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FireDucks: Pandas but Faster
Introduction My main background is a hedge fund professional, so I deal with finance data all the time and so far the Pandas library has been an indispensab...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,273 posts.
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SQLite Index Visualization
Explores SQLite B-Tree index structure with visualizations, explaining on-disk and in-memory storage mechanisms
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Interview with gwern
Legacy & Anonymity in the Age of AGI
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Lessons from my first exit
My takeaways from selling TinyPilot
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I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100
An interesting thing happens when you follow the official Amplify guide.
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Looking for a Job Is Tough
Since the beginning of September, I've been searching for a job after being laid off from my previous role at the end of June. The market is tough, lot’s of fake jobs, so it’s been pretty challenging to even land an interview. Still, I managed to get a few, and, well, not all of them were great — though not…
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Francois Chollet is leaving Google
Today, we're announcing that Francois Chollet, the creator of Keras and a leading figure in the AI world, is embarking on a new chapter in his career outside of Google.
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DeepComputing: Early Access Program for RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13
DeepComputing is excited to announce the launch of an exclusive early access program for the DC-ROMA RISC-V Mainboard, specifically designed for industry and business customers. This limited-edition initiative gives early adopters hands-on experience with premium, modular RISC-V development hardware, while their…
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Netflix's Distributed Counter Abstraction
By: Rajiv Shringi, Oleksii Tkachuk, Kartik Sathyanarayanan
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A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT
Discover how students can use ChatGPT for writing, research, studying, and editing. Learn practical tips for using AI responsibly in school and beyond.
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A cycling desk / Zwifting with a split keyboard
Last summer I got into cycling. I've long been a standing desk-er, and going out for long zone 2 rides and wondering what to think about made me wonder: could I work at a desk while I cycle?
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The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development
Jungle music was found in countless games from the early 90s. This article goes over what jungle is, where it comes from, and why it was the perfect match for PlayStation & Nintendo 64 games.
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The Beginner's Guide to Visual Prompt Injections (2023)
Learn about visual prompt injections, their appearance, and top defense strategies against these attacks.
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An alternative construction of Shannon entropy
The underpinning of information theory is Shannon’s formula for the entropy H of a discrete probability distribution P. Derived in 1948 in the paper “A mathematical theory of communication”, this is given by \[ H[P] = -\sum_{i=1}^N p_i \log p_i \] where \( p_i = p(x_i) \) is the probability of sampling \( x_i \) from…
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MIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical
A new electrode design developed at MIT boosts the efficiency of electrochemical reactions that turn carbon dioxide into ethylene and other products.
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Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac
There’s a whole lot of buzz around the new Qwen2.5-Coder Series of open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) LLM releases from Alibaba’s Qwen research team. On first impression it looks like …
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Docker Compose Isn't Enough
Docker Compose solves real problems in getting applications deployed. It causes problems when deploying many applications. We can do better.
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Rim/Blackberry tales – reply all
Names and emails (even Sumit’s) have been redacted to protect the innocent and the guilty. But you know who you are. Who is Sumit B? I...
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No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains
Bad service in the subway? Transit's offline motion detection shows where you are between stations, and reminds you when your stop’s up next
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From BSP to ESP – How S3ctor Abused Quake Editors to Redefine the Morrowind Mod
S3ctor is a core developer of OpenMW, and has, like most of us to be fair, odd interests. This is the incredible story how he mixed two immensely cool things: Quake, and Morrowind, narrated by our …
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Abusing Ubuntu 24.04 features for root privilege escalation
With the recent release of Ubuntu 24.04, we at Snyk Security Labs thought it would be interesting to examine the latest version of this Linux distribution to see if we could find any interesting privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
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3600 MHz Raspberry Pi 5 with Liquid Nitrogen
I tried everything but couldn’t turn this Raspberry Pi 5 into the World’s Fastest Pi 5. Unfortunately, we can’t quite claim that title.
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M4 Mac mini's efficiency
I had to pause some of my work getting a current-gen AMD graphics card running on the Pi 5 and testing a 192-core AmpereOne server to quickly post on the M4's efficiency. I expected M4 to be better than M1/M2 (I haven't personally tested M3), and I hoped it would at least match the previous total-system-power…
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Unusual Raku Features
Junctions, whatevers, hypers, and more!
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Sentry just gave $750k to open source projects
In honor of the 4th year of our Open Source Pledge, we’re excited to continue driving this important conversation. See what we’ve accomplished in 2024 here.
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Spin 3.0 – open-source tooling for building and running WASM apps
Read some of the latest blog posts from Akamai Developers.