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iPXE - open source boot firmware
Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science
The mystery of India’s deadly exam scam
THE QUEST FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: A HISTORY OF IDEAS AND ACHIEVEMENTS . The caps are from the paper, not me.
Unix and Flow Based Programming
A Purpose-built Global Network: Google’s Move to SDN
rsync.net: ZFS Replication to the cloud is finally here—and it’s fast
Command go. Go 1.6 has vendor directories. It’s a step. It was in 1.5 as an experiment oGo 1.5 Vendor Experiment
Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesystems
Running Windows under FreeBSD’s bhyve. bhyve is the FreeBSD hypervisor. This is pretty cool.
Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents. Book, University Cambridge Press, 2010, David Poole and Alan Macworth.
The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles. A book to recommend to people.
Why it’s harder to forge a SHA-1 certificate than it is to find a SHA-1 collision