Bulletin for Friday, 21 Jul 2023
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Computer Things (1)
The Technium (1)
Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (1)
Textual (1)
tech-at-instacart - Medium (2)
- Zero-Downtime PostgreSQL Cutovers
- How Instacart Modernized the Prediction of Real Time Availability for Hundreds of Millions of Items…
Retool Blog (2)
Google AI Blog (2)
- Using societal context knowledge to foster the responsible application of AI
- SimPer: Simple self-supervised learning of periodic targets
High Scalability (2)
Latent Space (2)
- Llama 2: The New Open LLM SOTA (ft. Nathan Lambert, Matt Bornstein, Anton Troynikov, Russell Kaplan, Whole Mars Catalog et al.)
- AI Fundamentals: Datasets 101
Weaveworks (2)
Timescale Blog (3)
- Estimating RDS Costs
- How to Work With Time Series in Python?
- TimescaleDB vs. InfluxDB: Purpose Built Differently for Time-Series Data
- Fast decoding of base32 strings
- Science and Technology links (July 16 2023)
- Recognizing string prefixes with SIMD instructions
Blog – Hackaday (3)
- Physical Neural Network Can Be Trained Like a Digital One
- Smart Powermeter Uses E-Paper Display
- Game Boy-Style Camera For Playdate
- Reimagining Tailscale for iOS
- That’s a wrap on Tailscale Up!
- SSH endpoint discovery on your tailnet with Charm Wishlist
- Protecting data on Apple devices with Cloudflare and Jamf
- Cloudflare Zaraz steps up: general availability and new pricing
- DDoS threat report for 2023 Q2
- Quickly see differences between Zone Versions with Version Comparisons
DTN (4)
- The Future of Utilities is in Data and Digitalisation
- What was the impact of lowering sulfur in maritime bunker fuels?
- How Pre-storm Outage Insights Help Utilities Minimize Costs
- How German Utilities Can Prepare for More Intense Weather
- Teaching language models to reason consistently
- Predicting congestion in fleets of robots
- Geopipe uses AI to create a digital twin of Earth
- Five finalists selected for Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge 5
The Full Feed - All of the Packet Pushers Podcasts (5)
- Day Two Cloud 203: Becoming An SRE – It’s More Than Just Software Skills
- Full Stack Journey 080: Career Transitions Via Cloud, Infrastructure, And Content Creation With Rishab Kumar
- Tech Bytes: ThousandEyes Extends End-to-End Network Visibility To Meraki MX And More (Sponsored)
- Network Break 438: Intel Abandons NUC; EU Blesses Broadcom/VMware Union; Microsoft Joins SSE Race
- Heavy Networking 690: LACP Is Not Link Aggregation – With Tony Bourke
- Improving time to first byte: Q&A with Dana Lawson of Netlify
- How AI can help your business, without the hallucinations (Ep. 591)
- How ICs can get recognition for their work on big projects (Ep. 590)
- The Overflow #186: Do large language models know what they’re talking about?
- How terrifying is giving a conference talk? (Ep. 589)
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (5)
- Pluralistic: Private equity ghouls have a new way to steal from their investors (20 July 2023)
- Pluralistic: Denazification, truth and reconciliation, and the story of Germany's story (19 July 2023)
- Pluralistic: Podcasting "Let the Platforms Burn" (18 July 2023)
- Pluralistic: Linkty Dumpty (15 July 2023)
- Pluralistic: Why they're smearing Lina Khan (14 July 2023)
Earthly Blog (6)
- Rust Concurrency Patterns for Parallel Programming
- Learning Shell Script Functions and Arguments: A Comprehensive Guide
- Infrastructure as Code Made Easy: A Beginner’s Guide to Terraform CDK
- An Introduction To Closures and Decorators in Python
- How to Build a News Categorization Classifier with NewsAPI, NLP, and Logistic Regression
- Mining Meaningful Methods from Large Language Models
Towards Data Science - Medium (6)
- Deep Dive into PFI for Model Interpretability
- ReLoRa: Pre-train a Large Language Model on Your GPU
- Efficient k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN) Solutions with NumPy
- 10 Ways to Add a Column to Pandas DataFrames
- Understand your Data in Real-Time
- Gradient Boosting: a Silver Bullet in Forecasting
Simon Willison's Weblog: Blogmarks (6)
- Prompt injected OpenAI's new Custom Instructions to see how it is implemented
- sqlite-vss v0.1.1 Annotated Release Notes
- Study claims ChatGPT is losing capability, but some experts aren’t convinced
- Llama 2: The New Open LLM SOTA
- llama2-mac-gpu.sh
- Ollama
- Storytime with Steve Yegge (Changelog Interviews #549)
- This is going to be Lit 🔥 (JS Party #284)
- The tools we love (Go Time #285)
- Legal consequences of generated content (Practical AI #232)
- Magical shell history, engineers should focus on writing, LazyVim, CSS in 2023 & bad issue tracker behaviors (Changelog News #53)
- Dear Red Hat... (Changelog & Friends #7)
- Fundamentals all the way down (JS Party #283)
- Introducing MIT Technology Review Roundtables, real-time conversations about what’s next in tech
- The Download: US facial recognition, and battery ingredients
- Want to know where batteries are going? Look at their ingredients.
