Bulletin for Friday, 15 Dec 2023
7 days digest
fast.ai (1)
Computer Things (1)
allegro.tech (1)
Linear Changelog (1)
Signal Blog (1)
Eight to Late (1)
Stories by Mihir Sathe on Medium (1)
High Scalability (1)
The Go Blog (1)
James Bottomley's random Pages (1)
SigNoz Blog (1)
Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog (1)
The CircleCI Blog Feed | CircleCI (1)
Vadim Kravcenko (1)
tech-at-instacart - Medium (1)
Kevin Sookocheff (1)
Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (1)
Weaveworks (2)
- Flux CD v2.2.0 GA: HelmRelease Reconciliation Model Enhancements, New Benchmarks, & More
- Take Charge of Your Developer Experience with Platform Engineering & Weave GitOps
Timescale Blog (2)
Earthly Blog (2)
Potaroo blog (2)
Replit Blog (2)
OpenAI Blog (2)
- Superalignment Fast Grants
- Partnership with Axel Springer to deepen beneficial use of AI in journalism
NOEMA (2)
- Measuring the size of the cache line empirically
- Fast Buffer-to-String conversion in JavaScript with a Lookup Table
Google AI Blog (2)
Svix Blog (2)
Sentry Blog RSS (2)
Ratfactor Feed (3)
- The making of a T-shirt design for Eggnog Games / Maze Dog
- Interpreting if/else logic with a simple flat list of booleans
- SVG Minifier in Ruby
DTN (3)
- Winter Storm Stories: Snow, Ice, Extreme Cold
- Scouting Tools Deliver Increased Agronomic Insights
- DTN EcoField data can change your 2024!
Latent Space (3)
- The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
- We Are Running Out of Low-Background Tokens (Nov 2023 Recap)
- The Busy Person's Intro to Finetuning & Open Source AI - Wing Lian, Axolotl
Discord Blog (3)
- 5 Holiday Gift Ideas for your Discord Friends
- Discord Update: December 13, 2023 Changelog
- How Discord Modernized MFA with WebAuthn
- Using DNS to estimate the worldwide state of IPv6 adoption
- From Google to Generative AI: Ranking top Internet services in 2023
- Cloudflare 2023 Year in Review
The Ably Blog (3)
- Enabling productivity: Ably Hackathon Projects
- Realtime Dashboards: Ably Realtime Hackathon projects
- Do you still need a WebSocket fallback in 2024?
- Bringing context to alerting and incident management
- What Gemini means for the GenAI boom
- Three types of AI-assisted programmers
- One weird trick for teaching users your software
- At NeurIPS, what's old is new again
- A quick guide to Amazon’s papers at NeurIPS 2023
- Writing Alexa’s next chapter by combining engineering and science
- Custom policy checks help democratize automated reasoning
QuestDB Blog (4)
- Tracking correlations across financial market assets
- Crypto Market Data Real-Time Dashboards
- Build your own custom trading dashboard
- Managing large lists of symbols with Grafana variables and QuestDB
taylor.town (4)
- Scientists find exciting new way to talk about nothing in press releases
- "All foods are either protein or candy."
- Santa Claus is not a god... yet
- Santa Prefers Wealthy Sick Children
- What's new in Go's cryptography libraries: Part 2 (Go Time #298)
- The state of open source AI (Practical AI #249)
- Open source LLMs are catching up (Changelog News #74)
- HATEOAS corpus (Changelog & Friends #24)
Towards Data Science - Medium (5)
- Is ChatGPT Intelligent? A Scientific Review
- Building A Cross-Platform TFIDF Text Summarizer In Rust
- Large Language Models and Vector Databases for News Recommendations
- TDS Best of 2023: On ChatGPT and LLMs
- Why Data Projects Fail to Deliver Real-Life Impact: 5 Critical Elements to Watch Out for as an…
Blog – Hackaday (5)
- Quick Negative Voltage for an Op Amp
- Disposable Vape Batteries Turned USB Power Bank
- Hacker Tactic: Internal ESD Diode Probing
- The Nintendo Switch CPU Exposed
- How Germany’s Troubled Pebble Bed Reactor Came Of Age In China
- Towards application capabilities
- Device Posture Management now in beta
- Travel tips from Tailscale
- Secure your SaaS with Tailscale App connectors
- Scale globally using Regional Routing with Tailscale
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (6)
- Pluralistic: How the NYPD defeated bodycams (14 Dec 2023)
- Pluralistic: Housing is a labor issue (13 Dec 2023)
- Pluralistic: An Epic antitrust loss for Google (12 Dec 2023)
- Pluralistic: Daddy-Daughter Podcast 2023 (11 Dec 2023)
- Pluralistic: Kinkslump Linkdump (09 Dec 2023)
- Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" (08 Dec 2023)
The Full Feed - All of the Packet Pushers Podcasts (6)
- KU043: How (& Why) To Contribute To The Kubernetes Release Team
- IPB141: IPv6 End Of Year Wrap-Up
- D2C224: Security KubeConversations Part 1 – Protecting Your Kubernetes Infrastructure
- HW017: The Story Behind The CWNA Study Guide
- NB459: IBM Aims To Own The Quantum Realm; Amazon Hitches A Ride With SpaceX
- HN713: Network Automation: Where Are We, And Where Can We Go?
Percona Database Performance Blog (7)
- How to Convert PostgreSQL Streaming Replication to Logical Replication
- Can You Trust AI Chatbots When Seeking Help With Databases?
- Exploring MySQL 8 Priority-Based Error Log Filtering
- How to Use Percona Toolkit’s pt-table-sync for Replica Tables With Triggers in MySQL
- Storage Strategies for PostgreSQL on Kubernetes
- Maximizing Performance of AWS RDS for MySQL with Dedicated Log Volumes
- Keepalived for Source Failover: Percona XtraDB Cluster to Percona Server for MySQL
Simon Willison's Weblog: Blogmarks (8)
- Meta/Threads Interoperating in the Fediverse Data Dialogue Meeting yesterday
- Database generated columns: GeoDjango & PostGIS
- Mixtral of experts
- Upgrading GitHub.com to MySQL 8.0
- ast-grep
- 3D Gaussian Splatting - Why Graphics Will Never Be The Same
- Announcing Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in the new world of generative AI
- Standard Webhooks 1.0.0
APNIC Blog (10)
- APNIC celebrates 30 years: Part 8 — The Information Society Innovation Fund
- Rajnesh Singh appointed APNIC Foundation CEO
- Charting APNIC’s course for the next four years
- Models of trust for the RPKI
- The use of UTRS in combating DDoS attacks
- That OSI model refuses to die
- Measurement and analysis of protocols at IETF 118
- Event Wrap: LANOG 1.0
- Event Wrap: Telecoms World Asia 2023
- Event Wrap: 40th TWNIC OPM
IEEE Spectrum (10)
- OpenAI Demos a Control Method for Superintelligent AI
- 3 Paths to Sharper Images
- Stop Trusting Your Cloud Provider
- This Engineer’s Job Is to Keep Arkansas Nuclear One Safe
- IoT Related EM Simulation Scenarios
- New Device Leads to “Dendrocentric Learning”
- Stress Monitors for Plants Can Spot Dehydration
- Why Li-Fi Might be Better than Wi-Fi
- VR Goggles for Mice. Wait, What?
