One Machine Learning algorithm that relies on the concepts of proximity and similarity is K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN). KNN is a supervised learning algorithm capable of performing both classification and regression tasks.

When a theorem has an exceptional case for one value of an exponent, there may be a logarithm hiding.

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Venice Beach: A jogger runs past a homeless encampment. California appears to be descending into something resembling modern-day feudalism, the author writes. By Joel Kotkin, RealClearInvestigationsAp

On April 13, 2022, the Real World Crypto steering committee presented the Max Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography to Let’s Encrypt. The following is the speech delivered by our Executive Director, Josh Aas upon receiving the award. We’d like to thank…

This post explains why Rust made sense for Discord to reimplement: how it was done, and the resulting performance improvements.

Google Search is falling behind. We analyzed three areas – programming queries, sports queries, and cooking queries – to understand where Google Search lags behind its competitors.

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An international team of astronomers have used ground-based telescopes, including the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), to track Neptune’s atmospheric temperatures over a 17-year period. They found a surprising drop in Neptune’s…

Exclusive: Apple's M1 family of chips comes with a design limitation that was overlooked by Apple engineers when they started working on the chips 5-7 years ago. The bottleneck is the 32MB TLB. Thank you to @hishnash for the help in explaining how it works.…

Lexical is an extensible text editor framework that provides excellent reliability, accessibility and performance. - facebook/lexical

Each year, independent security experts verify that Proton VPN doesn't keep logs or engage in practices that might compromise your privacy.

Building a static analyzer into the C compiler offers several advantages over having a separate tool, because the analyzer can track what the compiler and assembler are doing intimately. As a Red Hat

I argue that rational Bayesians would often exhibit the gambler's fallacy.

The Cacowards are an annual feature at Doomworld, released on Doom's birthday, to recognize the year's best mods. Stephen Browning (Scuba Steve) is credited with the original concept. The series started in 2004 with the so-called 11th edition, which attempted…