- Face recognition in the US is about to meet one of its biggest tests
- The Download: Meta’s new AI system, and covert Chinese social media activity
- It’s still a challenge to spot Chinese state media social accounts
- Accelerating retail personalization at scale
- Meta’s latest AI model is free for all
- Prompt injected OpenAI's new Custom Instructions to see how it is implemented
- sqlite-vss v0.1.1 Annotated Release Notes
- Study claims ChatGPT is losing capability, but some experts aren’t convinced
- Llama 2: The New Open LLM SOTA
- llama2-mac-gpu.sh
- Ollama
- Accessing Llama 2 from the command-line with the llm-replicate plugin
- Weeknotes: Self-hosted language models with LLM plugins, a new Datasette tutorial, a dozen package releases, a dozen TILs
- Quoting Ethan Mollick
LogRocket Blog (10)
- Handling data fetching in Next.js with useSWR
- What is market segmentation? Definition, 5 types, and examples
- Common UX dark patterns to avoid
- Why is continuous optimization essential for product success?
- 5 team dysfunctions that hinder performance
- Leader Spotlight: Creating hybrid methodologies with Ying Chen
- Using Wireit to improve script efficiency and intelligence
- Understanding and maximizing average order value (AOV)
- Understanding user stories in UX design
- What is multivariate testing and when should we use it?
Meta has made it possible for people to upload high dynamic range (HDR) videos from their phone’s camera roll to Reels on Facebook and Instagram. To show standard dynamic range (SDR) UI elements and overlays legibly on top of HDR video, we render them at a brightness level comparable to the video itself. We solved [...] Read More... The post Bringing HDR video to Reels appeared first on Engineering at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/
Jean Yang sold her startup to Postman, and shares the details on what happened in the 5 years leading up to this sale. (BACK TO TOP)
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com
Click on any image in this post to copy the code that produced it and generate the output on your own computer in a Wolfram notebook. AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in philosophy. And it now turns out to also be a question […] (BACK TO TOP)
Repls today allow 256+ GiB of storage space, up from a historical 1GiB limit. This post is about the infrastructure that enabled that change. Historically Replit limited files in each Repl to 1 GiB of storage space. The 1 GiB limit was enough for small projects, but with the advent of AI model development and with some projects needing gigabytes worth of dependencies to be installed, 1 GiB is not enough. HOW REPLS PREVIOUSLY OPERATED All Repls use btrfs as their filesystem of choice.kernel.). (BACK TO TOP)
This article was originally an episode of the MLOps Live, an interactive Q&A session where ML practitioners answer questions from other ML practitioners. Every episode is focused on one specific ML topic, and during this one, we talked to Jason Falks about deploying conversational AI products to production. You can watch it on YouTube: Or… (BACK TO TOP)
I swear, for the past few months, there has been a major issue with my Kubernetes cluster, at least once a month. Once, a simple update took out my entire network infrastructure. It was down for nearly a whole weekend… This time … this time it was down for nearly a week: the worst one […] (BACK TO TOP)
>Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode</h1> <style> .hilite {cursor:zoom-in} a:link img.hilite, a:visited img.hilite {color: #fff;} a:hover img.hilite {color: #f66;} pre.microcode {font-family: courier, fixed; padding: 10px; background-color: #f5f5f5; display:inline-block;border:none;} pre. However, early microprocessors didn't include the circuitry to detect illegal instructions, since the chips didn't have transistors to spare. Based on NEC v.g. Click for a larger version. (BACK TO TOP)
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/
This is a VLDB 2013 paper (appeared earlier at Sigmod'12 it seems) from Google about paying tech-debt. F1 replaces the sharded MySQL hacky implementation of AdWords with a principled well-engineered infrastructure that builds a distributed SQL layer on top of Spanner. My reaction to this paper probably up until 5 years ago would be "ugh, schemas, database stuff... No distributed algorithms, pass!". But I like to think that I improve with age. Here are the things I love about this work. 1. 2. 3. (BACK TO TOP)
[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. pleaded guilty to running LeakedSource[.]com, a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches.com. (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/ongoing.atom
The Hollywood strike is setting talent against studios, but the problem is that both are jointly threatened by the reality of the Internet and zero distribution costs. (BACK TO TOP)
Five top tips to simplify your Teleport deployment. (BACK TO TOP)
Imagine you start a new hobby — let’s say bike riding. You don’t want to invest a lot in a bike because you’re not sure that you’ll like it… (BACK TO TOP)
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne
I was gonna write an rant about the potential probabilistic model checking, then realized I needed to look at projects besides PRISM and STORM. Then I checked out simpy and saw it had a Defense of Design (DoD): This document explains why SimPy is designed the way it is and how its design evolved over time. This is great! More projects need this! All languages and projects do "odd" things that make no sense to outsiders. It's backwards compatible with something else. Go away and think. — G. K. (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/
