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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

Gered's Ramblings

http://blarg.ca/rss/

with better, simpler algorithms or abstractions. I know many developers who would echo similar feelings. But less code is not necessarily simpler to read and understand either. It

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

Memotech MTX 512 - MOC

http://www.primrosebank.net/computers/mtx/magazines/moc.htm

- Part 1 (BASIC Sort algorithms) Assembler Type-in : Machine Code Game Template a la Pothole Pete 9 August 1987 (13) BASIC Type-in : "Spaceship" - Part 2 (how to create

Rationale for a Large Text Compression Benchmark

http://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/rationale.html

there are efficient algorithms for mapping strings to codes given any distribution p(), such as arithmetic coding [4]. In an arithmetic code, s is mapped to a code x, expressed as

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

solhsa.com - blog

https://solhsa.com/oldernews2011.html

do asciiart conversion algorithms work Take n * n pixels. Match it against all glyphs available. Pick the one with least error. That's the basic idea. how to extract middle bits f

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. (

Challenging projects every programmer should try - Austin Z. Henley

https://austinhenley.com/blog/challengingprojects.html

sequel too: Challenging algorithms and data structures every programmer should try . I talk to a lot of students and professional developers that often want to start a side projec
Challenging projects every programmer should try.

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


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