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Announcing WCGI: WebAssembly and CGI
Welcome to the future of server-side development with WebAssembly! Today we are introducing **WCGI**, a technology that marries the power of WebAssembl...
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DevOps uses a capability model, not a maturity model
As DevOps adoption increases, it becomes more likely the certification industrial complex will try to apply the wrong model.
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What happens when you leak AWS credentials and how AWS minimizes the damage
I heard multiple times that AWS scans public GitHub repositories for AWS credentials and informs its users of the leaked credentials.
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Chrome ships WebGPU
The Chrome team ships WebGPU, which allows high-performance 3D graphics and data-parallel computation on the web.
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I’m a doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients
ChatGPT recently passed the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam, but using it for a real-world medical diagnosis would quickly turn deadly.
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No-cost access to the latest PDF standard: ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0)
Although users worldwide benefit from PDF, adoption of ISO standardized PDF technology has lagged because:
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TPU v4 provides exaFLOPS-scale ML with efficiency gains
A new paper describes how Google’s Cloud TPU v4 outperforms TPU v3 by 2.1x on a per-chip basis, and improves performance/Watt by 2.7x.
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Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and context switching (2022)
Interruptions and context switching are the two most costly factors that directly impact a programmer's daily productivity. Although there is no permanent way to avoid them, there are some interesting strategies to minimize their impact. The Cost of an Interruption Based on various scientific studies, it takes at…
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An introduction to zero-knowledge machine learning
Zero-Knowledge machine learning (ZKML) is a field of research and development that has been making waves in cryptography circles recently. But what is it and why is it useful? First, let's break down the term into its two constituents and explain what they are.
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AARON: AI Art Generator from 1973
Harold Cohen (1928 – 2016) explored AI and art for nearly 50 years before we saw the rising popularity of these new machine learning tools. In those five decades, Cohen worked on a single program called Aaron that involved teaching a robot to create drawings. Aaron’s education took a similar pa
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GPT4 simulating a FTP server at ftp.disney.com
This is a conversation I had with Chat GPT trying to simulate an interaction with an non existing anonymous FTP server that would be made available for Disney fans
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Calling Purgatory from Heaven: Binding to Rust in Haskell
Calling hell from heaven and heaven from hell is a classic paper from the previous century, introducing the Haskell foreign function interface (FFI). It describes the facilities that Haskell offers for calling functions written in C (and vice versa). In this blog post, we will consider how to call functions written in…
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PWAs in App Stores
Progressive Web Apps can be submitted to app stores like the Android Play Store or the Microsoft Store and more.
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Brave launches self-serve ads program
Today, Brave is launching its Self-Serve Ads Program. These new tools allow brands to set up and run advertising for their products and services within the privacy-preserving Brave Ads and Rewards ecosystem.
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LangChain Announces 10M Seed Round
LangChain secures $10M seed round from Benchmark to empower developers building AI apps with our open-source framework for data-aware, agentic LLMs.
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Introducing Agents in Haystack: Make LLMs resolve complex tasks
LLMs can now make use of the right tools to resolve complex queries and tasks
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C++17 creates a practical use of the backward array index operator
Possibly more than just a curiosity.
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Was there a U.S. nuclear weapons accident at a Dutch air base?
A photo in a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) student briefing from 2022 shows four people inspecting what appears to be a damaged B61 nuclear bomb.
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Django 4.2 Released
Posted by Mariusz Felisiak on April 3, 2023
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AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will
Just yesterday I commented on the ban to ChatGPT imposed in Italy by the Authority under the banner of preserving privacy and fighting potential misinformation.
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Finland Becomes a Member of NATO on Tuesday 4 April
Office of the President of the Republic of Finland Press release 10/2023 3 April 2023 Finland will become a Member of NATO on Tuesday, 4 April 2023. President of the...
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Parquet: An efficient, binary file format for table data
Quicker, but also more convenient
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The outside investigation of SoftRAM 95 (2021)
It had a plan, but didn't quite execute on it.
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The effects of wealth on (Swedish) marriage and fertility
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Humanness in the Age of AI
A path to an open and permissionless identity protocol.