I have this belief that all code should be rewritten at least three times. The first version is when you have a sense of the problem, but may not know all of the requirements or corner cases. So, you build "something". It may not be ideal, but it gives you a basis for evaluating the system, identifying more requirements, and documenting some corner cases. For me, this first version is often programmed in a scripting language like bash or perl. (I hate python . As a result, they find nothing.9%. (BACK TO TOP)
#531 – July 17, 2023 Figma is a File Editor Web apps vs file editors, Figma's architecture, and using S3 as a filesystem – a deep dive into building desktop-class software in the browser. Stack Overflow Architecture Their solution is 15 years old, a giant monolithic application running on-premise. It is a single application on IIS which runs 200 sites. This single app is running on nine web servers and a single SQL Server (with the addition of one hot standby). Let's see how far we can take it. (BACK TO TOP)
https://monzo.com/blog/technology
Tarah Srethwatanakul is a Lead Researcher at Monzo. In this blog post, she shares lessons from her first year at the company. (BACK TO TOP)
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog.rss.html
Co-Authors: Sumedh Sakdeo, Lei Sun, Sushant Raikar, Stanislav Pak, and Abhishek Nath Introduction At LinkedIn, we build and operate an open source data lakehouse deployment to power Analytics and Machine Learning workloads. Leveraging data to drive decisions allows us to serve our members with better job insights, and connect the world’s professionals with each other. (BACK TO TOP)
How we built a scalable telemetry pipeline with Apache Kafka and PlanetScale. Read the full story (BACK TO TOP)
An unexpected benefit of AIs is to translate the millions of ancient texts no human experts will ever get to. History will deepen, if not shift. https://t.co/pNNXQgQjez — Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) July 11, 2023 If you have noticed the ChatGPT has recently gotten "lazier and dumber" then you are not alone, and it may be because Open AI is decentralizing its system to reduce costs of operation. https://t. https://t. If that is you, consider this opportunity. Thanks @jasoncrawford . https://t.. (BACK TO TOP)
https://geohot.github.io//blog/
So I started another company. I have even less tolerance for fake bullshit than when I started comma, and I probably will fail because of this. Cruise Automation is a good example here. If they told the truth, they would be out of business. In 2016, they were bought by GM for $1B. I promise they didn’t tell GM that Cruise would be losing $5M per day 5 years later, though it was obvious to anyone willing to be honest. But does it matter? Value destruction is value destruction. Shill shill shill. (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/think-fast-talk-smart-podcast
How do we deal with professional blind spots? According to David Dodson, MBA ’87, we need the panoramic perspective of those who work around us. “360 reviews, done properly, are a massive competitive weapon,” says Dodson, also a lecturer in management at Stanford GSB. Such comprehensive and constructive feedback, he says, can be transformational for employees and managers alike. “Had I not had 360 feedback, I probably would have gone a decade or more with ineffective technique. (BACK TO TOP)
https://engineering.atspotify.com/
Spotify’s approach to challenges in sequential testing with longitudinal data At Spotify, we’re constantly improving our data infrastructure, which means we can get feedback on experiments earlier and earlier. To allow for early feedback in a risk-managed manner, we use sequential tests to monitor regressions in the experiments. However, when moving toward smaller and smaller [...] The post Bringing Sequential Testing to Experiments with Longitudinal Data (Part 1): The Peeking Problem 2. (BACK TO TOP)
https://textual.textualize.io/
Textual 0.30.0 adds desktop-style notifications We have a new release of Textual to talk about, but before that I'd like to cover a little Textual news. ... (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/
Analysis of the techniques used by the threat actor tracked as Storm-0558 for obtaining unauthorized access to email data, tools, and unique infrastructure characteristics. The post Analysis of Storm-0558 techniques for unauthorized email access appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Authors: Brad Nicholson, Andrew Tanner, Marco Montagna Instacart runs one of the largest PostgreSQL fleets on top of AWS RDS, and part of managing a fleet like this is to keep it up to date. Taking our systems offline for extended maintenance operations like upgrading or switching to new instance classes is unacceptable. Downtime must be seconds and be predictable to keep orders flowing and Instacart shoppers shopping. We will then dive into the tooling we built to simplify the process. (BACK TO TOP)
How Instacart Modernized the Prediction of Real Time Availability for Hundreds of Millions of Items…
How Instacart Modernized the Prediction of Real Time Availability for Hundreds of Millions of Items While Saving Costs This is Part 2 of a three-part blog post series in which we outline how we addressed inventory challenges through product, machine learning, and engineering innovations. See Part 1 here . Introduction At Instacart, we serve customers with a goal of finding and delivering all the products that they want to purchase from their favorite grocery stores. Fig 1. Fig 2. Fig 3.g.g.e. (BACK TO TOP)
Zeplin's Ismail Ceylan shares how the ability to quickly build effective tools enabled support for critical mutual and disaster relief in Turkey after the devastating earthquakes in February 2023. (BACK TO TOP)
You can build any business software in Retool, whether internal or customer-facing. These templates are favorites for helping developers move the finish line forward when building internal admin panels and dashboards. (BACK TO TOP)
