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The Death and Life of Prediction Markets at Google—Asterisk
Over the past two decades, Google has hosted two different internal platforms for predictions. Why did the first one fail — and will the other endure?
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Python libs for sentiment analysis
Sentiment analysis, i.e., determining the emotional tone of a text, has become a crucial tool for researchers, developers, and businesses to comprehend social media trends, consumer feedback, and other topics. With its robust library ecosystem, Python provides a vast choice of…
How Google Ads Was Able to Support 4.77 Billion Users With a SQL Database 🔥
#60: Break Into Google Spanner Architecture (5 Minutes)
Why Middlemen Don't Get Eliminated
Thoughts on business models that don't seem to make perfect sense
the result of that economic revolution is that three of the top ten companies by market cap are middlemen, and two of the remainder, Nvidia and TSMC
Expedia and Booking Holdings are collectively worth over $180bn
ChatGPT Doesn’t Have to Ruin College
The power of a robust honor code—and abundant institutional resources
Mistakes from my Failed Startup in Scalping Concert Tickets
And why you will never get Taylor Swift tickets at face value
How to Count Video Frames Using FFmpeg on Linux
An uncivil civil war
Civil war is in the air. Why not revisit one that has already taken place?
The Different (and Modern) Ways To Toggle Content | CSS-Tricks
Let’s spend some time looking at disclosures, the Dialog API, the Popover API, and more. We’ll look at the right time to use each one depending on your needs. Modal or non-modal? JavaScript or pure HTML/CSS? Not sure? Don’t worry, we’ll go into all that.
Why Are Cooling Towers Shaped Like That? — Practical Engineering
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is not smoke. And this isn’t a smoke stack (at least not the kind we normally think of). It serves a totally different purpose at a power plant than smoke stacks whose job is moving combustion products…
The truffle industry is a big scam. Not just truffle oil, everything
You may be familiar with the truffle oil scam, but everything else you think you know about truffles is probably a lie too.
131M American Buildings
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
These Women Were Some of Afghanistan’s Best Athletes. Then They Started Getting Death Threats.
They led a cycling revolution in a country where women were forbidden to ride. When the Taliban returned to power, their only hope was a harrowing escape to an uncertain future.
Understanding Ruby 3.3 Concurrency: A Comprehensive Guide
Let's explore Ruby's concurrency ecosystem, its various concurrency models, and their practical applications in modern software development
Deploying a Jekyll site with Kamal
Since Kamal 2 can host multiple sites on the same server, I am consolidating my apps into larger hosts so I have less servers to worry about. Most of my apps are Rails apps, but I have a few static jekyll sites like this blog and I decided to look into how could I move this site…
The Roots of Fear: Understanding the Amygdala
Treating anxiety, depression and other disorders may depend on the amygdala, a part of the brain that controls strong emotional reactions, especially fear. But a deep understanding of this structure has been lacking. Now scientists at the University of California, Davis have…
White-label ad exchange platforms: Key features to look for
Digital advertising is developing at the speed of light, and things like Attekmi white label ad exchange are becoming an
Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud Repatriation
Major organizations like 37signals and GEICO highlight the economic and strategic reasons to reconsider cloud infrastructure.
New Zemeckis film used AI to de-age Tom Hanks and Robin Wright
Time-hopping film Here used AI trained on every Tom Hanks movie to make him appear young again.
Amazon’s Cloud Crisis: How AWS Will Lose The Future Of Computing
Nitro, Graviton, EFA, Inferentia, Trainium, Nvidia Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Handicapping Infrastructure, AI As A Service, Enterprise Automation, Meta, Coreweave, TCO
The Shipwreck Detective
Nigel Pickford has spent a lifetime searching for sunken treasure—without leaving dry land.
4 tips when getting started with Hotwire
A few best practices to keep in mind when getting started with Hotwire and Rails.
The 20 Best Lessons from Social Psychology
Last spring, I took a class on social psychology. It was one …
What Companies Do Well is Not Necessarily How They Make Money
Thoughts on business models that don't seem to make perfect sense
Stockbrokers used to make their money from commissions, but depending on the model their big profit centers are either some net margin on interest spreads
Oil companies
Choosing and Implementing Hugging Face Models
Pulling pre-trained models out of the box for your use case
Best practices to keep secrets out of GitLab repositories
Learn strategies to secure secrets and what to do if secrets are accidentally leaked in a GitLab repository.
