Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis’ fiasco shows they didn’t realize Twitter needs TV
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images A bad cover version. Look, Elon Musk just hosted the launch of Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign on Twitter Spaces, and I could say some things about hypocrisy — Musk insisting that “for Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically
Read moreOccupancy problem distribution
Suppose you have a random number generator that returns numbers between 1 and N. The birthday problem asks how many random numbers would you have to output before there’s a 50-50 chance that you’ll repeat a number. The coupon collector problem asks how many numbers you expect to generate before
Read moreAccelerating the Cloud: Transitioning to Cloud Native
In this third article in our Accelerating the Cloud series, we explore a checklist of items to consider before redeploying applications. Continue reading Accelerating the Cloud: Transitioning to Cloud Native on SitePoint.
Read moreAn Android app started secretly recording users almost a year after it was listed on Google Play
Innocent-seeming apps can be trojan horses for your information. | Image: Amar Toor / The Verge An Android recording app called iRecorder Screen Recorder began as an innocent screen recording app but turned evil nearly a year after it was first released, as detailed by Ars Technica. The app first
Read moreElon Musk fails to launch Ron DeSantis in disastrous Twitter Space
Photo by Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced his 2024 presidential campaign to screeching audio feedback and technical difficulties in a Twitter Space with Elon Musk on Wednesday. DeSantis eventually did launch his campaign, but the event was mired with problems from the very beginning —
Read moreHow to use marketing techniques to build a better resume
Between the Great Resignation and the recent spate of layoffs, you may be thinking about your resume a bit more than usual in the last few months. Even if it’s been spruced up and you’re following the best advice out there, you might get more out of your resume by
Read moreResponsive CSS Layout Grids without Media Queries
Discover how both Flexbox and Grid provide ways to create fluidly responsive layout grids without media queries. Continue reading Responsive CSS Layout Grids without Media Queries on SitePoint.
Read moreRon DeSantis to announce presidential bid in Twitter Space with Elon Musk
Photo by Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is set to announce he is running for president in a conversation with Twitter owner Elon Musk, NBC News reported Monday. The announcement will take place during a Twitter Spaces event on Wednesday at 6PM ET, and David Sacks,
Read moreHypergeometric distribution symmetry
One of these days I’d like to read Feller’s probability book slowly. He often says clever things in passing that are easy to miss. Here’s an example from Feller [1] that I overlooked until I saw it cited elsewhere. Suppose an urn contains n marbles, n1 red and n2 black.
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Suppose you take the arithmetic mean and the geometric mean of the first n integers. The ratio of these two means converges to e/2 as n grows [1]. In symbols, Now suppose we wanted to visualize the convergence by plotting the expression on the left side for a sequence of
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