Getting anything new off the ground usually requires a tremendous amount of urgency. It's hard to launch something from nothing into reality without being incredibly impatient for progress. Thus most founders begin 🎶Their Journey🎶 sprinting from one pressing problem to the next in rapid succession to achieve their lift off. But reaching escape velocity doesn't guarantee you'll keep going, unless you retain the propulsion from an unreasonable sense of urgency. Don't listen too closely. (BACK TO TOP)
Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last year. The market as a whole is up, and if you're in the whole market, you're benefitting. But all of that upside, basically, belongs to just a handful of mega tech companies. This is not a general turn-around, and it's barely a turn-around at all for the unprofitable SaaS companies that saw their bubble burst last year . ( Analysis by Coatue from 6/30/2023 . (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Donald Martin, Jr., Technical Program Manager, Head of Societal Context Understanding Tools and Solutions (SCOUTS), Google Research AI-related products and technologies are constructed and deployed in a societal context : that is, a dynamic and complex collection of social, cultural, historical, political and economic circumstances. The first phase of AI product development is problem understanding , and this phase has tremendous influence over how problems (e.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Daniel McDuff, Staff Research Scientist, and Yuzhe Yang, Student Researcher, Google Learning from periodic data (signals that repeat, such as a heart beat or the daily temperature changes on Earth’s surface) is crucial for many real-world applications, from monitoring weather systems to detecting vital signs . In the health domain, learning from video measurement has shown to extract (quasi-)periodic vital signs such as atrial fibrillation and sleep apnea episodes .g.g.e.g., images).g. (BACK TO TOP)
http://highscalability.com/blog/
Presto is a free, open source SQL query engine. We&ve been using it at Meta for the past ten years, and learned a lot while doing so. Running anything at scale - tools, processes, services - takes problem solving to overcome unexpected challenges. Here are four things we learned while scaling up Presto to Meta scale, and some advice if you&re interested in running your own queries at scale. (BACK TO TOP)
You can subscribe to the system design newsletter to excel in system design interviews and software architecture . The original article was published on systemdesign.one website. What Is Gossip Protocol? The typical problems in a distributed system are the following [1], [11]: maintaining the system state (liveness of nodes) communication between nodes The potential solutions to these problems are as follows [1]: centralized state management service peer-to-peer state management service (BACK TO TOP)
Llama 2: The New Open LLM SOTA (ft. Nathan Lambert, Matt Bornstein, Anton Troynikov, Russell Kaplan, Whole Mars Catalog et al.)
Listen now (80 min) | >2000 AI Engineers joined our emergency Space with Simon Willison and Alex Volkov. Discussing datasets, benchmarks, scaling laws, kremlinology, and predictions. Come for the Llama, stay for the drama! (BACK TO TOP)
Listen now (61 min) | What are our LLMs actually trained on, and are we actually running out of data? (BACK TO TOP)
Overview Flux's journey from an internal Weaveworks project to a CNCF Sandbox project in 2019 and later a Graduated-Status project in 2022 has been remarkable. Its exponential growth and adoption by the community have been phenomenal, with its user base witnessing a 2x to 5x annual increase and an impressive record of over 1 billion container image pulls in 2022 alone. Today we are excited to celebrate the general availability of Flux v2 . Flux v2.0.io. (BACK TO TOP)
In a recent webinar, Chris Lavery , Weaveworks' Senior Reliability Engineer, gave a talk about Site Reliability Engineering and GitOps and how the two methodologies can complement each other. The webinar introduced the fundamentals of SRE and GitOps and provided actionable strategies for implementation. It also explored Weave GitOps Enterprise’s feature integrating SRE and GitOps practices. In this article, we will highlight some of the key elements of this webinar. (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.timescale.com/blog/
Estimating RDS costs can be tricky. Here’s how to avoid sticker shock when your AWS hosting bill comes due. (BACK TO TOP)
A look at why Python is a great language for time-series analysis. Plus, tips for getting started today. (BACK TO TOP)
An in-depth look into how two leading time-series databases stack up in terms of data model, query language, reliability, performance, ecosystem, operational management, and company/community support. (BACK TO TOP)
We often need to encode binary data into ASCII strings. The standards (e.g., email) to do so include base16, base32 and base64. There are some research papers on fast base64 encoding and decoding: Base64 encoding and decoding at almost the speed of a memory copy and Faster Base64 Encoding and Decoding using AVX2 Instructions. For … Continue reading Fast decoding of base32 strings (BACK TO TOP)
Most people think that they are more intelligent than average. Lack of vitamin C may damage the arteries. Make sure you have enough! A difficult problem in software is caching. Caching is the idea that you keep some values in fast memory. But how do you choose which values to keep? A standard technique is … Continue reading Science and Technology links (July 16 2023) (BACK TO TOP)
Suppose that I give you a long list of string tokens (e.g., “A”, “A6”, “AAAA”, “AFSDB”, “APL”, “CAA”, “CDS”, “CDNSKEY”, “CERT”, “CH”, “CNAME”, “CS”, “CSYNC”, “DHC”, etc.). I give you a pointer inside a much larger string and I ask you whether you are pointing at one of these tokens, and if so, which one. … Continue reading Recognizing string prefixes with SIMD instructions (BACK TO TOP)
