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How to Make Python Run as Fast as Julia (2015)
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Sharding data models
At Citus we make it simple to shard PostgreSQL. So we’ve thought a lot about different data models for sharding. This post covers 5 different data models for sharding, from sharding by tenant (multi-tenant data models), sharding by geography, sharding by entity id, sharding a graph, and time-based partitioning.
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FDA grants Breakthrough Therapy designation to MDMA for treatment of PTSD
The non-profit Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to MDMA for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). MAPS and the FDA have also reached agreement under the Special…
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KSQL: Open Source Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka
Introducing KSQL, a streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka. KSQL provides a simple and completely interactive SQL interface for processing data in Kafka.
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How Uploadcare Built a Stack That Handles 350M File API Requests per Day
Discover the tech stack used by Uploadcare. Explore 45 tools across 4 categories.
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Software development and screen readers at 450 words per minute
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“Holy Grail” Bugs in Emulation, Part 2
It’s been two months since first writing on Holy Grail bugs in emulation and while it did pique the interest of many emulator developers there has been little movement on solving the bugs. Lior did much more research on solving Pinball Fantasies and byuu dug up a forum post implying that there is in fact a three…
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Sound waves enhance deep sleep and memory
Pink noise synced to brain waves deepens sleep and boosts memory in older adults
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Which job skills are most employable?
Like many others, we’ve promoted the idea of learning STEM skills. Is that the wrong advice?
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Breaking up the Container Monolith
Dan Walsh, of SELinux Coloring Book fame, presented on the work he and his team have been doing with containers. Dan has long been a technical leader in the container and SELinux spaces and is an
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Same day ACH: moving payments faster in the USA
New capabilities of Same Day ACH become effective over phases to allow financial institutions and businesses to acclimate to a faster processing environment, as well as to ease the implementation effort. Beginning September 15, 2017, Same Day ACH is available for debit entries, enabling the same-day processing of…
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Beginners Guide to Vulkan
Recently I asked the community for beginner-friendly resources on Vulkan, and I compiled a list of them that you can find below. For the beginners reading this, Vulkan is a new graphics API-- in other words, a way to communicate with your GPU and make it do things. It's managed by the Khronos Group, which means it's…
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Catching the Great American Eclipse at 35,000 Feet
There’s nothing Alaska Airlines pilots like more than a challenge. As a company that started out flying between remote airfields deep in the Alaskan “bush,” safely navigating where other airlines can’t is in Alaska’s blood. So, for Alaska, putting a flight in the path of the Great American Eclipse wasn’t really a…
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GIMP 2.9.6 Released
After more than a year of hard work we are excited to release GIMP 2.9.6 featuring many improvements, some new features, translation updates for 23 languages, and 204 bug fixes.
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Decommissioned mobile devices as cheap energy-efficient compute nodes
The performance of mobile phone processors has been steadily increasing, causing the performance gap between server and mobile processors to narrow with mobile processors sporting superior performance per unit energy. Fueled by the slowing of Moore’s Law, the overall performance of single-chip mobile and server…
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Suing California for Throwing Out 45k Ballots Over Handwriting 'Mismatches'
In last year’s presidential election, 45,000 California voters were unknowingly disenfranchised. Their right to vote wasn’t curtailed because anyone questioned their eligibility or registration. They weren’t late sending in their ballot. They weren’t accused of doing anything wrong.
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Go 1.9 is released
Go 1.9 adds type aliases, bit intrinsics, optimizations, and more.
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Titan in depth: Security in plaintext
While there are no absolutes in computer security, we design, build and operate Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with the goal to protect customers' code and data. We harden our architecture at multiple layers, with components that include Google-designed hardware, a Google-controlled firmware stack, Google-curated OS…
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Gtk-rs: The huge and long awaited release is finally here
Rust bindings for GTK and GLib-based libraries
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Introducing App Engine Firewall
A key security feature for application developers and administrators is to be able to allow or deny incoming requests based on source IP addresses. This capability can help you do production testing without exposing your app to the world, block access to your app from specific geographies or block requests from a…
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The Librem 5: A Matrix-Native FLOSS Smartphone
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Deep Learning for Siri’s Voice
Siri is a personal assistant that communicates using speech synthesis. Starting in iOS 10 and continuing with new features in iOS 11, we…
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A straight talk about btrfs
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Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App Engine
The New York Times crossword has been an integral part of daily life for many people since it started appearing in print in 1942. When The…