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Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
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WIRED
Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
In 1972, a photo of a Swedish Playboy model was used to engineer the digital image format that would become the JPEG. The model herself was mostly a mystery—until now.
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Chaos Monkey Guide for Engineers
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Gremlin
What Is Chaos Monkey? A Complete Guide for Engineers, DevOps & SREs
A complete and comprehensive guide to learn about, set up, and deploy Chaos Monkey and other similar tools for creating chaos. Download the whole guide.
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Vulkan Raytracing Tutorials
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Deep learning applications in drug discovery and protein structure analysis
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Mehmet Serkan Apaydın's blog
On protein representations for drug discovery with deep learning applications
I have been reading about papers on application of deep learning to drug discovery. So far, I have seen a number of protein (and ligand) representations used: 1- a grid based representation, which …
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The US government has redefined “pink slime” as ground beef
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Quartz
Is pink slime the same as ground beef? The USDA says yes
The US Department of Agriculture this week reclassified pink slime, saying it can be called “ground beef.”
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Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for Discrete GPUs
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Phoronix
Intel Linux Graphics Driver Adding Device Local Memory - Possible Start of dGPU Bring-Up - Phoronix
Phoronix is the leading technology website for Linux hardware reviews, open-source news, Linux benchmarks, open-source benchmarks, and computer hardware tests.
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Going Solo, Successfully
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Txti – Fast web pages for everybody
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txti
txti - Fast web pages for everybody
Txti is a free service that lets you create the fastest, simplest, most shareable web pages on the internet using any phone, tablet, or computer you have.
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Huge study finds professors’ attitudes affect students’ grades
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Ars Technica
Huge study finds professors’ attitudes affect students’ grades
And it’s doubly true for minority students.
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Tell HN: I miss the chatrooms of the 90s
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GitHub censors deepfake source code for non logged in users? (Try incognito)
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GitHub
GitHub - deepfakes/faceswap: Deepfakes Software For All
Deepfakes Software For All. Contribute to deepfakes/faceswap development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Show HN: Compiler Fundamentals – Closure Conversion
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Gist
Closure Conversion
Closure Conversion. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
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Leaky Database Reveals GPS Surveillance Of China’s Uyghur Muslims
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Gizmodo
Leaky Database Reveals Horrifying GPS Surveillance of China's Uyghur Muslims
A misconfigured online database has exposed new details of China’s tyrannical surveillance apparatus, which the country’s government has used to further suppress one of its most persecuted populations.
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Data leak reveals China is tracking almost 2.6m people in Xinjiang
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Data leak reveals China is tracking almost 2.6m people in Xinjiang
Security researcher’s discovery suggests extensive use of facial recognition
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AAAS: Machine learning 'causing science crisis'
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BBC News
AAAS: Machine learning 'causing science crisis'
Techniques used to analyse data are producing misleading and often wrong results, critics say.
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Butterflow: motion interpolated videos from the command line
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GitHub
GitHub - dthpham/sminterpolate: Make motion interpolated and fluid slow motion videos from the command line.
Make motion interpolated and fluid slow motion videos from the command line. - dthpham/sminterpolate
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We Lost Our Ability to Mend
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Die, Workwear!
How We Lost Our Ability to Mend
I was folding away some laundry the other day when I noticed a hole in my J. Crew sweatshirt. It’s about the size of my pinky nail, but threatens to get bigger, and it’s located in the very...
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When Divorce Was Off the Table, English Couples Dissolved Marriages with Beer
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Atlas Obscura
When Divorce Was Off the Table, English Couples Dissolved Their Marriages With Beer
The practice of "wife-selling" wasn't legal, but a drink signaled freedom from a relationship that had soured.
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Mesh: Compacting Memory Management for C/C++ Applications
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arXiv.org
Mesh: Compacting Memory Management for C/C++ Applications
Programs written in C/C++ can suffer from serious memory fragmentation, leading to low utilization of memory, degraded performance, and application failure due to memory exhaustion. This paper...
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You probably don't need a single-page app
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The Plausible journal on Svbtle
You probably don’t need a single-page application
The meteoric rise of front-end frameworks like React, Angular, Vue.js, Elm, etc. has made single-page applications ubiquitous on the web. For many developers, these have become part of their ‘default’ toolset. When they start a new project, they...
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Naming elliptic curves used in cryptography
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John D. Cook | Applied Mathematics Consulting
Naming elliptic curves used in cryptography ECC
There are infinitely many elliptic curves, but only a few known to be suitable for cryptography, and these few have names.
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