Here’s an unusual concept: a computer-guided mechanical neural network (video, embedded below.) Why would one want a mechanical neural network? It’s essentially a tool to explore what it would take …read more (BACK TO TOP)
In most places around the world, electricity is getting ever more expensive. Cutting back on your usage is one of the easier ways to escape this pain. This smart powermeter …read more (BACK TO TOP)
The Game Boy Camera, while perhaps not the most technologically advanced piece of equipment, left a huge mark on video game and electronics culture. The grayscale photographs are still highly …read more (BACK TO TOP)
Tailscale gives you access to your devices regardless of their location, it follows that Tailscale should work wherever you are too! That said, while we’ve had an iOS app since the early days, this app hasn’t received much love in a long time. That changes today: with version 1.46 we are happy to introduce a major update, both in design and engineering. From a design perspective, we polished some of our core user workflows. We read and treasure every single message you send us this way. (BACK TO TOP)
On the bright and sunny day of Wednesday, May 31, 2023 the developer relations team hosted Tailscale’s first user conference in San Francisco at Dogpatch Studios. We were looking to hear stories of Tailscale at home, work, and play from different industries and individuals, from around the world, in their own words. Thank you to all of our wonderful speakers for making the day special and valuable for the attendees. (and amongst many, many staged plants. (BACK TO TOP)
Wishlist is a surprisingly fun personalized directory you can run in your terminal to browse and connect to multiple SSH services, made by the command line tool company Charm . You can think of Wishlist like a homepage for your SSH apps and servers. And starting today, you can tie Wishlist into Tailscale, so that Wishlist discovers the SSH endpoints available on the nodes on your tailnet and makes it easy to navigate them.net set to the name of your tailnet. (BACK TO TOP)
Our unique partnership offering will enable Jamf customers to easily implement network Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Remote Browser Isolation (RBI), and SaaS Tenancy Controls from Cloudflare to prevent sensitive data loss from their Apple devices (BACK TO TOP)
Cloudflare Zaraz has transitioned out of beta and is now generally available to all customers. It is included under the free, paid, and enterprise plans of the Cloudflare Developer Platform. Visit our docs to learn more on our different plans (BACK TO TOP)
Q2 2023 saw an unprecedented escalation in DDoS attack sophistication. Pro-Russian hacktivists REvil, Killnet and Anonymous Sudan joined forces to attack Western sites. Mitel vulnerability exploits surged by a whopping 532%, and attacks on crypto rocketed up by 600%. (BACK TO TOP)
Quickly compare changes between two Zone Versions with Version Comparisons available now (BACK TO TOP)
Learn key takeaways from the Future of Utilities Summit, where discussions focused on the need for resiliency and the power of data and digitalisation. The post The Future of Utilities is in Data and Digitalisation appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Troy Vincent, senior market analyst at DTN notes that vacuum gas oil (VGO) is one area where IMO 2020 has made a significant impact. The post What was the impact of lowering sulfur in maritime bunker fuels? appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
As utilities face growing weather impacts, data technology can provide valuable outage insights for targeted, proactive response planning. The post How Pre-storm Outage Insights Help Utilities Minimize Costs appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Climate change is increasing weather risks for German utilities. See how innovative technology provides more time to prepare for storms. The post How German Utilities Can Prepare for More Intense Weather appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
At this year’s ACL, Amazon researchers won an outstanding-paper award for showing that knowledge distillation using contrastive decoding in the teacher model and counterfactual reasoning in the student model improves the consistency of “chain of thought” reasoning. (BACK TO TOP)
Predicting the delays caused when robots’ paths intersect can improve task assignment and path planning in warehouses. (BACK TO TOP)
With help from the Alexa Fund, the company is making it easier to virtually reconstruct reality. (BACK TO TOP)
University teams are competing to advance conversational AI and win the $1 million research grant (BACK TO TOP)
If you want to be a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) you need strong software skills. You also have to be versed in observability, incident response, capacity planning, change management, performance, even security. But wait, there's more! Our guest on today's Day Two Cloud argues you need strong communication skills, emotional intelligence, personal resilience, and the ability to work with a team. Our guest is Amin Astaneh. (BACK TO TOP)
Full Stack Journey 080: Career Transitions Via Cloud, Infrastructure, And Content Creation With Rishab Kumar
Today's Full Stack Journey talks with Rishab Kumar, developer advocate at Twilio. He and Scott Lowe discuss three key things Rishab learned in public cloud, Infrastructure as Code, and creating content that helped his career transitions. The post Full Stack Journey 080: Career Transitions Via Cloud, Infrastructure, And Content Creation With Rishab Kumar appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
