Against essential and accidental complexity
In the classic 1986 essay, No Silver Bullet, Fred Brooks argued that there is, in some sense, not that much that can be done to improve...
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Listing Linux Services with Systemctl
This article explains how to use the systemctl command to list Linux services and check their status.
Read moreHow to Use the nmap Command
Nmap is a powerful network scanning tool for security audits and penetration testing.
Read moreAn overview of end-to-end entity resolution for big data
An overview of end-to-end entity resolution for big data, Christophides et al., ACM Computing Surveys, Dec. 2020, Article No. 127 The ACM Computing Surveys are always a great...
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This article explains how to use the chattr command to change file attributes on Linux file systems.
Read moreNaturally Occurring Equivariance in Neural Networks
Neural networks naturally learn many transformed copies of the same feature, connected by symmetric weights.
Read moreDeno 1.6 Release Notes
Deno 1.6 adds the ability to build your Deno projects into fully standalone, self-contained executables with `deno compile`. The release also introduces a built-in LSP for...
Read moreBias in word embeddings
Bias in word embeddings, Papakyriakopoulos et al., FAT*’20 There are no (stochastic) parrots in this paper, but it does examine bias in word embeddings, and how...
Read moreHow to Install PHP 8 on Ubuntu 20.04
This article will show you how to install PHP 8 on Ubuntu 20.04 and integrate it with Nginx and Apache.
Read moreBasename Command in Linux
basename is a command-line utility that strips directory and suffix from given file names.
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