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Are you fitting the Gaussian curve or is it fitting you?

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Fitting-inIn both mathematics and spirituality, there’s a fascinating echo of balance. The Central Limit Theorem in...
Fitting-inIn both mathematics and spirituality, there’s a fascinating echo of balance. The Central Limit Theorem in statistics illustrates how outcomes often converge around the mean, a concept mirrored by regression models emphasizing average relationships. While these mathematical ideas are grounded in data analys...

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Chronon, Airbnb's ML Feature Platform, Is Now Open Source

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A feature platform that offers observability and management tools, allows ML practitioners to use a variety...
A feature platform that offers observability and management tools, allows ML practitioners to use a variety of data sources, while handling the complexity of data engineering, and provides low latency streaming.By: Varant Zanoyan, Nikhil Simha RaproluChronon allows ML practitioners to use a variety of data sources a...

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Does Kubernetes give you multicloud portability?

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by Seth Dobson — Principal Cloud Architect II, John Roach — Principal Cloud Architect IWe have...
by Seth Dobson — Principal Cloud Architect II, John Roach — Principal Cloud Architect IWe have been working with Kubernetes regularly since 2017, and in that time, we have migrated countless applications to the cloud leveraging Kubernetes as the back-end container orchestration platform. Some of those migrations hav...

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What you think about landfill and recycling is probably wrong

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New CSS Logical Properties

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Float is very straightforward, there are only two values, inline-start/inline-end, that replace the values of left/right...
Float is very straightforward, there are only two values, inline-start/inline-end, that replace the values of left/right .In English(LTR):float: left = float: inline-startfloat: right = float: inline-endText-alignEven easier than floats, the values left/right are replaced by start/end.In English(LTR):text-align :lef...

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Infrastructure as Code Is Not the Answer – By Luke Shaughnessy

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You know the sales pitch, of course. If you work in the DevOps, Platform or SRE...
You know the sales pitch, of course. If you work in the DevOps, Platform or SRE field you have probably made it yourself. Infrastructure as Code! The benefits are many, varied and self-evident:It’s reproducible!It’s self-documenting!It’s visible!It prevents mistakes!It lowers cost!It prevents drift!It prevents toil ...

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Why Today's Software Sucks?

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Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on UnsplashSince the early days of the Internet, the role of software has...
Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on UnsplashSince the early days of the Internet, the role of software has become increasingly important, to the point where our world now heavily relies on it. Software is integral in various operations, from launching satellites into orbit to regulating vast networks of supply chains. We depend...

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DataStax just bought our startup Langflow

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Our passion for deep learning and a shared desire for productivity led us to brainstorm for...
Our passion for deep learning and a shared desire for productivity led us to brainstorm for hours, and as we looked into the future, we were convinced that AI should be more than a black box. It would require fine-grained control, interactivity, and most importantly, safety. We bet on a hybrid approach that incorpor...
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RAGFlow: Customizable, explainable RAG engine based on doc structure recognition

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Following the official open-sourcing of the AI-native database Infinity at the end of 2023, our end-to-end...
Following the official open-sourcing of the AI-native database Infinity at the end of 2023, our end-to-end RAG solution, RAGFlow, was also officially open-sourced on April 1st. Before delving into RAGFlow’s product specifics, let’s address the rationale behind its development.RAG has evolved to become the concensus ...

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Nails Through the Ages: A Look at the History and Evolution of Nails

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Nails are fasteners used to join two or more pieces of material together. They come in...
Nails are fasteners used to join two or more pieces of material together. They come in a wide variety of sizes, shapes, and materials, and are used in a wide range of applications, from construction to art and design. Some of the most common types of nails include common nails, finishing nails, brads, and roofing na...

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Basic and the ROMs that changed the world (and then disappeared) (2022)

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For all practical purposes, BASIC is seldom used and mostly forgotten today. But given my praise...
For all practical purposes, BASIC is seldom used and mostly forgotten today. But given my praise for it, why is it like that? As I see there were three reasons, and as time went by, their accumulated effect was devastating.Reason #1.The IBM PC, and later it’s clones, completely overtook the home computer market. On ...

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It's time to stop using SMS (2021)

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By now most infosec professionals are aware of various ways SMS text messaging can be hijacked....
By now most infosec professionals are aware of various ways SMS text messaging can be hijacked. For example so-called “SIM Swap” attacks, SS7 attacks, Port-out fraud, etc. All of these attacks however do require some level of sophistication, whether it be high level access to SS7, or account information or social en...
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Why Has Figma Reinvented the Wheel with PostgreSQL?