What is the “Cyclopean Cave” — and why are these guys hauling buckets of Colorado mud to find it?
Outside Leadville, spelunkers are following a hunch that a pioneer journalist’s fantastical cavern could be right below their feet.
LLM Chunking, Indexing, Scoring and Agents, in a Nutshell - DataScienceCentral.com
LLM Chunking, Indexing, Scoring and Agents, in a Nutshell. The new PageRank of RAG/LLM. With details on building relevancy scores.
OpenAI Adds Search Engine to ChatGPT
The popular online chatbot can now access and deliver information from across the internet in real time, including news, stock prices and sports scores.
Beyond the Basics: Top 10 Cutting-Edge Trends in Stationery Design - Yanko Design
Stationery remains essential, adapting to global trends like sustainability, and minimalism, and bridging the gap between digital and analog domains. With technological advancements, stationery for school and office settings is progressing towards smarter, sustainable products…
10 Essential Python Libraries for Data Science in 2024
The richness of Python’s ecosystem has one downside – it makes it difficult to decide which libraries are the best for your needs. This article is an attempt to amend this by suggesting ten (and some more, as a bonus) libraries that are an absolute must in data science.
Tackling the Impossibility—and Necessity—of Counting the World’s Languages
A language scientist delves into historic and current efforts to catalog the planet’s 7,000-plus languages, uncovering colorful tales.
Disgruntled customers discuss quitting VMware
Ars Technica speaks with users and channel partners disgruntled by Broadcom’s changes.
Agile Web Development with Rails 8
Get the comprehensive, insider information you need for Rails 8 with the new edition of this award-winning classic.
Meet the Italian 'Fruit Detective' Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen…
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Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help combat a growing agricultural crisis
Triton Kernel Compilation Stages
The Triton open-source programming language and compiler offers a high-level, python-based approach to create efficient GPU code. In this blog, we highlight the underlying details of how a triton program is compiled and the intermediate representations. For an introduction to…
Beyond Pageviews: Measure Content Performance And User Engagement In GA4
GA4 provides valuable insights into user interactions on your website. Learn how to analyze key metrics like sessions, session duration, and events to refine your digital strategy.
Nuclear Fusion’s New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator
Fast prototyping revives a 70-year-old reactor design
The Basics of Rack for Ruby | AppSignal Blog
Rack is the foundation for every popular Ruby web framework in existence. In the first part of a three-part series, let's set up a Rack app.
HPC Gets A Reconfigurable Dataflow Engine To Take On CPUs And GPUs
No matter how elegant and clever the design is for a compute engine, the difficulty and cost of moving existing – and sometimes very old – code from the
AllMusic's Favorite Actually Scary Albums
Halloween parties now come with a built-in soundtrack. You'll hear the prerequisite "Thriller" from Michael Jackson, "Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon and probably Donovan's…
Halloween
Marcus Aurelius’ 9 Rules for Living a Stoic Life: Presented by Ryan Holiday
Zoe Williams profiled Ryan Holiday, a one-time public-relations whiz-kid who's reinvented himself over the past decade as a speaker for the dead: specifically Epictetus, Seneca, and above all Marcus Aurelius, the figureheads of the ancient school of philosophy we now know as…
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Meet America's secret team of nuclear first responders
For 50 years, a secretive group of government workers has been preparing for the worst. Here's a rare look inside the team that's ready to respond to a nuclear incident anywhere, anytime.
Difference Between a Batch and an Epoch in a Neural Network - MachineLearningMastery.com
Stochastic gradient descent is a learning algorithm that has a number of hyperparameters. Two hyperparameters that often confuse beginners are the batch size and number of epochs. They are both integer values and seem to do the same thing. In this post, you will discover the…
Developing a computer use model
A discussion of how Anthropic's researchers developed Claude's new computer use skill, along with some relevant safety considerations
The Staggering Success of Vaccines
Vaccines are the first step toward health equity in many parts of the world.
Advanced SEO: How to level up your keyword strategy
Here's a framework to analyze user sophistication, prioritize high-intent keywords and engage all decision-makers along the customer journey.
4 Payment Processing Pitfalls to Avoid
Industry pros cite common merchant mistakes that jeopardize processor relationships and damage a business.
The Forgotten Pandemic
Humans have suffered from tuberculosis for thousands of years and, even today, the disease kills more than 1 million people each year. Yet diagnosing cases remains a challenge. Why?