Bulletin for Friday, 01 Sep 2023
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Discord Blog (1)
null program (1)
Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (1)
Metadata (1)
- Atmospheric absorption, spectra, units and code: companion page to the global warming explanation post
The Go Blog (1)
Retool Blog (1)
Stratechery by Ben Thompson (1)
Almost Secure (1)
Maximum Effort, Minimum Reward (1)
Computer Things (1)
Stay SaaSy (1)
Latent Space (1)
Sentry Blog RSS (1)
Eight to Late (1)
- Cloudflare Radar’s 2023 overview of new tools and insights
- Cloudflare’s tenant platform in action: Meter deploys DNS filtering at scale
Weaveworks (2)
QuestDB Blog (2)
- Our Website Source Is Now Private, A Cautionary Tale
- Leveraging Rust in our high-performance Java database
taylor.town (2)
- Enhancing Security and Developer Productivity: LinkedIn's Journey with Implementing Content Security Policy
- Open Sourcing iris-message-processor
Replit Blog (2)
- U.S. Hacks QakBot, Quietly Removes Botnet Infections
- Kroll Employee SIM-Swapped for Crypto Investor Data
Timescale Blog (2)
- Making PostgreSQL Backups 100x Faster via EBS Snapshots and pgBackRest
- Building a Kafka Data Pipeline for Time Series With Kafka Connect and Timescale
The CircleCI Blog Feed | CircleCI (2)
- Progressive delivery on Kubernetes with CircleCI and Argo Rollouts
- Feature flags for stress-free continuous deployment
DTN (3)
- Decrease delays. Increase throughput. Build your reputation.
- The Weather Intelligence Advantage in the Mining Industry
- Food, Beverage, and Pet Food Companies Seek Accurate, Reliable Farm Sustainability Data
Blog – Hackaday (3)
- An Unexpected Appearance of an Iconic Motorola Chip
- Hoverboard Turned Into Bonkers Omniwheeled Bike
- Diving into Starlink’s User Terminal Firmware
- Five finalists selected for Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2
- Amazon postdoctoral scientists apply operations research to real-world problems
- Amazon Bedrock offers access to multiple generative AI models
Simon Willison's Weblog: Blogmarks (4)
- excalidraw.com
- WebLLM supports Llama 2 70B now
- Llama 2 is about as factually accurate as GPT-4 for summaries and is 30X cheaper
- Understanding Immortal Objects in Python 3.12
- Back to the terminal of the future (Changelog Interviews #555)
- What's new in Go 1.21 (Go Time #289)
- Automating code optimization with LLMs (Practical AI #237)
- OpenTF sticks a fork in Terraform (Changelog News #59)
- A new look and feel for the Stack Overflow blog
- Journey to the cloud part I: Migrating Stack Overflow Teams to Azure
- What it’s like being a professional workplace bestie (Ep. 603)
- The Overflow #192: Ask your data better questions
- Fighting comment spam at Facebook scale (Ep. 602)
Google AI Blog (5)
- WeatherBench 2: A benchmark for the next generation of data-driven weather models
- Modeling and improving text stability in live captions
- SayTap: Language to quadrupedal locomotion
- RO-ViT: Region-aware pre-training for open-vocabulary object detection with vision transformers
- Responsible AI at Google Research: Perception Fairness
The Full Feed - All of the Packet Pushers Podcasts (5)
- Day Two Cloud 208: HashiCorp Licensing Changes And The Day Two Cloud-Chaos Lever Crossover
- HS054 Matching IT and Corporate Culture
- Tech Bytes: How StackPath Uses Catchpoint’s Internet Performance Monitoring To Accelerate MTTI (Sponsored)
- Network Break 444: NVIDIA Mines GPU Gold; VMware Wants To Sell You Private AI; SUSE Prepares To Go Private
- Heavy Networking 696: EVPN Fundamentals (And Some VXLAN) With Tony Bourke
Towards Data Science - Medium (6)
- The Research Agent: Addressing the Challenge of Answering Questions Based on a Large Text Corpus
- Free From Limitations: The Validation of Machine Hallucinations at MoMA
- Analyzing Geospatial Data with Python (Part 2 — Hypothesis Test)
- Machine Learning Tricks, Learning with ChatGPT, and Other Recent Must-Reads
- Geospatial Data Engineering: Spatial Indexing
- How Does the Uncertainty Principle Limit Time Series Analysis?
