Bulletin for Friday, 21 Oct 2022
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Earthly Blog (2)
- How to Build GraphQL APIs Using Go
- How to Set up a Postgresql Database Replication for Optimization and High Availability in a Django Application
Tech at Meta (2)
- CIO Atish Banerjea on building the future of work, one system at a time
- AI translates Hokkien, an unwritten language, for the first time
fasterthanli.me (2)
Timescale Blog (2)
- How United Manufacturing Hub Is Introducing Open Source to Manufacturing and Using Time-Series Data for Predictive Maintenance
- Database Indexes in PostgreSQL and Timescale Cloud: Your Questions, Answered
Weaveworks (2)
- Battle with Bots Prompts Mass Purge of Amazon, Apple Employee Accounts on LinkedIn
- How Card Skimming Disproportionally Affects Those Most In Need
- Anti-Money Laundering Service AMLBot Cleans House
- Cloudflare Workers and micro-frontends: made for one another
- Making peering easy with the new Cloudflare Peering Portal
- Internet disruptions overview for Q3 2022
- Do more with less—Discover the latest Microsoft Entra innovations
- Defenders beware: A case for post-ransomware investigations
- How Microsoft Purview and Priva help simplify data protection
- New “Prestige” ransomware impacts organizations in Ukraine and Poland
- reMARS revisited: Net zero carbon goal and Amazon’s fulfillment network
- reMARS revisited: Amazon’s supply chain optimization
- Exploring the uncertainty of predictions
- Solving some of the largest, most complex operations problems
- Maximizing the efficiency of Amazon's own delivery networks
Blog – Hackaday (5)
- A Homebrew AC Upgrade for The Fluke 8840A
- ERRF 22: Building a Library of Filament Colors
- 2022 Cyberdeck Contest: Keezyboost40 is a Cyberdeck Masquerading as a Keyboard
- 2022 Hackaday Supercon: Final Talks Announced
- Forearm Muscle Contraction Sensor Is Useful Component For Open Source Prosthetics
Google AI Blog (5)
- PI-ARS: Accelerating Evolution-Learned Visual-Locomotion with Predictive Information Representations
- MUSIQ: Assessing Image Aesthetic and Technical Quality with Multi-scale Transformers
- Do Modern ImageNet Classifiers Accurately Predict Perceptual Similarity?
- Table Tennis: A Research Platform for Agile Robotics
- UL2 20B: An Open Source Unified Language Learner
The Full Feed - All of the Packet Pushers Podcasts (6)
- IPv6 Buzz 112: What’s New With IPv6 At The IETF?
- Day Two Cloud 168: Get Kubernetes Observability With AppDynamics Cloud (Sponsored)
- Full Stack Journey 071: Technology Short Takes Audio Edition
- Tech Bytes: LiveAction Integrates NDR And Network Visibility (Sponsored)
- Network Break 403: Startup Hedgehog Fuses SONiC And Kubernetes; Google, Intel Launch Mount Evans SmartNIC
- Heavy Networking 651: How Juniper Networks’ SMO Enables Network Slicing (Sponsored)
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (6)
- Pluralistic: 20 Oct 2022 It was all downhill after the Cuecat
- Pluralistic: 18 Oct 2022 Being good at your job is praxis
- Pluralistic: 17 Oct 2022 A giant grocery merger will send "inflation" through the roof
- Pluralistic: 16 Oct 2022 RIP, Roger Wood, genius assemblage sculptor
- Pluralistic: 15 Oct 2022 How lawyers became sadists
- Pluralistic: 14 Oct 2022 Medieval Times invents a modern union-busting tactic; Billionaire dilletantes vs good Democrats
- Introducing the Overflow Offline project
- Faster feedback loops make for faster developer velocity (Ep. 498)
- Beware the scammers posing as tech recruiters (Ep. 497)
- Privacy-friendly machine learning data sets: synthetic data
- The Overflow #147: Working with a second brain
- The robots are coming… but when? (Ep 496)
Simon Willison's Weblog: Blogmarks (7)
- Simple, Fast, and Scalable Reverse Image Search Using Perceptual Hashes and DynamoDB
- Chris Amico's Python setup for 2022
- "You are GPT-3"
- Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival traffic on Saturday 15th October 2022
- How to create a Python package in 2022
- Dumping the HTML of a page using shot-scraper
- shot-scraper 1.0
- Who owns our code? (Go Time #252)
- How vex.dev runs on AWS, Fly.io & GCP (Ship It! #75)
- Should we get down with OP3? (Backstage #25)
- Data for All (Practical AI #197)
- Harmonai revisited, lessons learned from public salary, Open Core Ventures, Stripe is Paypal in 2010 & Helix (The Changelog)
- Docusaurus 2 is a pretty big deal (JS Party #247)
- Taking Postgres serverless (The Changelog #510)
Cloud Blog (20)
- Customer success starts with ChromeOS
- How BBVA Spain uses Google Maps Platform to build transparency around spending
- How ML-fueled recommendations help developers optimize security, price-performance, and carbon reduction
- Build limitless workloads on BigQuery: New features beyond SQL
- Unlocking the value of unstructured data at scale using BigQuery ML and object tables
- Proactive Database Wellness with Active Assist: Introducing additional Cloud SQL recommenders
- Building scalable real time applications with Firestore
- When speed is revenue: New Cloud CDN features to improve users’ digital experiences
- Build a modern, distributed Data Mesh with Google Cloud
- Run Google Cloud Speech AI locally, no internet connection required
- Ensuring fair and open competition in the cloud
- Chrome keeps getting better for Mac and iOS devices
- Automate document processing with Document AI for government
- Powering up Firestore to COUNT() cost-efficiently
- Cloud Logging pricing for Cloud Admins: How to approach it & save cost
- Run interactive pipelines at scale using Beam Notebooks
- Accelerating app development lifecycle with managed container platforms, Firebase and CI/CD
- From the NFL to Google’s Data Centers: Why KP Philpot still values teamwork over everything
- Backup & Disaster Recovery strategies for BigQuery
- The new Google Cloud Region in Israel is now open
