Stephen Wolfram applies lessons learned from the Wolfram Physics Project to construct a proper framework to explain why--and to what extent--the Second Law of thermodynamics is true.

La Michela è utilizzata dall'Ottocento: è ancora competitiva, ma richiede tanta formazione e ora ci sono alternative più moderne

Recently I came across a piece of code which is nearly 50 lines long, plus several global variables, a state machine, all it does is to debounce two buttons. Button debounce does not to be this complicate, in this article I will show you probably the simplest button debounce solution.

Raffiguravano rane assassine, uccellini stecchiti e scene che oggi sono piuttosto insolite, tra il macabro, il grottesco e l’inquietante

Updates about my life and what I learn about creating software

My thoughts and experiences on how writing a daily journal improved my memory and understanding of myself.

This is a page about some of the mechanics of ‘big data’, specifically how to store, transfer and process perhaps 100s of millions or billions of rows/events.
Although some people think big data starts at 65k rows, at which point Excel used to lose it, I’m talking about gigabytes of data here.
Infrastructure for this kind of thing abounds. Data can however come from lots of sources, and go to lots of different places.

Here is the text of the talk I gave at the Go SF meeting in June, 2012. This is a personal talk. I do not speak for anyone else on the Go...

 I studied physics in university, and at one point asked a professor if I should learn German, because it seemed all the key texts of early ...

This article attempts to give a sort of ‘orientation tour’ for people whose previous programming background is in high (ish) level languages such as Java or Python, and who now find that they need or want to learn C.

When you resize, rotate, or in any way transform an image; or more generally when you resample some discrete signal, the software you are using must interpolate between the discrete points to produce a result. Linear and cubic interpolation are easy to explain, but Lánczos interpolation, one of the most popular methods, is more interesting. In this post we will build up to how Lánczos interpolation works, pulling in various interesting topics on the way.

Here’s a method that’s new to me – a silver gelatin print printed in the darkroom, using an iPhone to provide the image and the light source. I took this photo a good few years ag…