- excalidraw.com
- WebLLM supports Llama 2 70B now
- Llama 2 is about as factually accurate as GPT-4 for summaries and is 30X cheaper
- Datasette 1.0a4 and 1.0a5, plus weeknotes
- Making Large Language Models work for you
- Understanding Immortal Objects in Python 3.12
- Quoting Stephen King
- A biotech company says it put dopamine-making cells into people’s brains
- The Download: China’s AI chatbots go public, and how climate change is affecting hurricanes
- How climate change can supercharge hurricanes
- Chinese ChatGPT alternatives just got approved for the general public
- Here’s what we know about hurricanes and climate change
- The Download: how to test AI, and the hidden victims of pig-butchering scams
- Large language models aren’t people. Let’s stop testing them as if they were.
- The involuntary criminals behind pig-butchering scams
LogRocket Blog (10)
- A comprehensive guide to data-driven product management
- CAPTCHA UX: Why CAPTCHA is bad and its alternatives
- Using Ink UI with React to build interactive, custom CLIs
- Overcoming the curse of knowledge
- Angular vs. React vs. Vue.js: Comparing performance
- What is app store optimization (ASO)?
- Understanding and applying the nominal group technique (NGT)
- What is a one-pager? Examples, rules, template
- Recognition vs. recall: Leveraging cognitive processes in user interfaces
- Using using in TypeScript for resource management
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When you deploy a service into production, you need to configure it with enough resources (e.g., CPU, memory) so that it can handle the volume of requests you expect it to receive. You’ll want to provision it so that it can service 100% of the requests when receiving the typical amount of traffic, and you … Continue reading Operating effectively in high surprise mode → (BACK TO TOP)
Teleport's journey to significantly boost SSH connection speeds. From diagnosing latency issues with Distributed Tracing to replacing SSH connections with gRPC, discover how we achieved a 40% improvement in connection times without sacrificing security. (BACK TO TOP)
Dust off your backpack and hit the campus library! To celebrate Back to School, check out Discord's best study features, apps, and Activities. (BACK TO TOP)
For the typical DLL function call you declare the function prototype (via header file), you inform the link editor ( ld , link ) that the DLL exports a symbol with that name (import library), it matches the declared name with this export, and it becomes an import in your program’s import table. What happens when two different DLLs export the same symbol? The link editor will pick the first found. In PE executable images , an import isn’t just a symbol, but a tuple of DLL name and symbol.g.g..... (BACK TO TOP)
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"We're wired to look for the path of least resistance and efficiency, and that's normally a good thing, but it can get in the way when we want to make a change," says Wharton professor Katy Milkman . Through her research on decision making and in her recent book How to Change the Science of Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want To Be , Milkman examines the many barriers we create for ourselves when it comes to achieving goals.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19. (BACK TO TOP)
👉 We’d love to hear your thoughts on Tailscale. Filling out this feedback form helps us build a better product for you and other users. August News It’s been a busy August so far here at Tailscale. Earlier this month, we were at Black Hat Las Vegas, and enjoyed seeing all the attendees & customers who stopped by to say “hi” and learn what’s new. Check out some snaps from the event below. We also launched Tailnet lock, which helps with node management on your tailnet. (BACK TO TOP)
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This paper appeared in Eurosys 2023. It shows how to generate test-cases from a TLA+ model of a distributed protocol and apply it to the Java implementation to check for bugs in the implementation. They applied the technique to Raft, XRaft, and Zab protocols, and presented the bugs they find. Background on the problem Bridging the gap between model (i.e., abstract protocol) to the implementation (i.e., concrete code) is an important problem. More on this later.g.lang.annotation package. (BACK TO TOP)
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Ever since I've moved my servers into my own hosting environment, I've been working on improving the system monitoring. I'm not just watching for indicators of a network attack . I'm also preemptively looking for things that could impact the hardware lifespan and operating conditions. Inside my machine room, I now have tools that actively monitor the network usage, server temperatures, fans, etc. I know when it begins to get too hot or when there is an abnormally high load. and by specific VM. (BACK TO TOP)
Atmospheric absorption, spectra, units and code: companion page to the global warming explanation post