I was building a new lab with some NVIDIA A30 GPUs in a few hosts, and after installing the NVIDIA driver onto the ESXi host, I got the following error when powering up a VM with a vGPU profile: Typically that means three things: Shared Direct passthrough is not enabled on the GPU ECC memory […] The post Could not initialize plugin ‘libnvidia-vgx.so – Check SR-IOV in the BIOS appeared first on frankdenneman.nl . (BACK TO TOP)
Author’s note: I wrote this in 2018 and it languished in the drafts since then because I couldn’t think of a good conclusion. Really this is typical of the subject matter and all this piece offers is something to chew on, if you have the interest in it or have never before considered the question. At the time I was helping tutor a TLA+ seminar and had the opportunity to ask Leslie Lamport (who has thought about computation quite a bit! (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/
Change is inevitable. Sometimes it is for the better, and other times there are little differences that you have to adjust to. But problems can happen when you have an inflexible system that cannot adapt to change. I recently relocate all of my services into a new hosting provider. My previous provider was going out of business , so I had to move everything fast. The good news is, I had enough time to plan things the move, so it was pretty painless. I can definitely tell the difference. (E.g.7.) (BACK TO TOP)
An overview for how Flywheel accelerated it's deployment for Biomedical Researchers by using Teleport. (BACK TO TOP)
Invisible and relentless, sound is seemingly just there, traveling through our surroundings to carry beautiful music or annoying noises. In this article I’ll explain what sound is, how it’s created and propagated. Throughout this presentation you will be hearing different sounds, which you will often play yourself on little keyboards like the one below. This article has many interactive demonstrations which are best seen on the website . (BACK TO TOP)
by Jun He , Akash Dwivedi , Natallia Dzenisenka , Snehal Chennuru , Praneeth Yenugutala , Pawan Dixit At Netflix, Data and Machine Learning (ML) pipelines are widely used and have become central for the business, representing diverse use cases that go beyond recommendations, predictions and data transformations. A large number of batch workflows run daily to serve various business needs. These include ETL pipelines, ML model training workflows, batch jobs, etc. Figure 1.k.a.g.g.g.g. 100K).g.g.g. (BACK TO TOP)
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/
Fusion research is back in the news again, due to multiple factors. I've been long interested in this topic and have seen this book mentioned in several places since it came out in 2019. Now that I finally got it and read it, I'm really happy I did. I think it's likely the best book I've read this year, and one of the best works of non-fiction in recent memory. What makes the book so great is the combination of scientific, yet undestandable writing... (BACK TO TOP)
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https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog.rss.html
After stints at a Madrid startup and a Chicago financial-services company, Android mobile engineer Jose was looking for his ideal role in the Bay Area. Now based in San Francisco, he dives into the rewarding technical challenges his team is collaborating on, and how he’s having a meaningful impact on millions of learners worldwide as a core member of the LinkedIn Learning mobile team. Making the move from Spain to the U.S. My love for coding led me to pursue an engineering degree in […] (BACK TO TOP)
I recently took delivery of a new replacement logic board for the ubiquitous classic Casio F-91W from Sensor Watch. The F-91W needs no introduction. It’s probably the most popular quartz watch in the world with something like 90 million total units sold. (BACK TO TOP)
Learn how to use the Dropbox OAuth 2.0 app authorization flow with offline access (BACK TO TOP)
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How does Rust return values, and does it make any difference to us programmers? (BACK TO TOP)
This is is in many respects a successor to a blog post I wrote last year about what I want from software infrastructure, but the ideas morphed in my head into something sort of wider. (BACK TO TOP)
A comprehensive overview of Laravel’s many safety features that can help you prevent painful mistakes. Read the full story (BACK TO TOP)
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/
Two months after the startup went bankrupt, administrators have summarized the $80M+ debt the company has accumulated, most of which will not be paid. The highest offer to buy Pollen’s business assets - but without its liabilities - currently stands at only $250K. Details. (BACK TO TOP)
Doctors in Israel are toying with polygenic screening: it is a way to make it more likely that your baby will grow up to be healthy. In 2021, 337 million prescriptions were written for antidepressants in US, according to the New York Times. Students in private schools do better in India than those attending government-run … Continue reading Science and Technology links (October 16 2022) (BACK TO TOP)
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So you may know that I’m teaching a 1-day TLA+ workshop in December ( just 10 slots left! ) This is unlike my normal workshops because it’s only 1 day and for 35 people instead of 3. 1 The two workshops share almost no content between them. To understand why, I need to go into a bit of teaching theory. For the 700 or so new readers, TLA+ is a form of formal specification language. You can make a design for a system and then directly test the design itself for bugs. There are two reasons why.. (BACK TO TOP)
Sentry Alerts should ping you on Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Pager Duty when something goes wrong and needs your attention. However, too many… (BACK TO TOP)
