Summary : Update to my last post analyzing the gzip+knn paper. Some of the datasets have heavily contaminated train/test tests. I show some ways to significantly speed-up the gzip method. I present more results of my "fair" reimplementation .
Skyrocketing vehicle theft rates in some U.S. cities have drawn attention to an inconvenient truth: the increasing amount of technology in our vehicles can make them increasingly vulnerable to hacking or theft.
The EU Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse, first published in May 2022, has become the "most criticized law of all time". Here's how to stop it now!
We’re pleased to announce that support for the declarative shadow DOM API has been added and enabled by default in Safari Technology Preview 162.
Loro, our high-performance CRDTs library, is now open source. In this article, we share our vision for the local-first software development paradigm, why we're excited about it, and the current status of Loro.
Surreal and otherworldly.
In this article, previously part of my new book, we look at the introduction of .NET Core, why it was created, and how it has evolved into .NET 7.
Digg was having a rough year. Our CEO left the day before I joined. Senior engineers ghosted out the door, dampening productivity and pulling their remaining friends. We had only one remaining shot at revival, launching our two-years in the making rewrite: Digg v4. It did not go as planned.
Short answer: no. Quite the opposite, actually — Archive.is is intentionally blocking 1.1.1.1 users. Here's why.
The second part of a three part look at new features in Go 1.20.
New study finds that so-called ‘smart drugs’ reduce the quality of effort, and increase time taken to complete a decision-making task in cognitively healthy people.
A blog by and for database architects.
How the computer killed capitalism.
Reasons to be skeptical of the conventional wisdom about line drawing perception
New BigQuery pricing editions and autoscaling let you choose the right price-performance for your workloads, and pay for only what you use.
Temperature is a parameter used in natural language processing models to increase or decrease the “confidence” a model has in its most likely response.
Hello friends!
OCaml with Jane Street extensions is available from our public opam repo. Only a slice of the features described in this series are currently implemented.
“640K ought to be enough for anybody.” - Supposedly Bill Gates, circa 1981.
My partner and I both work from home. I'm very thankful for that as we have two young children and a commute would take up the same time we ...
We are reverting this change for now. More details to follow. The default compression for Git archives has recently changed. As result, archives downloaded from GitHub may have different checksums…
Every day, thousands of developers at Meta are working in repositories with millions of files. Those developers need tools that help them at every stage of the workflow while working at extreme sca…
I recently implemented a Brainfuck interpreter in the Crystal programming language and I’d like to share my honest opinion about working in the language.
Can it be true that Apple is sent information about every image we browse in the Finder? Analysis of Visual Look Up and Live Text and when it happens.
Together, Amazon and One Medical will help more people get better care, when and how they need it.
Brave Search's new independent image and video search feature protects your privacy and freedom to access information online.
A warrant canary is a method by which a communications service provider informs users that it has NOT been served with a secret government subpoena.
In April 2021, the Vulkan® Working Group at Khronos® released a set of provisional extensions, collectively referred to as ‘Vulkan Video’ which provide seamless encoding and decoding of video streams using a variety of video coding standards. The December 2022 release of Vulkan 1.3.238 saw the finalization of the…
