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Yale scientists make a borophene breakthrough
A flake just one atom thick has provided scientists at Yale with new insight into a promising material for the next generation of high-speed electronics.
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3D Face Reconstruction with Position Map Regression Networks
Position Map Regression Networks (PRN) is a method to jointly regress dense alignment and 3D face shape in an end-to-end manner. In this article, I’ll provide a short explanation and discuss its applications in computer vision. When I was a… Continue reading 3D Face Reconstruction with Position Map Regression Networks
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Enemy within: gut bacteria drive autoimmune disease
Bacteria in the small intestines can travel to other organs and trigger an autoimmune response, though vaccines or antibiotics can suppress this reaction.
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This Thing for Which We Have No Name (2014)
It's not my job to be a behavioral economist; my job is to actually popularize behavioral economics. The interesting thing to me—as someone who has a brother who's an academic—is that academics, however brilliant, are the worst marketers in the world. And there's a reason for this, which is they, of course, possibly…
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How to make your first sales hire – a guide for SaaS startups
Here's the reality: Your first sales hire is the most important non-executive growth hire you will make. But most B2B startups have no clue what they're looking for in making this hire—much less how to find them.
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Introduction to HAProxy ACLs
A practical guide to HAProxy ACLs. Learn the syntax and follow step-by-step examples to block traffic, redirect users, choose backends, and enhance security.
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Discovering Issues in HTTP/2 with Chaos Testing
via Chaos Engineering we discovered that there are situations where HTTP/2 will perform worse than HTTP/1.
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Uncovering 2017’s Largest Malvertising Operation
The Zirconium group successfully created and operated 28 fake ad agencies to distribute malvertising campaigns through 2017, buying an estimate of 1 billion ad views throughout the year, and reaching
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Consider applying for grad school
9 reasons to apply to grad school right now, and 8 reasons not to.
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Chrome 68 Released: HTTP Sites Marked as “Not Secure”
The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 68 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out ove...
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California’s next bold step on climate should be building near transit
While the impetus for State Senator Scott Wiener’s proposed SB 827, which would allow apartment construction near transit lines was addressing housing affordability, the measure should also be a cornerstone of our efforts to tackle climate change.
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Commitment vs. Forecast: A Subtle But Important Change to Scrum (2011)
One of the most controversial updates to the 2011 Scrum Guide has been the removal of the term “commit” in favor of “forecast” in regards to the work selected for a Sprint. We used to say that the Development Team commits to which Product Backlog Items it will deliver by the end of the Sprint. Scrum now encourages the…
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Applications for YC W19 Are Open
Applications for YC Winter 2019 are now open. Apply here [http://www.ycombinator.com/apply/]. Here are some helpful resources if you’re thinking about applying: * Why Apply? [https://www.ycombinator.com/why/] * YC Bio [https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-bio/]: A new way for us to fund early-stage life science companies…
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Mono and WebAssembly – Updates on Static Compilation
As you may know we have been working on bringing Mono to the WebAssembly platform . As part of the effort we have been pursuing two strategies; one that uses the new Mono IL interpreter to run managed code at runtime, and one that uses full static (AOT) compilation to create one .wasm file that can be executed…
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Benchmarks for Startup Spend and Cash Burn
Exclusive analysis of business spend on Brex and fresh finance insights.
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Apparent use of Sandvine devices for malicious or dubious ends in two countries
This report describes our investigation into the apparent use of Sandvine/Procera Networks Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) devices to deliver nation-state malware in Turkey and indirectly into Syria, and to covertly raise money through affiliate ads and cryptocurrency mining in Egypt.
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GitHub's game jam returns next month
Build a game this November in our annual month-long game jam
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Fun with SQL: Window Functions in Postgres
Window functions in PostgreSQL are valuable when you want to compare & contrast data between rows. And window functions are key in analytics use cases. This post covers the basic structure of window functions as well as some of the more interesting things you can do with them.
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How working memory gets you through the day
Scientists have discovered how brain waves are key to both maintenance and control of information in the mind. A new model for this has been developed by Earl Miller and colleagues at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT.
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SENS Research Foundation Receives $2.4M Ethereum Donation from Vitalik Buterin
Creating a Future Where Everyone Can Live Longer, Healthier Lives Building A Global Ecosystem To Advance Research That Will Overcome Age-Related Disease And Extend Healthy Human Lifespan Support LRI Subscribe Creating a Future Where Everyone Can Live Longer, Healthier Lives Building A Global Ecosystem To Advance…
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How to break a smart home, again
This time, we’ve chosen a smart hub designed to control sensors and devices installed at home. It can be used for different purposes, such as energy and water management, monitoring and even security systems.
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Java's Magic Sauce
Read Java blog posts to learn how to save on license fees, get better performance, use more secure Java, and optimize cloud costs.
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EC2 Instance Update – C5 Instances with Local NVMe Storage
As you can see from my EC2 Instance History post, we add new instance types on a regular and frequent basis. Driven by increasingly powerful processors and designed to address an ever-widening set of use cases, the size and diversity of this list reflects the equally diverse group of EC2 customers! Near the bottom of…