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Photo by Christophe Kummer Why manual memory management can be worse for performance than garbage collection – I spent over a decade coding in C and C++, and these are true words. Instead of GC pause...

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Photo by egazelle How to program unreliable chips – It’s been a vitally useful simplification to pretend that computer calculations are 100% reliable, but as our data volumes grow and chips shrink,...

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Photo by Jed Sullivan Sunlight intensity based global position system – It turns out you can geo-locate underwater sensors to within a few kilometers just by measuring the sunset and sunrise times....

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Photo by Harshvardhan Dhawan The county problem in the West – This is a brilliant example of why you need to understand some GIS basics to sensibly use even the most basic geographic statistics. The...

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