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Circuit Patterns, Part 3: Pull-Up and Pull-Down Resistors
If a part of a circuit is disconnected, the voltage of that circuit isn’t necessarily zero; it can pick up static electricityCircuit Patterns, Part 2: Voltage Dividers
Pretty much any time you see two resistors connected in series with a wire coming out from between them, you are witnessing a voltage divider in action.Circuit Patterns, Part I: Understanding Circuit Schematics
You will get on much better in electronics if you learn to see the schematic line drawings as a series of patternsElon Musk Tweet Shows Why Many Doubt Origin of Life Studies
Musk was talking about the origin of machines, not life, but the principle is, perhaps surprisingly, the samePart 4: Docker—An Introduction to Container Orchestration
This tutorial will focus on Docker’s swarm because it comes installed with Docker and uses the same standard Docker filesPart 3: Working with Docker: An Interactive Tutorial
Docker gives development teams more reliable, repeatable, and testable systems, deployed at massive scale with the click of a buttonPart 2: A Peek Under the Covers at the New Docker Technology
Many advances enable Docker to significantly reduce a system’s overheadMicrosoft Flight Simulator: Promise and Problems of Big Open Data
For some software, bad data doesn’t matter; for other software, working off of month-old data could be life-threateningHow the Docker Revolution Will Change Your Programming, Part 1
Since 2013, Docker (an operating system inside your current operating system) has grown rapidly in popularityHow to Teach and Hold Meetings in “Mixed Mode” in the COVID Era
Teachers and facilitators face a challenge when some students are online in quarantine and some are in front of them in personWhat’s the Main Thing We Should Learn from the Big Twitter Hack?
Yes, Twitter got control of its platform back but not before its credibility in security matters was significantly weakenedBuilt to Save Us from Evil AI, OpenAI Now Dupes Us
When combined with several metric tons of data, its new GPT-3 sometimes it looks like it is “thinking.” No, not reallyGerman Court Rules: Tesla Autopilot Is False Advertising
In America, for reasons many people can’t quite comprehend, the regulatory agencies haven’t said much about the inflated claimsHackers Seize Popular Twitter Accounts for Giant Bitcoin Scam
Scammers have gained access to a number of high-profile Twitter accounts, including those of Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Kanye West, and Elon MuskCollectors’ Items Are Now on the Blockchain
What You Need to Know About The Tactile Web
It’s a user-directed integration of technology into lifeTwenty Years on, Aliens Still Cause Global Warming
Over the years, the Jurassic Park creator observed, science has drifted from its foundation as an objective search for truth toward political power gamesAutomated Code Generation Tools Can Solve Problems
We may be seeing the rebirth of an old approach to productivity that finds a middle ground between too constrained and too riskyA programming language creates a middle space between the way humans think and the way computers think. What's the best compromise point?
Elon Musk’s Myths About the Mind
According to Musk, everything in the brain is an electrical signal. That’s pretty naiveNeuroscientists used to think that each neuron was as complex as a switch. But newer research shows that each neuron is more similar to a microprocessor. Musk’s 3,000 Neuralink electrodes controlled by a single processor does not remotely match your brain’s 80 billion processors, all linked together.