While there are already a bunch of tools around to measure hardware performance counters, a lightweight command line tool for simple end-to-end measurements was still missing. The Linux MSR module, ...

Suppose you were asked to design an abridged computer science (CS) program consisting of just three courses. How would you go about it? The first course would probably be an introduction to computer ...

The de novo synthesis of genomes has made unprecedented progress and achieved milestones, particularly in bacteria and yeast. However, the process of synthesizing a multicellular plant genome has not ...

Well, this time I'm not going to talk about ETS and Pipedream, but we'll get back there, no doubt. This time I want to introduce you to the concept of loopback connectors. Loopback is not a special ...

A fragment is a reusable class implementing a portion of an activity. A Fragment typically defines a part of a user interface. Fragments must be embedded in activities; they cannot run independently ...