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(Mar 21) #history #hardware Save to Pocket

Interested in old technology and history? What about intercontinential missles? Well Ken Shirriff is an expert on historical technology, and in this extensive article, he covers the internals of a computer used for Titan II nuclear missles and Titan IIIC rockets. Specifically Ken looks at the digital side, core memory, the interface circuitry, and power supply. Following that, Ken gives a summary of "the comple history of the Titan missle and rocket, and its various guidance computers".

(Mar 22) #rust Save to Pocket

String interning is a method of storing only one copy of each distinct string value, which must be immutable. It "is a classical optimization when you have to deal with many equal strings". Aleksey Kladov has written an article about implementing a simple interner in Rust. Although Aleksey initially implemented one using a Trie data structure, his ultimate decision was to implement it using HashMap and the unsafe keyword.

(Mar 22) #neural networks #machine learning #math Save to Pocket

With the ever growing use cases for machine learning, it's always interesting to see what the next big thing will be. You know what it probably won't be? Using neural networks to add things. David Volquartz Lebech's informative article explores the comical idea of using neural networks with 2, 4, 8, and 16 hidden nodes to add numbers from 1 to 65536. Does it work? Not really! But there's plenty of food-for-thought you can chew on.

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