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Dropbox traffic infrastructure: Edge network
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Delaying Further Symantec TLS Certificate Distrust
Due to a long list of documented issues, Mozilla previously announced our intent to distrust TLS certificates issued by the Symantec Certification Authority, which is now a part of DigiCert. ...
Cloudflare Browser Check
Secure DNS Transport using DoH (DNS over HTTPS) or DoT (DNS over TLS) and SNI with ECH
Open-Source Machine Learning Repos to Inspire Your Next Project
In the last couple of years, machine learning has opened up new horizons in a wide range of industries, with advanced use cases emerging: Facebook’s facial recognition, Netflix’s recommended movies, PrismaAI’s image style transfer, Siri’s voice recognition, Google Allo’s natural… Continue reading 25 Open-Source…
Continued progress porting Emacs to Rust
The project to port all of the C code in Emacs to Rust has been going quite well of late, and a progress report is in order.
The hacker's guide to uncertainty estimates
I made a New Year's resolution: every plot I make during 2018 will contain uncertainty estimates. Nine months in and I have learned a lot, so I put together a summary of some of the most useful methods.
The death of Google
Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com/the-death-of-google PDF: https://lauren.vortex.com/google-death.pdf Google Docs: https://lauren.vortex.com/google-death.gdoc
Kubernetes on Google, Azure and AWS Compared
Compare Amazon EKS, Azure AKS and Google GKE: what each managed Kubernetes service provides and which fits your applications and cloud services.
Using machine learning to index text from billions of images
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New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub
We’re introducing our third-generation family of hardware products made by Google, including Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, Pixel Slate and Google Home Hub.
Porting C to Rust
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
An Elm compiler for the Erlang Virtual Machine
I’ve been exploring the idea of an Elm compiler that produces assembly for the Erlang Virtual Machine. You can find the code for this project on GitHub . This essay documents some interesting parts of the project.
Lambda School Announces $14M Series A Led by GV
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The Bermuda Triangle of Wealth
Three points motivated me to write this — forming a Bermuda Triangle in which the average American’s savings disappear without any apparent cause. 1. Considerations on Cost Disease — the observation that certain costs (Education, Medical Care, Housing) have increased many times fas
How early 8-bit arcade machines differed in design from 8-bit home computers
TL;DR: what I learned about the Bomb Jack arcade machine while writingan emulator for it.