Author name: dbasch

Over the past few days, someone has been sending tiny amounts of bitcoin (one satoshi) to thousands of addresses. Those […]

Dogecoin is a unique phenomenon in the fascinating world of cryptocurrencies. It’s barely six weeks old, and as I write

There’s a subtle point that escapes most people buying bitcoin these days: Bitcoins are not exactly something you own. Rather,

Last month I posted a very simple Markov Chain generator that takes one paragraph of text and produces gibberish. The

Markov chains are a simple concept. Start with a state (e.g. a word, a location on a map, a musical

For some reason many people discuss the problem of estimating software development timeframes without properly understanding the issue. There is

San Francisco has 800,000 inhabitants. How many cordless drills are there in this city? Probably orders of magnitude more than

Yesterday I was reading this Hacker News thread about the Common Crawl, and one comment caught my attention: Common Crawl

If you write code for a living, when was the last time you released something as open source? If you

When I was a teenager in Argentina in the 1980s, there was a weekly TV show called “Feliz Domingo” (Happy