2009 - Data Science Current

Kernel.org servers infected with backdoors for two years from 2009

Hacker News

MAY 15, 2024

Ebury backdoors SSH servers in hosting providers, giving the malware extraordinary reach.

Leveraging ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis Tests to Analyze the Impact of the Great Recession on Housing Prices

Machine Learning Mastery

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The years 2007 to 2009 marked a tumultuous time for the US housing market. In the world of real estate, numerous factors influence property prices. The economy, market demand, location, and even the year a property is sold can play significant roles.

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Private space-junk probe snaps historic photo of discarded rocket in orbit

Hacker News

APRIL 27, 2024

The private ADRAS-J probe snapped an epic, up-close image of its rendezvous target, a Japanese rocket stage that's been circling Earth since 2009.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

The Project Clinic: Assessing Project Health, Planning, and Execution

Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products

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Consciousness and Anaesthesia (2009)

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JUNE 14, 2023

When we are anesthetized, we expect consciousness to vanish. But does it always? Although anesthesia undoubtedly induces unresponsiveness and amnesia, the extent to which it causes unconsciousness is harder to establish. For instance, certain anesthetics.

Extinct goat was cold-blooded (2009)

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

(PhysOrg.com) -- An extinct goat that lived on a barren Mediterranean island survived for millions of years by reducing in size and by becoming cold-blooded, which has never before been discovered in mammals.

In Praise of Difficult Children (2009)

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JANUARY 20, 2024

It isn’t simply that rules are made to be broken: the rules tell you that there is something to break. If there was no.

Tail Recursion Elimination (2009)

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MAY 25, 2024

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The world of Yakuza fan magazines (2009)

Hacker News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

By Jake Adelstein TOKYO: The Japanese mafia, better known as the yakuza, has been the subject of fan magazines for decades.

This Boat Don't Float (2009)

Hacker News

AUGUST 19, 2023

Dreaming of a Huck Finn-style adventure on the Mississippi, a young couple are instead afoul of the law.

Quantum Soccer (2009)

Hacker News

MARCH 12, 2024

Illustrations for Border Guards by Greg Egan

Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

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My Visit to Deep Springs College (2009)

Hacker News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

You should neither trust outward appearances, nor let them intimidate you. There is always a discord between the appearance that a person or organization projects, and their actual nature. For this reason, always be careful about the people and organizations in whom you place your trust.

How to solve the "Mastermind" guessing game? (2009)

Hacker News

JANUARY 12, 2024

How would you create an algorithm to solve the following puzzle, "Mastermind"? Your Your opponent has chosen four different colours from a set of six (yellow, blue, green, red, orange, purple).

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Five-Disk Floppy Raid: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (2009)

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

A “Floppy RAID” might sound like the title of a frustrating niche adult movie, but it isn’t. Instead, it is a homebrew project by Daniel Blade Olson* which cobbles together five 3.5” floppy drives into a redundant disk array. RAID means either extra speed or extra data security, but Olson’s version offers neither. The setup […]

Major Alzheimer paper retracted by former Stanford president after a decade

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DECEMBER 31, 2023

A 2009 study, cited as a “key scientific discovery” by Genentech as it sought a higher valuation, has now been retracted by former University head Marc Tessier-Lavigne. It is his fourth retraction in as many months.

If You Don't Change the UI, Nobody Notices (2009)

Hacker News

MARCH 23, 2024

I saw a screenshot a few days ago that made me think Windows 7 Beta might actually be worth checking out. That's right, Microsoft finally improved the calculator app! We've been complaining for years that Microsoft ships new operating systems with the same boring old default applets the previous version

Recreating the THX Deep Note (2009)

Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

We dissect the building blocks of the infamous THX Deep Sound and recreate it by synthesizing the sound in Supercollider programming environment.

