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Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing ElevationDock 4! Well we started from scratch this time... :) ElevationDock 4 is the result of designing every...
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Well we started from scratch this time... :) ElevationDock 4 is the result of designing every feature that we & our customers wanted into the dock. We made the adjustment not only more precise than any other dock, but easier too. It works out of the box, no cord mounting...
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The number of letters in the word for each number Just for fun, I generated these graphs of the number of letters in the word for each number. I...
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Just for fun, I generated these graphs of the number of letters in the word for each number. I really spent about 10 minutes on this (ok…possibly also another 40 minutes tweaking the plots): More languages!
Willem's Blog
Climbing Mount Etna Climbing Mount Etna, an active volcano on Sicily Italy.
over a year ago
Abishek Muthian
Are we worrying more about AI than global warming So, my friend said this — If I may state mine — It’s not we’re more worried about AI, it’s the media...
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So, my friend said this — If I may state mine — It’s not we’re more worried about AI, it’s the media inducing cognitive biases fuelled by Hollywood when a celebrity speaks about dooms day AI. Let’s discuss some facts, Let’s take prof. Hawing, he’s vocal about the need to keep AI...
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The software engineering rule of 3 Here's a dumb extremely accurate rule I'm postulating* for software engineering projects: *you need...
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Here's a dumb extremely accurate rule I'm postulating* for software engineering projects: *you need at least 3 examples before you solve the right problem*. This is what I've noticed: Don't factor out shared code between two classes.
axio.ms
Maths is Fun and Useful but Lasers Are More So Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a...
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Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a perl script for the shape template. For cultural reasons, I wanted to make a gift out of paper and it had to be Heaps Good. I had finally got access to a laser cutter (omgomg)...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Designers Desk #2 - Aaron Della Vedova Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators -...
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Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators - showcasing how they work and what their workspace looks like.   Aaron Della Vedova is one of the world's most celebrated tattoo artists and the owner of Guru Tattoo, which has two...
Willem's Blog
The day I killed my LAN I killed my office LAN and went 4G only. Saves a lot of clutter, energy and money.
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
A Note on Metcalfe's Law, Externalities and Ecosystem Splits
over a year ago
Ian's Blog
Pragmatically Generating a Self-Signed Certificate and Private Key using OpenSSL Recently I found myself needing to generate a HTTPS Server Certificate and Private Key for an iOS...
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Recently I found myself needing to generate a HTTPS Server Certificate and Private Key for an iOS app using OpenSSL, what surprised me was the total lack of documentation for OpenSSL. While there is plenty of function documentation, what OpenSSL really lacks is examples of how it...
Vitalik Buterin's...
The Triangle of Harm
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
Fun with trigonometry: the world's most twisted coastline I just spent a few days in Italy, on the Ligurian coast. Even though we were on the west side of...
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I just spent a few days in Italy, on the Ligurian coast. Even though we were on the west side of Italy, the Mediterranean sea was to the east, because the house was situated on a long bay.
Posts on Made of...
Disable Transparent Hugepages tl;dr “Transparent Hugepages” is a Linux kernel feature intended to improve performance by making...
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tl;dr “Transparent Hugepages” is a Linux kernel feature intended to improve performance by making more efficient use of your processor’s memory-mapping hardware. It is enabled ("enabled=always") by default in most Linux distributions. Transparent Hugepages gives some applications...
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Optimizing for iteration speed I've written before about the importance of iterating quickly but I didn't necessarily talk about...
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I've written before about the importance of iterating quickly but I didn't necessarily talk about some concrete things you can do. When I've built up the tech team at Better, I've intentionally optimized for fast iteration speed above almost everything else.
Willem's Blog
Fietselfstedentocht 2017 Cycling the 235KM long Fietselfstedentocht through Friesland
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Top ten activities that make me happy Recently we finally moved out of our old apartment and into a new larger apartment and it’s awesome....
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Recently we finally moved out of our old apartment and into a new larger apartment and it’s awesome. It’s no more than a year old and feels very fresh compared to the old one. It’s also larger with an extra room, dishwasher (!) and closer to the city centrum and everything is...
Vitalik Buterin's...