This is a companion page to my blog post on global warming (which is currently not yet ready). I put up this post already as a teaser for my upcoming global warming post, which desperately needs expert review before I dare put it online. If you are an experienced climate/atmospheric scientist, would you please consider helping me out? Please email me on bert@hubertnet.nl if you can spare the time to skim my work for gross errors. (BACK TO TOP)
The Go Blog Perfectly Reproducible, Verified Go Toolchains Russ Cox 28 August 2023 One of the key benefits of open-source software is that anyone can read the source code and inspect what it does. And yet most software, even open-source software, is downloaded in the form of compiled binaries, which are much more difficult to inspect. That approach proves the binaries have no backdoors or other changes not present in the source code, without having to disassemble or look inside them at all.21.0. (BACK TO TOP)
Introducing our new designation as Google Cloud Ready - Cloud SQL and what it means for you. (BACK TO TOP)
Slack handles billions of inbound network requests per day, all of which traverse through our edge network and ingress load balancing tiers. In this blog post, we’ll talk about how a request flows — from a Slack’s user perspective — across the vast ether of the network to reach AWS and then Slack’s internal […] The post Traffic 101: Packets Mostly Flow appeared first on Slack Engineering . (BACK TO TOP)
Nvidia has gone from the valley to the mountain-top in less than a year, thanks to ChatGPT and the frenzy it inspired; whether or not there is a cliff depends on developing new kinds of demand that only GPUs can fulfill. (BACK TO TOP)
Five years ago I wrote an article about the shortcomings of Chrome Sync (as well as a minor issue with Firefox Sync). Now Chrome Sync has seen many improvements since then. So time seems right for me to revisit it and to see whether it respects your privacy now. Spoiler: No, it doesn’t. It improved, but that’s an improvement from outright horrible to merely very bad. The good news: today you can use Chrome Sync in a way that preserves your privacy. But that isn’t the main issue. (BACK TO TOP)
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Shamelessly copying Scott Alexander's link compilation articles (BACK TO TOP)
Everyone in an engineering organization contributes to the hiring process. As an engineer, you may have taken pride in being an effective interviewer. As an engineering manager, you may have prioritized becoming a strong closer, convincing candidates to join your team. As a more senior manager, you will have likely shifted focus to training others and spending time with candidates for particularly senior roles. As an engineering executive, your role in the hiring process will shift once again.. (BACK TO TOP)
In the last 10 years I’ve given more than 400 coding interviews. That’s the equivalent of 2 working months just watching strangers having a crack at the same handful of programming challenges. Some of my would-be colleagues solve the problems without incident, but others run into trouble for similar, easily-correctable reasons. I wish I could give better feedback, but because of legal and time constraints that’s not how the system works. Before the interview 1. 2. Introduction 3. 4. 6. 8. 10.. (BACK TO TOP)
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by David Vroom, James Mulcahy, Ling Yuan, Rob Gulewich In this post we discuss Netflix’s adoption of service mesh: some history, motivations, and how we worked with Kinvolk and the Envoy community on a feature that streamlines service mesh adoption in complex microservice environments: on-demand cluster discovery. Today we have a wealth of tools, both OSS and commercial, all designed for cloud-native environments. First, we’ve grown the number of different IPC clients.vip and myservice.svip ). (BACK TO TOP)
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Mark has written about his experience and growth as a tech lead at Monzo over the last 18 months - from creeping doubts to using his mobile engineer’s perspective to shape the role to his strengths (BACK TO TOP)
At Meta, Bento is our internal Jupyter notebooks platform that is leveraged by many internal users. Notebooks are also being used widely for creating reports and workflows (for example, performing data ETL) that need to be repeated at certain intervals. Users with such notebooks would have to remember to manually run their notebooks at the [...] Read More... The post Scheduling Jupyter Notebooks at Meta appeared first on Engineering at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)
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First of all, new TLA+ workshop! October 16th, details here . Use the discount code C0MPUT3RTHINGS for $100 off. But enough about business, I'm here to complain. My painful, fruitless quest for programmable slideshow animations I'm giving the Are We Engineers talk in Perth September and looking over the slides has reminded me of how much I hate slides. I started with PowerPoint but switched to Beamer in 2018 or so, which is a LaTeX package for making slide decks. So to hell with GUIs...js .to('. (BACK TO TOP)
