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Open-sourcing DeepMind Lab
DeepMind's scientific mission is to push the boundaries of AI, developing systems that can learn to solve any complex problem without needing to be taught how.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,107 posts.
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What makes Bach sound like Bach? New dataset teaches algorithms classical music
MusicNet is the first publicly available large-scale classical music dataset designed to allow machine learning algorithms to tackle everything from automated m
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Improved Authentication for Email Encryption and Security
Today, we are happy to become the first and only secure email service to support Secure Remote Password (SRP), a much more secure authentication method.
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Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54
Chrome 55 uses ~30% less memory for weather.com and reddit.com
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Employee #1: Kickstarter – AMA and Interview
Employee #1 is a series of interviews focused on sharing the often untold stories of early employees at tech companies. Cassie Marketos [https://twitter.com/cassmarketos] was the first employee at Kickstarter [http://kickstarter.com]. Discussed: Meeting Yancey, Setting Kickstarter’s Tone Through Community Management…
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Bookdown – Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown
bookdown extends R Markdown for writing books with cross-references, citations, and multiple output formats.
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InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality
We are releasing InfluxDB 1.1, which includes a number of key performance and stability improvements as well as some new query capabilities.
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Who Lives with Their Parents?
All the data on young adults who live at home with their parents. What do they major in? How old are they? And how much money do they make?
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Support for better symlink handling in Windows 10
Overview Symlinks, or symbolic links, are “virtual” files or folders which reference a physical file or folder located elsewhere, and are an important feature built in to many operating systems, including Linux and Windows. The Windows’ NTFS file system has supported symlinks since Windows Vista. However, it hasn’t…
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URL Parsing in WebKit
URLs have been used for decades now and you'd would think they would have consistent behavior…
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Codebase Refactoring with Go
Go should add the ability to create alternate equivalent names for types, in order to enable gradual code repair during codebase refactoring. This article explains the need for that ability and the implications of not having it for today’s large Go codebases. This article also examines some potential solutions…
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Listen to Your Customers, They’ll Tell You What to Build
Get the information and resources you need to help your small business succeed! Start your journey to becoming an expert in digital marketing with our marketing blog.
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A Billion User Load Test on Healthcare.gov
By Brendan Neutra and Aimee Barciauskas
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PHP 7.1.0 Released
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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Golang’s Real-Time GC in Theory and Practice
How the Golang concurrent GC achieves low latencies in real-time systems: a visualization of the algorithm and an empirical comparison with other languages.
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Young blood does not reverse aging in old mice, UC Berkeley study finds
A new study from UC Berkeley argues against the rejuvenating properties of young blood and points to old blood, or molecules within, as driving the aging process.
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Weird pupils let octopuses see their colorful gardens
Scientists propose unique way in which ‘colorblind’ cephalopods can detect color
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IPv6 Support for EC2 Instances in Virtual Private Clouds
Update (7/13/2017): Since this post was published, IPv6 supported has been extended and now supports 15 Regions and Multiple AWS Services. The continued growth of the Internet, particularly in the areas of mobile applications, connected devices, and IoT, has spurred an industry-wide move to IPv6. In accord with a…
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Lambda@Edge – Preview
Just last week, a comment that I made on Hacker News resulted in an interesting email from an AWS customer! He told me that he runs a single page app that is hosted on S3 (read about this in Host Your Static Website on Amazon S3) and served up at low latency through Amazon CloudFront. […]
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Announcing OSS-Fuzz: Continuous Fuzzing for Open Source Software
By Mike Aizatsky, Kostya Serebryany (Software Engineers, Dynamic Tools); Oliver Chang, Abhishek Arya (Security Engineers, Google Chrome); an...
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Artificial Intelligence Generates Christmas Song from Holiday Image
Researchers from University of Toronto developed an AI system that creates and then sings a Christmas song based by analyzing the visual components of an uploaded image. With the help of CUDA…
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AWS Snowmobile – Move Exabytes of Data to the Cloud in Weeks
Moving large amounts of on-premises data to the cloud as part of a migration effort is still more challenging than it should be! Even with high-end connections, moving petabytes or exabytes of film vaults, financial records, satellite imagery, or scientific data across the Internet can take years or decades. On the…
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Making every (leap) second count with our new public NTP servers
As if 2016 wasn’t long enough, this year, a leap second will cause the last day of December to be one second longer than normal. But don’t worry, we’ve built support for the leap second into the time servers that regulate all Google services.
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AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 1 – Pre-Release for the AmigaOne X5000
Hyperion Entertainment
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Amazon Rekognition – Image Detection and Recognition Powered by Deep Learning
What do you see when you look at this picture? You might simply see an animal. Maybe you see a pet, a dog, or a Golden Retriever. The association between the image and these labels is not hard-wired in to your brain. Instead, you learned the labels after seeing hundreds or thousands of examples. Operating […]