In today’s Tech Byte, we’ve got Cisco ThousandEyes sharing new product capabilities, including ThousandEyes on Meraki MX and Webex RoomOS devices and faster insights into the root cause of problems your users are calling to complain about. We also discuss the recent acquisition of SamKnows, which gives ThousandEyes deeper visibility into ISPs. The post Tech Bytes: ThousandEyes Extends End-to-End Network Visibility To Meraki MX And More (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss Intel walking away from the NUC PC, Microsoft rebranding Azure AD and launching an SSE offering, and Microsoft Exchange Online getting hacked. We also cover the EU's conditional approval of Broadcom's VMware acquisition, why Wireshark needs your help, and more IT news. The post Network Break 438: Intel Abandons NUC; EU Blesses Broadcom/VMware Union; Microsoft Joins SSE Race appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
On today’s Heavy Networking we talk LACP and link aggregation. While bonding two or more links together to act as a single virtual link has been done for decades, LACP and link aggregation aren't the same thing, and the distinction matters. Our guest to get into the differences is network instructor Tony Bourke. The post Heavy Networking 690: LACP Is Not Link Aggregation – With Tony Bourke appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Faster websites through piggybacking on existing network architecture. The post Improving time to first byte: Q&A with Dana Lawson of Netlify appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
We sit down with Sascha Heyer, Senior ML specialist at DoIT, to learn how organizations can leverage the power of GenAI while avoiding the downsides. The post How AI can help your business, without the hallucinations (Ep. 591) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Dr. Cat Hicks, Director of Pluralsight Flow’s Developer Success Lab, joins Ben and Eira to talk about why ICs deserve recognition for their contributions to big projects (and how they can get it). The post How ICs can get recognition for their work on big projects (Ep. 590) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Knowledge management and AI, VPN security, and an SVG deep dive. The post The Overflow #186: Do large language models know what they’re talking about? appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Connell, a UK-based .NET developer and senior software engineer at Stack Overflow, tells the home team about his path to software development via text-based RPGs, his work on Stack Overflow’s Community Enablement team, why Agile gets so much hate, and what he’s learned giving conference talks to developers. The post How terrifying is giving a conference talk? (Ep. 589) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Private equity ghouls have a new way to steal from their investors: Continuation funds are a multi-billion-dollar blackmail racket. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Private equity ghouls have a new way to steal from their investors (permalink) Private equity is quite a racket. The mafia have a name for this. There's 2.otpp.bloomberglaw. (BACK TO TOP)
Pluralistic: Denazification, truth and reconciliation, and the story of Germany's story (19 July 2023)
Today's links Denazification, truth and reconciliation, and the story of Germany's story: How do you confront an incomprehensible monstrosity? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. All my life, the Germans have been a counterexample to other nations, where the order of the day was to officially forget the sins that stained the land. "Least said, soonest mended," was the Canadian and American approach to the genocide of First Nations people and the theft of their land.wsws.spiegel.G.scribd.co. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Podcasting "Let the Platforms Burn": It's past time to evacuate the fire-zone. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980 The platforms used to be source of online stability, and many argued that by consolidating the wide and wooly web into a few "curated" silos, the platforms were replacing chaos with good stewardship. But today, all the platforms are on fire, all the time. But I think that will fail. That's the argument of the column. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Linkty Dumpty: Things I thought about when I was supposed to be on holidays. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Linkty Dumpty (permalink) I was supposed to be on vacation, and while I didn't do any blogging for a month, that didn't mean that I stopped looking at my distraction rectangle and making a list of things I wanted to write about.redbubble.craphound.wsj.youtube.co. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Why they're smearing Lina Khan: She wants you to have nice things and they don't (it's really that simple). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Why they're smearing Lina Khan (permalink) My god, they sure hate Lina Khan. She sure must be doing something right, huh? A quick refresher.yalelawjournal.senate. Holy moly is this a stupid thing to say. (BACK TO TOP)
We’re Earthly.dev . We make building software simpler and, therefore faster – like Dockerfile and Makefile had a baby. This is about Rust Concurrency Patterns for Parallel Programming Rust is a modern programming language that prioritizes performance, safety, and concurrency. It’s a unique language thanks to its memory safety guarantees, ownership, and borrowing system, and support for fearless concurrency . Threads in Rust One of the most basic primitives for concurrency in Rust is threads...e. (BACK TO TOP)
