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Getting a biometric security key right
"Discover the upcoming YubiKey Bio with biometric capabilities. Enhance your security with our cutting-edge, FIDO-enabled device. Sign up for updates!
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Diabetes in mice cured rapidly using human stem cell strategy
New technique efficiently converts human stem cells into insulin-producing cells
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Datasette-ripgrep: a regular expression search engine for your source code
This week I built datasette-ripgrep—a web application for running regular expression searches against source code, built on top of the amazing ripgrep command-line tool. datasette-ripgrep demo I’ve deployed a demo …
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Math Symbols Explained with Python
Learn the meaning behind mathematical symbols used in Machine Learning using your knowledge of Python.
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War Elephants, Part II: Elephants Against Wolves (2019)
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2020130 points49 commentscited by 3History & Retro Computing details
Today, in Part II of our three part series on War Elephants, we’re going to look at the drawbacks of war elephants. Last time (here), we discussed the factors that made war elephants so power…
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Combining event sourcing and stateful systems
Bridging the gap between stateful and event sourced sub-systems
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Removing old, obsolete dams restores life to creeks and streams
By removing old, obsolete dams, we are healing the ecosystem and restoring life to the Hudson and its tributaries
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Ethics in Geo
Doing good and not bad
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Type-Level Programming in Rust
I show how two domain-specific type systems, information flow control and two-party communication protocols, can be implemented in Rust using type-level programming. I explain how interesting properties of these domains can be verified at compile-time. Finally, I construct a general correspondence between type…
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Our Experience with Stripe Atlas
What its like to start a company with Stripe Atlas
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Self Supervised Learning in NLP
An overview of self-supervised pretext tasks in Natural Language Processing
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Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones (2017)
The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones
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Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries?
Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries despite paying much more for healthcare. What factors may explain this?
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TikTok and Microsoft’s Clock
I mean, WTF?
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DoorDash and Societal Arbitrage
$8 pizza profits were nothing compared to the real trade
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My Favorite Books 2020
Mostly non-fiction books this year. Some in English, some in German.
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Kubernetes: Make your services faster by removing CPU limits
At Buffer, we’ve been using Kubernetes since 2016. We’ve been managing our k8s (kubernetes) cluster with kops, it has about 60 nodes (on AWS), and runs about 1500 containers. Our transition to a micro-service architecture has been full of trial and errors. Even after a few years running k8s, we are still learning its…
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Mathematica v12.1
Biggest .1 release from Wolfram. 182 completely new functions, plus updates and enhancements. Includes full HiDPI support, computation with video, data structures, asymptotic superfunction, mathematical functions, plotting, geometric optimization, vector plotting, cross-hatching, computational topology, tabular data…
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Airflow 2.0
We're proud to announce that Apache Airflow 2.0.0 has been released.
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Policy, not tech, spurred Danish dominance in wind energy
An analysis of Denmark’s wind industry offers lessons for policymakers seeking to increase renewable electricity production with limited budgets, according to Cynthia Lin Lawell.
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Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam?
You may have heard that today’s phone fraudsters like to use caller ID spoofing services to make their scam calls seem more believable. But you probably didn’t know that these fraudsters also can use caller ID spoofing to trick your bank into giving up information about recent transactions on your account — data that…
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