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NOVEMBER 18, 2023

A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like. I now have an answer: Greg Brockman. Every successful startup I know has at least one person who provides the force of will to make.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

Our legal team decided to clear a few things up about using the VELCRO® trademark correctly. Don't say "Velcro", say VELCRO® Brand.

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APRIL 16, 2024

Introduction Welcome into the world of Transformers, the deep learning model that has transformed Natural Language Processing (NLP) since its debut in 2017. These linguistic marvels, armed with self-attention mechanisms, revolutionize how machines understand language, from translating texts to analyzing sentiments.

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Hacker News

APRIL 12, 2024

As a civilian, the beloved American Civil War general and two-term president failed at every attempt to make money. Except for one.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

In this project, I'm adding an ESP8266 to an Aukey charger to create a DIY Smart Socket. Making things is fun, and adding ESP8266s to household items to turn it into IoT devices seems to be my new hobby! This is the 2nd part of the guide focusing on the hardware.

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APRIL 8, 2024

Sarah Graff, associate curator in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, reveals a surprising ancient Assyrian ritual, routinely performed at the time of a solar eclipse, that involved the creation of a temporary substitute king.

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APRIL 13, 2024

This seems an obvious truth, but we need to say it loud and clear. Urban intelligence is more than information processing.

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MARCH 3, 2024

We all have pet peeves, even though there's a lot going on in the world that makes them pretty insignificant. While acknowledging that there are many more

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APRIL 4, 2024

It’s only me, and my colleagues can assure you that I’m mostly harmless. I do software development and work at one of Vincit offices in Phoenix, Arizona.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

SSH is an incredibly powerful protocol whose footprint needs to be monitored closely in enterprises. The most common use of SSH is for totally legitimate purposes like terminal (ssh) or for file transfer (scp,sftp).

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MARCH 10, 2024

Swap is used to give processes room, even when the physical RAM of the system is already used up. In a normal system configuration, when a system faces memory pressure, swap is used, and later when the memory pressure disappears and the system returns to normal operation, swap is no longer used.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

On a Saturday night, a security engineer at Equifax was updating an SSL certificate on a Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS). Immediately after, suspicious connections were detected. After a more in-depth investigation, it became evident that the situation was far graver than anticipated.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

There was a time when Radio Shack offered an incredible variety of supplies for the electronics hobbyist. In the back of each store, past the displays of Realistic 8-track players, Minimus-7 speakers,

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Dataconomy

AUGUST 28, 2017

The post Trends Shaping Machine Learning in 2017 appeared first on Dataconomy. The introduction of Machine Learning has revolutionized the world of data science by enabling computers to classify and comprehend large data sets. Another important innovation which has changed the paradigm of the world of the tech world.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Dealing with surprising human emotions is one of the most challenging aspects of being a manager. Generally, when someone appears triggered, or angry, or some other strong emotion that’s surprising, it’s likely that their amygdala has been hijacked, which I’ve written about before.

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APRIL 16, 2024

15 years on, Winamp "still lives"—but mismanagement blunted its llama-whipping.

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APRIL 17, 2024

“A contract is only as good as the people who sign it,” was a saying often quoted by an elderly attorney I worked with for the first fifteen years of my practice and I always nodded in his general direction when he said that and smiled as if agreeing.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Thompson Sampling is a very simple yet effective method to addressing the exploration-exploitation dilemma in reinforcement/online learning. In this series of posts, I’ll introduce some applications of Thompson Sampling in simple examples, trying to show some cool visuals along the way. All the code can be found on my GitHub page here.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Data Natives Berlin 2017: A Conference for the Data-Driven Generation This November, Dataconomy’s global community of data science enthusiasts will once again gather in Berlin for the widely-celebrated, third edition of the Data Natives conference. appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Hacker News

MARCH 30, 2024

We explore the design and implementation of Frank, a strict functional programming language with a bidirectional effect type system designed from the ground up around a novel variant of Plotkin and Pretnar's effect handler abstraction.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The post 2017 – The Year Data Made Bank? Financial data finally starting to pay off If you are in Finance, you would have read at least one of the many predictions articles that poured from all directions on the internet in the past month. This is not trying to be yet another one but focus on the CX. appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Hacker News

MARCH 7, 2024

The reset command includes a delay, between clearing the screen and returning. This is even on the latest terminal type xterm-256color. man reset does not mention a delay, only the printing.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Using nothing but physics, Indian engineer Sonam Wangchuk is creating giant ‘ice stupas’ in the Tibetan plateau to counteract the effects of climate change.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2024

The underground walkway is a shield against winter weather and connects to dozens of buildings in the Loop.

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Data Natives 2017 is just a couple weeks away, and we have never had this many industry-altering speakers, workshops and networking opportunities. The post 5 reasons to attend Data Natives 2017 appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Part of California’s housing problem is an infrastructure problem.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

For when people get too hyped up about things. Contribute to hwayne/awesome-cold-showers development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The post 6 Ways Business Intelligence is Going to Change in 2017 appeared first on Dataconomy. Business Intelligence, previously known as data mining combined with analytical processing and reporting, is changing how organizations move forward.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Salvador Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart. Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Email: salvador.rodrigo.b (at) at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF [link] Not so long ago I have devoted a good deal of time and effort analyzing Egyptian mythology in the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona video game series (Salvador, 2015).

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Analytics Vidhya

JANUARY 4, 2024

Since the groundbreaking ‘Attention is all you need’ paper in 2017, the Transformer architecture, notably exemplified by ChatGPT, has become pivotal. Introduction In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, especially in NLP, large language models (LLMs) have swiftly transformed interactions with technology.

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Hacker News

JUNE 4, 2023

A couple times a week, I hear someone remark “It is what it is,” accompanied by a weary sigh. I always puzzle over the expression a little bit, thinking What else could it be?

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

An important element of Ottoman architecture in Turkey was the addition of birdhouses affixed to the outer walls of significant city structures, a safe space for regular avian guests to nest outside of mosques, inns, bridges, libraries, schools, and fountains.

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Whether focused on the fastest growing developments in fields such as FinTech and AI or examining the many minute ways that data sets can affect individuals, The post Announcing confirmed speakers for Data Natives 2017 appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Hacker News

JUNE 1, 2023

Samuel Morland was many things - writer, spy, and mathematician. But it was his inventions that led to King Charles naming him "Magister Mechanicorum"

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MARCH 3, 2024

This book is aimed at giving novice coders an understanding of the methods and techniques used in professional games development. Designed to help develop and

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