We’re Earthly . We make building software simpler and, therefore, faster by using containerization. This article is about autotools and make. If you’re interested in a different building and packaging software approach, then check us out . When you think of automation, you might initially envision its application in physical implementations, such as Internet of Things (IoT) tools like lights and voice assistants. Or you may think of new AI automation tools or platforms like Microsoft Flow . . (BACK TO TOP)
We’re Earthly.dev . We make building software simpler and therefore faster – like Dockerfile and Makefile had a baby. This article shows you how to use the Terraform CDK If you’re reading this article, chances are you’re interested in Terraform . Well, let me get right to the point: Terraform is fantastic! Widely adopted across the industry, Terraform lets you provision your cloud infrastructure and, more generally, configure any third-party providers.2 or above. CDKTF CLI . Node.js (LTS - v18.. (BACK TO TOP)
We’re Earthly . We simplify and speed up software building with containerization. Earthly works great with Python projects. Check it out . Python is a high-level general-purpose language that supports classes as part of its built-in object-oriented programming (OOP) paradigm. Occasionally, when working with variables in Python, you may want to hide a variable without writing an unnecessary class to keep the code more maintainable. This function object is assigned to the variable closure .e. (BACK TO TOP)
We’re Earthly.dev . We make building software simpler and therefore faster – like Dockerfile and Makefile had a baby. This article shows you how to build a news classifier with NewsAPI, NLP, and Logistic Regression According to Earth Web over 2-3 million, news articles are published every day on the internet, with big publishing platforms like The Washington Post publishing over 500 news articles daily. Categorizing news is a very important process. One such algorithm is the Logistic Regression. (BACK TO TOP)
We’re Earthly . We simplify building software with containerization. This article shares lessons from a Proof-of-Concept Earthfile generator project. A Newbs’s Guide to Applying Large Language Models A month ago, the whole Earthly team was gathered in a board room at the Hilton Garden Inn in Minnesota. After a fun day of boating and then curling, we were getting down to planning. The investment quickly pays off, but it’s also not zero, and so represents an onboarding challenge. (BACK TO TOP)
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Another interpretability tool for your toolbox Photo by fabio on Unsplash Knowing how to assess your model is essential for your work as a data scientist. No one will sign off on your solution if you’re not able to fully understand and communicate it to your stakeholders. This is why knowing interpretability methods is so important. The lack of interpretability can kill a very good model. Then, we can use our model to predict our shuffled dataset. Let’s think about it. Looks good for now. (BACK TO TOP)
LoRa but with multiple resets in a row Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
Leveraging NumPy’s broadcasting, fancy Indexing, and sorting for performance computing Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
We often need to derive or create new columns Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
Hands-on Tutorial with bytewax and ydata-profiling In this blog post, we will be covering how you can combine and leverage the open-source streaming solution, bytewax , with ydata-profiling , to improve the quality of your streaming flows. Buckle up! Stream processing enables real-time analysis of data in-flight and before storage, and can be stateful or stateless .). It is essential to maintain data quality throughout the entire process, from collection to feeding downstream applications.).g.g. (BACK TO TOP)
We show that gradient boosting is very powerful for timeseries forecasting and we try to explain why Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
This week it’s storytime with Steve Yegge! Steve came out of retirement to join Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering. Their next frontier is Cody, their AI coding assistant that answers code questions and writes code for you by reading your entire codebase and the code graph. But, we really spent a lot of time talking with Steve about his time at Amazon, Google, and Grab. Ok, it’s storytime! (BACK TO TOP)
Justin Fagnani joins us this week to talk about Lit, a library that helps you build web components. With 17% of pageviews in Chrome registering use of web components, Lit has gained widespread adoption across a variety of companies looking to create reusable components which leverage the power and interoperability of the web platform. Tune in to learn about what makes this tiny library so incredibly lit! (BACK TO TOP)
The Go ecosystem has a hoard of tools and editors for Gophers to choose from and it can be difficult to find ones that are a good fit for each individual. In this episode, we discuss what tools and editors we’re using, the ones we wish existed, how we go about finding new ones, and why we sometimes choose to write our own tools. (BACK TO TOP)
As a technologist, coder, and lawyer, few people are better equipped to discuss the legal and practical consequences of generative AI than Damien Riehl. He demonstrated this a couple years ago by generating, writing to disk, and then releasing every possible musical melody. Damien joins us to answer our many questions about generated content, copyright, dataset licensing/usage, and the future of knowledge work. (BACK TO TOP)
Magical shell history, engineers should focus on writing, LazyVim, CSS in 2023 & bad issue tracker behaviors (Changelog News #53)
Ellie Huxtable’s Atuin makes your shell history magical, Dmitry Kudryavtsev writes why he thinks engineers should focus on writing, LazyVim promises to transform your Neovim setup into a full-fleged IDE, Geoff Graham shares with Smashing Magazine how he writes CSS in 2023 & Brad Fitzpatrick collects a public list of bad issue track behaviors. (BACK TO TOP)