On Path Independence
over a year ago
Daniel De Laney
Resource Management “We had to display a lot of information at once and help them make sense of it. There are many ways...
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“We had to display a lot of information at once and help them make sense of it. There are many ways to do that wrong and only a few ways to do it right.” The Challenge The client came to us with a problem: They had paid for a custom tool that didn’t do what they needed. They had...
Posts on Made of...
Two Perspectives on the End-to-End Principle Back when I was an undergraduate, as part of a class called “Computer Systems Engineering”, we read...
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Back when I was an undergraduate, as part of a class called “Computer Systems Engineering”, we read numerous classic papers of systems design. I enjoyed and learned a great deal from many of these papers, but one that paper that has stuck with me in particular was Saltzer et al’s...
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Blogroll Remember when everyone had a really ugly blog with a blogroll? Anyway, just think the word is...
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Remember when everyone had a really ugly blog with a blogroll? Anyway, just think the word is funny. I follow a few hundred blogs using Feedly and Reeder and have been reading a few hundred thousand blog posts over the last 10 years.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Analyzing Token Sale Models
over a year ago
Elevation Lab - Blog
Designers Desk #1: Angelo Vilar Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators -...
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Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators - showcasing how they work and what their workspace looks like.   Angelo Vilar (AKA Ansirone) is an art director, animation designer, & illustrator based in Los Angeles. He keeps it...
Willem's Blog
Beast of the Green Hell Blog post about an amazing AMG Circuit day at the race track of Zolder, Belgium.
over a year ago
Daniel De Laney
Network Engineering “My first job was to understand what network engineers do. Then, I had to show them complex data in...
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“My first job was to understand what network engineers do. Then, I had to show them complex data in a comprehensible and usable way. Finally, I had to make it less ugly.” The Challenge When you type “google.com” into your browser and press the Enter key, what happens? How do you...
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Conversion rates – you are (most likely) computing them wrong How hard can it be to compute conversion rate? Take the total number of users that converted and...
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How hard can it be to compute conversion rate? Take the total number of users that converted and divide them with the total number of users. Done. Except… it's a lot more complicated when you have any sort of significant time lag.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Engineering Security Through Coordination Problems
over a year ago
Himanshu Mishra |...
Python's easter eggs and hidden jokes Just when you thought, Python could not be more fun. Read on GitHub...
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Just when you thought, Python could not be more fun. Read on GitHub https://github.com/OrkoHunter/python-easter-eggs 1. Hello World 2. The…
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing BatteryPro BatteryPro is designed to keep anyone with an iPhone and Apple Watch powered, it's comfortable to...
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BatteryPro is designed to keep anyone with an iPhone and Apple Watch powered, it's comfortable to carry, charges fast, and lessens cord clutter when you travel. It sports an integrated MFi-certified Apple Watch Magnetic Charger, high-speed USB-out that charges iPhone at max rate,...
Willem's Blog
Smartwatches vs Mechanical watches Why I still wear a mechanical watch and why smartwatches have potential.
over a year ago
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The mathematical principles of management I've read about 100 management books by now but if there's something that always bothered me it's...
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I've read about 100 management books by now but if there's something that always bothered me it's the lack of first principles thinking. Basically it's a ton of heuristics. And heuristics are great, but when you present heuristics as true objectives, it kind of clouds the...
Willem's Blog
Repairing a Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP Reparing an old Nintendo Gameboy Advance to play classic Zelda again.
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Using InfiniBand for cheap and fast point-to-point Networking InfiniBand networking is quite awesome. It's mainly used for two reasons: low latency high...
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InfiniBand networking is quite awesome. It's mainly used for two reasons: low latency high bandwidth As a home user, I'm mainly interested in setting up a high bandwidth link between two servers. I was using quad-port network cards with Linux Bonding, but this solution has some...
Abishek Muthian
Raspberry pi3 vs iPad2 for personal computing I blew my personal computer and before I could build a new one I needed a temporary machine which...
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I blew my personal computer and before I could build a new one I needed a temporary machine which could perform some of my routine tasks like browsing, social network, word processing, programming, gaming, videos, music & ocassional heavy computation. Though I would be needing a...
Himanshu Mishra |...
