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This essay was sparked by me struggling to write my thesis' Background chapter and finding I had to comprehensively explain several concepts. Hopefully some appropriate slice through it will end up in the actual chapter. (Did I get something wrong? Do set me straight in the comments.) As we all learned in Computing 101, volatile...
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This will be a basic fact to some, but you don't need to load code into RAM to execute it. You can execute code straight from ROM. In fact, this is how most computer systems boot up. After the CPU finishes initializing, it starts executing at a specific physical address which is generally mapped
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Over the weekend a minor smack-talk session opened up on Twitter between Maria Andersen and about half a dozen other math people about MathType versus $latex \LaTeX$. Maria is on record as being pro-MathType and yesterday she claimed that $latex \LaTeX$ is "not intuitive to learn". I warned her that a pro-$latex \LaTeX$ blog post...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Bug-ly.
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