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Build a Serverless Web Applicaion
Amazon Textract is a machine learning (ML) service that uses optical character recognition (OCR) to automatically extract text, handwriting, and data from scanned PDF documents, forms, and tables.
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GCC 7.1 Released
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Enabling Continual Learning in Neural Networks
Computer programs that learn to perform tasks also typically forget them very quickly. We show that the learning rule can be modified so that a program can remember old tasks when learning a new one. This is an important step towards more intelligent programs that are able to learn progressively and adaptively.
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Formal Methods in Practice: Using TLA+ at ESpark
Using TLA+ at eSpark Learning
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Node.js v9.2.0
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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Kotlin is the hero Android needs
On May 17th 2019 Google announced Kotlin as the officially supported language for Android, in a long awaited development. Find out more about this shift here.
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Kotlin 1.1: What’s coming in the standard library
Java 9 preparations Java 9 is coming and brings Project Jigsaw to the table — the Java platform module system. One of the constraints it imposes is that no two modules can declare public API in the s
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RISC-V port accepted for inclusion in GCC
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Implementing Algebraic Effects in C
We describe a full implementation of algebraic effects and handlers as a library in standard and portable C99, where effect operations can be used just like regular C functions. We use a formal operational semantics to guide the C implementation at every step where an evaluation context corresponds directly to a…
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The language of choice
Propositional logic was discovered by Stoics around 300 B.C., only to be abandoned in later antiquity and rebuilt in the 19th century by George Boole’s successors. One of them, Charles Peirce, saw its significance for what we now call logic circuits, yet that discovery too was forgotten until the 1930s. In the ’50s…
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Making Photos Smaller Without Quality Loss
Making Photos Smaller Without Quality Loss Stephen Arthur, Software Engineer Jun 1, 2017 Yelp has over 100 million user-generated photos ranging from pictures of dinners or haircuts, to one of...
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Announcing .NET Core Tools 1.0
Today, we are releasing .NET Core Tools 1.0. It’s an exciting day and an important milestone in the .NET Core journey. The tools are supported on Windows, macOS and Linux. You can use them at the command-line, with VS Code or as part of Visual Studio 2017. You can download the new .NET Core tools […]
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Overview of the Crystal language
In the jungle of new programming languages, Crystal is one of the most popular ones, but also the most mysterious. Let's take a look at it.
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Simply Secure PHP Cryptography
A reflection on the first six months of the year, ext/sodium landing in PHP 7.2, and where to go from here.
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Gtk-rs: The huge and long awaited release is finally here
Rust bindings for GTK and GLib-based libraries
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What it means to be a Postgres extension
Because Citus is an extension to PostgreSQL and not a fork, the effort required to remain compatible with the latest versions of the open source PostgreSQL database has been dramatically reduced. After a new PostgreSQL version is released, Citus packages are often updated and in sync within days.
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PHP 7.2.0 Released
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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Analyzing Django requirement files on GitHub
Safety gives security teams real-time visibility and governance over every AI tool, package, MCP server, and IDE extension across their developer fleet.
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Streaming Combinators and Extracting Flat Parallelism
A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.
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Scaling Git, and some back story
A couple of years ago, Microsoft made the decision to begin a multi-year investment in revitalizing our engineering system across the company. We are a big company with tons of teams – each with their own products, priorities, processes and tools. There are some “common” tools but also a lot of diversity – with VERY…
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Dolphin Progress Report: September 2017
While an emulator's primary job is to emulate, there's usually a lot more that goes into a good emulator. For Dolphin, it may feel like a lot of work has gone toward luxury features and optimizations rather than improving accuracy and compatibility. For example, Ubershaders is a wonderful, game-changing feature, but…
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The case against Kotlin
Ryan Cooke | Android Engineer, Core Experience
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How Citus Executes Distributed Transactions on Postgres
Distributed transactions are one of the meanest, baddest problems in relational databases. This post explains why distributed transactions are hard and how the Citus database supports distributed transactions by employing features like distributed deadlock detection, 2PC, and streaming replication in Postgres.