- Video Friday: Floppybot
- Now we know what OpenAI’s superalignment team has been up to
- Google DeepMind used a large language model to solve an unsolvable math problem
- The Download: what we learned from COP28, and an advance for household robots
- This new system can teach a robot a simple household task within 20 minutes
- The two words that pushed international climate talks into overtime
- Vertex will pay tens of millions to license a controversial CRISPR patent
- The Download: carbon removal concerns, and Yahoo’s China controversy
- Yahoo’s decades-long China controversy and the responsibility of tech companies
- Two former Department of Energy staffers warn we’re doing carbon removal all wrong
- Mapping the micro and macro of biology with spatial omics and AI
LogRocket Blog (12)
- Loading spinners: Their purpose and alternatives for better UX
- Leader Spotlight: Operating with the genie effect, with Matt Trevathan
- Implementing scroll-aware UI state with CSS
- Anchoring bias: The invisible hand behind decision-making
- Slow down, high performers! A guide to the art of co-creation
- Strapi adoption guide: Overview, examples, and alternatives
- A guide to agile marketing
- Survey design: Building better surveys and avoiding pitfalls
- Navigating the transition to a leadership role
- Visual regression testing with Argos CI
- Leader Spotlight: Leading digital transformations, with Jaxon Merril
- What is a eureka moment?
- The AI trust crisis
- Meta/Threads Interoperating in the Fediverse Data Dialogue Meeting yesterday
- Quoting Rob Lynch
- Database generated columns: GeoDjango & PostGIS
- Mixtral of experts
- Upgrading GitHub.com to MySQL 8.0
- Quoting Ethan Mollick
- ast-grep
- Quoting Andrej Karpathy
- 3D Gaussian Splatting - Why Graphics Will Never Be The Same
- Quoting Stay SaaSy
- Announcing Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in the new world of generative AI
- Weeknotes: datasette-enrichments, datasette-comments, sqlite-chronicle
- Standard Webhooks 1.0.0
- Quoting Sebastian Majstorovic
Answer.AI is a new kind of AI R&D lab which creates practical end-user products based on foundational research breakthroughs. (BACK TO TOP)
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New blog post Notes on Every Strangeloop 2023 Talk I Attended . Would have been out earlier but I was busy and sick. Patreon is here . I formally modeled Dreidel for no good reason It's the sixth night of Channukah and I'm thinking about dreidels: On Channukah we use dreidels to play the game dreidel: Every player starts with N pieces (usually chocolate coins). This is usually 10-15 pieces per player. Turns consist of spinning the dreidel. Outcomes are: נ (Nun): nothing happens./prism dreidel. (BACK TO TOP)
This article is a form of a public postmortem in which we would like to share our bumpy way of revealing the cause of a mysterious performance problem. Besides unveiling part of our technical stack based on open-source solutions, we also show how some false assumptions made such a bug triage process much harder. Besides all NOT TO DOs, you can find some exciting information about performance hunting and reproducing performance issues on a small scale. pid:41 t:1700163031.929 rt: 8.990 urt: 8.so. (BACK TO TOP)
A quick retrospective and focus on a few highlights for 2023. (BACK TO TOP)
GitHub Issues Sync We’ve heard your feedback that you would like to manage issues for open source projects in Linear. With GitHub Issues Sync, your OSS issues can now be synced bidirectionally between GitHub and Linear. This lets you triage and discuss your community requests in the same place as all of your other work. Issues in linked GitHub repositories will show up in Linear. Title, description, status, labels, assignee, and comments on the GitHub issue will sync across both applications. (BACK TO TOP)
New long-sleeve shirts and tote bags fresh from the Signal test kitchen: We build Signal for people all over the world . So, of course we wanted to reflect that same global outlook in our merch. (BACK TO TOP)
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About a decade ago, when GPS technologies were on the cusp of ubiquity, Nicholas Carr made the following observation in a post on his blog: “Navigation is the most elemental of our skills — “Where am I?” was the first question a creature had to answer — and it’s the one that gives us our […] (BACK TO TOP)
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The Microsoft Incident Response team shares a downloadable, interactive, people-centric, guide to effective incident response. The post New Microsoft Incident Response team guide shares best practices for security teams and leaders appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
How close am I to PlanetScale? Use our new CLI command, pscale ping, to find out. (BACK TO TOP)
As the legend goes, a moth once walked into a podiatrist’s office and complained about being mistreated by his boss, his loveless marriage to his moth wife and his estranged moth children. He went as far as identifying the cowardice he sees in his son’s eyes as his own cowardice that’s holding him back from ending his own life. Horrified upon hearing all this, the understandably confused podiatrist asks him why he wouldn’t go to a psychiatrist instead of a podiatrist. (BACK TO TOP)
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Your phone's ability to identify any song is pure technological magic (BACK TO TOP)
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I usually follow a simple mantra: if it can be automated then it should be automated. However, while automation may seem like a great solution, it introduces a new set of perils. Unexpected critical points, untested conditions, and unforeseen failures can lead to new problems. At FotoForensics , Hintfo , and my other services, I use a lot of automation. I have tools that detect and respond to network attacks, terms of use violations, server monitoring, and basic system management. (Seriously. (BACK TO TOP)
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Hi everyone, First, I&d like to sincerely thank everyone who has supported Highscalability over the years. We&ve grown together through some interesting times. Massive changes have occurred in how systems are built, and my goal has always been to help people learn how to build them better. I&d like to think that goal was accomplished. Obviously, for that last several years, things have been quiet around here. This has always been a one programmer show, and for everything, there is a season.com. (BACK TO TOP)
Holden Karau Elizabeth Stone Pedro Duarte Chris Stephens Pallavi Phadnis Lee Woodridge Mark Cho Guil Pires Sujay Jain Tristan Reid Senthilnathan Athinarayanan Bharath Mummadisetty Abhinaya Shetty Judit Lantos Amanuel Kahsay Dao Mi Mick Dreeling Chris Colburn and Agata Gryzbek Introduction Earlier this summer Netflix held our first-ever Data Engineering Forum. Learn more about how batch and streaming data pipelines are built at Netflix. In this video, Sr. (BACK TO TOP)
We are heavy users of Amazon Compute Compute Cloud (EC2) at Slack — we run approximately 60,000 EC2 instances across 17 AWS regions while operating hundreds of AWS accounts. A multitude of teams own and manage our various instances. The Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) is an on-instance component that can be used to gain an […] The post Our Journey Migrating to AWS IMDSv2 appeared first on Slack Engineering . (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.allendowney.com/blog
In the preface of Probably Overthinking It, I wrote: Sometimes interpreting data is easy. For example, one of the reasons we know that smoking causes lung cancer is that when only 20% of the population smoked, 80% of people with lung cancer were smokers. If you are a doctor who treats patients with lung cancer, it does not take long to notice numbers like that. When I re-read that paragraph recently, it occurred to me that interpreting those number might... Read More Read More (BACK TO TOP)
