According to sources familiar with the experiment, the 60 nanoseconds discrepancy appears to come from a bad connection between a fiber optic cable that connects
Read moreManufacturing and devices
The answer is obvious but few people stop for a second to wonder about this. After all, it is not like Apple has control over
Read moreJulia programming language and hadoop
While we’re being demanding, we want something that provides the distributed power of Hadoop — without the kilobytes of boilerplate Java and XML; without being
Read moreThe UNIX file system as a recursive function
Ignoring “write” operations, for the moment, a file system is just an implementation, a concrete manifestation, of a map from file names to file contents.
Read moreApple’s A5 chip made in Austin
Although I think it might have been designed here too. The A5 processor – the brain in the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 – is
Read moreRichard Stallman speaks
A supply of tea with milk and sugar would be nice. If it is tea I really like, I like it without milk and sugar.
Read moreDennis Ritchie
Truly a brilliant engineer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie
Read moreDroning on about computer security
Good grief. The US military’s unmanned Predator and Reaper drones are continuing to fly remote missions overseas despite a computer virus that has infected their
Read moreThe multics file system
The design proposed in this paper is ubiquitous. A file is simply an ordered sequence of elements, where an element could be a machine word,
Read moreFukushima Robot Blog
This from the IEEE is really fascinating. It is the blog of a robot operator in the Fukushima nuclear plants. Some interesting things about controls,
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