At OCP Summit 2022, we’re announcing Grand Teton, our next-generation platform for AI at scale that we’ll contribute to the OCP community. We’re also sharing new innovations designed to support data centers as they advance to support new AI technologies: A new, more efficient version of Open Rack. Our Air-Assisted Liquid Cooling (AALC) – design. [...] Read More... The post OCP Summit 2022: Open hardware for AI infrastructure appeared first on Engineering at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)
Let op: deze pagina gaat echt over de huidige situatie. Per 1 januari 2023 is alles al weer anders, en ook in november en december komt er al een extra korting aan. Wat er in 2023 precies gaat gebeuren is nog niet bekend. Overigens is ook de oktober 2022 situatie echt totaal anders dan die van een jaar geleden. Vergeet alles wat je wist! Deze pagina is mede tot stand gekomen door kritisch commentaar & feedback van Marien Boonman en Hidde Brugmans & anonieme experts. (BACK TO TOP)
Microsoft has come full circle from the company that cared more about Windows than Office; the retirement of the Office name is possible precisely because Microsoft gave up on Windows and went to the cloud. (BACK TO TOP)
https://towardsdatascience.com
Sequential and Parallel Architectures All in One Photo by MARIOLA GROBELSKA on Unsplash INTRODUCTION XGBoost (eXtreme Gradient Boost) is a powerful learning algorithm which had outperformed many conventional Machine Learning algos in many competitions in the past. At the end I will also suggest a short list of supplemental resources so that the readers can explore more details of the topics covered in the post. Now, let’s start. DISCUSSION A.youtube.d. ).(Friedman, 2000) B.g. C. (2016). (2017). (BACK TO TOP)
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. 7.8.0 provides more convenient options for retrieving a backup of the underlying SQLite database. The guide for running rqlite on Kubernetes has also been improved. You can download the release from GitHub. The post rqlite 7.8.0 released appeared first on Vallified . (BACK TO TOP)
Patterns of short tenure are normal at the beginning of a career, but are more of a red flag in more senior roles. Here’s why. (BACK TO TOP)
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Naming products is hard. One of Tailscale’s key features, MagicDNS, has long been a source of armchair grammar controversy. To wit: Some people think we should call it Magic DNS because Apple calls their flagship keyboard and mouse the Magic Keyboard and the Magic Mouse. A Magic Keyboard without the magic is still a keyboard. A MacBook without the Mac is not a book. MagicDNS is one word because without the magic, it wouldn’t just be DNS; it wouldn’t be anything.conf .com is and gets back 82.58. (BACK TO TOP)
Tailscale automatically assigns IP addresses for every unique device in your network, giving each device an IP address no matter where it is located. We further improved on this with MagicDNS , which automatically registers a human-readable, easy-to-remember DNS name for each device — so you don’t need to use an IP address to access your devices. MagicDNS is such a useful feature that it’s been frustrating for us that not all Tailscale users know about it.ts.beta.tailscale.net . Also in v1.ts. (BACK TO TOP)
Download the AppIntroducing the Replit mobile app for Android and iOS. Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of the Replit mobile app. With the mobile app, you can code anything, anywhere. Build more, type less. Use the app to write a Python bot, build and launch your personal website, or run any program you can imagine with the power of Nix, which gives access to millions of open-source packages. With Replit, you instantly have a powerful computer in your pocket. It's called the joystick. (BACK TO TOP)
[Replit x India (Part 1)](https://blog.replit.com/India Part 1)
Plug: If you're excited about what we're building and would like to partner with us in India, please reach out at [email protected]! No other country in the world is as obsessed with coding as India is. India has the most number of computer science students graduating from college (215K+) each year and many more in adjacent fields of study like electrical engineering and IT. Learning to code is the surest way towards upward mobility and a solid middle class lifestyle. Enter Replit....... (BACK TO TOP)
This tutorial covers: Setting up a Joi contract testing framework Using Joi to write contract tests and validate API responses Validating an API response against a schema When you sign a contract, you expect both parties to hold their end of the bargain. The same can be true for testing applications. Contract testing verifies that services can communicate with each other and that the data shared between the services is consistent with a specified set of rules.js .coindesk.json .coindesk.js .... (BACK TO TOP)
This tutorial covers: Setting up Knative and ArgoCD Monitoring and accessing a sample application Creating a pipeline to continuously deploy your serverless workload on a Kubernetes cluster Containers and microservices have revolutionized the way applications are deployed on the cloud. Since its launch in 2014, Kubernetes has become a standard tool for container orchestration. It provides a set of primitives to run resilient, distributed applications. Cloning the Node.js application code.env.0. (BACK TO TOP)
Prerequisites To follow along with this guide, it is essential to have the following: Golang installed and ready to run Go code. MySQL server correctly installed together with MySQL Workbench for MySQL database management. You can jump ahead and get the code used for this guide in this GitHub repository . Getting Started with GraphQL and Go GraphQL is a query language for APIs used to communicate data between a client and a server. GraphQL provides strongly typed tooling for your server. server. (BACK TO TOP)
How to Set up a Postgresql Database Replication for Optimization and High Availability in a Django Application
