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Simple and reliable optimization with local, global, population-based and sequential techniques in numerical discrete search spaces. - SimonBlanke/Gradient-Free-Optimizers

At Signal, we’ve been thinking about the difficulty of private contact discoveryfor a long time. We’ve been working on strategies to improve our current design, andtoday we’ve published a new private contact discovery service.Using this service, Signal clients…

The company launched an ad campaign that shows just how worried it is about Apple's upcoming privacy changes.

Here’s a topic to capture some thoughts on this potential project. I initially started thinking about it when I discovered this 2010 reboot: But I was really disappointed in the resulting updated code, I feel like an opportunity was missed to demonstrate…

A FiveThirtyEight/The Marshall Project effort to collect comprehensive data on police misconduct settlements from 2010-19. - fivethirtyeight/police-settlements

A story of trains, computers, and two images.

An analysis of the program found that more than 70 percent of students enrolled in the program were white and Asian, even though nearly 80 percent of all Boston public school students are Hispanic and Black.

Earth is the only planet in the solar system with aircraft capable of sustained flight. Suppose the ground-breaking Ingenuity helicopter, currently stowed aboard the similarly spectacular Mars Perseverance rover, accomplishes its planned mission. In that…

Hashicorp's Nomad is a great, easy to use and very flexible task scheduler/orchestrator, and actually fares up decently against Kubernetes.

Tractatus Tree is a visualization of the Tractatus logico-philosophicus written by Ludwig Wittengstein in 1921.

Survivors detail the scope of China’s campaign of persecution against ethnic and religious minorities.

Demand and prices for GPUs appears to be falling

macOS 11.2, 11.2.1 and 11.2.2 have come in quick succession. What do they tell us about how difficult it is to update Big Sur’s sealed System volume? Is this the way to go?