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Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a new type of computer
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Livejournal
"Starting Over": my FOSDEM 2021 talk
My talk should be on in about an hour and a half from when I post this. A possible next evolutionary step for computers is persistent memory: large capacity non-volatile main memory. With a few terabytes of nonvolatile RAM, who needs an SSD any more? I will…
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My Opinion on Blockchain
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vladcalin.ro
My opinion on blockchain
A post about my personal opinion on blockchain (spoiler: I'm not a fan)
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Using Computer Vision to Win $1M in Mountain Dew's Super Bowl Contest
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Roboflow Blog
Using Computer Vision to Help Win $1 Million in Mountain Dew's Big Game Contest
Last night during Super Bowl LV, Mountain Dew ran an ad featuring John Cena riding through a Mountain Dew-themed amusement park. Bottles are scattered all over the scene: neon signs on buildings, in fun house mirrors, and flying out of the car trunk. At the…
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The journalistic tattletale/censorship industry suffers well-deserved blows
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Glenn Greenwald
The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows
The NYT's Taylor Lorenz falsely accuses a tech investor of using a slur after spending months trying to infiltrate and monitor a new app that allows free conversation.
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Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass
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CBC
Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass | CBC Radio
Bob McDonald's blog: A simple backyard procedure results in see-through wood with enormous potential as a building material.
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Developer exposes multiple million-dollar scam apps on the App Store
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9to5Mac
Developer exposes multiple scam apps on the App Store, some bringing in millions of dollars in revenue
Over the last several weeks, developer Kosta Eleftheriou has been highlighting many apparent scam applications on the App Store. The formula for each scam application is virtually identical, and it centers on fake reviews and ratings paired with a deceptive…
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Show HN: Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication
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Clerk
Introducing Clerk: All of user management, not just authentication
The task came with a sense of helplessness. We knew what "great" looked like, but it was impractical to build all of that functionality.
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New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies
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kottke.org
This New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1 Billion Galaxies
After 1405 nights of observation over 6 years, astronomers at three observatories have produced an image of the night sky that contains 10 trillion pixels of data and depicts over a billion galaxies. Bad Astronomy's Ph
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CSI-MURDER: Prevent WiFi CSI from being used to survey environment
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Abcjs Music Editor/Player
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Gradient Descent Models Are Kernel Machines
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Gradient Descent Models Are Kernel Machines (Deep Learning)
This paper shows that models which result from gradient descent training (e.g., deep neural nets) can be expressed as a weighted sum of simi...
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Automatic Differentiation Does Incur Truncation Errors (Kinda)
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Sense: A New Open-Source Video Understanding Framework for Deep Learning
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GitHub
GitHub - quic/sense: Enhance your application with the ability to see and interact with humans using any RGB camera.
Enhance your application with the ability to see and interact with humans using any RGB camera. - GitHub - quic/sense: Enhance your application with the ability to see and interact with humans usin...
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The Exclusive Website
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The Exclusive Website
Only one visitor is allowed in the exclusive website
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Hacker increased chemical level at Oldsmar's city water system, sheriff says
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TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks: Round 20 (2021-02-08)
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www.techempower.com
TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks
Performance comparison of web application frameworks using community-contributed test implementations.
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Tesla spent $1.5B in clean car credits on Bitcoin the filthiest asset imaginable
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Amy Castor
Tesla spent $1.5B in clean car credits on bitcoin, the filthiest asset imaginable
Tesla bought $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin, the company said in a regulatory filing on Monday, effectively putting nearly all of the money it earned on clean car credits towards the world’s f…
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Someone attempted to poison water supply in Florida city during hack
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Tampa Bay Times
Someone tried to poison Oldsmar’s water supply during hack, sheriff says
Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said the attacker tried to raise levels of sodium hydroxide, also known as lye, by a factor of more than 100.
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Creators of ORCA and their works embracing tech minimalism and software freedom
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Interview with 100 Rabbits
Perhaps best known for their esoteric livecoding language ORCΛ, 100 Rabbits (Rekka and Devine) have a creative practice that seamlessly crosses from the esoteric to the practical. Living on a boat and relying primarily on solar energy, they create their own…
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Terraria developer cancels Google Stadia port after YouTube account ban
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Ars Technica
Terraria developer cancels Google Stadia port after YouTube account ban
Hit indie game developer tells Google, "Doing business with you is a liability."
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20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one image of a flower
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