What I Worked On
February 2021 Before college the two main things I worked on, outside of school, were writing and programming. I didn't write essays. I wrote what beginning writers were supposed to write then, and probably still are: short stories. My stories were awful. They had hardly any plot, just characters with strong feelings, which I imagined made them deep. The first programs I tried writing were on the
Look-up-tables, more commonly referred to as LUTs, are as old as Mathematics itself. The act of precalculating things into a row or table is nothing new. But in the realm of graphics programming, this simple act unlocks some incredibly creative techniques, which both artists and programmers found when faced with tough technical hurdles. We’ll embark on a small journey, which will take us from simp
Examining the design of interactive articles by synthesizing theory from disciplines such as education, journalism, and visualization. Computing has changed how people communicate. The transmission of news, messages, and ideas is instant. Anyone’s voice can be heard. In fact, access to digital communication technologies such as the Internet is so fundamental to daily life that their disruption by
Support for this study was provided by Apple. The conclusions and opinions expressed are exclusively those of the authors. The Success of Third-Party Apps on the App Store Juliette Caminade, Ph.D. Markus von Wartburg, Ph.D. April 2022 The Success of Third-Party Apps on the App Store 1 In recent years, the role of “big tech” in shaping options for developers, content creators, and users in digital
How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
Marginalia does relatively well by sometimes providing decent but not great answers and then providing no answers or very obviously irrelevant answers to the questions it can't answer, with a relatively low rate of scams, lower than any other search engine (although, for these queries, ChatGPT returns zero scams and Marginalia returns some). Interestingly, Mwmbl lets users directly edit search res
Bullshit Jobs
Notes: ISBN 978-1-5011-4331-1, ISBN 978-1-5011-4334-2 (ebook); Most names and many identifying characteristics have been changed.; Interior design by Carly Loman; Jacket design by David L Itman To anyone who would rather be doing something useful with themselves. Preface: On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs In the spring of 2013, I unwittingly set off a very minor international sensation. It all be
RFC 9446: Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations
RFC 9446 Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations Abstract This memo contains the thoughts and recountings of events that transpired during and after the release of information about the United States National Security Agency (NSA) by Edward Snowden in 2013. There are four perspectives: that of someone who was involved with sifting through the information to responsibly inform the pub
Benefits for LWN subscribersThe primary benefit from subscribing to LWN is helping to keep us publishing, but, beyond that, subscribers get immediate access to all site content and access to a number of extra site features. Please sign up today! Displaying an application's graphical output onto the screen requires compositing and mode setting that are correctly synchronized among the various piece
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How video games use LUTs and how you can too
Communicating with Interactive Articles
The Success of Third-Party Apps on the App Store
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