21 January 2020

24 links · Tuesday

tmds/Tmds.LibC

Raw bindings to Linux platform APIs for .NET Core. Contribute to tmds/Tmds.LibC development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Colouring Numbers - Numberphile

Fields Medallist Sir Timothy Gowers discusses Van der Waerden's theorem. Interview continues on Numberphile2 at: https://youtu.be/hHIfJcwipAY More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Timothy Gowers website: https://gowers.wordpress.com And his Twitte…

Pupils praise 'maths whisperer' teacher after entire class achieves A* in GCSE

A school in Cardiff is celebrating after an entire class achieved A* in their maths GCSE, after sitting the exam six months early. The Year 11 group at Fitzalan High School now refer to teacher Francis Elive as "the maths whisperer" as some of the class even…

Transatlantic ping faster than sending a pixel to the screen?

John Carmack tweeted, I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f’d up is that? And if this weren’t John Carmack, I’d file it under “the interwebs being

Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought.

As easy to use as a word document or bulleted list, and as powerful for finding, collecting, and connecting related ideas as a graph database. Collaborate with others in real time, or store all your data locally.

Introduction

Online book about how to write a computer operating system in C/C++ from scratch.

How to write a simple operating system in assembly language

This document shows you how to write and build your first operating system in x86 assembly language. It explains what you need, the fundamentals of the PC boot process and assembly language, and how to take it further. The resulting OS will be very small (fitt…