In addition to running Product for a technology company at scale, I’ve also been fortunate enough to invest in and advise roughly a dozen other startups, primarily in SaaS. One of the most common sets of interesting discussions that I have with tech leaders concerns when startups should hire their first product manager. Many companies find it tempting to hire a first PM somewhere in the range of $250K to $1M ARR. This is particularly true before $1M ARR. This is poison to a young startup. (BACK TO TOP)
Listen now (72 mins) | The international, uncredentialed community pursuing the "room temperature superconductor" of LLMs - the scalability of Transformers, without the quadratic cost - all fully open source! (BACK TO TOP)
#537 – August 28, 2023 How many years to senior engineer? Becoming a senior engineer isn't about clocking years, but about depth and breadth of experience. Work in diverse teams, stick with a codebase for 3+ years, and take on projects with real stakes. Onboard: Navigate any codebase with secure, SOC2 compliant AI chat (sponsor) Onboard lets you navigate and understand any codebase through AI chat. Simply enter a Github link, and within minutes you can chat with AI expert on the repo. (BACK TO TOP)
If you’re using Sentry for JavaScript error monitoring, you may be familiar with a common challenge: sifting through noisy, low-value errors… (BACK TO TOP)
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The public release of the ChatGPT last year has spawned a flood of articles and books on how best to “leverage” the new technology. Majority of these provide little or no explanation of how Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, do what they do. In this article, I discuss some of the surprising things […] (BACK TO TOP)
In this reading list, we want to highlight some of the new additions to Radar, as well as some of the Internet disruptions and trends we’ve observed and published posts about during this year (BACK TO TOP)
Today, we're excited to showcase Meter, a provider of Internet infrastructure, is leveraging the Tenant API integration for DNS filtering to help their clients enforce acceptable Internet use policies (BACK TO TOP)
At Weaveworks, we are committed to helping teams automate their continuous delivery pipelines and streamline their Kubernetes operations. Here are the latest enhancements and features we released to Weave GitOps solutions and FluxCD in August. Let’s start off with enhancement for Weave GitOps Enterprise: Monitoring & Visibility We’ve made a few enhancements to the Explorer. Designed for cloud-native applications, the Explorer acts as a centralized hub for platform resources. Flux v2.0.0.1.1.1. (BACK TO TOP)
Deploying software updates to live environments has always been akin to walking on a tightrope. Traditional deployment methods often came wrapped with a set of challenges. Extended system downtimes, unanticipated bugs slipping into production, and the often tricky rollbacks when things didn’t pan out are some of the common pain points. For businesses, this translated to potential revenue losses, unhappy customers, and a stressed-out development team. Contact us for a demo today. (BACK TO TOP)
Trying to decide whether to make your website open or closed source? Read our cautionary tale before you decide. (BACK TO TOP)
A guide to adding Rust to a Java codebase with JNI and the rust-maven-plugin. (BACK TO TOP)
Hell Is Other People's Diets Dietary "Defaults" Sourcing My Food Using and Reusing From the Ground to the Ground Hell Is Other People's Diets My friend eats meat. Only meat. As a child, he refused fruits, vegetables, candy, bread, etc. Seriously, he showed me a childhood photo of his birthday party -- no cake, just a steak with a candle in it. He now celebrates events with more elaborate meat cakes (see his "cthulu cake" above). And yeah, he's super healthy. People in that town refuse to die. (BACK TO TOP)
Don't work hard. Make space. Reuse containers. Save seeds. Collect compost. Forget watering. Share. 1. Don't work hard. If you have waste and space, you're wasting space. Transform scraps into food and foliage! Spend zero dollars and a few hours per year making plants. Don't overthink it. Don't sink a bunch of time into it. Don't dive into research rabbit-holes and artificially sate your curiosity. Failed experiments beat daydreams. 2. Make space. 3. Reuse containers. 4. Save seeds. Save seeds. (BACK TO TOP)
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Enhancing Security and Developer Productivity: LinkedIn's Journey with Implementing Content Security Policy