The Go Blog Finding unreachable functions with deadcode Alan Donovan 12 December 2023 Functions that are part of your project’s source code but can never be reached in any execution are called “dead code”, and they exert a drag on codebase maintenance efforts. Today we’re pleased to share a tool named deadcode to help you identify them. $ go install golang.org/x/tools/cmd/deadcode@latest $ deadcode -help The deadcode command reports unreachable functions in Go programs...com/greet go 1.Greet . (BACK TO TOP)
https://blog.hansenpartnership.com
Even if you’re a developer with legal leanings like me, you probably haven’t given much thought to the warranty disclaimer and the liability disclaimer that appears in almost every Open Source licence (see sections 14 and 15 of GPLv3). This post is designed to help you understand what they are, why they’re there and why […] (BACK TO TOP)
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The Concept of the Observer We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But in the end it’s about how we take the world as it is, and derive from it the impression of it that we have in our minds. We might have thought that we could do science “purely […] (BACK TO TOP)
CIA produced a fantastic book during the peak of World War 2 called Simple Sabotage. It laid out various ways for infiltrators to ruin productivity of a company. Some of the advice is timeless, for instance the section about “General interference with Organizations and Production”: (BACK TO TOP)
In this tutorial, you will configure Promtail to send logs to OpenTelemetry Collector instead of Loki. This can be done by using the Loki receiver in OpenTelemetry Collector. The logs collected by OpenTelemetry Collector can then be sent to SigNoz - an OpenTelemetry-native APM... (BACK TO TOP)
Puppeteer now supports the next-generation, cross-browser WebDriver BiDi standard. This new protocol makes it easy for web developers to write automated tests that work across multiple browser engines. The post Puppeteer Support for the Cross-Browser WebDriver BiDi Standard appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog . (BACK TO TOP)
I’m sure you’ve worked at companies where you felt that they were moving slowly and it was not even worth […] The post Handling Process Debt in IT appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko . (BACK TO TOP)
https://surfingcomplexity.blog
One of the services that the Amazon cloud provides is called S3, which is a data storage service. Imagine a hypothetical scenario where S3 had a major outage, and Amazon’s explanation of the outage was “a hard drive failed”. Engineers wouldn’t believe this explanation. It’s not that they would doubt that a hard drive failed; … Continue reading “Human error” means they don’t understand how the system worked → (BACK TO TOP)
The universe of the current Large Language Models (LLMs) engineering is electrifying, to say the least. The industry has been on fire with change since the launch of ChatGPT in November of Last year. We’re all seeing the rise of AI tooling across the entire industry, and it’s opening up product and development possibilities at an astounding rate. We’ve been exploring use cases, capabilities, and most importantly how to get value for our employees, customers, merchants, and shoppers.5.e.e. 1. (BACK TO TOP)
A common pattern when scaling a SaaS application is to deploy your stack to multiple regions across the globe. Deploying to multiple regions helps distribute the application and data closer to the user, and isolates infrastructure in case of an outage in a single region. If your application is deployed in this configuration, you have the new problem of routing users to the correct region based on their tenancy or geography. (BACK TO TOP)
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It's common to see web applications that let you log in through third-party services. "Sign in with Google" is particularly popular; on developer-oriented websites, "Sign in with GitHub" also pops up quite a bit. In this post, I want to briefly explore OAuth - the technology that enables these delegated logins, and present some ways to integrate GitHub login in your Go service. I intend to cover Google logins in a future post.g. Editor, Commenter or Viewer on Google Documents). GitHub's server.. (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/think-fast-talk-smart-podcast
“Stress is natural,” says Alia Crum, an assistant professor of psychology at Stanford. “Stress is inevitable when you’re living a life that’s connected with things you care about. And learning how to embrace it, learning how to work with it is really what helps us thrive and grow and perform at our highest level. For a full transcript of this conversation, visit our website .io See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19. (BACK TO TOP)
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Weaveworks, the proud creators and maintainers of Flux CD, is thrilled to announce the GA release of Flux CD v2.2.0 . This release marks a significant milestone, featuring a host of new capabilities and enhancements, especially within the Helm Controller. In this blog, we delve into the latest Flux CD v2.2.0 features. Let’s get right to it. Helm Controller Enhancements In Flux v2.2.0, significant enhancements have been made to the Helm Controller. (BACK TO TOP)
In the dynamic world of software development, Developer Experience (DevEx or DX) is becoming increasingly vital. It's all about creating an environment where developers can thrive, blending ease of use, efficiency, and overall job satisfaction. Good DevEx is more than just a convenience; it's a strategic asset; It leads to higher productivity, quicker development timelines, and better-quality software. But, adopting the platform approach alone is not enough. Learn More. Read More. Read More. (BACK TO TOP)
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Enjoy a sneak peek of our State of PostgreSQL 2023 survey, including demographics, favorite PostgreSQL extensions, and the community’s stance on AI. (BACK TO TOP)
Explore the optimization of PostgreSQL queries using tactics such as efficient indexing and partitioning, and judicious use of data types. (BACK TO TOP)
Approachability in Programming Languages On /r/rust , I quite often see something like this: I’ve been learning Rust for the past 3 months and now comparing it with my experience of learning C++, I think it’s a lot more difficult. There are so many rules that you need to understand to efficiently program in Rust, including(but not limited to): ownership, the borrow checker, cargo, lifetimes, traits, generics, closures, unsafe Rust, etc. Why is that? Well, language design is about trade-offs. ↩︎ (BACK TO TOP)
containerd is a leading container runtime that manages the complete lifecycle of the containers running on your system. It provides an interface that higher-level tools like Docker can use to start and manage containers. Originally, Docker used its own container runtime to perform these functions. However, this approach proved restrictive as the container ecosystem grew. As a result, Docker spun its runtime out into a separate CNCF-maintained containerd project at the end of 2016. ARM64).12.0 .. (BACK TO TOP)
A report on a feasibility study looking at an alternative trust anchor structure for the Resource Public Key Infrastructure. (BACK TO TOP)
At IETF 118 in November 2023 I attended the meeting of the Measurement and Analysis of Protocols Research Group, and here are my impressions from that meeting. (BACK TO TOP)
I’ve found that you eventually get bored or at least used to every form of material trapping you can buy. Cars, watches, cameras, computers, whatever. It’s not that fancy stuff stops being nice, but it does stop being wow. That’s the essence of the hedonic treadmill. But do you know what never gets old? Nature. And I mean nature in the broadest possible sense. The evening light. The rustling of the leaves. A pair of eagles circling above your head. The colors of a beautiful sunset or sunrise. (BACK TO TOP)
