The talk of the Nobel Prize Gerard Mourou regarding femto-second LASERs has been really nice.

It starts at time 56:17 and it is in English language.

Musings on living and working in plain text

The Classic Tetris World Championship is one of my favorite things each year. I wanted to create a video explaining it for someone who knows nothing about it...

Your laptop is way more powerful than you think. Unleash its full potential with the Vaex dataframe library.

Features

• Group dotfiles into units (stow packages)
• Automatically symlink (stow) files
• Backup dotfiles with git
• Keep track of simultaneous dotfile configurations for multiple environments
• Supports shell autocompletion

Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.

The team password manager.

Typically, you would connect to your server with an SSH client like PuTTY and after logging in you are dropped into a shell like Bash where you can enter commands and interact with the operating system. For most purposes, this simple setup suffices. However, in certain scenarios, you may need, or at least benefit, from expanding the capabilities of such a session with a terminal multiplexer like tmux. Just like the operating system running on your phone or computer can execute and display, side by side, multiple applications on its graphical user interface, so can tmux do with text-based programs and shell sessions.

A curated list of reasons to stop using Facebook and how to do it.

This article will provide the reader with a brief overview for a number of different Linux commands. A special emphasis will be placed on explaining how each command can be used in the context of performing data science tasks. The goal will be to convince the reader that each of these commands can be extremely useful, and to allow them to understand what role each command can play when manipulating or analyzing data.

We are living in a global knowledge economy. People who might never meet face-to-face are working together daily through the internet. Knowledge work is becoming more accessible for people everywhere in the world, and technology talent is no longer exclusive to Silicon Valley.

We created this guide to help more people join the internet economy, and gain flexibility and independence in their work life. This guide is based off of our experience originally as remote workers ourselves, and now as a 100% remote team. This encyclopedia is open source, and we hope that the whole remote community will contribute to make it better over time.

Whether you’re looking for a more flexible way to work as a maker, or to build an amazing remote team - this guide will help you get started, stay productive, and build a better future of work.

Make your diffs human readable instead of machine readable. This helps improve code quality and helps you spot defects faster.

A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits.

A utility tool powered by fzf for using git interactively.

How to run an internet speed test from the Linux command line. We examine two tools that both use the speedtest.net service to test your connection speeds.

Watch out! If you start reading this paper you could be lost for hours following all the interesting links and ideas, and end up even more dissatisfied than you already are with the state of software today. You might also be inspired to help work towards a better future. I’m all in :).

This post overviews the paper Confident Learning: Estimating Uncertainty in Dataset Labels authored by Curtis G. Northcutt, Lu Jiang, and Isaac L. Chuang.