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Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering Managers
A system for leveling up at Square
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Apple to acquire the majority of Intel's smartphone modem business
Approximately 2,200 Intel employees will join Apple, along with intellectual property, equipment and leases.
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Approaching Peak Housing Dysfunction in California
San Bruno, California laid out a detailed blueprint for more housing. One developer followed that blueprint. $3 million and 3 years later, the city killed his project anyway.
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MQTT: A Conceptual Deep-Dive
MQTT is a pub/sub network protocol especially built to enable efficient communication to and from Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
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CERN migrates to open-source technologies
Update: The name of the project was changed to Microservice Architecture on Libre Technology (MALT) to better reflect its scope. More information in this article .
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Mental models
Mental models affect how we see problems and people. Depending on how you use them, mental models can be incredibly constructive or destructive.
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Saving Lydia
My 6 month old daughter was born with a genetic mutation that will leave her severely disabled. We can silence her mutation within months…
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A History of Visa
INTRODUCTION Visa is one of the biggest companies in the world. Cards bearing the Visa logo are used more than 340 million times every day. And the Visa brand is one of the most-recognized on the planet. Yet unlike other companies of similar size and ubiquity, few people know what Visa does, how
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The Rust compiler is still getting faster
A key theme of the Rust 2019 roadmap is maturity . This covers a variety of topics, but a crucial one is compile times. For example, the roadmap itself has the following as the first main theme for the compiler team.
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33 Beautiful Open-Source Icon Sets
Discover 33 amazing sites offering beautiful free icon sets for web and UI projects, with options for personal and commercial use.
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Tuna are spawning in marine protected areas
Marine sanctuaries have benefited at-risk species living within their borders, but their implications for highly migratory species such as tuna have been less clear. Now, researchers at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have found evidence that tuna are spawning in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area in…
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Yaegi – Yet Another Go Interpreter
Yaegi, Yet Another Go Interpreter, is an open source project to bring executableGo scripts, embedded plugins on top of the Go runtime...
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How we built the Waifu Vending Machine
On the weekend of Anime Expo, an artist promised the humanly impossible -- custom art commissions with a five-minute turnaround time. The not-so-hidden catch? The artist wasn't a human at all, but an AI exposed to millions of anime images.
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Lyft releases self-driving research dataset
By Luc Vincent, EVP Autonomous Technology
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Composable multi-threaded parallelism in Julia
Software performance depends more and more on exploiting multiple processor cores....
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Are we happier when we spend more time with others?
In this topic page, we explore data on loneliness and social connections and review available evidence on the link between social connections and well-being.
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L2 Regularization and Batch Norm
This blog post is about an interesting detail about machine learning that I came across as a researcher at Jane Street - that of the interaction between L2 r...
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An Analysis of WeChat’s Realtime Image Filtering in Chats
In this work, we study how Tencent implements image filtering on WeChat. We found that Tencent implements realtime, automatic censorship of chat images on WeChat based on what text is in an image and based on an image’s visual similarity to those on a blacklist. Tencent facilitates this realtime filtering by…
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Why Rust for safe systems programming
In this series , we have explored the need for proactive measures to eliminate a class of vulnerabilities and walked through some examples of memory safety issues we’ve found in Microsoft code that could have been avoided with a different language. Now we’ll peek at why we think that Rust represents the best…
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How we built a GDPR-compliant website analytics platform without using cookies
How Fathom Analytics build a totally GDPR compliant website analytics without cookies.
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Ubisoft joins Blender Development Fund to support open-source animation
Open-source animation tool will be officially adopted by Ubisoft Animation Studio in Paris to create series inspired by Ubisoft worlds.
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Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI to support us building artificial general intelligence (AGI) with widely distributed economic benefits. We’re partnering to develop a hardware and software platform within Microsoft Azure which will scale to AGI. We’ll jointly develop new Azure AI supercomputing…
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