In the previous two parts we used a SAT solver as a black box that we feed input into, and it will (usually quickly) spit out an answer. In this part, we will look at how SAT solvers work and what heuristics and other tricks they employ in their quest for performance.

According to Wikipedia, a text terminal is " a serial computer interface for text entry and display". It was the principal way of communicating with computers in the 70's. As a Text terminal requires extremely basic computing needs, ...

Alphabet Inc's Google has suspended business with Huawei that requires the transfer of hardware and software products except those covered by open source licenses, a source close to the matter told Reuters on Sunday, in a blow to the Chinese technology company that the U.S. government has sought...

CodeGen is a library that builds on top of LLVM. It facilitates just-in-time code generation and compilation, including debugging information and human-readable source code. C++ type system is employed to guard against, at least some, errors in the ...

While still in college (go Broncos!), I teamed up with Alex (@slevenbits) to create a startup. We were young, inexperienced and naive. Our first project was called YippieMail and it was an email aggregator. Simply put, YippieMail could display all your webmail accounts (i.e. Hotmail, Yahoo and...

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Much ink has been spilled since last Sunday about the massacre at King’s Landing. Why did Dany carpet-bomb a civilian population after a city had surrendered? Was this a sign of her growing madness? Or a rational strategyto cement the legitimacy of ...

When the cool kids talk about interesting log data, no one seems to want to talk about nginx. Web servers are the workhorses of the internet, reliable and battle-hardened, but the logs are standard and never have anything of the interesting application ...

Fantasia Apocalyptica is a multimedia work for pipe organ, accompanied by several video tracks. It can be regarded as a somewhat literal translation of the Biblical book of Revelation into music.

New conversation That ’s just wow. You know welsknight has has similar problems with his vids where the music has been in question. But he uses an artist that has openly expresses that he has given wels permission to use the music. Youtube ...

Instead, much to his astonishment, he opened a window into the early history of Durand, Wisconsin, on Labor Day weekend 2015 when he cut a hole in the wall separating the family business from the property next door to accommodate an expansion.

The popular notion of the go-anywhere, go-anytime, sleep-in-the-back autonomous car crumbled a bit in the last few weeks, as automakers admitted that the development of full self-driving technology is more difficult than expected.

Journal of Educational Psychology A Randomized Controlled Trial of Interleaved Mathematics Practice Doug Rohrer, Robert F. Dedrick, Marissa K. Hartwig, and Chi-Ngai Cheung Online First Publication, May 16, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/edu0000367CITATION ...

Around a year ago, AMD graced us with the Ryzen APU family, bringing higher logical core counts and the Vega GPU architecture to the APU platform. Unlike the rather.. limited.. FM1/2/2+ platform family, the new generation ran on the AM4 platform, ...

Electronics BK-0010 was a `home' computer manufactured in the USSR from 1985 through 1993. It was a 16-bit microcomputer (an LSI-11 clone) with the PDP-11 instruction set; it had 3MHz clock and 32KB of RAM, half of which was dedicated to ...

Organized crime is famously good at exploiting time-sensitive industries like construction, fishing, and—of course—garbage removal. But revelations about millions of tons of toxic waste buried haphazardly and illegally by the mob are causing an uproar in southern Italy, where cancer rates are...

supdate is a small Clojure/ClojureScript library for transforming nested data structures in a straightforward and efficient way. supdatelets you express nested transformations as data structures which match the schema of the input, and then executes ...

This past summer authorities from the Australian city of Kwinana installed a new filtration system in the Henley Reserve. This system is unbelievably simple and helpful. Both the government and the citizens have already seen the benefits of using it and ...

Amid the convulsions in the years following the Arab Spring, Peter Hessler went to the ancient city of Amarna, site of another short-lived attempt to remake a nation We had always intended to spend at least five years in Egypt. It seemed ...

Jump to navigation Jump to search The Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis ( Latin for "Linen Book of Zagreb", also rarely known as Liber Agramensis, "Book of Agram") is the longest Etruscan text and the only extant linenbook, dated ...

Kong, the open core API management and life cycle management company previously known as Mashape, today announced that it has raised a $43 million Series C round led by Index Ventures. Previous investors Andreessen Horowitz and Charles River Ventures (CRV), as well as new investors GGV Capital...

In this episode of computer archeology, we deconstruct a very interesting case of borrowing code from multiple places – but first try this D64 disk image with any Commodore 64 emulator or a real C64:

The Latin American Library at Tulane University is digitizing and archiving a selection of Spanish language soap operas from the 1960s. The illustration above appeared in a brochure titled "What Is and How to Produce a Radionovela,"

GitHub is home to over 36 million developers working together to host and review code, manage projects, and build software together. Sign up Can be used to analyze memory leaks, see where exactly the memory is being consumed, identify ...

Welcome to The Takeout ’s Asian Noodles Week, a tribute to the O.G. pasta bowl. We’ve broken down ramen’s components: the broth, the tare, the richness added via aroma oil, and popular toppings like the “ajitama” egg and pork chashu. But nothing is more ...

traffic at one or more of the seven layers of the ISO network model, most commonly at the ap-developed to simplify the task of correctly defining a firewall’s policy. Once a policy has beenBecause some data must be able to pass in and out of a firewall, in ...

Last week we announced that we would stop supporting the Works with Nest (WWN) program on August 31, 2019 and transition to the Works with Google Assistant platform(WWGA). The decision to retire WWN was made to unify our efforts around third-party ...

A novel technique developed by MIT researchers compresses “objects ”in memory for the first time, freeing up more memory used by computers, allowing them to run faster and perform more tasks simultaneously. Credit: Christine Daniloff, MIT

If you've used JavaScript frameworks in the last few years, you've probably heard the phrase 'the virtual DOM is fast', often said to mean that it's faster than the realDOM. It's a surprisingly resilient meme —for example people ...