Co-authors: Covenant Goo, Matthew Lemons, Mira Thambireddy, and Roman Shafigullin LinkedIn Information Security is committed to help foster a community that is safe and secure for our members. The Application Security team is responsible for safeguarding LinkedIn member data through the implementation and management of various security features, focusing primarily on framework-level security. (BACK TO TOP)
One measure of a successful network is uptime - providing consistent, reliable service for members and customers. If there are frequent connection errors or downtime notifications, it becomes difficult to deliver an experience where people can connect and interact with ease. When faced with uptime challenges, being able to quickly escalate issues to network engineers helps ensure that people can work the way that they want to. (BACK TO TOP)
THE FASTEST WAY TO START, SHIP, AND SHARE This past year, our team has been hard at work releasing some of our most advanced infrastructure improvements including dedicated hosting and increased storage capacity. A second-order effect of a more powerful Replit is the rapid growth of businesses being built on the platform. The Replit platform isn't just a sandbox; it's a launchpad. There’s a lot to learn from startups building on Replit. DATA is an AI service that replaces Siri with ChatGPT.com. (BACK TO TOP)
Nine months ago, we launched analytics for every Repl. This feature allowed Explorers to view statistics about their Repl's visitors by appending /analytics to the end of Repl URLs. In the meantime, a lot has changed. Recently, we launched Reserved VM Deployments on Replit: an improved hosting service to quickly get you from idea to production. As part of this release, the beta .repl.co analytics page will be deactivated. If your site goes viral (e.g. (BACK TO TOP)
The U.S. government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot, a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. The international law enforcement operation involved seizing control over the botnet's online infrastructure, and quietly removing the Qakbot malware from tens of thousands of infected Microsoft Windows computer systems. (BACK TO TOP)
Security consulting giant Kroll disclosed today that a SIM-swapping attack against one of its employees led to the theft of user information for multiple cryptocurrency platforms that are relying on Kroll services in their ongoing bankruptcy proceedings. And there are indications that fraudsters may already be exploiting the stolen data in phishing attacks. (BACK TO TOP)
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pgBackrest is an awesome tool for backup creation/restore in Postgres, but it can get slow for large databases. We mitigated this problem by incorporating EBS Snapshots to our backup strategy. (BACK TO TOP)
Build data pipelines without the hassle of writing and testing your consumers and producers by linking Kafka Connect to our cloud database optimized for time series—Timescale. (BACK TO TOP)
Historically, there has been the belief that you cannot horizontally scale and shard MySQL, learn how Vitess has made MySQL sharding at the database layer a reality. (BACK TO TOP)
Why PlanetScale deploys branch changes near-atomically, and how it applies concurrency and dependency resolution without impacting production databases. (BACK TO TOP)
Increase your market share and reduce downtime and lost loads by centralizing and simplifying carrier set-up. The post Decrease delays. Increase throughput. Build your reputation. appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Discover how exceptional weather intelligence can optimise your mining operations every day and increase your site’s resilience for the future. The post The Weather Intelligence Advantage in the Mining Industry appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
When it comes to quantifying sustainable farming practices, data is everything. See how companies are using more data to drive new sustainability measures. The post Food, Beverage, and Pet Food Companies Seek Accurate, Reliable Farm Sustainability Data appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Generally when you crack open a cheap car-to-USB charger unit that came with some widget, you do not expect to find anything amazing inside. That’s why it was such a …read more (BACK TO TOP)
Segways stunned the world when they first hit the market in 2001. Hoverboards then terrified the world with nasty accidents and surprise fires. [James Bruton] loves hoverboards regardless, and set …read more (BACK TO TOP)
The average Starlink user probably doesn’t spend a lot of time thinking about their hardware after getting the dish aligned and wiring run. To security researchers, however, it’s another fascinating …read more (BACK TO TOP)
University teams are competing to build multimodal conversational agents that assist customers in completing tasks requiring multiple steps. (BACK TO TOP)
Chamsi Hssaine and Hanzhang Qin, the inaugural postdoctoral scientists with the Supply Chain Optimization Technologies team, share what they learned from Amazon scientists. (BACK TO TOP)