Red Hat’s decision to lock down RHEL sources behind a subscription paywall was met with much ire and opened opportunity for Oracle to get a smack in and SUSE to announce a fork with $10 million behind it. Few RHEL community members have been as publicly irate as Jeff Geerling, so we invited him on the show to discuss. (BACK TO TOP)
Austin Gil returns to JS Party, bringing a fresh perspective on the fundamentals of file uploads. Brace for an insightful session as we navigate the complexities of this key JavaScript topic together, much like a dedicated coach drilling the fundamentals into his team! (BACK TO TOP)
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On August 10, MIT Technology Review is launching Roundtables, a participatory subscriber-only online event series, to keep you informed about emerging tech. Subscribers will get exclusive access to 30-minute monthly conversations with our writers and editors about topics they’re thinking deeply about—including artificial intelligence, biotechnology, climate change, tech policy, and more. (If you’re not yet… (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. Face recognition in the US is about to meet one of its biggest tests Just four years ago, the movement to ban police departments from using face recognition in the US was riding… (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. I was chatting with a group recently about which technology is the most crucial one to address climate change. With the caveat that we’ll definitely need a whole host of solutions to… (BACK TO TOP)
Just four years ago, the movement to ban police departments from using face recognition in the US was riding high. By the end of 2020, around 18 cities had enacted laws forbidding the police from adopting the technology. US lawmakers proposed a pause on the federal government’s use of the tech. In the years since,… (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. Meta’s latest AI model is free for all The news: Meta is going all in on open-source AI. The company has unveiled LLaMA 2, its first large language model that’s available for anyone… (BACK TO TOP)
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. It’s no secret that Chinese state-owned media are active on Western social platforms, but sometimes they take a covert approach and distance themselves from China, perhaps to reach more unsuspecting audiences. … (BACK TO TOP)
Today’s retailers are faced with a clear opportunity for transformation. Consumer expectations are constantly evolving, challenging retailers to keep pace. A blend of online and in-person shopping forged during the pandemic persists, forcing retailers to deliver a highly personalized omnichannel experience. And retailers’ values are becoming as important to consumers as their products and services.… (BACK TO TOP)
Meta is going all in on open-source AI. The company is today unveiling LLaMA 2, its first large language model that’s available for anyone to use—for free. Since OpenAI released its hugely popular AI chatbot ChatGPT last November, tech companies have been racing to release models in hopes of overthrowing its supremacy. Meta has been… (BACK TO TOP)
Weeknotes: Self-hosted language models with LLM plugins, a new Datasette tutorial, a dozen package releases, a dozen TILs
Explore the basics of the useSWR Hook in Next.js, as well as working with reusable data fetching and pagination using the hook. The post Handling data fetching in Next.js with <code>useSWR</code> appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Effective market segmentation ensures that products are highly personalized and tailored for specific customer segments. The post What is market segmentation? Definition, 5 types, and examples appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
The world of digital design is full of UX dark patterns, but they can pose serious harm to the business in the long run. The post Common UX dark patterns to avoid appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
The goal of continuous optimization is to assess the impact of the tests you ran and create capacity to keep working through the hypothesis. The post Why is continuous optimization essential for product success? appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
In this article, you will learn what the five major dysfunctions for teams are and how to prevent them from damaging your team. The post 5 team dysfunctions that hinder performance appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
We sit down with Ying Chen to talk about product marketing methodologies, customer feedback, and using AI to drive business value. The post Leader Spotlight: Creating hybrid methodologies with Ying Chen appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Integrating Wireit into your projects can help you optimize script execution, streamline processes, and boost productivity. The post Using Wireit to improve script efficiency and intelligence appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Average order value (AOV) is the average amount your customers spend per purchase within a certain period. The post Understanding and maximizing average order value (AOV) appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
User stories play a pivotal role in UX design, helping designers empathize with users and craft meaningful user experiences. The post Understanding user stories in UX design appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Multivariate testing is a type of testing where multiple variables are tested at once, unlike A/B testing where only one variable is tested at a time. The post What is multivariate testing and when should we use it? appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
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