This is still my stuff.

This is the second (and last) installment of a small personal study of distributed hash tables. The first one was focused on consistent hashing and the Chord DHT, check it out for more context. Kademlia Kademlia scales very well mostly because its design taps into the lessons learned by existing peer to peer networks. Which also makes it more complex and a little less elegant than Chord, feeling more like a set of heuristics rather than a single nice algorithm…

Computers Unlock More Secrets of the Indus Valley Script -- Four-thousand years ago, an urban civilization lived and traded on what is now the border between Pakistan and India. During the past century, thousands of artifacts bearing hieroglyphics left by this prehistoric people have been discovered. Today, a team of Indian and American researchers are using mathematics and computer science to try to piece together information about the still-unknown script…

The beauty of these Norwegian kidult instrumentalists is that they don't quite know what they're singing about and neither do we.