Introduction One of the common web application architectures is the 3-tier application architecture. A 3-tier application consists of the presentation tier where data is presented to the users, The web tier which contains the business logic, and the data tier where data is stored. The data tier consists of a database and other application services that aid the read/to write access to that database. The data is replicated from the Primary database to the Standby or Secondary databases.0.0.0.0.0. (BACK TO TOP)
Atish Banerjea Job Title: Chief Information Officer Years at Meta: 6 Education: Master of Science Computer Information Systems, Temple University; Bachelor of Commerce, Delhi University. Hometown: New Delhi, India Tell us about your role as Chief Information Officer at Meta. Atish Banerjea: I run our Enterprise Engineering team. (BACK TO TOP)
Peng-Jen Chen is well aware of how language barriers can affect people’s ability to communicate. Chen grew up in Taiwan speaking Mandarin Chinese, but his father, Sheng-Jiang Chen, a 70-year-old retired factory lead technician, hails from Southern Taiwan, where Taiwanese Hokkien is widely spoken. Though the two languages are related, they’re different enough that Chen’s […] The post AI translates Hokkien, an unwritten language, for the first time appeared first on Tech at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)
https://fasterthanli.me/index.xml
https://www.timescale.com/blog/
How United Manufacturing Hub Is Introducing Open Source to Manufacturing and Using Time-Series Data for Predictive Maintenance
Read how United Manufacturing Hub is building an open-source Helm chart for Kubernetes that combines information and operational tools and technologies in the manufacturing field—and why they chose TimescaleDB over InfluxDB to do it. (BACK TO TOP)
Few features raise more questions than database indexes in the PostgreSQL landscape. Since Timescale Cloud is built on PostgreSQL, we often get questions on the topic. Read this blog post to see all your FAQs about indexing answered. (BACK TO TOP)
While DevOps played a pivotal role in shaping how we deliver technology, there’s a growing need for greater release velocity - this was clear in the recent DORA report . With the rapid pace of innovation, organizations are expected to transform their product development to meet the market's demands. We have help, of course. While we’d all like to go faster, the processes, tools, and techniques followed and used by most organizations aren’t adequate to sustain the pace. (BACK TO TOP)
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is approaching quickly! As founding members of the CNCF, the Weaveworks team is looking forward to visiting Detroit and having some great sessions, demos, and sweepstakes too. Whether you are attending in person or virtually from home, we hope you’ll drop by, see the latest features of Weave GitOps, and talk to our technical team about your Kubernetes and GitOps requirements. Here’s what’s happening next week. The policy engine is built on Open Policy Agent (OPA). (BACK TO TOP)
On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc. The next day, half of those profiles no longer existed. A similarly dramatic drop in the number of LinkedIn profiles claiming employment at Amazon comes as LinkedIn is struggling to combat a significant uptick in the creation of fake employee accounts that pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate users. (BACK TO TOP)
When people banking in the United States lose money because their payment card got skimmed at an ATM, gas pump or grocery store checkout terminal, they may face hassles or delays in recovering any lost funds, but they are almost always made whole by their financial institution. (BACK TO TOP)
AMLBot, a service that helps businesses avoid transacting with cryptocurrency wallets that have been sanctioned for cybercrime activity, said an investigation published by KrebsOnSecurity last year helped it shut down three dark web services that secretly resold its technology to help cybercrooks avoid detection by anti-money laundering systems. (BACK TO TOP)
In this blog-post we demonstrate how hosting and combining multiple server-side rendered micro-frontends on Cloudflare Workers offer a highly scalable, high performance solution to these problems (BACK TO TOP)
Cloudflare's peering portal allows users to log in with existing PeeringDB credentials and request peering sessions with cloudflare direct from the portal (BACK TO TOP)
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the second quarter of 2022, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/
In this economy, many organizations are looking for efficiencies. This is putting pressure on security teams, along with everyone else. For many, this means fewer resources to work with, even though cyberattacks continue to escalate. So, what do you do? You find ways to do more with less. The post Do more with less—Discover the latest Microsoft Entra innovations appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
The Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) details a recent ransomware incident in which the attacker used a collection of commodity tools and techniques, such as using living-off-the-land binaries, to launch their malicious code. The post Defenders beware: A case for post-ransomware investigations appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Learn how Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Priva can help simplify data governance across your enterprise using the tools you already have—today. The post How Microsoft Purview and Priva help simplify data protection appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has identified evidence of a novel ransomware campaign targeting organizations in the logistics and transportation industry in Ukraine and Poland utilizing a previously unidentified ransomware payload. The post New “Prestige” ransomware impacts organizations in Ukraine and Poland appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Examining the opportunities for reducing energy consumption in robotics and automation across Amazon's fulfillment center network. (BACK TO TOP)
