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Mike White

Mike White is a second-year Computer Science student at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His interests are technology, philosophy, culture, music, and effective altruism. Mike has a blog about technology and philosophy. If he isn’t doing any of that, then he’s probably either playing a Sherlock Holmes video game or watching YouTube.

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Why be Concerned about AI Safety?

Feb 3, 2021

About a year ago, researchers signed a petition against AI being capable of killing people. The Future of Life Institute is very concerned about AI safety. Why is this?

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How to Generate Random Numbers in Python

Jan 13, 2021

A random event is an event that cannot be predicted in advance. How do computers make random numbers? We will make a few of our own random number generators to show how they work.

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A Something Sort Of Like a DRY-ism-ist Manifesto

Sep 18, 2020

Points to whoever can figure out which Slate Star Codex article the title is referencing. DRY Manifesto Imagine you are a detective, perhaps in the midst of Victorian-era London. You are at your apartment at...

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ARM vs x86 - Explained

Sep 16, 2020

Recently, Apple announced their decision to switch from Intel CPUs to their own ARM chips. What is the difference? The new Apple Silicon chips are based on ARM CPUs, like the current CPUs for the iPhone and...

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Using Macros - C, Nim, and Rust

Sep 14, 2020

Macros are cool. A macro is a tool, sometimes embedded into the programming language, that can be used to generate code. This can be very useful for when you need to have some repeating code, but can not use a...

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Making a Discord Bot (With Node.js)

Aug 31, 2020

Discord bots are very cool. They’re also very fun to make. But how do you make one? Typically, Discord bots are written in Node.js. Node.js is a JavaScript interpreter that runs on the desktop. Of course,...

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Concepts of TCP, Explained with Node.js

Aug 28, 2020

Networking is a very important part of computing. But how do we do it? A network is a group of computers that are able to talk to each other. The Internet is a famous example of a network.

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Why Static Typing & Why is TypeScript so popular?

Aug 24, 2020

According to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2020, 67.1% of TypeScript users loved it. This makes it the second most loved language, behind Rust, and narrowly beating out Python. JavaScript was number 10,...

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Solving a Maze with Breadth First Search

Aug 7, 2020

How can we find the fastest way from point A to point B? Solving problems like this is very common in computing. An enemy AI in a video game needs to be able to find the fastest way to the player. Google Maps...

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Five Obscure but Useful HTML Tags

Aug 5, 2020

If you’re not familiar with HTML, this article isn’t going to be of much use to you. Sorry.

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From Crap Design to CRAP Design

Aug 5, 2020

There’s an acronym that’s used as a guide for web design: CRAP (unfortunately, it also has another use in computer science). It stands for contrast, repetition, alignment, proximity. These are just...

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Managing the Heap in C

Jul 31, 2020

Memory management is very important. In Google Chrome, 70% of security bugs are memory problems. Fixing memory management would lead to much more reliable and secure programs. There are two possible solutions...

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How to Shuffle a List Using the Fisher-Yates Method

Jul 8, 2020

A couple of months ago, I made a webpage called the Pronoun Testing Grounds. It allows users to try a different set of pronouns. It comes up with a cute little story to try them out. It’s like the Pronoun...

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How to Sort a List Using Algorithms

Jul 4, 2020

Sorting is a common operation that needs to be done, but there are many ways to do it. We want to use whichever algorithm can sort a list as quickly as possible. By the end of this article, you should be able...

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Assembly Part 2 - Let's Write Assembly!

Jul 3, 2020

In the first part of this series, we talked about the basics of Assembly. Now, we want to write a couple of programs. In this article, we’ll try to do “Hello, World!” and a Fibonacci program.

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Assembly Part 1 - Let's Learn Assembly!

Jun 23, 2020

In the beginning, there were punch cards. Eventually, someone got the bright idea to have the computer be programmable. Just type in the hexadecimal code and let it run. The problem is that it’s very...

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