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MAY 5, 2024

UMAP is a new dimensionality reduction technique that offers increased speed and better preservation of global structure.

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Data Science 101

APRIL 29, 2019

Here is the latest data science news for the week of April 29, 2019. Did I miss any big news in the data science world? From Data Science 101. The Go Programming Language for Data Science Quick Video Tutorial for Find Updates in Azure Two-Minute Papers, One Pixel attack on NN. General Data Science. What do you think?

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

A few months ago, reading the news about Linux dropping support for floppy disks set off a whole bunch of memories and emotions around this long obsolete and “dead” data storage format.

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MARCH 30, 2024

It gives my brain a pleasant thrum to learn new mathematics which mimics the algebra I learned in middle school. Basically this means that the new system has operations with properties that match those of regular numbers as much as possible.

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Hacker News

APRIL 17, 2024

From the flying British aircraft carriers in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow to the helicarriers of S.H.I.E.L.D.

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JULY 8, 2023

Having used Pocket's article-archival-and-management tool -- sort of a bookmarks-on-steroids product -- for the past year or two, and with news.

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APRIL 21, 2024

Your life choices aren’t just about what you want to do; they’re about who you want to be.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

It's Friday and I'm procrastinating, so here you go. Let's talk about Joseph Schumpeter. Good old John Joseph Jingleheimer Schumpeter, as he wasn't called. Schumpeter once wrote in his diary that he aspired to be the greatest economist, horseman, and lover in the world ((McCraw, Thomas. Prophet of Innovation, p.

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KDnuggets

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

With artificial intelligence and machine learning now a mainstay of our daily awareness, news organizations have been seen to overstate the reality behind progress in the field. Learn more about recent examples of media hyperbole and explore why this may be happening.

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Hacker News

APRIL 25, 2024

1) On the March 2019 core update claim in the piece: This is baseless speculation. The March 2019 core update was designed to improve the quality of our search Google has chosen to send a response to my article to Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable. Here is my response. (1)

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

I like Git commit messages. Used well, I think they’re one of the most powerful tools available to document a codebase over its lifetime. I’d like to illustrate that by showing you my favourite ever Git commit.

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Data Science 101

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Welcome to the first beta edition of Cloud Data Science News. This will cover major announcements and news for doing data science in the cloud. SQL Server 2019 SQL Server 2019 went Generally Available. If the first few are well received, this will become a weekly segment. Microsoft Azure. It is now Generally Available.

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Hacker News

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Have you ever wanted to write your own compiler? of course you have! I've always wanted to have a go at writing a compiler, and with the recent release of WebAssembly, I had the perfect excuse to have a go.

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Hacker News

MAY 4, 2024

Entomopathogenic fungi routinely kill their hosts before releasing infectious spores, but a few species keep insects alive while sporulating, which en…

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JANUARY 11, 2024

This is a recollection of the UC Berkeley Postgres project, which was led by Mike Stonebraker from the mid-1980's to the mid-1990's. The article was solicited for Stonebraker's Turing Award book, as one of many personal/historical recollections. As a result it focuses on Stonebraker's design ideas and leadership.

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APRIL 29, 2024

TLDR: read the paper and view the gallery of pretty Perl programs. In this paper, we aim to answer a long-standing open problem in the programming languages community: is it possible to smear paint on the wall without creating valid Perl?

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MAY 17, 2024

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NOVEMBER 5, 2023

MIT OpenCourseWare is a web based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity

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MAY 4, 2024

A new study that looked at almost 40 million flights in 2019 calculated the greenhouse gas emissions from air travel internationally.

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Hacker News

MARCH 3, 2024

Among computing pioneers, Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley is one of the most celebrated for building a $3 billion empire in the 1960s with an all-female staff.

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JANUARY 3, 2020

No significant news to report. Machine Learning with Kubernetes on AWS A talk from Container Day 2019 in San Diego. Unfortunately, it did not bring a flurry of data science announcements. I did create my list of 3 predictions for 2020, so those will be coming out soon. Hopefully some releases and announcements will be coming next week.

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Hacker News

MAY 17, 2024

. – An HIV vaccine candidate developed at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute triggered low levels of an elusive type of broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies among a small group of people enrolled in a 2019 clinical trial.The finding, reported May 17 in the journal Cell, not only provides proof that a vaccine can elicit these antibodies to fight diverse (..)

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

A deep dive into the world of vector networks, and the engineering challenges involved in their implementation.

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DECEMBER 31, 2023

This document exists to lay out some general principles of running a small social network site that have worked for me. These principles are related to community building more than they are related to specific technologies.

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Data Science 101

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Microsoft just held one of its largest conferences of the year, and a few major announcements were made which pertain to the cloud data science world. Here they are in my order of importance (based upon my opinion). Azure Synapse. I think this announcement will have a very large and immediate impact.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 15, 2024

Subscribe to Caters Clips: [link] to StoryTrender: [link] 1599586MANDATORY CREDIT - Alia.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

$textit{Magic: The Gathering}$ is a popular and famously complicated trading card game about magical combat. In this paper we show that optimal play in real-world $textit{Magic}$ is at least as hard as the Halting Problem, solving a problem that has been open for a decade.

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KDnuggets

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The speed at which AI made advancements and news during 2019 makes it imperative now to step back and place these events into order and perspective. It's important to separate the interest that any one advancement initially attracts, from its actual gravity and its consequential influence on the field.

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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Obfuscating Lua. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Analytics Vidhya

DECEMBER 27, 2023

This revolutionary model, an extension of Stanford’s Word2vec algorithm from 2019, has shown significant promise in transforming healthcare. Life2vec, a neural network model, is at the forefront of predictive medicine, leveraging AI to analyze health data and forecast health-related outcomes.

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Hacker News

JULY 21, 2023

Leeza SOHO, a 45-story office tower designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, was completed this week in Beijing's new Fengtai business district.

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JULY 13, 2023

While playing Factorio the other day, I was struck by the many similarities with Apache Kafka.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Berlin based technology consultancy specialising in the Rust programming language. We offer development, implementation, training and long-term support.

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APRIL 23, 2024

The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google’s head of search, had a problem. This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it. Jerry Dischler, then the VP and General Manager of Ads at Google, and Shiv Venkataraman, then

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Hacker News

JULY 15, 2023

Discover Defenestration of Prague Window in Prague, Czechia: The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

When writing a bump allocator, always bump downwards. That is, allocate fromhigh addresses, down towards lower addresses by decrementing the bumppointer.

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APRIL 10, 2024

[link] Contribute to raganwald/javascript-allonge-six development by creating an account on GitHub.

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