magazine

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Flow-Charts of Programming Language Constructs – progsbase

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Double slits with single atoms

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The Woman in Black | Lapham’s Quarterly

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5G’s Faster Data Rates and Shannon’s Law - Waveform

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Why It’s So Rare For Police Officers To Face Legal Consequences | FiveThirtyEight

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A Response to Hello World | doxsey.net

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A Good Jobs Report Does Not Mean A Rigged Jobs Report | FiveThirtyEight

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The 'Wall' That Keeps Flesh-Eating Worms Out of America - The Atlantic

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How Americans Feel About George Floyd’s Death And The Protests | FiveThirtyEight

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The Grinder Paper: Explained

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Modern Portfolio Theory: a Case Study on Turnips

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Troy Hunt: Analysing the (Alleged) Minneapolis Police Department "Hack"

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Dord: How a Non-Word Made it into the Dictionary | Merriam-Webster

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How to Put More “Character” Into Your NPCs - The Pause Button

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Google AI Blog: ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-Supervised Learning of Language Representations

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Recent Reviews

Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Guest post by Greg Kuperberg: Archimedes’ other principle and quantum supremacy

Applied machine learning at Facebook: a datacenter infrastructure perspective | the morning paper

Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (part 3 of N) — The Coding Nest

Chronic Mania and Persistent Euphoric States | Sarah Constantin

Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (part 2 of N) — The Coding Nest

Where Do Interrupts Happen? | Performance Matters

The secular Bayesian: Using belief distributions without really believing

Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis.

A generalised solution to distributed consensus | the morning paper

An Overview of Deterministic Database Systems

For Black CEOs in Silicon Valley, Humiliation Is a Part of Doing Business

Bold New Nuclear Reactor Designs Promise Safe, Clean Electricity.

On Coding, Ego and Attention

Perceptions of Musical Octaves Are Learned, Not Wired in the Brain | Quanta Magazine

mtime comparison considered harmful - apenwarr

10 Reading habits that changed my life | by Manjot Pahwa | Medium

Spreading rock dust on fields could remove vast amounts of CO2 from air | Environment | The Guardian

Contact area–dependent cell communication and the morphological invariance of ascidian embryogenesis | Science

Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus | In the Pipeline

Andrew Skodol: Personality disorders in DSM-5

Optimizing 128-bit Division – Experimental chill

Who’s Behind Wednesday’s Epic Twitter Hack? — Krebs on Security

Nuclear blast sends star hurtling across galaxy - BBC News

A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography

Orthodox Privilege

The invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities was initially met with skepticism

Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Do we need a Theory of Everything?

Estimating the burden of SARS-CoV-2 in France | Science

no title

Contrarian view on closing files.

THRONES WREATHED IN SHADOW: TACITUS AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF AUTHORITARIANISM

Neural Supersampling for Real-time Rendering - Facebook Research

From context collapse to content collapse | ROUGH TYPE

Sphere Eversion

Hoare’s Rebuttal and Bubble Sort’s Comeback

The True Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Never Truly Ate the South | Science | Smithsonian Magazine

Map Of Computing Architectures for AWS

Apple and Facebook

95%-ile isn't that good

Performant front-end architecture | DebugBear

xi-editor retrospective | Raph Levien’s blog

i hate the future: Deep Chernoff Faces

A Giant Saharan Dust Storm Is Giving Earth Life - The Atlantic

Fixing the train-test resolution discrepancy

Those confounded vitamins: what can we learn from the differences between observational versus randomised trial evidence?

Risk-Aversion Sets Life Value

Reverse engineering Blind's API and client side encryption - JonLuca's Blog

Faster Integer Parsing

Is WebP really better than JPEG? - siipo.la

A Cookbook for Machine Learning: Vol 1

Hash table performance and memory efficiency

Day Traders Might Have Fun Saving Hertz From Bankruptcy

People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share a Cluster of Psychological Features - Scientific American

Generics and Compile-Time in Rust | TiDB

All Circuits are Busy Now: The 1990 AT&T Long Distance Network Collapse

Evolution of facial muscle anatomy in dogs | PNAS

Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ | Science | AAAS

Never Hertz to Ask – alexdanco.com

Remote access to production infrastructure (death to the VPN!) – Matt's Life Bytes

[2001.04502] GW190425 is inconsistent with being a binary neutron star born from a fast merging channel

The Map of Mathematics | Quanta Magazine

Flow-Charts of Programming Language Constructs – progsbase

Double slits with single atoms

no title

The Woman in Black | Lapham’s Quarterly

5G’s Faster Data Rates and Shannon’s Law - Waveform

Why It’s So Rare For Police Officers To Face Legal Consequences | FiveThirtyEight

A Response to Hello World | doxsey.net

no title

A Good Jobs Report Does Not Mean A Rigged Jobs Report | FiveThirtyEight

The 'Wall' That Keeps Flesh-Eating Worms Out of America - The Atlantic

How Americans Feel About George Floyd’s Death And The Protests | FiveThirtyEight

The Grinder Paper: Explained

Modern Portfolio Theory: a Case Study on Turnips

Troy Hunt: Analysing the (Alleged) Minneapolis Police Department "Hack"

Dord: How a Non-Word Made it into the Dictionary | Merriam-Webster

How to Put More “Character” Into Your NPCs - The Pause Button

Google AI Blog: ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-Supervised Learning of Language Representations

A day using money in Cuba · Boaz Sobrado