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The coming IP war over facts derived from books
Facts are friends not food
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N26 will be leaving the UK
We want to take this opportunity to thank all our UK customers for believing in our vision to build the bank the world loves to use.
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Firefox 73
Today we’ve released Firefox 73, with useful additions that include CSS and JavaScript updates, and numerous DevTools improvements. We’ve added to CSS logical properties, pushed performance forward in the Console ...
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Hard Drive Stats for 2019
In 2019 we monitored the performance of 122,507 hard drives. In this article we look at the failure rates by make and model.
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A popular self-driving car dataset is missing labels for hundreds of pedestrians
SUMMARY A hand-check of the 15,000 images in the widely used Udacity Dataset 2 found problems in 4,986 of them (33%), including thousands of unlabeled vehicles, hundreds of unlabeled pedestrians, dozens of unlabeled cyclists, and 217 completely unannotated images that contained real objects. Phantom annotations…
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Turtleocracy
A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.
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Compiling a Functional Language Using C++, Part 9 – Garbage Collection
In this post, we implement a garbage collector that frees memory no longer used by the executables our compiler creates.
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The Rise of “Movie-Set Urbanism”
The drive-to version of a walkable main street, surrounded by parking lots, is like a Western movie set made of fake building facades: all hat and no cattle.
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Costco Capitalism
Can consumers at Costco really have their free sample and eat it too?
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ICANN Allows .COM Price Increases, Gets More Money
ICANN has announced significant changes to the contract it has with Verisign, Inc. to operate the top-level domain .COM, including .COM price increases.
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Microsoft Zero and DeepSpeed: Memory Efficient Large Neural Network Training
The latest trend in AI is that larger natural language models provide better accuracy; however, larger models are difficult to train because of cost, time, and ease of code integration. Microsoft is releasing an open-source library called DeepSpeed, which vastly advances large model training by improving scale, speed…
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Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model
This figure was adapted from a similar image published in DistilBERT. Turing Natural Language Generation (T-NLG) is a 17 billion parameter language model by Microsoft that outperforms the state of the art on many downstream NLP tasks. We present a demo of the model, including its freeform generation, question…
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The Disneyfication of a University
BY DANE KENNEDY The George Washington University faculty and staff ain’t got no culture. Or worse, we’ve got a negative culture. This was the verdict of the Disney Institute, which the president of…
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A new model and dataset for long-range memory
Throughout our lives, we build up memories that are retained over a diverse array of timescales, from minutes to months to years to decades. When reading a book, we can recall characters who were introduced many chapters ago, or in an earlier book in a series, and reason about their motivations and likely actions in…
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Things I wish I knew about state management when I started writing React apps
Think about the most complex frontends you’ve used. Frontends that made you wonder — “how did they create this”?
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JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming Language
One of the most remarkable things about the julia programming language, is how well the packages compose. You can almost always reuse someone else’s types or methods in your own software without issues. This is generally taken on a high level to be true of all programming languages because that is what a library is…
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Performant Front-End Architecture
Make your client-side apps load fast and provide a good user experience.
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Memory Bandwidth Napkin Math
An exploration into C++ memory throughput performance.
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Tracking systems of TV streaming devices
Watching you watch: the tracking ecosystem of over-the-top TV streaming devices, Moghaddam et al., CCS’19 The results from this paper are all too predictable: channels on Over-The-Top (OTT) s…
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Model built by researchers suggests coronavirus outbreak began in November
The coronavirus epidemic started one month earlier than is commonly reported and has yet to be brought under control, a new disease-transmission model created by University of Toronto researchers suggests. Using open access data that are updated daily, the model replicates epidemiological scenarios and allows…