This is a first post using the new Gutenberg editor in WordPress.
It’s pretty great
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Set Phasers to Stun
Recently frozen lake ice has some interesting properties: it looks completely black and makes some interesting sounds when you skate over it. Swedish mathematician Mårten Ajne is a black ice skating enthusiast and he demonstrates his technique in this National Geographic video. You’ll want to turn up the sound or use headphones…
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micro.blog’ing
We could be excused for thinking that Micro.blog is like App.net — a Twitter alternative greeted with enthusiasm but that eventually closed. It’s not the same thing, though, and I’ll explain why. Micro.blog is not an alternative silo: instead, it’s what you build when you believe that the web itself is the great social network.
– from Why Micro.blog is Not Another App.net @ inessential.com
I’m adding the Webmention plugin here to see how it flies.
I’m blowery on micro.blog.
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Whiteboards
Soon "I'd just teach a computer to do it" is going to be a legit interview answer. StackOverflowSort writ large.
Valley whiteboard interviews poised for disruption. https://t.co/NDiJ5PcdXo
— Wynn Netherland (@pengwynn) December 11, 2017
Jeff Dean and co at GOOG just released a paper showing how machine-learned indexes can replace B-Trees, Hash Indexes, and Bloom Filters. Execute 3x faster than B-Trees, 10-100x less space. Executes on GPU, which are getting faster unlike CPU. Amazing. https://t.co/PPVkrFVKXg
— Nick Schrock (@schrockn) December 11, 2017
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We really need to stop meeting like this
Maybe I’ll start posting things here again.