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This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x faster for analytical queries. These are my five-minute notes on the paper SQLite: Past, Present, and Future

The iris-scanning identity technology World has already been banned in some European countries over privacy concerns.

I just read two long diatribes on the Internet about what’s wrong with . . . well pretty much everything. The first is this rather apocalyptic essay about how tech companies are ruining everybody’s life in countless ways The second is an explanation of why…

A classroom-style treatment teaches patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other illnesses to carry on their lives despite hallucinations and imagined voices.

SQLite-backed key-value store with JS-like object manipulation and automatic JSON serialization. - demo.ts

Training Performance, User Experience, Usability, Nvidia, AMD, GEMM, Attention, Networking, InfiniBand, Spectrum-X Ethernet, RoCEv2 Ethernet, SHARP, Total Cost of Ownership

These are the draft release notes for fish 4.0.0. Like this release of fish itself, they are in beta and are not complete. Please report any issues you find.
fish’s core code has been ported from C...

Modern life can be lonely. Some are looking to an old German tradition – of drinking and conversation – to deepen connection through regular meetups.

12 Days of OpenAI: 12 days. 12 livestreams. A bunch of new things, big and small.

Recently the Dutch Electoral Board (where I am also a very part time advisor) invited me to do a talk reflecting on their open source Abacus vote tabulation software.
Much software is now provided as a service, and is typically deployed continuously (CD,…

Because this isn't how copyright law works.

Until news broke regarding plans to have an artificial intelligence-powered judge at “ringside” for the heavyweight rematch between Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury, Elliot Worsell wasn’t sure which word to use to summarise boxing in 2024...

EXCLUSIVE - Classified military documents have been leaked on the War Thunder forums—again. This time, the Eurofighter Typhoon’s radar system is at the centre of the unauthorised disclosure.

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