James Kretchmar

"I can change the font and change the outcome" nytimes.com/2023/01/19/us/…

Didn't feel like I was in competition with robots until just now. youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM…

All these years in CS & I only recently learned the origin of the word “bit": Claude Shannon's famous 1948 paper on information theory: "If the base 2 is used the resulting units may be called binary digits, or more briefly bits, a word suggested by J. W. Tukey." A binary digit!

Never assume the smart people before us have already made all the big discoveries: “For millennia it was widely assumed that there was no faster way to multiply. Then in 1960, the 23-year-old Russian mathematician Anatoly Karatsuba took a seminar ...” quantamagazine.org/mathematicians…

“Hello, I would like to flyover please”. #FeteNationale #14julliet #BastilleDay

My team at @Akamai looked at our streaming video traffic stats last month and we saw something special. When people across Spain applaud for healthcare workers each night there's a brief dip in traffic starting just before 8pm as streams are paused. #COVID19 #covid19ESP

@gisellis I haven't been keeping up with twitter but funny timing, a couple of weeks ago I pulled a cookbook off the bookshelf (dusty, but desperate times) and just yesterday realized it was a birthday gift from you. And I watched Sneakers just days ago!

@JamesKretchmar Watching Sneakers with the kids and remembering a lot of work done to the sound of this soundtrack. Hope you are well.

Today, at 15:35, we made our final /22 IPv4 allocation from the last remaining addresses in our available pool. We have now run out of IPv4 addresses. Read our full announcement here: ripe.net/publications/n… In the picture, the Registration Services team at the RIPE NCC

.@csoandy doesn’t fit his presentation to the screen, the screen fits itself to his presentation!

Excited to be at #DigitalX in Cologne, Germany to talk about @Akamai and the invention of the #edge on the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Internet.

"Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second" sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/h…

This is fantastic! Follow the Apollo 11 mission in real time with synchronized radio transmissions, transcripts and photography, and some limited telemetry data as well. Thanks @gisellis! apolloinrealtime.org/11/

Alan Turing to be the face of the new £50 note in England. Good choice!

@csoandy For a given conspiracy you can consider the complexity required to maintain it. Some may be easy. But successfully faking the moon landings would have been much much harder than actually going there.

I wonder how much availability bias (or maybe survivor bias?) informs this belief. By definition, we only see conspiracies that break trust, and never hear about the ones that keep their secrets.

An update is available for Ops Clock, my spare-time personal project app for working with times, dates and worldwide time zones. It now natively supports iPad and has some new features in the time zone calculator. Download it for free on the app store here itunes.apple.com/us/app/ops-clo…

Will Law on stage at #EdgeWorld2019 showing live streaming video on the Internet 3 seconds behind real life and way faster than the satellite feed you’d see on traditional broadcast!

.@hotstartweets and @akamai create history, again, during the @IPL final on May 12. A record 18.6M concurrent viewers watched the 2019 @ipl final between @ChennaiIPL and @mipaltan live on Hotstar, delivered with Akamai! #VIVOIPL #MIvCSK

Excited to be at NAB for the first time with Akamai’s experienced team! @Akamai @NABShow

@sayhitomelanie @RobertBlumofe @TomLeightonAKAM And nutritious. All the ingredients have a natural base.

Happy #PiDay !

We live in an age where it seems like everything can connect to everything effortlessly but there remain lots of difficult problems requiring clever solutions. See MIT's new idea for sub-to-air comms. (ELF is old but interesting!) alum.mit.edu/slice/why-cant… #Extremely_low_frequency" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communica…