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AI competitions don’t produce useful models
Ai competitions are fun, community building, talent scouting, brand promoting, and attention grabbing. But competitions are not intended to develop useful models.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,838 posts.
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Working with GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions are still in beta and are changing quickly. But if you are looking to get started the possibilities are endless.
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Coalfire Comments on Penetration Tests for Iowa Judicial Branch
Coalfire is a cybersecurity and compliance services company that works with enterprises and tech businesses in FedRAMP, cloud migration, AI Risk, pen…
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Airbnb Announces Intention to Become a Publicly-Traded Company During 2020
Airbnb, Inc. announced today that it expects to become a publicly-traded company during 2020.
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Challenges in Implementing a Full-Text-Search Engine
While Full-text-search is famous for search through documents at a faster rate, there are other interesting ways in which these systems handle scale, synonyms, abbreviations, misspellings etc., we will
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Closing the gap: cross-language LTO between Rust and C/C++
Link time optimization (LTO) is LLVM's way of implementing whole-program optimization. Cross-language LTO is a new feature in the Rust compiler that enables LLVM's link time optimization to be performed across a mixed C/C++/Rust codebase.
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iPhone 11 Pro Camera Review
Testing the iPhone 11 Pro as I continue on-going work photographing The Bach Project w/ Yo-Yo Ma, a world tour where Yo-Yo is performing Bach in unconventional places around the globe. It’s been a privilege to photograph this amazing journey.
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Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best New App (2018)
How a quick weekend app for sharing book quotes, Snaplight, got featured by Apple—and the lessons that matter more than star ratings.
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Linux Terminal Goods
Some time ago I blogged about some cool terminal plugins I was using in my Linux notebook. Also some awesome retro- emulator terminals j...
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Too Much Dark Money in Almonds
Everyone always talks about how much money there is in politics. This is the wrong framing. The right framing is Ansolabehere et al’s: why is there so little money in politics? But Ansolabehe…
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Kubernetes 1.16
We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.16, our third release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.16 consists of 31 enhancements: 8 enhancements moving to stable, 8 enhancements in beta, and 15 enhancements in alpha. Major ThemesCustom resourcesCRDs are in widespread use as a Kubernetes extensibility mechanism and…
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At Dynamicland, the Building Is the Computer
Dynamicland is a non-profit that resides somewhere between an academic research lab and a Silicon Valley startup, between physical and digital, and between computing’s distant past and its future.
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Welcoming Semmle to GitHub
Today we’re announcing a big step in securing the open source supply chain: we’re welcoming Semmle to the GitHub family.
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What's Our Problem? A Self-Help Book For Societies
Available today
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Modern C, Second Edition
A new edition of the book Modern C and much more are now available under a CC license via the following page This edition is the result of a collaboration with Manning, and improves a lot over the…
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The cost of parsing JSON
The dominant costs of processing JavaScript are download and CPU execution time.
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New Query Language for Graph Databases to Become International Standard
Read the latest Neo4j press releases and company news, including product launches, partnerships, and milestones in graph database and analytics.
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How we hacked Blackboard and changed our grades (2018)
A technical walk-through of how we hacked Blackboard and changed our grades.
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Going Fast Slowly
Varnish is a powerful, flexible HTTP accelerator that speeds up web applications by caching content and optimizing delivery.
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Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1
The Inkscape project has released a beta version of the upcoming and much-awaited Inkscape 1.0 on September 17th! After releasing two less visible alpha versions this year, in mid-January and mid-June, Inkscape is now ready for extensive testing and subsequent bug-fixing.
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Software Architecture Is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design Is Underrated
I had my fair share in designing and building large systems. I've taken part in rewriting Uber's distributed payment systems [https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/distributed-architecture-concepts-i-have-learned-while-building-payments-systems/] , designing and shipping Skype on Xbox One and open-sourcing RIBs…
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Announcing Yugabyte DB 2.0 GA: High-Performance Distributed SQL
YugabyteDB 2.0 released. Read to learn about production-ready YSQL, performance benchmarks, Jepsen results, and Beta feature previews