The Democracy Factory →
Printing presses, scanners, envelope stuffers, and lots of lots of paper.
IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption →
Large performance penalties, but within the bounds of usefulness for real problems now. This could allow companies to provide you useful information about your data without ever seeing what your data actually is.
Keeping Google Meet ahead of usage demand during COVID-19 →
A great look at the process of scaling Google Meet to handle 30x more traffic due to COVID-19. Many of the same techniques were applied to our work scaling Teams.
Frances Allen, Who Helped Hardware Understand Software, Dies at 88 →
Frances Allen, a computer scientist and researcher who helped create the fundamental ideas that allow practically anyone to build fast, efficient and useful software for computers, smartphones and websites, died on Tuesday, her 88th birthday, in Schenectady, N.Y.
First woman to win the Turing award. What a life.
Code Coverage Best Practices →
Data-driven insights on code coverage metrics from Google. They're pretty in-line with my professional experience as well.'Did I Miss Anything?': A Man Emerges From a 75-Day Silent Retreat →
Daniel Thorson went into a silent retreat in mid-March, meditating through 75 coronavirus news cycles, Boris Johnson's hospitalization, social distancing, and sourdough starter. Now he's catching up.
What an experience.
Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem →
It took Lisa Piccirillo less than a week to answer a long-standing question about a strange knot discovered over half a century ago by the legendary John Conway.
It earned her a tenure-track position from MIT. Remarkable.
Five Lies Our Culture Tells →
It's become clear in the interim that things are not in good shape, that our problems are societal. The whole country is going through some sort of spiritual and emotional crisis.
College mental health facilities are swamped, suicide rates are spiking, the president's repulsive behavior is tolerated or even celebrated by tens of millions of Americans. At the root of it all is the following problem: We've created a culture based on lies.
Here are some of them.
Teams gets a shout-out from LEGO:
me working from home: pic.twitter.com/nJufTy7q2r
— LEGO (@LEGO_Group) April 15, 2020
"Honey, where are my pants?"