There is a claim circulating, e.g. here on Mastodon:

[...] in COBOL, if a date is missing [or "corrupt"] the program defaults to 1875 [...]

The claim is sometimes "enhanced" by

During the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, a Prussian officer defended himself from reprimand by arguing that he was simply following orders. His commander,

Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics. - umami-software/umami

Word2vec is a pervasive tool for learning word embeddings. Its success, however, is mostly due to particular architecture choices. Transferring these choices to traditional distributional methods makes them competitive with popular word embedding methods.

Jacob Kiplimo shattered the half marathon world record with a blistering run on Sunday.

Everybody hates working on legacy projects, me as well. Working on one, however, helped me get a deeper understanding of the dev process.

Adventures in programming, hardware, DSP, and chiptune

Twenty years ago, in 2004-2005, I spent a year at MIT’s Computer Science department as a postdoc working with Professor Nancy Lynch. It was ...

Intel has built a suite of AI tools for Audacity, useful for spoken word audio and music alike. These AI features run 100% locally on your PC.

Some tricks and techniques for working with graph or tree like data in Postgresql

This app has a surprising number of anti-debugging protections. Let's figure out how to bypass them.

Animating R1's thoughts. Contribute to dhealy05/frames_of_mind development by creating an account on GitHub.

A plane crashed and flipped on its back at Toronto's Pearson International Airport on Monday afternoon, injuring at 18 passengers, officials say.

ADAM GOLASKI is the author of Color Plates. His work has appeared in 1913: A Journal of Forms, Best Horror of the Year, The Lifted Brow, and LVNG no. 11.

ESPARGOS is a phase-coherent, ESP32-based WiFi antenna array designed for low-cost sensing applications.

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