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A plea against Micro$oft

http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/antims.html

not to programs but to algorithms. Now an algorithm is just a mathematical entity (in fact, there is a very important association between algorithms and mathematical proofs, the C
A plea against Micro$oft by David Madore lang=en

Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook

http://stallman.org/facebook.html

Facebook developed algorithms to detect teenagers that are in a vulnerable or susceptible state, to target them with ads. Aside from all the ethical reasons not to let Facebook us

Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals

https://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/

sorting and searching algorithms SHOULD accommodate text that contains any character in Unicode. Note that this requires, as a minimum, that a collation algorithm does not break d

The Paulimba

http://linusakesson.net/music/paulimba/index.php

smart prefetch caching algorithms. Besides, using a modern day accelerator is a form of cheating the HW, and old ones are rarities. 2) What about setting the video in DBLSCAN mode

http://danluu.com/

http://danluu.com/

that good 01/20 Algorithms interviews: theory vs. practice 07/19 Files are fraught with peril 02/19 Randomized trial on gender in Overwatch 12/17 Computer latency: 1977-2017 11/17

Computational Complexity and the Anthropic Principle

https://www.scottaaronson.com/talks/anthropic.html

by polynomial-time algorithms. This class we call P (for Polynomial-Time). What are some examples of problems in P ? The example I mentioned before: given a graph, decide if it's

The Power of Centralization

https://secushare.org/centralization

of third parties to run algorithms on the open data of a Twitter clone, which — if implemented within secushare — can still protect metadata (the fact that you are following someb

danah boyd :: Publications

https://www.danah.org/papers/

“Isomorphism Through Algorithms: Institutional Dependencies in the Case of Facebook.” Big Data & Society, 5(1). DOI:  10.1177/2053951718757253 Caplan, Robyn and danah boyd. (

Stories

https://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/stories.html

instead, and devising algorithms that would reliably infer the first two digits by considering the current year and the given last two digits. Let me tell you, it was dull stuff.

Technological slavery

http://digdeeper.love/articles/technological_slavery.xhtml

the beginning - but the algorithms will get better, and will eventually make it impossible to fool them. If this system also connected directly to people's bank accounts, they cou

All About Symbian - news, reviews and software for Symbian and S60 phones

https://allaboutsymbian.com/

the multi-frame algorithms worked wonders on many phone cameras too, even by side-loading onto generic Android hardware. The system was much copied by all other phone makers, so t
All About Symbian provides news, reviews and software for devices running the Symbian platform, such as the Nokia N8, E7 and 701.

40 years of programming

https://liw.fi/40/

that I learn as many algorithms, data structures, and languages as quickly as possible. Programming was, after all, a young man's game, and required being able to stay up all nigh


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