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Taste the daily life of Romans with this recipe for Panis Quadratus: The infamous sectioned bread excavated at Pompeii and preserved for millenia after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
A few weeks back, we published a draft of an article entitled _Monotonicity Types_. In it, we describe a type system which we hope can aid the design of distributed systems by tracking monotonicity with types....
With today's release of Brave browser 0.19.95 for the desktop, audiences can use the Brave Payments system to reward their favorite YouTube creators with Basic Attention Tokens (BAT).
As the purpose of a database system is to store data, there is close relationship with the filesystem. Yves Trudeau reconsiders the use of ZFS with MySQL.
This was a busy week, I had no time to read anything new, so I'm sharing a note that I wrote for myself, for no other reason than to understand things better. It's a kind of cookbook of various "transformations" you can apply to...
Rust is a language that has no runtime so it can be used to integrate with any runtime; You can write modules in Rust and call using Python
Ever since the first EC2 instances launched — the ones which were retrospectively named "m1.small" — Amazon has relied on the Xen hypervisor. No longer: C5 instances use KVM. This sounds like it would be a problem, but in fact that change didn't bother FreeBSD at all: Now that everything uses hardware-based paging…
At Kolide, part of what we do is build a client-server system that facilitates the management of large, isolated installations of an open-source tool called osquery. While I’ve written and spoken about osquery in the past, in this post I want to focus on how we use Go to solve many of the challenges we face building…
Traditional (assembly level) reverse engineering of software is a tedious process that has been made far more accessible by modern day decompilers. Operating...
Relational databases have been a mainstay for decades. But what happens when you need to scale out a relational database like Postgres? This post announces Citus Cloud 2, the latest version of the Citus managed database as a service that scales out Postgres horizontally in the cloud.
We’ve updated Google Maps with more relevant information, a new color scheme and new icons to help you quickly identify points of interest.
Hey, my name is Kyle Corbitt and I’m a software developer at Y Combinator. I spend most of my time creating software to support our founders as they build their businesses. Before joining YC I ran my own startup. When I was in high school, I sometimes got the frustrating feeling that all of the good startup ideas had…
Apple started using deep learning for face detection in iOS 10. With the release of the Vision framework, developers can now use this…
Douglas G. Steigerwald joined the faculty of the Department of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara after completing an M.A. in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and teaching focus on frontier econometric methods at the intersection of…
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Scientists searching for gravitational waves have confirmed yet another detection from their fruitful observing run earlier this year. Dubbed GW170608, the latest discovery was produced by the merger of two relatively light black holes, 7 and 12 times the mass of the sun, at a distance of about a thousand million…
I co-founded PrepMe in 2001. We were one of the first education companies online and the first purely online, personalized platform. We were acquired in 2011 by Providence Equity-backed Ascend Lea…
For statically checking Python code, mypy is great, but it only works after you have added type annotations to your codebase. When you h...
Posted by Michael Ringgaard, Software Engineer and Rahul Gupta, Research ScientistUntil recently, most practical natural language understanding (NL...
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A temperate Earth-sized planet has been discovered only 11 light-years from the Solar System by a team using ESO’s unique planet-hunting HARPS instrument. The new world has the designation Ross 128 b and is now the second-closest temperate planet to be detected after Proxima b. It is also the closest planet to be…
It has begun! As I write, field officers in Bomet County, Kenya are beginning to enroll the first (post-pilot) households into the largest basic income initiative in history. The past 19 months since…