I grew up in a home where music was always playing. My father repaired electronics, so an endless stream of speakers, amplifiers, turntables, and TVs passed through the household. And all of it had to be tested, of course. At max volume. Sometimes at odd hours. While that was frequently a bit of a nuisance, it did seed a deep appreciation for musical experiences in me. Founded on the fact that music can sound very differently depending on the equipment that conveys it. So I did. They're sublime. (BACK TO TOP)
On Dec. 18, 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that U.S. retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the previous month. The malware used in the Target breach included the text string "Rescator," which also was the handle chosen by the cybercriminal who was selling all of the cards stolen from Target customers. (BACK TO TOP)
The final Patch Tuesday of 2023 is upon us, with Microsoft Corp. today releasing fixes for a relatively small number of security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software. Even more unusual, there are no known "zero-day" threats targeting any of the vulnerabilities in December's patch batch. (BACK TO TOP)
The fastest way to start, ship, and share The Replit platform isn't just a sandbox; it's a launchpad. There’s a lot to learn from startups building on Replit and how they leverage the platform to monetize and grow. Whether it’s a solo developer bootstrapping their startup on Bounties, or a startup launching their application on Replit Deployments, Replit is the best place to get from idea to software, fast. Here are a few companies building and shipping on Replit today. (BACK TO TOP)
Whether you’re building an AI support agent for your customers or a web scraper to collect marketing data, chances are somebody has already developed the tool you’re about to build for your team. Increasing developer productivity is a cornerstone of Replit, and we want to give you the tools to elevate your team and business practices quickly. Fork one of the templates below and customize it for your specific requirements. 1. Fork the template and follow the instructions in the README. (BACK TO TOP)
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Superalignment Fast Grants (BACK TO TOP)
Partnership with Axel Springer to deepen beneficial use of AI in journalism (BACK TO TOP)
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Our computers do not read or write memory in units of bits or even bytes. Rather memory is accessed in small blocks of memory called “cache lines”. For a given system, the cache line size is usually fixed and small (e.g., 16 to 256 bytes). All Intel/AMD x64 systems I have used relied on a … Continue reading Measuring the size of the cache line empirically (BACK TO TOP)
When programming in a JavaScript environment such as Node.js, you might recover raw data from the network and need to convert the bytes into strings. In a system such as Node.js, you may represent such raw bytes using a Buffer instance. You can conveniently convert a Buffer instance into a JavaScript (mybuffer.toString()). But, maybe surprisingly, … Continue reading Fast Buffer-to-String conversion in JavaScript with a Lookup Table (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Catherine Armato, Program Manager, Google This week the 37th annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023), the biggest machine learning conference of the year, kicks off in New Orleans, LA. Google is also proud to be a Platinum Sponsor for both the Women in Machine Learning and LatinX in AI workshops. We look forward to sharing some of our extensive ML research and expanding our partnership with the broader ML research community.g., demos and Q&A sessions). (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Yangsibo Huang, Research Intern, Google Research; Chiyuan Zhang, Research Scientist, Google Research Large embedding models have emerged as a fundamental tool for various applications in recommendation systems [ 1 , 2 ] and natural language processing [ 3 , 4 , 5 ]. These models are widely deployed in personalized recommendation systems and achieve state-of-the-art performance in language tasks, such as language modeling , sentiment analysis , and question answering .e.e.e.005). (BACK TO TOP)
Announcing Standard Webhooks, a set of open source tools and guidelines for sending webhooks easily, securely, and reliably. (BACK TO TOP)
Supabase database triggers are a great way to start sending webhooks from Supabase. This article will show you how to use Svix from a database function to send a webhook every time a database event occurs. (BACK TO TOP)
Your images are 404ing all over the place. You’ve got an angry email from a client. Their site is “broken”, images aren’t loading… (BACK TO TOP)
Grab your favorite mug, fill it with some warm chocolatey goodness – it is hot cocoa season after all –, and check out our most recent… (BACK TO TOP)
In this webcast series, we looked at notable snow, ice and extreme cold events to demonstrate how DTN can help prepare utilities for emergency resources and planning. The post Winter Storm Stories: Snow, Ice, Extreme Cold appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Find out how out how agriculture data and insights are advancing scouting tools to help agronomists and producers be more efficient and effective. The post Scouting Tools Deliver Increased Agronomic Insights appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Make 2024 the year you pull ahead of the competition in your sustainability business. DTN EcoField data gives you the advantage! The post DTN EcoField data can change your 2024! appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Listen now | Combining Norvig and Chomsky for a new paradigm, (BACK TO TOP)
The AI contamination Red Alert, and Consistency Models! And our usual highest-signal recap of top items for the AI Engineer from Nov 2023. Now with 100% less OpenAI drama + 100% more Laundry Buddy! (BACK TO TOP)
On Teknium and the Nous Research SF meetup, creating the most popular finetuning library, and taking research from papers to tools - from QLoRA to Mamba State Space Models - in days. (BACK TO TOP)
We’ve got a handful of Discord-themed gift ideas that you can give others for the Holidays — or any time of the year! (BACK TO TOP)
Here's the Discord Changelog from December 13, 2023 so you can stay in-the-know about what’s new in recent app updates! (BACK TO TOP)
WebAuthn has landed in Discord for all users! In this post, we’ll talk about the engineering challenges we faced introducing WebAuthn to Discord and how we overcame them. (BACK TO TOP)
In the last decade, IPv6 adoption on the client side went from under 1% to somewhere in the high 30 to low 40 percent, depending on who’s reporting, but there’s also the other end of the equation: the server side (BACK TO TOP)
Building on similar reports we’ve done over the past two years, we have compiled a ranking of the top Internet properties of 2023 (BACK TO TOP)
The 2023 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fourth annual review of Internet trends and patterns observed throughout the year at both a global and country/region level across a variety of traffic, connectivity, and speed metrics, based on data from Cloudflare’s network (BACK TO TOP)
Projects include a multilingual chat app, an online JSON data storage solution and a collaborative journey planning application. (BACK TO TOP)
Projects include a bulletin board, a collaborative workspace and an event monitoring tool. (BACK TO TOP)
Explore WebSocket fallbacks in 2024 considering factors like firewall issues, browser support & alternatives to ensure seamless user experience. (BACK TO TOP)