AWS service enables machine learning innovation on a robust foundation. (BACK TO TOP)
This week on The Changelog Adam is joined by Zach Lloyd, Founder & CEO of Warp. We talked with Zach last year about what it takes to build the terminal of the future, and today Adam catches up with Zach to see where they are at on that mission. They talk about the business model of Warp, how they measure success, reaching product/market fit, building features developers love, integrating AI, and the pros and cons of going open source (again). (BACK TO TOP)
Our “what’s new in Go” correspondent Carl Johnson joins Johnny & Kris yet again to discuss what’s new with the latest iteration of Go in version 1.21. (BACK TO TOP)
You might have heard a lot about code generation tools using AI, but could LLMs and generative AI make our existing code better? In this episode, we sit down with Mike from TurinTech to hear about practical code optimizations using AI “translation” of slow to fast code. We learn about their process for accomplishing this task along with impressive results when automated code optimization is run on existing open source projects. (BACK TO TOP)
OpenTF announces they’re forking Terraform and joining the Linux Foundation, Meta gets in the LLM-for-codegen game with Code Llama, Matt Mullenweg announces WordPress.com’s new 100-year plan, Paul Gichuki from Thinkst learns that default behaviors stick (and so do examples) & Marco Otte-Witte makes his case for Rust on the web. (BACK TO TOP)
We're updating things to highlight community contributions, make it easier to keep tabs on our latest releases, and connect your Stack Overflow account to the discussion happening on the blog. (BACK TO TOP)
Stack Overflow for Teams' journey to the cloud started with a new name. (BACK TO TOP)
Stack Overflow’s Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are a cornerstone of our efforts to create a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace. (BACK TO TOP)
Predictable event architecture, vector DBs, and alt text (BACK TO TOP)
Louis Brandy, VP of Engineering at Rockset, joins us for a deep dive into the architectural similarities across AI, vector search, and real-time analytics, and how they’re all at play in shaping the infrastructure to fight spam. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Stephan Rasp, Research Scientist, and Carla Bromberg, Program Lead, Google Research In 1950, weather forecasting started its digital revolution when researchers used the first programmable, general-purpose computer ENIAC to solve mathematical equations describing how weather evolves. This “quiet” revolution has been tremendously valuable to society, saving lives and providing economic value across many sectors. Furthermore, differences in the exact evaluation setup — e.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Vikas Bahirwani, Research Scientist, and Susan Xu, Software Engineer, Google Augmented Reality Automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology has made conversations more accessible with live captions in remote conferencing software, mobile applications, and head-worn displays . However, to maintain real-time responsiveness, live caption systems often display interim predictions that are updated as new utterances are received.g., the captions on the right in the video above).g.g... Nice. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Yujin Tang and Wenhao Yu, Research Scientists, Google Simple and effective interaction between human and quadrupedal robots paves the way towards creating intelligent and capable helper robots, forging a future where technology enhances our lives in ways beyond our imagination. Key to such human-robot interaction systems is enabling quadrupedal robots to respond to natural language instructions.g. SayTap’s control frequency is 50 Hz, so each 0 or 1 lasts 0.02 seconds.g.g.g.g.g.g. 2. 3. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Dahun Kim and Weicheng Kuo, Research Scientists, Google The ability to detect objects in the visual world is crucial for computer vision and machine intelligence, enabling applications like adaptive autonomous agents and versatile shopping systems. However, modern object detectors are limited by the manual annotations of their training data, resulting in a vocabulary size significantly smaller than the vast array of objects encountered in reality. We are also releasing the code here . (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Susanna Ricco and Utsav Prabhu, co-leads, Perception Fairness Team, Google Research Google’s Responsible AI research is built on a foundation of collaboration — between teams with diverse backgrounds and expertise, between researchers and product developers, and ultimately with the community at large. Together, we are working to intentionally design our systems to be inclusive from the ground up, guided by Google’s AI Principles .g. In 2019, we released findings based on over 2.S.g.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Today on Day Two Cloud we dive into the implications of licensing changes that HashiCorp has made to its popular Terraform software. In short, the company has switched from an open source to a business source license. HashiCorp says it felt compelled to make the change to ensure that some other business entity doesn't take the open-source software and turn it into a competing product (looking at you, AWS). (BACK TO TOP)
