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PC-BSD Evolves into TrueOS
Hey TrueOS Community! I just wanted to take a few minutes to address what some of you may have already guessed. With a heavy heart, the TrueOS Project’s core
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When to Avoid JSONB in a PostgreSQL Schema
Heap is the only digital insights platform that shows everything users do on your site, revealing the "unknown unknowns" that stay invisible with other tools.
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One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence: 2016 Report
Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030
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What’s up with the Beep driver in Windows 7? (2010)
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Apache Spark Scale: A 60 TB+ production use case
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Why ContentEditable is Terrible
Or: How the Medium Editor Works
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Speech Is 3x Faster Than Typing for English and Mandarin on Mobile Devices
With the ubiquity of mobile devices like smartphones, two new widely used methods have emerged: miniature touch screen keyboards and speech-based dictation. It is currently unknown how these two modern methods compare. We therefore evaluated the text entry performance of both methods in English and in Mandarin Chinese…
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Robin Hood Hashing should be the default hash table implementation (2013)
There’s a neat variation on open-addressing based hash tables called Robin Hood hashing . This technique isn’t very well-known, but it makes a huge practical difference because it both improves performance and space utilization compared to other “standard” hash tables (e.g. chaining ). It also eliminates the major…
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A new algorithm for smoother 360 video viewing
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Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard
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On Two Views of Computation in Computer Science
Abstract: Machine and language models of computation differ so greatly in the computational complexity properties of their representation that they form two distinct classes that cannot be directly…
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The Dropbox hack is real
Earlier today, Motherboard reported on what had been rumoured for some time, namely that Dropbox had been hacked [http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hackers-stole-over-60-million-dropbox-accounts] . Not just a little bit hacked and not in that "someone has cobbled together a list of credentials that work
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Google's login page accepts a vulnerable GET parameter
In hope that public disclosure will encourage Google to fix this, despite refusing to, here goes...
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Jessica Livingston: How to Build the Future
How To Build The Future: Jessica is a cofounder of Y Combinator.
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Infrastructure for Deep Learning
Deep learning is an empirical science, and the quality of a group’s infrastructure is a multiplier on progress. Fortunately, today’s open-source ecosystem makes it possible for anyone to build great deep learning infrastructure.
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