Ben and Ryan talk with Robert Ross, the CEO and co-founder of FireHydrant about the problem with alerting and incident management today, how holiday code freezes change incident management, and how Robert accidentally became a CEO. (BACK TO TOP)
The home team talks about Google’s new AI model, Gemini; the problems with regulating technology that evolves as quickly as AI; how governments can spy on their citizens via push notification; and more. (BACK TO TOP)
What matters isn’t just whether you use it, but how. (BACK TO TOP)
Ben talks with James Evans, cofounder and CEO of CommandBar, an AI-powered user assistance platform, about the software usability challenges CommandBar wants to address, the evolution of the company’s natural language search bar, and the future of dynamic interfaces and universal agents. (BACK TO TOP)
Amazon Scholar and NeurIPS advisory board member Richard Zemel on what robustness and responsible AI have in common, what AI can still learn from neuroscience, and the emerging topics that interest him most. (BACK TO TOP)
Amid topics ranging from experimental design and human-robot interaction to recommender systems and vision-language models, reinforcement learning emerges as a particular focus. (BACK TO TOP)
Amazon senior principal engineer Luu Tran is helping the Alexa team innovate by collaborating closely with scientist colleagues. (BACK TO TOP)
New IAM Access Analyzer feature uses automated reasoning to ensure that access policies written in the IAM policy language don’t grant unintended access. (BACK TO TOP)
Learn how to use Grafana and QuestDB to analyze and visualize the dynamic, correlated relationships between assets like ETH-USD and BTC-USD. Examples and sample data included! (BACK TO TOP)
We've built a real-time analytics dashboard, featuring cryptocurrency exchange market data and powered by QuestDB. Each data visualization is made performant and interactive with Grafana, And, the SQL queries behind them are available to both view and try yourself on using the Demo Web Console. Check it out! (BACK TO TOP)
Learn to build a custom trade watch with this tutorial. Aggregate and visualize market data for efficient trading using Grafana and QuestDB. Enhance your financial market analysis with our guide. (BACK TO TOP)
Learn how to manage large lists of symbols efficiently with Grafana variables and QuestDB. This tutorial guides you through creating dynamic dashboards for real-time financial data analysis, making your data monitoring scalable and automated. (BACK TO TOP)
In a groundbreaking development, a team of renowned scientists unlocked a revolutionary method to discuss absolutely nothing in press releases. This cutting-edge approach combines many of the novel techniques recently seen in quantum gravity, faster-than-light travel, and magnetic monopoles. Many are calling this a breakthrough in synthesizing "illusions of understanding". Dr. We must continue to exaggerate findings until everybody is an armchair expert and distrusts research announcements. (BACK TO TOP)
I cannot fathom how Mike Crittenden was able to follow his checklist diet for 118 days (and counting?). Here's how I generally plan my meals: (1) forget to eat for 1-2 days, then (2) panic while devouring everything visible in my fridge/pantry. Of course it would be nice to be nutritionally complete , but that's the luxury of people who have enough discipline to eat from a h*cking checklist for four months. Okay, that's not entirely true. Lately, I've been eating more meats, eggs, lentils, etc. (BACK TO TOP)
"Why Santa Claus is Not a God" Well, maybe a god for children. Claus cults are viable for adults. "Why Santa Claus is Not a God" This academic paper makes a very good case that Santa Claus is not a god. Here's the abstract: Through the lenses of cognitive science of religion, successful god concepts must possess a number of features. It's a charming paper. If an invisible potato is a good candidate for a god concept, clearly being minimally counterintuitive is not enough. There exist 23.g.k.a. (BACK TO TOP)
I recently found a lovely paper: Dispelling the nice or naughty myth . I recommend reading the entire paper, but here are its main findings: It has long been thought that Santa Claus gives presents to nice but not naughty children. This is the first study, to our knowledge, to dispel the myth that Santa visits children based on behaviour and suggests socioeconomic deprivation plays a greater role in determining a visit. ... In the Netherlands, e.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Filippo Valsorda & Roland Shoemaker from the Go Team return & bring Nicola Murino with them to continue catching us up on what’s new in Go’s crypto libraries. This is everything we didn’t cover + deep dives from Part 1! (BACK TO TOP)
The new open source AI book from PremAI starts with “As a data scientist/ML engineer/developer with a 9 to 5 job, it’s difficult to keep track of all the innovations.” We couldn’t agree more, and we are so happy that this week’s guest Casper (among other contributors) have created this resource for practitioners. During the episode, we cover the key categories to think about as you try to navigate the open source AI ecosystem, and Casper gives his thoughts on fine-tuning, vector DBs & more. (BACK TO TOP)
A group of researchers set out to test claims that its open source rivals had achieved parity (or even better) with ChatGPT on certain tasks, Richard Hipp and his team have rewritten SQLite’s text-based JSON functions, Ratatui is a Rust crate for cooking up TUIs, Morris Brodersen built a complex app in vanilla JS as a case study & Headscale is Kristoffer Dalby’s open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server. (BACK TO TOP)
Jerod is back with another “It Depends” episode! This time he’s joined by Kris Brandow from Go Time and they’re talking all things API design. What makes a good API? Is GraphQL a solid choice? Why do we do REST wrong? And WTF does HATEOAS mean, anyway? (BACK TO TOP)
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A layman’s review of the scientific debate on what the future holds for the current artificial intelligence paradigm A little over a year ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT, taking the world by storm. ChatGPT encompassed a completely new way to interact with computers: in a less rigid, more natural language than what we have gotten used to. Most importantly, it seemed that ChatGPT could do almost anything: it could beat most humans on the SAT exam and access the bar exam .g. “cat”, “dog” etc.g.g. E.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Cross Platform NLP in Rust Optimization with Rayon and support for C/C++, Android, Python Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash NLP tools and utilities have grown largely in the Python ecosystem, enabling developers from all levels to build high-quality language apps at scale. Rust is a newer introduction to NLP, with organizations like HuggingFace adopting it to build packages for machine learning. Here’s the GitHub project: GitHub - shubham0204/tfidf-summarizer.push( s.into_iter() .iter()..e.. (BACK TO TOP)
Photo by Roman Kraft on Unsplash Making LLMs into production environments using Sentence Transformers and Qdrant Large language models (LLMs) generated a global buzz in the machine learning community with recent releases of generative AI tools such as Chat-GPT, Bard, and others alike. One of the core ideas behind these solutions is to compute a numerical representation of unstructured data (such as texts and images) and find similarities between these representations. 1.read_parquet("articles.. (BACK TO TOP)
You might say 2023 was an eventful year for data scientists and ML professionals, but that wouldn’t quite capture the amount of hectic activity we’ve seen in the field in the past 12 months. As much as we always aim to resist hype and hyperbole, we have to concede that yes, we’ve seen some dramatic changes in the way both practitioners and society at large view AI and its effects on our daily lives. GPT-4 vs. Giuseppe Scalamogna unveiled an innovative framework for more effective prompt design. (BACK TO TOP)