Are you interested in learning more about aligning technology choices with organizational goals? Our podcast has got you covered! Listen now to explore the importance of technology alignment with business objectives. The post HS054 Matching IT and Corporate Culture appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Tech Bytes: How StackPath Uses Catchpoint’s Internet Performance Monitoring To Accelerate MTTI (Sponsored)
Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk about monitoring network and application performance. Our sponsor is Catchpoint, and they’ve sent a customer, StackPath, to talk about using Catchpoint in production. This includes real-time BGP monitoring and Catchpoint’s observability network that lets you test networks and applications from multiple vantage points, and instant tests when you need immediate data. (BACK TO TOP)
Network Break 444: NVIDIA Mines GPU Gold; VMware Wants To Sell You Private AI; SUSE Prepares To Go Private
Take a Network Break! On today's episode we discuss two announcements from VMware Explore 2023: a private AI offering, and a revamped NSX for public and private cloud networking. We also discuss recent rule changes at the SEC that require public companies to disclose material security incidents in a timely manner, NVIDIA's huge revenue results, SUSE going private, and more tech news. (BACK TO TOP)
EVPN/VXLAN is our topic on today's Heavy Networking. What is it? What’s it for? Should you deploy it? Since you’ve probably already got a network, how do you add EVPN to it? Do you need special hardware? How does EVPN impact your security design? And what are the fundamentals? Our guest with the answers is IT instructor Tony Bourke. The post Heavy Networking 696: EVPN Fundamentals (And Some VXLAN) With Tony Bourke appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
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I made an Autonomous AI Research Agent that can answer difficult questions with deep multi-hop reasoning capabilities Image by the Author (Generated using Photoshop Generative fill) Introduction to the problem In 2021, I started working on the challenge of answering questions based on a large corpus of text. In the era before the pre-trained transformers, this problem was a tough one to crack.8 million words. It is the largest poem ever written with about 90,000 verses. And that is expected.5. (BACK TO TOP)
A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of a human/AI art collaboration Photo by Jamison McAndie on Unsplash Since 1929, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City has served as an art lover’s mecca. It’s a lighthouse that shines a light on avant-garde paintings and sculptures, and since the definition of “modern art” is continually in flux, its collections are, too. Now, this distinguished institution is validating digital art. <a href="https://medium. It requires a human touch. (BACK TO TOP)
Learning about Geospatial Hypothesis test for Asheville’s AirBnb listings. Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
As August comes to a close, many of our readers are heading back to school (be it at university, a boot camp, or online), while others are shaking off the last vestiges of slower summer schedules. To kick off a new month (and bid a proper farewell to the previous one), we’ve collected our most popular articles from August for you to browse, bookmark, and — we hope—sink your teeth into. . Here are three recent posts that excelled on that front. Your Data’s (Finally) In The Cloud. (BACK TO TOP)
Optimizing queries, improving runtimes, and geospatial data science applications Photo by Tamas Tuzes-Katai on Unsplash Intro: why is a spatial index useful? In doing geospatial data science work, it is very important to think about optimizing the code you are writing. How can you make datasets with hundreds of millions of rows aggregate or join faster? This is where concepts such as spatial indices come in. In modern databases, this issue of querying and searching is also very pertinent. (BACK TO TOP)
Why we can’t extract precise time and frequency information from a time series mutually, and how wavelet analysis can tackle this limitation Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash 1. Introduction The connection between the Fourier Transform, Uncertainty Principle, and time series analysis unveils a fascinating interplay that shapes the extraction of simultaneous temporal and frequency information. 1. Hold that information for later, it’s going to be important.) 1. 2. 2. Image by the author.g. 2. 3. (BACK TO TOP)
