rbanffy

Wed Mar 12, 2008 1:11pm PST

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Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.

email: username at that google mail thing

http://about.me/rbanffy

https://linkedin.com/in/ricardobanffy

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Mon Aug 25, 2025 2:23pm PST

Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and conspiracy theory

Mon Aug 25, 2025 1:45pm PST

The Media Can't Handle the Absence of Truth

Mon Aug 25, 2025 1:43pm PST

Isn't It Semantic? – BCS

Mon Aug 25, 2025 11:27am PST

Next-generation 3D DRAM approaches reality as scientists achieve 120-layer stack

Mon Aug 25, 2025 11:26am PST

IO_uring Ready for Uring_cmd Multishot Support with Provided Buffers

Mon Aug 25, 2025 11:26am PST

Race to Build Lunar Nuclear Reactor Heats Up

Mon Aug 25, 2025 9:40am PST

Fifty Years of Microsoft Developer Tools – By Rico Mariani

Mon Aug 25, 2025 9:40am PST

Advancing Lunar Habitats with Thermoelectric Power Generation – Universe Today

Mon Aug 25, 2025 9:40am PST

Google's Liquid Cooling at Hot Chips 2025 – By Chester Lam

Sun Aug 24, 2025 9:02pm PST

Time is running out for SpaceX to make a splash with second-gen Starship

Sun Aug 24, 2025 8:49pm PST

Scaling Your AI Enterprise Architecture with MCP Systems

Sun Aug 24, 2025 8:48pm PST

How I Approach Performance Investigations – By Rico Mariani

Sun Aug 24, 2025 5:43pm PST

China's Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink

Sun Aug 24, 2025 5:42pm PST

Tiangong Space station crew gains AI assistant

Sun Aug 24, 2025 5:41pm PST

Pennsylvania school cuts costs by using 3D printers to create violins

Sun Aug 24, 2025 5:01pm PST

The Economics of Stagflation, Part II – Paul Krugman

Sun Aug 24, 2025 4:34pm PST

AR Glasses Need Ultrasound UI for Broad Adoption – EE Times

Sun Aug 24, 2025 4:30pm PST

Europe's Quantum Strategy: Urgency Beyond the Blueprint

Sun Aug 24, 2025 3:39pm PST

Implementing Gist Memory: Summarizing, Searching Long Documents with a ReadAgent

Sun Aug 24, 2025 3:08pm PST

LLMs: Common Terms Explained, Simply

Sun Aug 24, 2025 8:38am PST

Bridging the Gap: How Smart Demand Management Can Forestall the AI Energy Crisis

Fri Aug 22, 2025 8:47pm PST

FBI warns of Russian hacks targeting US critical infrastructure

Fri Aug 22, 2025 8:45pm PST

Skymont in Gaming Workloads – By Chester Lam

Fri Aug 22, 2025 8:45pm PST

EU to curb AI chip flows to China as part of US trade deal

Fri Aug 22, 2025 12:47pm PST

Kilowatt Madness – Paul Krugman

Fri Aug 22, 2025 11:44am PST

Scaling Your AI Enterprise Architecture with MCP Systems

Fri Aug 22, 2025 11:42am PST

Building the Chiplet Ecosystem – By Austin Lyons

Fri Aug 22, 2025 11:41am PST

OpenAI lawyers question Meta's role in Elon Musk's $97B takeover bid

Fri Aug 22, 2025 11:06am PST

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Fri Aug 22, 2025 10:57am PST

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Fri Aug 22, 2025 10:54am PST

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Fri Aug 22, 2025 10:25am PST

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Fri Aug 22, 2025 10:01am PST

Google Is Already Using the Future AI Network You Might Get in 2028

Fri Aug 22, 2025 9:52am PST

Fifty Years of Microsoft Developer Tools – By Rico Mariani

Fri Aug 22, 2025 9:43am PST

Skymont in Gaming Workloads – By Chester Lam

Thurs Aug 21, 2025 9:43pm PST

Google Is Already Using the Future AI Network You Might Get in 2028

Thurs Aug 21, 2025 9:06pm PST

The Pursuit of Life Where It Seems Unimaginable

Thurs Aug 21, 2025 9:05pm PST

Hackers who exposed North Korean government hacker explain why they did it

Thurs Aug 21, 2025 9:01pm PST

Apple Destroyed Steve Jobs' Vision of the iPad. Good

Thurs Aug 21, 2025 7:25pm PST

SpaceX has built the machine to build the machine. But what about the machine?

