Programming Leftovers
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Rlang ☛ Design effects for stratified sub-populations by @ellis2013nz
So, some months ago, I spent a few hours over a few days puzzled by something that turned out to be straighforwardly written up in the Stata manual, but not easily findable anywhere else.
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Hackaday ☛ Open Source Universal ROM Programmer Grows Up
When we first looked at [Anders Nielsen’s] EEPROM programmer project, it was nice but needed some software and manual intervention and had some limitations on the parts you could program. But through the magic of Open-Source collaboration, revision 2 of the project overcomes all of these limitations and—as you can see in the video below—looks very polished.
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Hackaday ☛ Register Renaming: The Art Of Parallel Processing
In the quest for faster computing, modern CPUs have turned to innovative techniques to optimize instruction execution. One such technique, register renaming, is a crucial component that helps us achieve the impressive multi-tasking abilities of modern processors. If you’re keen on hacking or tinkering with how CPUs manage tasks, this is one concept you’ll want to understand. Here’s a breakdown of how it works and you can watch the video, below.
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New York Times ☛ Thomas E. Kurtz, co-creator of BASIC programming language, dies at 96
At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world.