In 2016, they estimated that 60% of big data projects fail. Two weeks ago we discussed how to do quality data analyses , but producing a high-quality analysis is really only half the battle. A lot of impressive work never actually make it to real life and end up being “displays of data acumen” (at best). It stands for “Political, Economic , Social, Technological, Environmental, Legal”. Each of these factors is like a puzzle piece in the big picture of your data project’s success.e. (BACK TO TOP)
It is a classic problem when designing with op amps: you need the output to go to zero, but — for most op amps — you can’t quite get down …read more (BACK TO TOP)
It’s another one of those fun quirks about our increasingly cyberpunk world — instead of cigarette butts littering our streets, you’re more likely to find disposable vaporizers that have run …read more (BACK TO TOP)
Humans are walking high voltage generators, due to all the friction with our surroundings, wide variety of synthetic clothes, and the overall everpresent static charges. Our electronics are sensitive to …read more (BACK TO TOP)
Ever wonder what’s inside a Nintendo Switch? Well, the chip is an Nvidia Tegra X1. However, if you peel back a layer, there are four ARM CPU cores inside — …read more (BACK TO TOP)
Although the concept of nuclear fission is a simple and straightforward one, the many choices for fuel types, fuel design, reactor configurations, coolant types, neutron moderator or reflector types, etc. …read more (BACK TO TOP)
The Tailscale policy file shapes your tailnet, by letting you define who can access what, how devices connect, and even how IP addresses are assigned to nodes. At the heart of this policy file lies the ACLs section, which holds the access rules for your network. The Tailscale policy engine evaluates these rules and sends them to all your clients, enabling each one to independently check permissions without relying on the coordination server. (BACK TO TOP)
Restrict access for non-compliant devices with Tailscale Device Posture Management, now available in beta. You can manage additional attributes of your devices and use them as part of connectivity rules within your tailnet. This is a powerful building block that allows you to integrate third-party systems with Tailscale and use external device trust data as part of your network policy. (BACK TO TOP)
It’s the holiday season, which means many of us are traveling to be close to family or loved ones, but that also means being far from our home networks. Tailscale can be a real help on the road, and traveling to familiar and faraway places can be an opportunity to set up connections that can come in handy for the rest of the year. In both cases, though, you may need a little bit of preparation. (BACK TO TOP)
Tailscale is a universal zero trust network access platform that lets organizations securely connect users with internal resources. You can manage connections to those resources using access control lists, in order to apply the principles of least privilege to your network’s access patterns. Today, we’re introducing the Tailscale App connector. App connectors allow you to securely connect third party resources like SaaS applications to your tailnet in a reliable and scalable way. (BACK TO TOP)
As organizations grow, so does the expectation of reliable performance and uptime for employees and workloads. Today, we are excited to announce the release of Tailscale Regional routing, which helps teams scale their app connectors and subnet routers globally by routing & balancing traffic across the nearest available infrastructure. We’re also making a few welcome changes to existing high availability options. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links How the NYPD defeated bodycams: NYPD leadership were accountability's adversaries, not its partners. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading How the NYPD defeated bodycams (permalink) Anything that can't go on forever will eventually stop. Dashcam footage went AWOL, or just recorded lots of racist, pretextual stops.propublica.vice. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Housing is a labor issue: The eternal labor September bodes well for the American housing crisis. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Unions are how working people fight for a better world for all of us. They're how everyday people come together to resist oligarchy, extraction and exploitation. Take the 2019 LA teachers' strike.net/2023/04/23/a-collective-bargain/ Unionization is enjoying an historic renaissance.teenvogue. For that, unions need to make housing itself a demand. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links An Epic antitrust loss for Google: They can't help but put it in writing. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This is huge: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/technology/epic-games-google-antitrust-ruling.html The mobile app store world is a duopoly run by Google and Apple. Both use a variety of tactics to prevent their customers from installing third party app stores, which funnels all app makers into their own app stores.science.thebignewsletter.epicgames.foodandwine.beeper. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Daddy-Daughter Podcast 2023: From age 4 to age 15. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. After she got bored with coloring and playing with my office toys, I sat her down on my lap in front of my podcast mic and we recorded the greatest, all-singing episode of my podcast ever: https://craphound.com/news/2012/12/21/happy-hols/ Thus began an annual tradition. Sometimes, she gives a tutorial. Then, we sing a song. She teaches us how to drive. And then, we sing! https://craphound. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Kinkslump Linkdump: A week's worth of assortment. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Kinkslump Linkdump (permalink) This is my dozenth linkdump! The world comes at you fast, and even though I'm writing 4-5 essays a week for this newsletter, many's the week that ends with more stray links than will fit in that format. Here's the previous ones: https://pluralistic.torforgeblog.3. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing": When Big Content makes the paid version worse than the free one. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2018, 2022. Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" (permalink) 20 years ago, I got in a (friendly) public spat with Chris Anderson, who was then the editor in chief of Wired.typepad.hp. (BACK TO TOP)
Cloud engineer Leonard Pahlke talks about his experience over six terms on the Kubernetes release team, from joining to moving through various roles. He emphasizes the importance of community involvement, the welcoming nature of open source and cloud native fields, and the diverse opportunities for contribution. The post KU043: How (& Why) To Contribute To The Kubernetes Release Team appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
This episode looks at 2023 milestones for IPv6, including overall adoption levels, security advancements, and the state of IPv6-only in the enterprise. The post IPB141: IPv6 End Of Year Wrap-Up appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Our KubeConversations series continues with a two-part episode on securing Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure. I attended KubeCon 2023 in Chicago and had the opportunity to speak with vendors and open-source maintainers about the work they're doing to help protect your Kubernetes environments. I talk about a Kubernetes Bill of Materials, protecting K8s from ransomware, protecting APIs and Web front-ends from attacks, and the state of cloud-native security. (BACK TO TOP)