How the SCOT team implemented a system that leverages operations research and machine learning to decide what products to buy, how much to buy, where to place them, and more. (BACK TO TOP)
Tatevik Sekhposyan, Amazon Scholar and Texas A&M University professor, enjoys the flexibility of economics and how embracing uncertainty can enhance prediction. (BACK TO TOP)
How Amazon’s Supply Chain Optimization Technologies team has evolved over time to meet a challenge of staggering complexity. (BACK TO TOP)
INFORMS talk explores techniques Amazon’s Supply Chain Optimization Technologies organization is testing to fulfill customer orders more efficiently. (BACK TO TOP)
[William Dudley] picked up a Fluke 8840A bench multimeter at an auction, but was sad to find out that it was reading resistances inaccurately. It was also missing the optional …read more (BACK TO TOP)
If you’ve ever paged through the color samples at the hardware store trying to match a particular color, you know how hard it can be. Not only are there nearly …read more (BACK TO TOP)
There’s something to be said for über-powerful cyberdecks, but there’s also a certain appeal to less powerful decks squeezed into a tiny form factor. [Christian Lo] has designed a cyberdeck …read more (BACK TO TOP)
The third and final round of the 2022 Supercon talks announcements brings us closer to a complete picture of the full spectrum of hacking awesomeness taking the stage in just …read more (BACK TO TOP)
Being able to actuate parts of a prosthetic limb can make it much more useful. To help in this goal for partial arm or hand amputees, [TURFPTAx] has developed a …read more (BACK TO TOP)
PI-ARS: Accelerating Evolution-Learned Visual-Locomotion with Predictive Information Representations
Posted by Wenhao Yu, Research Scientist, Robotics at Google, and Kuang-Huei Lee, Research Engineer, Google Research, Brain team Evolution strategy (ES) is a family of optimization techniques inspired by the ideas of natural selection : a population of candidate solutions are usually evolved over generations to better adapt to an optimization objective. More direct exploration has been shown to boost learning performance and enable large scale data collection with parallel computation.g.e. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Junjie Ke, Senior Software Engineer, and Feng Yang, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Research Understanding the aesthetic and technical quality of images is important for providing a better user visual experience. Image quality assessment (IQA) uses models to build a bridge between an image and a user's subjective perception of its quality. However, CNN-based IQA models are often constrained by the fixed-size input requirement in batch training, i.e.0 license . High quality 76.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Manoj Kumar, Research Engineer, and Ekin Dogus Cubuk, Research Scientist, Google Research The task of determining the similarity between images is an open problem in computer vision and is crucial for evaluating the realism of machine-generated images. Though there are a number of straightforward methods of estimating image similarity (e.g. Two sets of sample images from the BAPPS dataset . Image source: Zhang et al. (2018) . Each blue dot represents an ImageNet classifier.0–40.0).e. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Avi Singh, Research Scientist, and Laura Graesser, Research Engineer, Robotics at Google Robot learning has been applied to a wide range of challenging real world tasks, including dexterous manipulation , legged locomotion , and grasping . It is less common to see robot learning applied to dynamic, high-acceleration tasks requiring tight-loop human-robot interactions, such as table tennis.e., sim-to-real ) approach. In Iterative-Sim2Real , (i.e. A 340-hit rally lasting over 4 minutes. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Yi Tay and Mostafa Dehghani, Research Scientists, Google Research, Brain Team Building models that understand and generate natural language well is one the grand goals of machine learning (ML) research and has a direct impact on building smart systems for everyday applications. Improving the quality of language models is a key target for researchers to make progress toward such a goal.g.g. On the other hand, autoregressive language models are great for open-ended generation (e.g.g.e.g. (BACK TO TOP)
In this episode of IPv6 Buzz, Ed, Scott, and Tom speak with XiPeng Xiao, the new chair of the IETF v6ops working group. We discuss the lastest work in IPv6 at the IETF, whether the IETF should have a role in promoting v6 in the enterprise, and more. The post IPv6 Buzz 112: What’s New With IPv6 At The IETF? appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast, sponsored by AppDynamics, explores how AppDynamics Cloud brings observability to your Kubernetes deployments by ingesting and visualizing all metrics, events, log and trace data from across your cloud and on-prem landscapes. The post Day Two Cloud 168: Get Kubernetes Observability With AppDynamics Cloud (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Today on the Full Stack Journey podcast, host Scott Lowe tries something new with an audio version of his Technology Short Takes blog series. Scott takes three career-focused articles, shares a brief summary of the article, and then discusses the article in a little bit of depth. The post Full Stack Journey 071: Technology Short Takes Audio Edition appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
The Tech Bytes podcast welcomes sponsor LiveAction, which provides network visibility and NDR products for network engineers. We’ll get an overview of LiveAction’s portfolio and take a closer look at new security capabilities in its ThreatEye Network Detection and Response product. The post Tech Bytes: LiveAction Integrates NDR And Network Visibility (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Network Break 403: Startup Hedgehog Fuses SONiC And Kubernetes; Google, Intel Launch Mount Evans SmartNIC
