#Computing

Lambeth Living Streets

LambethLivingSt

Pissed off about LTNs? Wish things could just go back to the way they were?Well we hope you're directing that anger towards the big tech companies like Google and Waze

Jae | Money Mover

moneymovesJ

Free Education on the Internet everyone should take advantage of. [Thread]You have no more excuses.http://Open.edu - UK's Open University; free courses for all levels of study, samples of university materials,

Reid

arrdem

The real problem is that programming is for the folks I've surrounded myself with not just a job but an aesthetic. There's something in the water because we see ourselves

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

There is no sound, practical way to ban cryptocurrency, but... ban cryptocurrency. Shun everybody who uses or enthuses over it. It's a racket that is making life worse for everybody

L. 🧩. Ritter

paniq

please tell me this isn't true: if we model a hash function in a reversible computer, and know data, digest and garbage bits, then mutate the garbage bits and reverse

Hisham

hisham_hm

Windows 3.1 allowed you to change all system colors to your liking. Linux been fully themeable since the 90s. OSX came along with a draconian "all blue aqua, and maybe

Scott B. Weingart

scott_bot

I'm going through old DH conference abstracts, and I love the William Gibson-esque details that go into some descriptions. From 1989:"The UWJ Project is currently being developed on Macintosh computers,

Samperson

SamNChiet

I'm marveling at Pictochat for the DS right now.This entire OS is so playful, and *built for expression*.Why aren't all computers like this? I never had a DS before, so

Valentin Lucet

VLucet

I've spent a lot of time this past few weeks making my thesis code as reproducible as possible, for future paper-submitting-me and for my lab.Here's what I learned. (a thread,

Gavin Baker

GavinSBaker

1) “Google will not use data from Google Pay for targeting ads.”Likely true. And irrelevant.“Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.”Targeting = strategy. Attribution = logistics.The data will be used for

Thibault Leroy

TiBoLeroyFr

Our new preprint is out on bioRxiv: "Endemic island songbirds as windows into evolution in small effective population sizes". Using WGS data of 14 insular and 11 mainland species, we

Ed Conway

EdConwaySky

Since it's Friday, I want to tell you a story that has nothing to do with COVID or lockdowns or any of that. A story of human ingenuity that boggles

NYU Athletics

NYUAthletics

Next on our senior spotlight is Caroline Saccacio!..Caroline is a Catcher/DH from Huntington Beach, CA and is a 4-year team member of NYU Softball! She is in NYU’s Stern School

Britt - ia arc

OIKAWAHAJIME13

Matsukawa, funeral home employee, tells the dead all about being in love with his best friend who moved away. It’s nice because the dead don’t talk back.One Tuesday, Matsukawa is

Gr0kchain 🇿🇦 South Africa

gr0kch8n

The decision to decentralize does not necessarily lead to peer-to-peer networks — the reincarnation of decentralized intermediaries is a real threat to open, neutral, borderless, censorship-resistant networks. Aim for the

Chris Martens

chrisamaphone

who out there is working on tools for {programming, digital creativity} in the pursuit of *liberatory* technology, as a reframing of concepts like usable/accessible/learnable? (see https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02003-2 re: shif