Studying for a certification exam is also about grasping real-world concepts. And that’s exactly the approach David Coleman and David Westcott took when writing their CWNA study guide, now in its sixth edition The post HW017: The Story Behind The CWNA Study Guide appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Today on Network Break we cover IBM's new quantum processor and modular quantum computer and its effort to own the next generation of computing. We also cover Cisco's AI assistant for firewalls, Marvell's new DPUs for networking devices, why Amazon has to rely on SpaceX to get Project Kuiper satellites into orbit, and more IT news. The post NB459: IBM Aims To Own The Quantum Realm; Amazon Hitches A Ride With SpaceX appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Today’s show is roundtable conversation on the state of automation in the networking industry. We discuss takeaways from the recent AutoCon event on network automation, and get into issues such as sources of truth and the role of abstractions in automation. We also talk about the learning, cultural, and business challenges of network automation--and how to get beyond them. The post HN713: Network Automation: Where Are We, And Where Can We Go? appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
While a hallmark feature of PostgreSQL is streaming replication, sometimes data demands a more refined and adaptable replication approach to address different requirements. Logical replication offers a distinct advantage over traditional streaming replication by providing a more detailed and selective approach to data replication, enabling organizations to replicate specific tables selectively and even filter out […] (BACK TO TOP)
Will 2023 be called the year of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)? I don’t know, but certainly, the launching of ChatGPT at the end of 2022 sparked a huge hype explosion around that technology throughout this year. Interesting time indeed, we’re eyewitnesses to something that started changing our world.I played a bit with ChatGPT in February […] (BACK TO TOP)
Error logging is a critical aspect of database administration, providing insights into issues, warnings, and errors that may affect the system’s stability and performance. MySQL 8 introduces Error Log Filtering as a mechanism to fine-tune the error log, allowing administrators to focus on the most critical issues. By assigning priorities to different error types, administrators […] (BACK TO TOP)
In Percona Managed Services, we manage Percona for MySQL, Community MySQL, and MariaDB. Sometimes, the replica server might have replication errors, and the replica might be out of sync with the primary. In this case, we can use Percona Toolkit’s pt-table-checksum and pt-table-sync to check the data drift between primary and replica servers and make […] (BACK TO TOP)
Deploying PostgreSQL on Kubernetes is not new and can be easily streamlined through various Operators, including Percona’s. There are a wealth of options on how you can approach storage configuration in Percona Operator for PostgreSQL, and in this blog post, we review various storage strategies — from basics to more sophisticated use cases.The basicsSetting StorageClassStorageClass […] (BACK TO TOP)
A quick configuration change may do the trick in improving the performance of your AWS RDS for MySQL instance. Here, we will discuss a notable new feature in Amazon RDS, the Dedicated Log Volume (DLV), that has been introduced to boost database performance. While this discussion primarily targets MySQL instances, the principles are also relevant to […] (BACK TO TOP)
In this article, we will demonstrate how to achieve asynchronous replication automatic source failover when our replica is a Percona Server for MySQL (PS) and the source is a Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) cluster, using virtual IP (VIP) managed by Keepalived.Let us consider our architecture below with async replication from PXC to Percona Server for […] (BACK TO TOP)
How ISIF Asia began and how it has evolved over the years. (BACK TO TOP)
The APNIC Foundation is pleased to announce it has appointed Rajnesh Singh as its new CEO. (BACK TO TOP)
The Executive Council is pleased to announce the availability of APNIC’s new four-year strategy. (BACK TO TOP)
Is an alternative Trust Anchor structure for RPKI feasible? (BACK TO TOP)
Guest Post: New study shows that UTRS can be a useful tool in mitigating DDoS attacks, but it is not widely used. (BACK TO TOP)
Is it time to abandon the OSI seven-layer model? (BACK TO TOP)
Measuring QUIC (performance, spin bit, and ECN), transparent forwarders, and invalid prefix dropping. (BACK TO TOP)
APNIC hosted a booth and conducted training at the inaugural LANOG 1.0, held in Vientiane, Lao PDR on 16 November 2023. (BACK TO TOP)
APNIC hosted a booth at Telecoms World Asia 2023, held from 15 to 16 November in Bangkok, Thailand. (BACK TO TOP)
Geoff Huston gave a keynote presentation on LEOs and Starlink at the 40th TWNIC OPM, held on 16 November 2023 in Taipei. (BACK TO TOP)
One day, the theory goes, we humans will create AI systems that outmatch us intellectually. That could be great if they solve problems that we’ve been thus far unable to crack (think cancer or climate change), or really bad if they begin to act in ways that are not in humanity’s best interests, and we’re not smart enough to stop them. OpenAI is devoting 20 percent of its compute to this effort, and hopes to have solutions by 2027. Just how much more powerful is GPT-4? While GPT-2 has 1.5.” (BACK TO TOP)
The quality of a camera is typically limited by its size and ability to let in a lot of light. In smaller cameras, lenses can help improve the image quality to an extent, but new approaches are instead looking to improve cameras by modifying the sensors that convert rays of light into electrical signals. This increases the amount of light each pixel receives while maintaining a small pixel size. Two of these use nano-scale metasurfaces , namely prisms and pillars, to improve CMOS sensitivity. (BACK TO TOP)
Stephen Cass: Hello and welcome to Fixing the Future , an IEEE Spectrum podcast where we look at concrete solutions to some tough problems. I’m your host Stephen Cass , a senior editor at Spectrum . And before we start, I just want to tell you that you can get the latest coverage from some of Spectrum’s most important beats, including AI, climate change, and robotics, by signing up for one of our free newsletters. Just go to spectrum.ieee.org/newsletters to subscribe. That’s all the cloud hits. (BACK TO TOP)
Every workday, Sarah Ansari strives to ensure that the nuclear power plant where she works is operating safely. The IEEE member is an electrical design engineer at Arkansas Nuclear One , in Russellville. The pressurized-water plant provides electricity to the majority of the state’s businesses and residents and to customers beyond Arkansas. “These systems are robust, and we can’t make mistakes. Ansari entered the field of power engineering during her final semester as a Ph.D.” U.S.S.2 tonnes.” (BACK TO TOP)
Electromagnetic aspects of selected Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios are presented: devices inside an aircraft apartment, devices used for locating humans inside a corridor, several RFID devices and several reader/tag scenarios. The suitability of WIPL-D software to analyze IoT systems is demonstrated including flexible EM modeling and numerically efficient simulations. Download this free whitepaper now! (BACK TO TOP)
Neuromorphic computing has so far tried to mimic the synapses between neurons in the brain. But a new approach instead aims to act like dendrites, the spindly structures that branch out from the nucleus of a neuron like the roots of a tree. Dendrites receive signals from other neurons via synapses, transmitting them from tip to stem to the nucleus. In computing, “nanodendrites” could function similarly, according to a team of researchers at Stanford University.-S. incorrect sequence.” (BACK TO TOP)