Take a Network Break! This week we cover a lot of news including a new SONiC startup, Cisco and Microsoft teaming up on collaboration, new hardware from Google and Intel, a new SOC from Palo Alto Networks, space networking, and more. The post Network Break 403: Startup Hedgehog Fuses SONiC And Kubernetes; Google, Intel Launch Mount Evans SmartNIC appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
As carriers and service providers look to embrace disaggregated infrastructure and software, and drive new business through technologies such as network slicing, it’s critical to have management and orchestration capabilities to coordinate hardware and software resources in the RAN, the transport layer, and the network core. The post Heavy Networking 651: How Juniper Networks’ SMO Enables Network Slicing (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links It was all downhill after the Cuecat: On the origins of "user manipulation and surveillance." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. The clerk handed one over to me and I left, feeling a little giddy. I didn't have to pay a cent. The Cuecat was a good idea and a terrible idea. To get the Cuecat into widespread use, the company raised millions in the capital markets, then mass-manufactured these things and gave them away for free at Radio Shacks around the country. https://web.2. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Being good at your job is praxis: The FTC can mandate Right to Repair without (further) Congressional authorization. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: None Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Being good at your job is praxis (permalink) You know the joke." The trustbusters in the Biden administration know precisely where to kick the photocopier, and they're kicking the shit out of it.eff. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links A giant grocery merger will send "inflation" through the roof: The Kroger-Albertson's merger will trigger massive price-hikes. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading A giant grocery merger will send "inflation" through the roof (permalink) Sometimes it's hard to know why prices are going up.fool." https://www.businessinsider." https://www.wsj." and this the "preposterous" $24. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links RIP, Roger Wood, genius assemblage sculptor: Sorely missed already. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading RIP, Roger Wood, genius assemblage sculptor (permalink) Last week, my dear old friend Roger Wood died, very suddenly, of cancer. He was 80. Roger was a brilliant sculptor, a Canadian veteran navy gunner, and gay.thestar.S.co. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links How lawyers became sadists: What about the incentive not to be perceived as a colossal asshole? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2020. Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading How lawyers became sadists (permalink) There is plentiful evidence that we are, as a species, prone to empathy and kindness. Greed and hatred have to be nurtured and trained.oup.youtube.wsj.wsj. (BACK TO TOP)
Pluralistic: 14 Oct 2022 Medieval Times invents a modern union-busting tactic; Billionaire dilletantes vs good Democrats
Today's links Medieval Times invents a modern union-busting tactic: Trademark, like all "IP," is a tool to control critics, customers and competitors. Billionaire dilettantes vs good Democrats: Even the best Democratic candidate is no match for the worst Republican when wealthy "Democratic" donors meddle. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2007, 2012. Take trademark: Apple engraves miniature logos onto the parts inside your iPhone, which you will likely never see.vice. (BACK TO TOP)
For coders without an internet connection, an offline dataset provides an essential encyclopedia The post Introducing the Overflow Offline project appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
If you want a fast highway, you should have fewer cars. The post Faster feedback loops make for faster developer velocity (Ep. 498) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
We all have fears when it comes to tech. These are (some of) our stories. The post Beware the scammers posing as tech recruiters (Ep. 497) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Statistically-relevant data, but not actually exploitable. The post Privacy-friendly machine learning data sets: synthetic data appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Automated movie and TV curation, downcasting, and templating in HTML The post The Overflow #147: Working with a second brain appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
A new platform promises to make building a robot as easy as crafting a smartphone app. The post The robots are coming… but when? (Ep 496) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
In this episode, we’re joined by tech Lawyer Luis Villa to explore the question, who owns code? The company, the engineer, the team? What about when you’re using AI, Machine learning, GitHub Copilot… is that still your code? (BACK TO TOP)
Few genuinely need a multi-cloud setup. There is plenty of advice out there which mostly boils down to don’t do it, you will be worse off. Vex.dev is a startup that provides APIs for video and audio streaming. The hard part is real-time combined with massive scale - think hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections. They achieve this by using a combination of Fly.io, AWS and GCP. Jason Carter, founder of Vex Communications, is joining us today to talk about the multi-cloud setup that vex. (BACK TO TOP)