Thurs Aug 21, 2025 7:16pm PST

Skymont in Gaming Workloads – By Chester Lam

Thurs Aug 21, 2025 7:16pm PST

China's Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink

Thurs Aug 21, 2025 6:51pm PST

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Thurs Aug 21, 2025 6:45pm PST

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Thurs Aug 21, 2025 6:43pm PST

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Thurs Aug 21, 2025 5:57pm PST

The Network Times: AI Cluster Networking

Thurs Aug 21, 2025 2:14pm PST

Taking a look at my old Palm IIIx – by Paul Lefebvre

Thurs Aug 21, 2025 1:53pm PST

Building the Chiplet Ecosystem – By Austin Lyons

Thurs Aug 21, 2025 1:52pm PST

Flashy, Fancy Shortcuts Aren't Always Suitable [Python Shorts]

Thurs Aug 21, 2025 1:43pm PST

Full-sized A1200 Amiga remake spotted on display

Thurs Aug 21, 2025 10:58am PST

Kaggle Game Arena evaluates AI models through games

Thurs Aug 21, 2025 10:56am PST

Skymont in Gaming Workloads – By Chester Lam

Wed Aug 20, 2025 9:03pm PST

Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors [pdf]

Wed Aug 20, 2025 6:31pm PST

My original Palm IIIx

Wed Aug 20, 2025 6:11pm PST

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Wed Aug 20, 2025 6:10pm PST

Python usage growing while Foundation struggles for funds

Wed Aug 20, 2025 6:03pm PST

NIST Guidelines Can Help Orgs Detect Face Photo Morphs, Deter Identity Fraud

Wed Aug 20, 2025 5:29pm PST

Google announces Tennessee as site for small modular nuclear reactor

Wed Aug 20, 2025 5:29pm PST

Researchers build first 'microwave brain' on a chip – Cornell Chronicle

Wed Aug 20, 2025 4:29pm PST

Best Options for Using AI in Chip Design

Wed Aug 20, 2025 3:23pm PST

Tidal Forces and Orbital Evolution of Habitable Zone Planets – Universe Today

Wed Aug 20, 2025 3:18pm PST

Meta's First 'Real' Smart Glasses Have One Problem

Wed Aug 20, 2025 3:17pm PST

Smart Glasses Help Train General-Purpose Robots

Wed Aug 20, 2025 1:32pm PST

A Distant Star Explodes While Swallowing Its Black Hole Companion

Wed Aug 20, 2025 1:12pm PST

Implementing Gist Memory: Summarizing and Searching Long Docs with a ReadAgent

Wed Aug 20, 2025 12:57pm PST

In Xcode 26, Apple shows first signs of offering ChatGPT alternatives

Wed Aug 20, 2025 12:49pm PST

Churches use data and AI as engines of surveillance

Wed Aug 20, 2025 12:36pm PST

Brain implants speak your mind – even when you don't want to

Wed Aug 20, 2025 12:18pm PST

H100 vs. GB200 NVL72 Training Benchmarks – Power, TCO, and Reliability Analysis

Wed Aug 20, 2025 12:17pm PST

Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6?

Wed Aug 20, 2025 12:09pm PST

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Wed Aug 20, 2025 11:54am PST

After recent tests, China likely to beat the United States back to the Moon

Wed Aug 20, 2025 9:53am PST

Starting with pytest's parametrize – Ned Batchelder

Wed Aug 20, 2025 9:53am PST

Subinterpreters and Asyncio