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In an important test for stem-cell medicine, a biotech company says implants of lab-made neurons introduced into the brains of 12 people with Parkinson’s disease appear to be safe and may have reduced symptoms for some of them. The added cells should produce the neurotransmitter dopamine, a shortage of which is what produces the devastating… (BACK TO TOP)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Chinese ChatGPT alternatives just got approved for the general public The news: Baidu, one of China’s leading artificial-intelligence companies, has announced it’s opening up access to its ChatGPT-like large language model, Ernie Bot,… (BACK TO TOP)
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. When I was growing up near the US Gulf Coast, it was more common for my school to get called off for a hurricane than for a snowstorm. So even though I… (BACK TO TOP)
Baidu, one of China’s leading artificial-intelligence companies, has announced it would open up access to its ChatGPT-like large language model, Ernie Bot, to the general public. It’s been a long time coming. Launched in mid-March, Ernie Bot was the first Chinese ChatGPT rival. Since then, many Chinese tech companies, including Alibaba and ByteDance, have followed… (BACK TO TOP)
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more here. It’s now possible to link climate change to all kinds of extreme weather, from droughts to flooding to wildfires. Hurricanes are no exception—scientists have found that warming temperatures are causing… (BACK TO TOP)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Large language models aren’t people. Let’s stop testing them as if they are. In the past few years, multiple researchers claim to have shown that large language models can pass cognitive tests designed… (BACK TO TOP)
When Taylor Webb played around with GPT-3 in early 2022, he was blown away by what OpenAI’s large language model appeared to be able to do. Here was a neural network trained only to predict the next word in a block of text—a jumped-up autocomplete. And yet it gave correct answers to many of the… (BACK TO TOP)
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. There’s something so visceral about the phrase “pig-butchering scam.” The first time I came across it was in my reporting a year ago, when I was looking into how strange LinkedIn… (BACK TO TOP)
Product managers use various data sources, such as customer feedback, user behavior data, market research, and performance metrics, to make informed decisions, set priorities, and drive improvements. The post A comprehensive guide to data-driven product management appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
CAPTCHA is useful for differentiating human visitors from spam bots but makes the user experience difficult. Here are some alternatives. The post CAPTCHA UX: Why CAPTCHA is bad and its alternatives appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
With Ink and its collection of UI components, you can create interactive CLIs with reusable components that leverage the power of React. The post Using Ink UI with React to build interactive, custom CLIs appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
The curse of knowledge is a bias people develop where they assume other people have the same level of knowledge they do. The post Overcoming the curse of knowledge appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Compare the three popular frameworks, React, Vue, and Angular, to see which is a good fit by comparing their performance, ease of use, etc. The post Angular vs. React vs. Vue.js: Comparing performance appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
ASO includes both how highly the app ranks for direct search results, as well as how discoverable your application is. The post What is app store optimization (ASO)? appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
The nominal group technique (NGT) is a structured decision-making method used in group settings. The post Understanding and applying the nominal group technique (NGT) appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
A one-pager is a great way to align the various departments in your business and ensure that your products have the support they need to be successful. The post What is a one-pager? Examples, rules, template appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Considering recognition and recall can help in designing good digital products, influencing everything from speed to cognitive load and more. The post Recognition vs. recall: Leveraging cognitive processes in user interfaces appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
TypeScript's new using operator can help us manage our resources better. Let's explore how it works and why it's useful in development! The post Using <code>using</code> in TypeScript for resource management appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
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