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A few weeks ago, Figma published an article introducing their own sharding solution for PostgreSQL. The...
A few weeks ago, Figma published an article introducing their own sharding solution for PostgreSQL. The Figma engineering team was aware of, and evaluated, several existing options that could have made their database layer horizontally scalable. But still, they decided to build their own sharding solution from scrat...

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History of JavaScript Interop in Dart

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AI Image generated by GeminiInteroperability has been a core focus from the beginning of Dart. When...
AI Image generated by GeminiInteroperability has been a core focus from the beginning of Dart. When Dart was first released in 2011, it was designed to be embeddable and multi-platform. It ran on a standalone virtual machine, embedded in a browser, and compiled to JavaScript. When Flutter came along in 2015, we were...

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90s Programming Nuggets

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Software development changes so quickly that it's easy to forget how things developed, what ideas combined...
Software development changes so quickly that it's easy to forget how things developed, what ideas combined into others and how old theories continue to affect modern methods.I took a trip back through my memories to bring back a few interesting debates and ideas that may be still relevant today.Worse is betterThis w...
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2048, Success and Me (2017)

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This article was originally posted on gabrielecirulli.com on May 9 2014.The last few weeks have been...
This article was originally posted on gabrielecirulli.com on May 9 2014.The last few weeks have been quite a wild ride for me. In March, I built a game called 2048 just for fun, and released it as open-source software on GitHub. Over the course of the following weeks it unexpectedly became a worldwide hit, and it ha...

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Babylon 7.0 Is Out

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Our mission is to build one of the most powerful, beautiful, simple, and open web rendering...
Our mission is to build one of the most powerful, beautiful, simple, and open web rendering engines in the world, and we are excited to announce that mission takes another step forward today, with Babylon.js 7.0.Babylon.js 7.0 is a celebration of a year’s worth of new features, optimizations, and performance improve...

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I have been scammed in the Booking.com Internal Chat System

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·FollowSince 2023, a new type of scam has emerged, scams in the Booking.com internal chat system....
·FollowSince 2023, a new type of scam has emerged, scams in the Booking.com internal chat system. In this article, I will share the experience that happened to me and the investigation result that I found from the scamming website.People (like me) will expect FB Message, Telegram, Twitter or even Signal can get a sc...

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Backpressure explained – the resisted flow of data through software

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Backpressure (or back pressure) is something nearly every software engineer will have to deal with at...
Backpressure (or back pressure) is something nearly every software engineer will have to deal with at some point, and for some it’s a frequent problem. But the term itself isn’t nearly as understood and recognized as such.In this post I’m going to elaborate on what exactly backpressure is, when it’s common, and the ...

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We Bet on Scala at SwissBorg

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Scala has been with us since the company’s inception, and we are really satisfied with how...
Scala has been with us since the company’s inception, and we are really satisfied with how it served us in all these years. In this article, we want to share our journey with Scala, highlighting the challenges we encountered, the solutions we crafted, and debunking some common myths about Scala based on our experien...

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CFEngine's Star Trek and AI Origins (2023)

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CFEngine is 30 years old this year. For a piece of software, that’s been quite a...
CFEngine is 30 years old this year. For a piece of software, that’s been quite a long life. A lot has happened on its journey to arrive at where we are today, but most users have now forgotten how it emerged from a young lad’s dreams of artificial intelligence. I’ve written at length about the science in my book In ...

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Context: The Missing Feature of Programming Languages

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Modern computer hardware is so capable that we can often simply ignore its limitations when writing...
Modern computer hardware is so capable that we can often simply ignore its limitations when writing code. Conceptually though, any function that allocates memory is inherently context-dependent: its outcome depends not only on the arguments passed in but also on the amount of contiguous RAM the system is able to gra...

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The Woodpecker in Heat That Attacked and Delayed a Space Shuttle

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Close-up perspective of the woodpecker holes in the External Tank (ET) foam insulation of STS-70. [Photo...
Close-up perspective of the woodpecker holes in the External Tank (ET) foam insulation of STS-70. [Photo Credit: NASA]The most unusual, and most humorous, reason for a Space Shuttle launch delay happened with the STS-70 mission in the spring of 1995. The launch had been scheduled for early June but was delayed until...

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Hands on with a Science Fair 160-1 electronic projects kit

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This particular IC is not too interesting in modern times, it is fairly obscure, and many...
This particular IC is not too interesting in modern times, it is fairly obscure, and many other amplifiers are available instead. Can the IC in these circuits replaced with opamps in a closed loop configuration?With a non-inverting opamp: Vout = Vin*(1 + Rf/Rg).Opamp chips: 741 (popular but there is newer), LM324N q...

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