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WHAT THE RESEARCH IS: Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a process by which a machine learns to recognize objects it has never seen before. Researchers at Facebook have developed a new, more accurate ZSL …
The federal government has counted the Native American population in various ways throughout the years. Recent data shows how the demographic is growing.
Interested in a less biased overview? We encourage you to also read the technical comparison between RethinkDB and MongoDB .
In a few weeks we will release the first public technology preview of EdgeDB—a new open-source object-relational database. This post is a brief introduction and is the first in the series.
Persistent agent memory on Elasticsearch: three-index architecture, hybrid retrieval, supersession and DLS isolation. R@10 0.89, zero cross-tenant leaks.
Gaining trust in data with extensive data quality, accuracy, and anomaly checks.
If you've ever wondered - What is a tuple? What is a Postgres page? What's the difference between a record and a row? What is a relation? What's an array? What is TOAST? This post is for you! These are terms you hear all the time in the Postgres world. This post breaks down what these terms mean and how they are used.
This is the full story of the Azure ChaosDB Vulnerability that was discovered and disclosed by the Wiz Research Team, where we were able to gain complete unrestricted access to the databases of several thousand Microsoft Azure customers.
One command-line tool to query them all, built with Rust and ADBC
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How do you balance query time and relevance with Postgres text search? Stephen Gutekanst, an engineer working on Sourcegraph's API docs feature, shares tips for stirring code analysis with search indexing.
Transactional databases have long been the most critical component of application design. Why? Because a steadfast database is generally the ultimate enforcement point for correctness in a messy, distributed world. Without them we’d overpay and undercharge. We’d lose riders trying to get home from the airport, and…
Initial Gravwell testers did a lot of home monitoring with the software and wanted to get licenses for their friends and colleagues but Gravwell was built for larger enterprises and our pricing model isn't set up for home use. All of that changes with the Community Edition...
Q3 2022 Drive Stats: Read the latest insights and check out the data.
2019-04-10: The long fork test used in this analysis contained a bug which caused it to (in many cases) fail to identify long fork anomalies. We have re-checked YugaByte DB 1.1.15.0-b16 with a corrected checker, and its long fork tests still pass.
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A story about a bug with logical replication slot creation on Postgres read replicas
Tiny diatoms in the ocean are masters at capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the environment. They fix up to 20 percent of the Earth’s CO2. A research team at the University of Basel has now discovered a protein shell in these algae that is necessary for efficient CO2 fixation. This groundbreaking discovery can…
At Flickr our users really care about image quality. They also care a lot about how responsive our apps are. Addressing both of these concerns simultaneously is challenging; higher quality images have larger file sizes and are slower to transfer. Slow transfers are especially noticeable on mobile devices. Flickr had…
Mendoza is a new, super efficient format for expressing differences between JSON documents.