The Open Podcast Prefix Project is a free and open source podcast prefix analytics service committed to open data and listener privacy. This hits close to home for us in a couple ways, so we invited the project’s creator, John Spurlock, Backstage to learn more about it. (BACK TO TOP)
People are starting to wake up to the fact that they have control and ownership over their data, and governments are moving quickly to legislate these rights. John K. Thomson has written a new book on the topic that is a must read! We talk about the new book in this episode along with how practitioners should be thinking about data exchanges, privacy, trust, and synthetic data. (BACK TO TOP)
Harmonai revisited, lessons learned from public salary, Open Core Ventures, Stripe is Paypal in 2010 & Helix (The Changelog)
We revisit our Harmonai story from last week, Jamie Tanna reviews posting his salary history publicly, Sid Sijbrandij’s new (open core) venture fund, Zed Shaw thinks Stripe is like Paypal in 2010 & Helix is a new Rust-based terminal. (BACK TO TOP)
Docusaurus maintainer Sébastien Lorber joins Jerod & Amal for a deep-dive on everybody’s favorite documentation generator. It’s back with a big 2.0 release, boasts some big users, and has a big set of new features such as document versioning, a plugin architecture, and more. (BACK TO TOP)
This week we’re talking about serverless Postgres! We’re joined by Nikita Shamgunov, co-founder and CEO of Neon. With Neon, truly serverless PostgreSQL is finally here. Neon isn’t Postgres compatible…it actually is Postgres! Neon is also open source under the Apache License 2.0. Neon is invite only as of the recording and release of this episode, but near the end of the show Nikita shares a few ways to get an invite and early access. (BACK TO TOP)
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Great customer service leads to happy, engaged customers and directly impacts revenue growth, customer loyalty and brand reputation. Your agents help your customers everyday, ChromeOS helps your agents stay productive and engaged at work. With customer satisfaction still heavily reliant on time to resolution, productivity is paramount for both agent engagement and customer delight. When the interaction ends, the desk with all its case-specific windows can be closed with one click. One U.S. 1. (BACK TO TOP)
Editor’s note: Today’s post comes from Raul Navarrete, Head of Mobile Channel and Smart Assistants, BBVA Spain. BBVA Spain uses Google Maps Platform to create a true culture of trust for its customers. The rise of mobile technology has completely changed the way we pay for goods and services. Back in 2019, just 4.4% of our customers opted for mobile payments, a figure that has now risen to 23%. And make sure their friends and family know about them. It also helps us increase security. (BACK TO TOP)
How ML-fueled recommendations help developers optimize security, price-performance, and carbon reduction
There’s a lot of talk about the positive impact that machine learning can have on our lives as citizens and consumers. But did you know that it can reduce complexity and toil for cloud administrators? Google Cloud Active Assist uses data, intelligence, and ML to optimize the security, performance, and cost of your cloud environment. Top new Active Assist features Customers increasingly look to us for help from Google Cloud to enable them to do more with less... Read Article (BACK TO TOP)
Our mission at Google Cloud is to help our customers fuel data driven transformations. As a step towards this, BigQuery is removing its limit as a SQL-only interface and providing new developer extensions for workloads that require programming beyond SQL. These flexible programming extensions are all offered without the limitations of running virtual servers. The cost of running these Apache Spark jobs is only based on job duration and resources consumed. Sign up for the preview today . (BACK TO TOP)
Most commonly, data teams have worked with structured data. Unstructured data, which includes images, documents, and videos, will account for up to 80 percent of data by 2025. However, organizations currently use only a small percentage of this data to derive useful insights. One of main ways to extract value from unstructured data is by applying ML to the data. Performing such tasks is currently achievable by using services that host ML models for these operations.g. Twiddy & Co.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Cloud is accelerating digital transformation, enabling organizations to build and release apps more frequently, and databases are at the center of this transformation. But the transition to Cloud has led to an increase in the number and variety of database engines that users have to manage. The operational burden of keeping up with scale and new software releases for each engine has forced database teams to be more reactive. These issues can usually be prevented if you take timely action. 2. 3. (BACK TO TOP)
Firestore is a serverless, fully managed NoSQL document database. In addition to being a great choice for traditional server-side applications, Firestore in Native Mode also offers a backend-as-a-service (BaaS) model ideal for rapid, flexible web, and mobile application development. Build applications that don't require managing any backend infrastructure. While this is plenty for most applications, we know that there are some extreme use cases that require even higher throughput.wagtailcore.g. (BACK TO TOP)
When it comes to digital experiences, speed is revenue. Users are highly sensitive to slow experiences, and the probability of them bouncing increases by 32% when page load times go from 1 second to 3 seconds. Frustrating experiences let revenue walk out of the door. Cloud CDN can help accelerate your web services by using Google’s edge network to bring your content closer to your users. Our latest improvements to Cloud CDN expand on the tools you need to fine tune your web service performance. (BACK TO TOP)
