Rob Janssen

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Computer with human-like learning will program itself

The Neural Turing Machine will combine the best of number-crunching with the human-like adaptability of neural networks – so it can invent its own programs YOUR smartphone is amazing, but ask it to do something it doesn't have an app for and it just sits there.

BREAKING: NoSQL just “huge text file and grep”, study finds

BREAKING NEWS: a study by the institute for distributed investigation of technologies (IDIOT) has found that all NoSQL technologies are essentially just a massive text file combined with the UNIX tool ‘grep’ NoSQL has risen in popularity in recent years as a hipster alternative to relational da

Introducing osquery

Maintaining real-time insight into the current state of your infrastructure is important. At Facebook, we've been working on a framework called osquery which attempts to approach the concept of low-level operating system monitoring a little differently.

osquery

What is osquery? With osquery, you can use SQL to query low-level operating system information. Under the hood, instead of querying static tables, these queries dynamically execute high-performance native code. The results of the SQL query are transparently returned to you quickly and easily.

Have the Angular Team lost their marbles?

I’ve posted before that I’m not a big fan of frameworks like Angular.

Components Programming – Components Programming

As you may have noticed, Components Programming is the name of this blog. And perhaps you’re wondering, what Components Programming means?

GOTO statement considered awesome - Carl Mäsak (?masak?)

As I surveyed my requirements, I realized that what I most wanted was for a subroutine to be able to pause in the middle and resume sometime later -- maybe even after a reboot of the whole program. Was that so much to ask?The answer to this question took me on a strange journey via coroutines, CPS t

The eatabit.com blog

We have been running eatabit.com here in Charleston, SC for about a year now. Over that time, our cellular printing api has printed over 9300 food orders for our client restaurants, stadiums and golf courses.

Little-endian vs. big-endian

Additional cache coherency/lock-free posts are still in the pipe, I just haven’t gotten around to writing much lately. In the meantime, here’s a quick post on something else: little-endian (LE) vs. big-endian (BE) and some of the trade-offs involved.

seriot.ch/resources/talks_papers/i_love_unicode_softshake.pdf

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