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Optimising for Concurrency: Comparing the BEAM and JVM virtual machines
Explore the internals of the BEAM VM in comparison to the JVM, highlighting the significance of understanding these components.
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Multi-Tenant Architectures
Multi-tenancy Application Deployment Architecture could be modeled in 4 broad ways: Separate Apps & Separate Databases Shared ...
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Technology that changed air travel
A lot has changed about air travel since it went mainstream in the 1930s. On-board smoking, free-flowing booze, and five-star meals have given way to baggage fees, cramped seats, and mystery meat. Through all this change, one thing has stayed the same — the software that manages it all.
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Wirecard – The “German Enron”, and a personal history
For those who just came back from a 15 year space mission: Wirecard is a German company that according to its website is ” one of the world’s fastest-growing digital platforms for fina…
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What is GPT-3? written in layman's terms
Daily, snackable writings to spur changes in thinking. Building a blueprint for a better brain by tinkering with the code.
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Improved vacuum in PostgreSQL 13
Vacuum is one of the sub-systems in PostgreSQL which gets improved with each release. I have checked past five releases and each has qu...
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ING open-sources Lion, a library of accessible and flexible Web Components
TL;DR: Web development can be hard, whether you’re making your own components, implementing Design Systems, support many different…
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To listen well, get curious
When I’ve listened the most effectively to people, it’s because I was intensely curious—I was trying to build a detailed, precise understanding of what was going on in their head.
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Io_uring By Example: cat, cp and a web server with io_uring
io_uring is a clever new, high-performance interface for asynchronous I/O for Linux without the drawbacks of the aio set of APIs. In this 3-part article series, we look at how to use io_uring to ge…
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Urgent and Important – Rotate Your Amazon RDS, Aurora, and DocumentDB Certs
Feb 5th, 2020: We’ve made an edit to this post. Previously, we had communicated that between February 5 and March 5, 2020, RDS would automatically stage the new certificates on RDS database instances without a restart. Based on customer feedback and to give customers as much time as possible to complete updates, RDS…
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A hands-on introduction to static code analysis
An example-rich description of the architecture of static code analysis systems along with a hands-on tutorial on how to implement it.
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Graph Neural Networks – An Overview
How Neural Networks can be used in graph data
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The Abundance of Silicon Valley
Abundance is fragile, it is accidental, and it is the most incredible thing on earth.
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The Great Toilet Paper Scare of 1973 (2014)
Following a poorly-timed Johnny Carson joke in 1973, millions of Americans hoarded every toilet paper roll on the market and induced a mass hysteria.
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The Black Hole information loss problem is unsolvable
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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Spotify, Ever the Fans of Openness
Link to: https://songshift.com/blog/spotify_transfers
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The US can reach 90% clean electricity by 2035 without increasing consumer bills
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 9, 2020 Media Contact: Chelsea Eakin, ceakin@climatenexus.org, 347-371-1305 New national re…
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Stagnation and Scientific Incentives
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Why Bayesian Stats Needs Monte-Carlo Methods
Bayesian statistics rely heavily on Monte-Carlo methods. A common question that arises is “isn’t there an easier, analytical solution?” This post explores a bit more why this is by breaking down the analysis of a Bayesian A/B test and showing how tricky the analytical path is and exploring more of t
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Wildfires in Big Basin Redwoods State Park
We are devastated to report that Big Basin, as we have known it, loved it, and cherished it for generations, is gone. Early reports are that the wildfire has consumed much of the park’s historic facilities. We do not yet know the fate of the park’s grandest old trees.
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Happiness is a freshly organized codebase
Starting From the Top Imagine joining a new team at a new company and you finally get access to a codebase. Slack iOS Xcode File Hierarchy 2017 Where do you add a source file for your team’s project? Great question. Your new team has three source directories for you to add files to, and oh,…
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Linear Regression
From zero to linear regression
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Study shows proof that a safer UV light effectively kills virus causing Covid-19
Researchers offer first proof that Ultraviolet C light with a 222 nm wavelength — which is safer to use around humans — effectively kills the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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An Update About Changes to Facebook’s Services in Australia
If Australia’s proposed news regulation becomes law, we will reluctantly stop allowing publishers and people in Australia to share local and international news on Facebook and Instagram.
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Nvidia Announces A100 80GB GPU for AI
SC20—NVIDIA today unveiled the NVIDIA® A100 80GB GPU — the latest innovation powering the NVIDIA HGX™ AI supercomputing platform — with twice the memory of its predecessor, providing researchers and engineers unprecedented speed and performance to unlock the next wave of AI and scientific breakthroughs.