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Let Google do the patching with new managed base images
Exploring container security: Let Google do the patching with new managed base images
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The Performance Cost of CORS Requests on Single-Page Applications
The title may lead you to think that this post is another ranting post about the downside of a “Single Page Application”. It is more about…
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Firmware Updates and Initial Performance Data for Data Center Systems
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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Unquantified
The only real valuable thing is intuition. – Albert Einstein A year ago I got rid of my scale, a simple act that turned out to be the catalyst for a year’s worth of quiet introspection and experimentation in removing quantification from my life. A year later I’m quantifiably more ignorant about myself than I have been…
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The Shirky Principle (2010)
[Translations: Japanese] “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” — Clay Shirky I think this observation is brilliant. It reminds me of the clarity of the Peter Principle, which says that a person in … Continue reading →
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Why OpenCV uses BGR color space (2015)
Learn the historical reason OpenCV stores color images in BGR order instead of RGB, from early camera formats to compatibility decisions.
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Skylight, a Ruby profiler, free for open source applications
Here at Skylight, we love all things open source [http://www.tilde.io/about-us/#open-source]. We're thrilled to show you just how much we love it with some exciting news: Starting today, we're offering free Skylight accounts [https://www.skylight.io/oss] to all open source
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Random Points on a Sphere
John D. Cook, Greg Egan, Dan Piponi and I had a fun mathematical adventure on Twitter. It started when John Cook wrote a program to compute the probability distribution of distances $latex |xy R…
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Regarding the Most Recent Amazon Mechanical Turk Data Contamination
Suggested Citation: Bai, H. (2018) Evidence that A Large Amount of Low Quality Responses on MTurk Can Be Detected with Repeated GPS Coordinates. Retrieved from: https://www.maxhuibai.com/blog/evidence-that-responses-from-repeating-gps-are-random
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Genetics and Eugenics in Frank Herbert's DUNE
Observations on Frank Herbert’s 𝐷𝑢𝑛𝑒 series—the notes are probably overstated, the Butlerian Jihad was 𝑛𝑜𝑡 a robot uprising seeking to exterminate humanity, and precognition/prescience in the Dune universe appears to work backwards allowing for retro-causality and stable time-loops as exemplified by Leto II’s Golden…
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Building a Cross-Browser, Cross-Platform, Real-Time Game Streaming Protocol
BUILDING FOR HUMANITY
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Jobs Inside the API
If someone is worse at their job than a drunk person with Google, why do they still have their job?
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Networked Physics in Virtual Reality
Recently, Oculus teamed up with developer Glenn Fiedler for research into networked physics in VR. Below is a guest post from Glenn detailing his research.
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Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple
Apple’s case before the Supreme Court is about standing; Apple has a strong case. That, though, doesn’t mean the App Store isn’t a monopoly — and that Apple isn’t increasing…
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Pointers Are Complicated, or What’s in a Byte?
This summer, I am again working on Rust full-time, and again I will work (amongst other things) on a “memory model” for Rust/MIR. However, before I can talk about the ideas I have for this ...
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Are triggers really that slow in Postgres?
PostgreSQL trigger performance. Should we use tiggers at all? Find out how triggers perform in performance tests.
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How should we evaluate progress in AI?
Improving artificial intelligence research with scientific testing, design practice, and meta-rational choice of methods and criteria
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AWS Service Operator for Kubernetes Now Available
NOTE: In mid-2019 we re-launched and intensified our efforts, deprecating and archiving the old code base of the AWS Service Operator and changing to a community-driven approach. We’re currently in the design phase and invite you to comment on the design issues and become a contributor to the new project, see details…
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Pause/unpause any X11 application
Many desktop oriented operating systems try to provide various usability improvements and features, like quite useful Expose or Dashboard in Mac OS X or useless Tiles concept in recent editions of …
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Searching the Creative Internet
I had of late been lamenting the loss of the internet of the 1990s. A place where everything was obscure or new. If you saw something mainstream like a Disney princess, it was because someone had taken the time to handcraft an ASCII art portrait. Today if you type [disney] into the ubiquitous search engine , every…