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T5: The Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer
Posted by Adam Roberts, Staff Software Engineer and Colin Raffel, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research Over the past few years, transfer le...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,277 posts.
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Servers for an Accelerated Future
We designed and built Cloudflare’s network to be able to grow capacity quickly and inexpensively; to allow every server, in every city, to run every service; and to allow us to shift customers and traffic across our network efficiently.
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Nim Community Survey 2019 Results
Nim community survey 2019 has been open for 50 days, and we have received 908 responses, which is our record-high number (771 in 2018, 603 in 2017). Before we go into details, we would like to thank all the people who took the time to respond. We really appreciate the feedback!
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The Slippery Slope of Docker Dev Environments
Explore the pros and cons of Docker for local development and learn how to set up a developer-friendly, container-based workflow. Perfect for DevOps enthusiasts and developers!
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Programming a space invader in OCaml and OpenGL: lessons learned
After a first experience with ReasonML, I wanted to check if its parent language, OCaml, was also that good. It took me an entire game to form a clear opinion.
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Little Ideas
A list of ideas, in no particular order and from different fields, that help explain how the world works…
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Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering
It's now been more than 50 years since the first IFIP Conference on Software Engineering, and in that time there have been many different software engineering methodologies, processes, and models proposed to help software developers achieve that predictable and cost-effective process. But 50 years later, we still seem…
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Challenges with distributed systems
The hard realities of distributed systems, partial failures, network faults, and unpredictable latency, and how Amazon designs to handle them.
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Racket-on-Chez Status
posted by Matthew Flatt For background information about Racket on Chez Scheme (a.k.a. Racket CS), see the original announcement, the January 2018 report, the report at Scheme Workshop 2018, the January 2019 report, the ICFP experience report, an...
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State of Clojure 2020
Ten years ago, Chas Emerick ran the first State of Clojure survey. In 2010, most users had been using Clojure for just weeks or months, and few were using it as a language for serious work. This year , we see consistent and growing use for work , steady interest in the key value propositions of Clojure, and an…
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What are the safest and cleanest sources of energy?
Fossil fuels are the dirtiest and most dangerous energy sources, while nuclear and modern renewable energy sources are vastly safer and cleaner.
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FIDO2 security key company publishes results of internal security audit
This blogpost summarizes the result of a cooperation between SoloKeys and Doyensec, and was originally published on SoloKeys blog by Emanuele Cesena. You can...
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Guide to Equity Compensation
Stock options, RSUs, job offers, and taxes—a detailed reference, including hundreds of resources, explained from the ground up, for both employees and managers.
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Peter Montgomery Has Died
Peter was born in San Francisco, California, on September 25, 1947. He went to UC Berkeley in 1967 and received a BA in Mathematics in 1969 and an MA in 1971. Peter’s undergraduate advisor was Derrick H. Lehmer, an excellent match given Peter’s research interests since high school: integer factorization.
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The Shifting State of Remote Work
Asynchronous Meetings, Voice Messaging, and Screen Sharing for Teams.
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Adversarial Interoperability
“Interoperability” is the act of making a new product or service work with an existing product or service: modern civilization depends on the standards and practices that allow you to put any dish into a dishwasher or any USB charger into any car’s cigarette lighter.But interoperability is just the...
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Reducing Docker Image Size
Docker Images : Part I - Reducing Image Size. Series Index Reducing Image Size Details Specific To Different Languages Going Farther To Reduce Image Size …
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A Practical Guide to Watchdogs for Embedded Systems
A community and blog for embedded software makers
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Multi-Perspective Validation Improves Domain Validation Security
At Let’s Encrypt we’re always looking for ways to improve the security and integrity of the Web PKI. We’re proud to launch multi-perspective domain validation today because we believe it’s an important step forward for the domain validation process. To our knowledge we are the first CA to deploy multi-perspective…
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Twitter by the Numbers (2023): Stats, Demographics & Fun Facts
Tap here to find interesting 2023 Twitter stats, demographics, financials, and Fun Facts that will blow you away.
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The Problem with Palm Oil
Useful investigation for those who want to better understand the debates around palm oil production and the symptoms of a much larger problem.
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How to write the perfect pull request (2015)
As a company grows, people and projects change. To continue to nurture the culture we want at GitHub, we’ve found it useful to remind ourselves what we aim for when…
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Materialize: A Streaming Data Warehouse
Materialize offers a streaming data warehouse for real-time analytics & interoperability with millisecond latency, revolutionizing data handling.
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Help the Graphics team track down an interesting WebRender bug
For the past little while, we have been tracking some interesting WebRender bugs that people are reporting in release. Despite best efforts, we have been unable to determine clear steps to reproduc…