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The Low Latency Live Streaming Landscape in 2019
One of the hot topics of NAB, IBC, and Demuxed last year was “low latency” live video streaming. In this post we’ll examine the spectrum of different latencies that users experience, discuss the use ca...
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SleepyHead Project Is Shutting Down
LEDAK388 Berdiri Sebagai Bandar Game Online Resmi Memiliki Permainan Lengkap Dan Server Gacor Yang Terbukti Paling Gampang Mengasilkan Kemenangan.
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The Relationship Between Profanity and Honesty (2017)
There are two conflicting perspectives regarding the relationship between profanity and dishonesty. These two forms of norm-violating behavior share common causes, and are often considered to be positively related. On the other hand, however, profanity is often used to express one’s genuine feelings, and could…
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Technical Debt Is Like Tetris
You can’t win. You can only control how quickly you lose.
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Engineers put Leonardo da Vinci’s bridge design to the test
MIT engineers have analyzed a bridge design proposed by Leonardo da Vinci, and found that it would indeed have stood solidly, had it ever been built.
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Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist (2012)
[ An updated treatment of some of this material appears in Chapter 2 of the Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet (free) textbook, also mirrors a 2022 article in Nature Physics . . ]
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The Joys of Unix Keyboards
A decade or so ago while helping a friends father clean out an old building, we came across an ancient Sun Microsystems server. We found it curious. Everything about it was different from what we were used to. The command line was black text on a white background, the connectors strange and foreign, and the keyboard…
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PayPal vs. Stripe for small businesses in 2019
fman is a dual-pane file manager for Mac, Windows and Linux.
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Raspberry Pi microSD follow-up, SD Association fools me twice?
/ Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, \ \ prepare to die. (Klingon Proverb) / -------------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || || (Excerpt from Ansible for DevOps, chapter 12.) The fallout from this year's microSD card performance comparison has turned into quite a…
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Machine learning systems are stuck in a rut
Machine learning systems are stuck in a rut Barham & Isard, HotOS’19 In this paper we argue that systems for numerical computing are stuck in a local basin of performance and programmabil…
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International Repair Day
International Repair Day is an annual celebration for everyone who makes repair happen in their communities around the world.
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Race Condition vs. Data Race (2011)
It’s terribly punny/dorky of me, but reading your post it just occurred to me one could start a blog called “Race Condition” about being a person of color and being a computer scientist.
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Building Payments for an Insurance Startup
This post is a guide to the operational, money movement elements of building an insurance company. We build a system for a regular monthly charge and a claim payout.
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Why airplane windows have round corners (2016)
It's to prevent them from killing you
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How Bad Is Your Colormap? (2014)
What this function does is to give you a lumninance-correct grayscale version of any matplotlib colormap. I've found this useful for quickly checking how my plots might appear if printed in black and white, but I think it's probably even more useful for stoking the flame of the internet's general rant against jet .
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AIs Named by AIs
Neural networks can be good at naming things, I’ve discovered. Recently I’ve been experimenting with a neural network called GPT-2, which OpenAI trained on a huge chunk of the internet. Thanks to a colab notebook implementation by Max Woolf, I’m able to fine-tune it on specific lists of data -
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First modern coreboot server platform
With our expertise we create security solutions which are robust and easy to use, leveraging leading open source technology.