We have been fortunate to welcome many new members into our ranks over the past 30 days. This is in large part due to the continued interest in the Pinebook Pro and PineTab, which have just shipped, as well as the ongoing massive demand for the PinePhone. By my estimate, come December we will have shipped more…
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On behalf of the Python Packaging Authority and the pip team, I am pleased to announce that we have just released pip 20.3 , a new version of pip. You can install it by running python -m pip install --upgrade pip .
Why buy an expensive desktop computer when your iPhone is a faster SMT solver?
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Two books — 45 years apart — explain it. If you want to get ahead, it’s time to face the facts.
Many container customers building applications use common software packages (e.g. operating systems, databases, and application components) that are publicly distributed as container images on Docker Hub. Docker, Inc. has announced that the Hub service will begin limiting the rate at which images are pulled under…
When social media was taking shape fifteen-odd years ago, the concept of “context collapse” helped frame and explain the phenomenon. Young scholars like Danah Boyd and Michael Wesch, bu…
I wrote for The Onion News Network for exactly four weeks. Here's what I learned.
Here, I provide an in-depth analysis of GPUs for deep learning/machine learning and explain what is the best GPU for your use-case and budget.
The software ecosystem has a lot of useful but unsafe code, and the easier it is to sandbox that code, the moreoften that’ll happen. If it were as simple as ...
We live in times of great disaggregation, and yet, seem to learn increasingly from generalists. In the past, an expert in one field of Psychology might have been forced to teach a broad survey class.
If you feel overwhelmed by the choices you need to make, it's time to start using a decision journal. Learn how this simple practice can change the way you think and perform.
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spaCy v3.0 is a huge release! It features new transformer-based pipelines that get spaCy's accuracy right up to the current state-of-the-art, and a new workflow system to help you take projects from prototype to production. It's much easier to configure and train your pipeline, and there are lots of new and improved…
“No speech was ever too short.”
I. Amish people spend only a fifth as much as you do on health care, and their health is fine. What can we learn from them? A reminder: the Amish are a German religious sect who immigrated to colon…
According to a solicitation to potential contractors published last week, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) wants to outsource its current questioning of airline passengers without ID , and its decisions about which travelers without ID to allow to travel and which to prevent from flying , to a…
With the industry-wide transition to smart TVs many of us have felt like there is no option but to get one. And the walls are closing in -- it seems like almost every TV sold today is a smart one, which means a lack of control of what's happening on our device, the possibility of
<p> <i>Python</i> haters always say, that one of reasons they don't want to use it, is that it's <i>slow</i>. Well, whether specific program - regardle...
Hundreds of popular websites now offer some form of multi-factor authentication (MFA), which can help users safeguard access to accounts when their password is breached or stolen. But people who don’t take advantage of these added safeguards may find it far more difficult to regain access when their account gets…
Protobuf needs no introduction, but this post argues that you shouldn’t use it for telemetry. The basic premise of this post is that a good telemetry library needs to be lightweight to avoid perturbing the application; inefficient diagnostic tools are self-defeating. Unlike other formats, nested Protobuf messages…
I. Vox asks What Went Wrong With The Media’s Coronavirus Coverage? They conclude that the media needs to be better at “not just saying what we do know, but what we don’t know”. This rai…
The sheer scale of the new GPT-3 model is hard to overstate; it’s an entire order of magnitude larger than Microsoft’s already-massive 17B parameter Turing-NLG.[1] Loading the entire model’s weights
Announcing LAMBDA: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions
YAML sucks! This blog post explains why existing tools hardly ease this pain, and what we at Grafana Labs did about it.
