Amazon Rekognition – Image Detection and Recognition Powered by Deep Learning
What do you see when you look at this picture? You might simply see an animal. Maybe you see a pet, a dog, or a Golden Retriever. The association between the image and these labels is not hard-wired in to your brain. Instead, you learned the labels after seeing hundreds or thousands of examples. Operating […]
SQL Tricks
Listicles like these do work – not only do they attract attention, if the content is also valuable (and in this case it is, trust me), the article format can be extremely entertaining. This a…
WebDriver Support in Safari 10
Starting with Safari 10 on OS X El Capitan and macOS Sierra, Safari comes bundled with a WebDriver implementation that's maintained by the Web Developer Experience team at Apple.
Sketch 3.7 released
Sketch 3.7 is an important update for Sketch. It introduces an all new version of Symbols and we can’t wait to hear what you think of them.
Storage Pod 6.0: Building a 60 Drive 480TB Storage Server
Get the details on Storage Pod 6.0 and learn how to build your own data storage server.
Feather: A Fast On-Disk Format for Data Frames for R and Python
Introducing Feather: a fast binary file format for data frames that works in both R and Python, built on Apache Arrow.
Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2016
We take a close look at the hard drive failure rates from 68,813 hard drives that are used in the Backblaze data center.
Vera Rubin has died
Rubin confirmed the existence of dark matter—the invisible material that makes up more than 90% of the mass of the universe.
A convenient untruth: Array notation in C is a lie
Array notation in C is a lie! Sorry, dear reader*, but I cannot participate in this conspiracy any longer. You have been lied to, manipulated and coerced into thinking arrays are a construct of the C language. I feel it is my solemn duty to blow the whistle on this charade and expose the dirty secrets of C’s so-called…
Who Pays for the Decentralized Web?
I recently attended the Decentralized Web Summit where industry giants Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee spoke about designing a new…
Time Series, the new shiny?
If you’ve been fortunate enough to have been studying penguins at McMurdo these last few seasons you may have missed the attention “Time Series” has been getting in the Big Data space. Then again, maybe not. Because if you were doing scientific work whilst snug in your North Face you may have been t
The Independent Discovery of TCP/IP, by Ants
What does the Internet have in common with an ant colony? More than you might think.
Keras 1.0 – Python deep learning framework
Keras was initially released a year ago, late March 2015. It has made tremendous progress since, both on the development front, and as a community.
Gone Full Unikernel
Unikernels, once a niche computing topic, have become a subject of intense interest and exploration. One particular evolution in this domain is “Going Full Unikernel.” Continue readingGone Full Unikernel
Amazon Polly – Text to Speech in 47 Voices and 24 Languages
As I was getting ready to write this post, I thought back to my childhood (largely spent watching TV) and some of the popular computer and robot voices of the 1960’s and 1970’s. In just a few minutes, pleasant memories of HAL-9000, B9 (Lost in Space), the original Star Trek Computer, and Rosie (from The […]
Cisco’s Attempt to Dodge Responsibility for Facilitating Human Rights Abuses
Cisco custom-built the so-called “Great Firewall of China,” also known as the “Golden Shield.” This system enables the Chinese government to conduct Internet surveillance and censorship against its citizens. As if that weren’t bad enough, company documents also revealed that, as part of its...
Certificate Revocation Issue
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Numerai, a hedge fund built by a community of anonymous data scientists
On February 27th 2016, an artificial intelligence named NCVSAI joined Numerai. His creator downloaded encrypted stock market data, trained…
React Native: A year in review
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