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. As an electrical engineer, James Reynolds didn’t expect to work so closely with plants. But in a way, his ancestral history and his personal history have long been leading him to his ongoing research that leverages bioelectricity to better understand plant health. Reynolds’ family has farmed land in North Carolina for more than 300 years. That’s been our motivation.” (BACK TO TOP)
The recent adoption of IEEE 802.11bb has launched light fidelity, or Li-Fi, which opened the door into an era of wireless communication for advanced Wi-Fi technologies. Li-Fi enables Wi-Fi to use light waves instead of radio waves to transmit and receive data. IEEE 802.11bb defines the rules for how Li-Fi devices will communicate with each other and how fast they can transfer data.6 gigabits per second. The fixtures can send and receive information using light waves. He chairs the IEEE 802.15.e. (BACK TO TOP)
A mouse wearing virtual-reality goggles? Now I’ve seen everything. The point is to show everything to a mouse. Brain researchers would love to do that by setting a mouse free in a little playground while probing its brain. But the probes involve lasers, microscopes, and other apparatus far too heavy for such a small head. Each mouse eye covers 140 degrees, as much as both human eyes put together—the better to detect a swooping hawk. They showed mice a screen depicting an artificial world. youtu. (BACK TO TOP)
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEX. In this work, Ahmad Rafsanjani, Ahmet F. This work offers a simple approach toward untethered soft robots., incorporated Spot into their curriculum. (BACK TO TOP)
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OpenAI has announced the first results from its superalignment team, the firm’s in-house initiative dedicated to preventing a superintelligence—a hypothetical future computer that can outsmart humans—from going rogue. Unlike many of the company’s announcements, this heralds no big breakthrough. In a low-key research paper, the team describes a technique that lets a less powerful large… (BACK TO TOP)
Google DeepMind has used a large language model to crack a famous unsolved problem in pure mathematics. In a paper published in Nature today, the researchers say it is the first time a large language model has been used to discover a solution to a long-standing scientific puzzle—producing verifiable and valuable new information that did… (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. The two words that pushed international climate talks into overtime The annual UN climate negotiations at COP28 in Dubai have officially come to a close. Delegates scrambled to get a deal together in… (BACK TO TOP)
A new system that teaches robots a domestic task in around 20 minutes could help the field of robotics overcome one of its biggest challenges: a lack of training data. The open-source system, called Dobb-E, was trained using data collected from real homes. It can help to teach a robot how to open an air… (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. The annual UN climate negotiations at COP28 in Dubai have officially come to a close. Delegates scrambled to get a deal together in the early morning hours, and the meetings ended a… (BACK TO TOP)
Vertex Pharmaceuticals has agreed to buy rights to use a dominant CRISPR patent owned by the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, avoiding a potential lawsuit over its new gene-editing treatment for sickle-cell disease. The agreement allows Vertex to start selling its treatment, approved last Friday, without fear of patent infringement claims. The one-time treatment… (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. Two former Department of Energy staffers warn we’re doing carbon removal all wrong The carbon removal industry is just starting to take off, but some experts are warning that it’s already headed in… (BACK TO TOP)
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. It’s a perennial debate: whether American tech companies are contributing to government control of the internet in China. But long before Apple ceded control of local user data to the state or… (BACK TO TOP)
The carbon removal industry is just starting to take off, but some experts are warning that it’s already headed in the wrong direction. Two former staffers of the US agency responsible for advancing the technology argue that the profit-driven industry’s focus on cleaning up corporate emissions will come at the expense of helping to pull… (BACK TO TOP)
37 trillion. That is the number or cells that form a human being. How they all work together to sustain life is possibly the biggest unsolved puzzle in biology. A group of up-and-coming technologies for spatially resolved multi omics, here collectively called “spatial omics,” may provide researchers with the solution. Over the last 20 years,… (BACK TO TOP)
Loading spinners have an important role in improving user experience. Here's how these indicators contribute to smoother online interaction. The post Loading spinners: Their purpose and alternatives for better UX appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Matt Trevathan, Senior Vice President, Product Management SaaS at Nymbus, talks about “the genie effect” when collaborating with others. The post Leader Spotlight: Operating with the genie effect, with Matt Trevathan appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
We investigate the concept of scroll-aware UI state for increased interactivity and explore how to implement it using only CSS. The post Implementing scroll-aware UI state with CSS appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Anchoring bias refers to the human tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information offered when making a decision. The post Anchoring bias: The invisible hand behind decision-making appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Co-creation is about inviting the right people in at the right time to work on something together in the right format. The post Slow down, high performers! A guide to the art of co-creation appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Delve into Strapi's features and more to understand when and why you should use this open source headless CMS for your next project. The post Strapi adoption guide: Overview, examples, and alternatives appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Agile marketing is a way for teams to quickly adapt to change, iterate, and optimize on-the-go using data to ensure fast decision-making. The post A guide to agile marketing appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Whether you're an expert or a beginner in UX design, learning how to make an effective survey is crucial for finding valuable user insights. The post Survey design: Building better surveys and avoiding pitfalls appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
This blog shares the scope and challenges of being a product leader, and tips for aspiring product leaders to prepare for a leadership role. The post Navigating the transition to a leadership role appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Learn how to make visual regression tests easy and fast with Argos CI, an automation tool that compares screenshots during build time. The post Visual regression testing with Argos CI appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Jaxon Merril discusses his role in leading three digital transformations at American Idol, Beachbody, and Beautycounter. The post Leader Spotlight: Leading digital transformations, with Jaxon Merril appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
A eureka moment occurs when a customer realizes the value and benefit of using the product and becomes more engaged and loyal to it. The post What is a eureka moment? appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
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