"I can change the font and change the outcome" nytimes.com/2023/01/19/us/po…
Didn't feel like I was in competition with robots until just now. youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1k…
All these years in CS & I only recently learned the origin of the word “bit": Claude Shannon's famous 1948 paper on information theory: "If the base 2 is used the resulting units may be called binary digits, or more briefly bits, a word suggested by J. W. Tukey." A binary digit!
Never assume the smart people before us have already made all the big discoveries: “For millennia it was widely assumed that there was no faster way to multiply. Then in 1960, the 23-year-old Russian mathematician Anatoly Karatsuba took a seminar ...” quantamagazine.org/mathemati…
My team at @Akamai looked at our streaming video traffic stats last month and we saw something special. When people across Spain applaud for healthcare workers each night there's a brief dip in traffic starting just before 8pm as streams are paused. #COVID19 #covid19ESP
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Today, at 15:35, we made our final /22 IPv4 allocation from the last remaining addresses in our available pool. We have now run out of IPv4 addresses.
Read our full announcement here:
ripe.net/publications/news/a…
In the picture, the Registration Services team at the RIPE NCC
.@csoandy doesn’t fit his presentation to the screen, the screen fits itself to his presentation!
"Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second" sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/…
This is fantastic! Follow the Apollo 11 mission in real time with synchronized radio transmissions, transcripts and photography, and some limited telemetry data as well. Thanks @gisellis! apolloinrealtime.org/11/
@JamesKretchmar This seems up your alley. If you happen to be in Cambridge in the next while, Draper has a cool looking exhibit on the moonshot.
Alan Turing to be the face of the new £50 note in England. Good choice!
Alan Turing, World War Two codebreaker and mathematician, will be the face of new Bank of England £50 note bbc.in/2jZmqFJ
An update is available for Ops Clock, my spare-time personal project app for working with times, dates and worldwide time zones. It now natively supports iPad and has some new features in the time zone calculator. Download it for free on the app store here itunes.apple.com/us/app/ops-…
Will Law on stage at #EdgeWorld2019 showing live streaming video on the Internet 3 seconds behind real life and way faster than the satellite feed you’d see on traditional broadcast!
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.@hotstartweets and @akamai create history, again, during the @IPL final on May 12. A record 18.6M concurrent viewers watched the 2019 @ipl final between @ChennaiIPL and @mipaltan live on Hotstar, delivered with Akamai! #VIVOIPL #MIvCSK
We live in an age where it seems like everything can connect to everything effortlessly but there remain lots of difficult problems requiring clever solutions. See MIT's new idea for sub-to-air comms. (ELF is old but interesting!)
alum.mit.edu/slice/why-cant-… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commun…
Y2K was boring because engineers worked to make sure it would be. But now they're working on a bigger problem coming in #Y2038 when many systems' internal clock will need an extra binary digit to store the time. The risks are greater and already appearing! bit.ly/2AWn8ZC
Looking forward to speaking next week at edgecongress.com/europe on expanding business opportunities at #TheEdge
