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Using ‘radioactive data’ to detect if a data set was used for training
Facebook AI has developed a new technique to mark the images in a dataset, so that researchers can then determine if a particular machine learning model...
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Application trust is hard, but Apple does it well
On November 12, 2020 Apple released macOS Big Sur. In the hours after the release went live, somewhere in Apple's infrastructure an OCSP esponder cried out in pain…
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Elo sucks – better multiplayer rating systems for smaller games (2019)
Elo does not work when different skill levels must play against each other. Can we make a better system?
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Why FSF Endorsing PureOS Matters
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem
Bitcoin mining is a complex phenomenon that connects hardware and software, the energy and financial markets. Invisible rules govern every aspect of it. The performance of an individual operation is determined by various external factors that are often hard to quantify and almost impossible to forec
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Anti-climate action statements get more visibility in news coverage, study finds
Analysis by assistant professor of environment and society and sociology at Brown found that press releases expressing opposition to climate action were twice as likely to receive news coverage as those supporting action.
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Sci-fi story coauthored by GPT-3, including in-character human/AI chats
Short stories about the singularity written in collaboration with GPT-3.
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Generalizing 'jq' and Traversal Systems using optics and standard monads
The Personal blog and musings of Chris Penner, a designer, developer and future opsimath.
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DOMPurify bypass: XSS via HTML namespace confusion
Securitum is a pure pentesting company specialising in the security of IT systems. We have experience in performing security audits (including penetration tests) - mainly for financial/e-commerce/industrial sectors. We have performed penetration tests and cyber security services for leading European banks (see…
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AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding
By Aditya Mavlankar, Jan de Cock, Cyril Concolato, Kyle Swanson, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron
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2020 Bundles
The state of bundles in 2020: Netflix, Disney, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple. Plus, Microsoft’s purchase of ZeniMax.
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Using time travel to remotely debug faulty DRAM
The story of debugging a mysterious Julia segfault.
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Dolphin Progress May and June 2020
We've got a lot to get through the past two months. Headlining it all is that we're happy to announce support for a new compressed disc format developed specifically for Dolphin: RVZ. This lossless format allows for near top of the line game compression without compromising the integrity of ISOs,…
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Missing Structure in Technical Discussions
People are amazing creatures. When discussing a complex issue, they are able to keep multiple independentarguments in their heads, the pieces of supporting a...
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An History of Nvidia Stream Multiprocessor
I spent last week-end getting accustomed to CUDA and SIMT programming. It was a prolific time ending up with a Business Card Raytracer running close to 700x faster [1] , from 101s to 150ms. This pleasant experience was a good pretext to spend more time on the topic and learn about the evolution of Nvidia architecture…
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Better Geometry Through Graph Theory (2018)
A few months ago, I decided to implement set operations on curved regions. I had the the canonical textbook on computational geometry , which described approaches for polygons comprised of straight lines, and it seemed like other projects had extended these techniques to parametric curves . I figured it would take a…
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Bash HTTP Monitoring Dashboard
Published: 27-12-2020 | Last update: 11-01-2021 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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I'm back into the grind of FreeBSD's wireless stack and 802.11ac
hi! Yes, it's been a while since I posted here and yes, it's been a while since I was actively working on FreeBSD's wireless stack. Life's...
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Simulating Machines in Clojure
My cofounder Joe and I recently finished SICP. It was a mind-bending experience: you start from just 3 concepts, and you recursively build up algebraic equation solvers, circuit simulators, 4 interpreters, and a compiler.