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English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)
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What Problem Blockchains Solve
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What Problem Blockchains Actually Solve
Blockchains are polarising the tech community. I have repeatedly criticized, that current Blockchain-based solutions are mostly hype and little substance. However, that is an oversimplification of …
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Microsoft Teams: 1 feature, 4 vulnerabilities
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MS Teams: 1 feature, 4 vulnerabilities | Positive Security
Microsoft Team's link preview feature is susceptible to spoofing and vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery. Team's Android users can be DoS'ed and, in the past, their IP address could be leaked.
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Analog computers were the most powerful computers for thousands of years [video]
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The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard Of
Analog computers were the most powerful computers for thousands of years, relegated to obscurity by the digital revolution. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium get 20% off a yearly subnoscription.…
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Improving Language Models by Retrieving from Trillions of Tokens
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Improving language models by retrieving from trillions of tokens
We enhance auto-regressive language models by conditioning on document chunks retrieved from a large corpus, based on local similarity with preceding tokens. With a $2$ trillion token database, our Retrieval-Enhanced Transformer (Retro) obtains comparable…
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DNA seen through the eyes of a coder
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DNA seen through the eyes of a coder (or, If you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail) - Bert Hubert's writings
Updates: 12th of September 2021: I’m writing a book on DNA! If you want to become a beta reader, or have suggestions, I’d love to hear from you!
8th of January 2021: This article has been revised and updated, scientifically and in terms of dead links. Revision…
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AWS appears to be down again
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Heroku Is Currently Down
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Now DuckDuckGo is building its own desktop browser
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Now DuckDuckGo is building its own desktop browser
DuckDuckGo takes aim at Google Chrome, but insists it isn't going to fork Google's Chromium project upon which Chrome, Edge and others are built.
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Linux Has Grown into a Viable PC Gaming Platform and the Steam Stats Prove It
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Linux Has Grown Into A Viable PC Gaming Platform And The Steam Stats Prove It
PC gaming on Linux isn't really a thing, right? It is now, thanks to Proton.
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Polish opposition duo hacked with NSO spyware
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AP Exclusive: Polish opposition duo hacked with NSO spyware
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The aggressive cellphone break-ins of a high-profile lawyer representing top Polish opposition figures came in the final weeks of pivotal 2019 parliamentary elections. Two years later, a prosecutor challenging attempts by the populist…
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Pure Bash lightweight web server
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GitHub - remileduc/sherver: Pure Bash lightweight web server.
Pure Bash lightweight web server. Contribute to remileduc/sherver development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Why Bitcoin is worse than a Madoff-style Ponzi scheme
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Why bitcoin is worse than a Madoff-style Ponzi scheme
A Ponzi scheme is a zero-sum enterprise. But bitcoin is a negative-sum phenomenon that you can’t even pursue a claim against, argues Robert McCauley.
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Tinder just permabanned me or the problem with big tech
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Tinder just permabanned me or the problem with big tech • Paulefou site
Tinder algorithms decided that I was suspcious, support doesn't care. What could this mean for a regular person?
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Teller Reveals His Secrets (2012)
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Teller Reveals His Secrets
The smaller, quieter half of the magician duo Penn & Teller writes about how magicians manipulate the human mind
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LG’s new 16:18 monitor
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LG’s new 16:18 monitor looks like a multitasking powerhouse
It’s like two monitors stacked on top of each other.
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FreeBSD Jails for Fun and Profit
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FreeBSD Jails For Fun and Profit
Docker has recently stormed into software
development. While its concepts are powerful and valuable, similar
tools have been used in systems for decades. FreeBSD’s
jails in one of
those tools which build upon even older
chroot(2).
To put it shortly, with…
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IMF, 10 countries simulate cyber attack on global financial system
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Earth’s magnetic field illuminates Biblical history
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Earth’s magnetic field illuminates Biblical history
It casts light on an obscure period called the Hallstatt plateau
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Ed-Tech Company Skillsoft Buys Codecademy for $525M
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Skillsoft to Acquire Codecademy, a Leading Platform for Learning High-Demand Technical Skills, Creating a Worldwide Community of…
Codecademy’s entrepreneurial team, led by founder Zach Sims, to join Skillsoft with focus on accelerating growth in Technology & Developer Business Transaction expected to be immediately and significantly accretive to revenue and bookings growth with substantial…
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Founder of Black Girls Code has been ousted as head of the nonprofit
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Business Insider
The founder of Black Girls Code has been ousted as head of the nonprofit after allegations of 'workplace impropriety'
In a statement, Black Girls Code's board said that founder Kimberly Bryant would remain on staff as it investigated allegations of "workplace impropriety."
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