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TV, retail, advertising and cascading collapses
How do fundamental, structural changes in TV, in retail and in advertising interlock and accelerate each other, and what cascading effects might there be?
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Java call stack – from HTTP upto JDBC as a picture (2006)
Created this by pasting together a few screenshots from a NetBeans profiler session – of a Spring + Hibernate web-app running within JBoss. Quite interesting to see how the business logic is …
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One Year Without AMP
A bit over a year ago I decided to disable Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project on this site. I have a long history with AMP and at some point I was one of it’s main critics. I’ve since accepted…
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Russian ALFA Class interceptor submarine
**Russian ALFA Class interceptor submarine** At the height of the Cold War NATO submariners found themselves confronting a Soviet submarine which not only greatly out-performed their own boats, but which could operate beyond the reach of their weapons… Read More >….
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First impressions about Graal VM
Last week was the release of Oracle’s GraalVM. As stated on the website: GraalVM is a universal virtual machine for running applications written in JavaScript, Python 3, Ruby, R, JVM-based languages like Java, Scala, Kotlin, and LLVM-based languages such as C and C++. GraalVM removes the isolation between programming…
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Troubling Trends in Machine Learning Scholarship
By Zachary C. Lipton* & Jacob Steinhardt* *equal authorship Originally presented at ICML 2018: Machine Learning Debates [arXiv link] Published in Communications of the ACM 1 Introduction Collectively, machine learning (ML) researchers are engaged in
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The Benefits of Thinking Small (2010)
In previous posts I wrote about visionary entrepreneurs, and how to constantly ask how you can 10X your business. However, many startups fail because the founding team thinks *too big* from day one, and doesn't take the time to really define the short term, immediate value their product or business provides.
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Notes on “A Philosophy of Software Design”
Jumping on the recent trend, I picked up a copy of A Philosophy of Software Design based on Cindy’s recommendation. It’s a fairly concise read at 160 pages, and I skimmed through it over the last few days, writing up some notes along the way.
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Commodore 64 BASIC inside a USB Connector
Tomu is a super cheap Open Source Hardware 24 MHz ARM computer with 8 KB of RAM and 64 KB of ROM that fits into your USB connector! Of course I had to put Commodore 64 BASIC on it, which can be accessed through the USB-Serial port exposed by the device.
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Audio Adversarial Examples
Figure from our paper: given any waveform, we can modify it slightly to produce another (similar) waveform that transcribes as any different target phrase.
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Compiler fuzzing, part 1
Much has been written about fuzzing compilers already, but there is not a lot that I could find about fuzzing compilers using more modern ...
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Stop writing lambda expressions in Python
Note: This post was originally titled “Stop writing lambda expressions in Python” but I’ve changed the title after deciding that it was a little...
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Microsoft’s failed attempt on Debian packaging
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.
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Important database news from the last few months
Google and Amazon acknowledge benefits of SQL, Elasticsearch introduces SQL interface, and MySQL finally becomes modern…after 20 years. These are exciting times in the world of databases.
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My Own Private CDN
Yet another edition of Why Would You Ever Want To Do That
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The Math Required for Machine Learning
For the past year, I’ve been working on implementing well known model architectures and building web applications, so I have a fair amount…
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IOTA: The Brave Little Toaster That Couldn’t
IOTA is a cryptocurrency targeting the internet of things. It purports to be scalable, decentralized, and feeless. Unfortunately it is none of those things.
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Duckspeak vs. Smalltalk: Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple (2011)
Duckspeak Vs Smalltalk The Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple Computers Malcolm Gladwell's recent piece, "Creation Myth" , in...
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The Cosmetic Class
What happens when a society with a penchant for the cosmetic meets a medium dominated by it? “The medium is the message.” Or so goes the famous saying from media scholar Marshall McLuhan, widely re…
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Firefox nightly is now built with clang LTO on all platforms
You might have read that Mozilla recently switched Windows builds to clang-cl . More recently, those Windows builds have seen both PGO (Profile-Guided Optimization) and LTO (Link-Time Optimization) enabled .
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