Features
Script Mods
CoffeeScript, Dart, Elm, and TypeScript
JavaScript is the stuff of which many interactive web clients is made, but it comes with a fair amount of historical ballast. The creators of four alternative scripting languages seek to ditch the ballast.
The Frugal Penguin
Tools for optimizing Linux power management
Linux offers several tools that help users analyze the power consumption of hardware components.
Little Friend
Exploring the extra tiny KolibriOS
KolibriOS, written in assembler, is especially suited to very old hardware – it even fits on a floppy disk.
Wide Reach
A Rasp Pi wireless access point
Set up a wireless access point with a Raspberry Pi 3, Ubuntu Core, and snaps.
Horse Power
Developing concurrent programs with Pony
Pony, an object-oriented programming language with static typecasting, trots down well-mapped paths to deliver secure, high-performance code for concurrent applications.
Sure-Fire Success
Developing an AI system with Markov chains
Markov chains model systems that jump from state to state with predetermined probabilities, but can they help write new columns like this one after learning from previously written articles?
In the Can
Record screencasts with Peek on Gnome
A screencast shows what happens on the desktop. Peek lets you create screencasts in the blink of an eye and export them to popular formats.
Pi FM Radio
Build an FM radio using an RTL-SDR dongle
Low-cost RTL-SDR dongles can read frequencies between 24 and 1,766MHz. We built a simple FM radio with a Raspberry Pi, a USB dongle based on the RTL2832U chipset, an LCD HAT, and some Python code.
Small Wonders
Compress image files with Guetzli
The Guetzli image optimizer by Google developers produces smaller images than JPEG while maintaining the same quality, but it requires a powerful computer with a large working memory.
Programming Snapshot – Neural Networks
Car NOT Goat
The well-known Monty Hall game show problem can be a rewarding maiden voyage for prospective statisticians. But is it possible to teach a neural network to choose between goats and cars with a few practice sessions?
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