It's easy to underprice your product (2009)

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JULY 18, 2023

What's the right price for your product? According to Steve Blank, it's apparently $0. And it's also $1 million. Listen to this wonderful story to learn how Steve uses these two prices to create a bounding box around the highest price customers will pay for a product. And see why he thinks "It's very…

Untangling Spaghetti: Debugging Non-Terminating Object Programs (2009)

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APRIL 22, 2024

Make an understandable mess, fix the bug, then make it easier to understand

Be sceptical of your own work (2009)

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AUGUST 15, 2023

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. Niels Bohr) If you unexpectedly find a problem solving itself almost effortlessly, and you can’t quite …

I raced a homing pigeon against the Internet [video]

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AUGUST 28, 2023

It hasn't been tested since 2009!Thanks Bird beats Internet. Or does it? Thanks to 45Drives for paying for my flight to Canada. You can check them out here: https:/.

What DNS Is Not (2009)

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

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POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES (2009)

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Sure, programmers (especially operating systems programmers) love their specifications. Clean, well-defined interfaces are a key element of scalable software development. But what is it about file systems, POSIX, and when file data is guaranteed to hit permanent storage that brings out the POSIX fundamentalist in all of us?

Design Is an Island – By Kent Beck

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MARCH 20, 2024

First published April 2009. This was a period when I was working consistently on the material that would become, a decade and a half later, Tidy First? If design is responsive motion in a space of all possible designs, then some designs are acceptable and some are not. Designing, then, is like walking an island.

Tech Trend: Shanzhai (2009)

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JANUARY 24, 2024

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On being wrong about AI

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

This time it's some rationalist AI doomers, ridiculing me for a podcast I did with Eliezer Yudkowsky way back in 2009, one that I knew even then was a p**s-poor performance on my part. I'm being attacked on Twitter for. no, none of the things you think. The rationalists are reminding the world that…

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Linux ate my RAM (2009)

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

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Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake (2009) [video]

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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A Tradecraft Primer (2009)

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JUNE 11, 2023

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Leaving Haskell Behind

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AUGUST 24, 2023

For almost a complete decade—starting with discovering Haskell in about 2009 and right up until switching to a job where I used primarily.

Growth of Target, an Animated Map

FlowingData

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It started with the first store in 1962, which opened in Minnesota, and then the animation played through 2009. The difference is that when I made the original map in 2009, there was this software platform called Flash by Adobe. I made a map some years ago that showed Target store openings over time. This is a recreation of that map.

Beej's Quick Guide to GDB (2009)

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NOVEMBER 5, 2023

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The disappointingly ongoing success of WvDial (2009)

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JULY 4, 2023

For those who don't know, I'm one of the original two authors of WvDial (Oh yes, that's a real Wikipedia link!). back in 1998. WvDial and.

The real realtime preemption end game

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

For much of that time, it has seemed like only a little more work was needed to get across the finish line; thus we ran headlines like the realtime preemption endgame — in 2009. The addition of realtime support to Linux is a long story; it first shows up in LWN in 2004.

What Is Fundamental? (2009)

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DECEMBER 2, 2023

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An Approach to Sound Synthesis with L-Systems

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JANUARY 10, 2024

An early obsession of mine when I was first learning about music tech was a paper by Stelios Manousakis titled âNon-Standard Sound Synthesis with L-Systems,â published 2009 in Leonardo Music Journal.

Bitcoin Will Hit $100,000 This Year, Artificial Intelligence And These Experts Predict

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APRIL 19, 2023

Since its launch in 2009, Bitcoin, the first decentralized cryptocurrency in the world, has had its own ups and downs.Many have questioned the …

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From Robustness to Privacy and Back

Machine Learning Research at Apple

MAY 10, 2023

Their conceptual similarity was first observed by Dwork and Lei (STOC 2009), who observed that private algorithms satisfy robustness, and gave a general method for converting robust algorithms to private ones. However, all general methods for transforming robust algorithms into private ones lead to suboptimal error rates.

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