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exa is a replacement for the venerable ls command. exa sports more features and arguably better defaults. Free and open source software.
Normally, the arrangement of mines is decided at the start of the game (except for some trickery so that you cannot lose on the first click). But what if there was no pre-determined arrangement, and the game was allowed to choose after you play?
An interesting article describing the logic of this original minesweeper game.
This article is designed to serve as a directory of software projects built on NLP (natural language processing), that anyone — even someone without ML experience — can build.
This year I sent out quite a few proposals to the majority of mobile conferences in Europe. Some ignored me, the others replied with automated rejections. However, some accepted and it was fun. Here is what I've learned on the way.
There is a a lot of misinformation being spread about Brave. Many people claim that it is spyware or harmful to your privacy. This is not true and I will debunk every claim I have found.
A distanza di cinquant’anni dalla strage di Piazza Fontana, l’Italia è ancora sovrastata dalla stessa cappa di disinformazione: “la strategia della tensione” che, portata avanti dallo Stato o perlomeno da ampi settori dello Stato, avrebbe dovuto facilitare una “svolta a destra” della politica, fermando l’avanzata del PCI nel mondo bipolare della Guerra Fredda. La strage di Piazza Fontana fu invece l’inizio di una campagna destabilizzante contro l’Italia che, dalla Libia alla Somalia, stava guadagnando molte posizioni internazionali cavalcando il “terzomondismo”. Le bombe cessarono nei primi anni ‘90 perché, distrutti la Prima Repubblica e lo Stato imprenditore, non servivano più.
A series of how to examples on using jq, a command-line JSON processor.
Ryohei Hisano and Didier Sornette wrote in 2012 a paper titled, “On the distribution of time-to-proof of mathematical conjectures.”
Today Ken and I discuss predicting the end to mathematical conjectures. This is apart from considering odds on which way they will go, which we also talk about.
Nine years ago the Christmas issue of the New Scientist magazine analyzed a small set of solved mathematical conjectures and used it to forecast when the P vs. NP conjecture would be solved. The article estimated that the “probability for the P vs. NP problem to be solved by the year 2024 is roughly 50%”.
If you track your users better, now you can deliver tailored ads and your conversion rates are higher. If you restrict users from leaving your walled garden ecosystem, now you get all the juice from whatever attention they have.
The question is: At which point do we reach the breaking point?
Federal public comment websites currently are unable to detect Deepfake Text once submitted. I created a computer program (a bot) that generated and submitted 1,001 deepfake comments regarding a Medicaid reform waiver to a federal public comment website, stopping submission when these comments comprised more than half of all submitted comments. I then formally withdrew the bot comments.
Services and features replacement investigations at CERN.
List of the most appealing software packages for different common tasks.
Thirty years ago, Cliff Stoll published The Cuckoo's Egg, a book about his cat-and-mouse game with a KGB-sponsored hacker. Today, the internet is a far darker place—and Stoll has become a cybersecurity icon.
I read this book when I was young. Still remember the atmosphere :-)
What we learned from the spy in your pocket.
As used to author Heaven's Vault, 80 Days and Sorcery!: produce interactive scripts by writing in pure-text with ink markup.
For chess to flourish, we need a new challenge. The increasing strength of chess engines, the millions of computer games and the volumes of opening theory available to every player are making top-level chess less imaginative. Decisive games in super-tournaments have declined, while the number of games...
With more than one million copies in print, “The Art of Computer Programming” is the Bible of its field. “Like an actual bible, it is long and comprehensive; no other book is as comprehensive,” said Peter Norvig, a director of research at Google. After 652 pages, volume one closes with a blurb on the back cover from Bill Gates: “You should definitely send me a résumé if you can read the whole thing".
Mathematicians regard the Collatz conjecture as a quagmire and warn each other to stay away. But now Terence Tao has made more progress than anyone in decades.
Elevating the business model with aspects like digital transformation, automation, large data collection, IoT and many more advantages of Industry 4.0