Lessons for creating good open source software I was reading about The Cathedral and the Bazaar, a book by Eric S. Raymond on various (open source)...
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I was reading about The Cathedral and the Bazaar, a book by Eric S. Raymond on various (open source) software development methods. The…
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The eigenvector of "Why we moved from language X to language Y" I was reading yet another blog post titled “Why our team moved from <language X> to <language Y>” (I...
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I was reading yet another blog post titled “Why our team moved from <language X> to <language Y>” (I forgot which one) and I started wondering if you can generalize it a bit. Is it possible to generate a N * N contingency table of moving from language X to language Y?
Vitalik Buterin's...
Hard Forks, Soft Forks, Defaults and Coercion
over a year ago
Notes on software...
Deploying FreeBSD on Linode unattended in minutes I became a FreeBSD user over 2 years ago when I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I swapped...
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I became a FreeBSD user over 2 years ago when I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I swapped my y410p dual-booting Windows / Ubuntu with FreeBSD running Gnome 3. I learned a lot during the transition and came to appreciate FreeBSD as a user. I soon began running...
Vitalik Buterin's...
A Note On Charity Through Marginal Price Discrimination
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Habits to start I haven’t been feeling quite as forward or as energetic lately. There are no set plans, habits or...
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I haven’t been feeling quite as forward or as energetic lately. There are no set plans, habits or goals for this spring and I don’t have a clear vision of what to do currently but it also feels… fine? Maybe I will cruise in a lower gear for a while and rev up when my mood...
Himanshu Mishra |...
धुआं (Dhuaan)
over a year ago
Posts on Made of...
Running Tensorflow on AWS GPUs I’ve been spending some time learning deep learning and tensorflow recently, and as part of that...
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I’ve been spending some time learning deep learning and tensorflow recently, and as part of that project I wanted to be able to train models using GPUs on EC2. This post contains some notes on what it took to get that working. As many people have commented, the environment setup...
Himanshu Mishra |...
Why do I hate my friends on Instagram? Watch this video from Nerdwriter1 Let's Fix Instagram (YouTube). Instagram is Facebook, but only...
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Watch this video from Nerdwriter1 Let's Fix Instagram (YouTube). Instagram is Facebook, but only with a different purpose than connecting…
Posts on Made of...
Thoughts On Kubernetes I spent a while the last week porting livegrep.com from running directly AWS to running on...
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I spent a while the last week porting livegrep.com from running directly AWS to running on Kubernetes on Google’s Cloud Platform (specifically, the google container engine, which provisions and manages the cluster for me). I left this experience profoundly enthusiastic about the...
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Why I went into the mortgage industry I just realized last Thursday that I have spent two full years at Better, incidentally on the same...
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I just realized last Thursday that I have spent two full years at Better, incidentally on the same day as we announced a $15M round led by Kleiner Perkins. So it was a good point to reflect a bit and think back – what the F led me to abandon my role managing the machine learning...
Willem's Blog
Programming on Apple Watch Programming with VIM over SSH on Apple Watch using a bluetooth keyboard
over a year ago
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing MagicGrips Apple has a long history with with computer mice. They pioneered one of the first commercially...
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Apple has a long history with with computer mice. They pioneered one of the first commercially available with the Lisa Mouse and helped make it mainstream when it shipped with the Macintosh 128K.   Apple has also been known to make good looking mice at the expense of ergonomics -...
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Language pitch Here's a fun analysis that I did of the pitch (aka. frequency) of various languages. Certain...
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Here's a fun analysis that I did of the pitch (aka. frequency) of various languages. Certain languages are simply pronounced with lower or higher pitch. Whether this is a feature of the language or more a cultural thing is a good question, but there are some substantial...
Vitalik Buterin's...
[Mirror] Zk-SNARKs: Under the Hood
over a year ago
Himanshu Mishra |...
Collection of Linux fortunes ❤ fortune | cowsay This is about how I maintain the space...
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fortune | cowsay This is about how I maintain the space https://github.com/OrkoHunter/mfdf/blob/master/fortunesfortune is a Unix program…
Willem's Blog
iPad Pro next to my primary machine Using iPad Pro with Apple Pencil next to my computer to form a create powerhouse
over a year ago