Data drives innovation, but business needs are changing more rapidly than processes can accommodate, resulting in a widening gap between data and value. In the past, you were concerned about whether you had enough capacity or the amount of engineering time needed to incorporate new data sources into your analytics stack. But here’s the thing. Even though data platforms have evolved, the organizational model for generating analytics data and processes users follow to access and use it haven't. (BACK TO TOP)
We’ve all been there— asking a voice assistant to play a song, launch an app, or answer a question, but the assistant doesn’t comply. Maybe it’s a network outage, or maybe you’re in the middle of nowhere, far away from coverage—either way the result is the same: the voice assistant can’t connect to the server and thus cannot help. Running locally is made possible by new modeling techniques, on both the Speech-to-Text (STT) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) fronts... Read Article (BACK TO TOP)
Cloud-based computing is one of the most important developments in the digital economy in the last decade. It has reduced costs, improved security, simplified interoperability, and delivered services with unprecedented reach. It has also laid the foundation for entirely new companies. Name any fast-growing business today—Spotify, Revolut, Snap, etc.—and it has likely benefited from the elasticity and flexibility of the cloud. Over the last several weeks, the U.S.K. (BACK TO TOP)
There’s no doubt that the way people work has changed - and it’s changed for the better. Now, companies must be ready to support their workforce no matter where they’re working or what type of device they’re working from – but hybrid work brings its own set of challenges. IT teams are being held responsible for ensuring their enterprise’s productivity, while also upholding device management and security best practices. One of the key ways to do this is through comprehensive management solutions. (BACK TO TOP)
The Challenge Many government agencies remained overwhelmed with paper, even as the pandemic drove digitization and modernization. As a result, government agencies continue to look for better ways to streamline manual processes that overwhelm their workers and take focus from higher value initiatives. Agency leaders can use Document AI to help process paper and images at scale to better deliver services to their constituents. 15 in Washington D.C. (BACK TO TOP)
Frequently, your application may need to count the number of matches for a given query. For example, if you're developing a social application, you may need to count the number of friends an individual has. With today's Preview launch of count(), you can easily and cost-efficiently perform a count() directly in Firestore. It’s accessible via all our server, client SDKs, Google Cloud and Firebase console., without reading all the docs.data().wagtailcore.rich_text.data().wagtailcore.rich_text. (BACK TO TOP)
Flexera’s State of the Cloud Report 2022 pointed out that significant cloud spending is wasted, a major issue that is getting more critical as cloud costs continue to rise. In the current macroeconomic conditions, companies focus on identifying ways to reduce spending. To effectively do that, we need to understand the pricing model. We can then work towards the challenges of cost monitoring, optimization, and forecasting. This can represent a significant cost, especially if it’s not optimized. (BACK TO TOP)
To all Apache Beam and Dataflow users: If you’ve experimented with Beam, prototyped a pipeline, or verified assumptions about a dataset, you might have used Beam Notebooks or other interactive alternatives such as Google Colab or Jupyter Notebooks. Allow me to introduce Interactive FlinkRunner on notebook-managed clusters . It lets you execute pipelines at scale and inspect results interactively with FlinkRunner on notebook-managed clusters. The actual cost may vary.40.0.wagtailcore.rich_text.g. (BACK TO TOP)
We understand that for startups in the build phase, the highest priority task is to continuously ship features based on your users' needs. There are three main focus areas when building applications: Development : When it comes to development, focus on tasks that make your app unique by offloading backend setup and processing to someone else. For example, instead of setting up your own API servers and managing backend services, Firebase offers a managed experience. See you in the cloud... (BACK TO TOP)
Editor’s note : KP Philpot is the Environmental Health & Safety Manager at Alphabet's data center campus in Douglas County, Georgia . It's a long way from both a childhood in Chicago's South Side, and standing in football stadiums with thousands of fans, but one thing has always held true for him: The importance of personal and team performance. How did you come to Google? At surface level, it was pretty direct. On a deeper level, it was a long and unexpected journey... Read Article (BACK TO TOP)
BigQuery is increasingly becoming the landing zone of choice for many customers' data in Google cloud. BigQuery is designed to provide high data durability. Data is written synchronously to 2 availability zones and within these zones, data is written using erasure encoding to make sure data can be recovered from multiple disk failures. As of this writing in October 2022, BigQuery is built to automatically recover from zone level catastrophic failures with 99. Data in BigQuery is immutable. i.e. (BACK TO TOP)
Today, we are excited to announce that the new Google Cloud region in Israel is open. We’ll be celebrating the launch at an event in Tel Aviv on November 9 — register to join us. Israel is known as the startup nation, and has long been a hub of technology innovation for startups and Google alike. We’re excited to extend that innovation-first approach to other industries, accelerating digital transformation to help create new jobs and digital experiences that better serve users in Israel. 1. (BACK TO TOP)
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