In both the privacy and cryptocurrency spheres, misinformation often runs rampant. Here we address the Wired article that is often cited and circulated by Monero skeptics.
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Good Evening, my name is ███████ I am a 10 year resident of Ward █ in Somerville. The first steps to address the problem of systemic racism in Somerville is two-fold: Defund the police by at least 60% or more; and Hold the Mayor accountable to direct these funds to non-disciplinary social programs; and stop internal line-item transfers to the SPD. The weapons and practices we use abroad always manage to find their way home. We’re se....
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eXtended Reality (XR) that includes AR and VR technologies have been silently disrupting the gaming industry for more than a decade. In the recent past, the tech has gained some traction in the education and training space.
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Part of speech tagging is a classic NLP (natural language parsing) where you give a sentence of sentence fragment to a bit of software and ask it to tell you the parts of speech. If this sounds like a 7th Grade English exercise, well, you aren't wrong … I'm experimenting with this for an upcoming user interface where I'm hoping to use NLP techniques to lessen the amount of manual data entry. I chose to use Spacy, a Python NLP tool, for t....
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Looks at some heavier replacements for Google Analytics, as well as the GoAccess log-based analytics tool (LWN.net).
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As a non-native English speaker, presenting at conferences has always been super challenging and intimidating. It’s even worse now that we’re forced into online presenting because of the COVID19 situation. James Whittaker has a good post on the topic, with great advice: Remember, the inability to see and hear your audience is disconcerting but it doesn’t mean you should give up. There are much bigger audiences in the wide world that you..
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Few days back I posted an article about how to implement restful apis using the Node Express and MySql. In this post I am going to discuss deploying NodeJS RESTful apis with Express framework to the Firebase functions. This is helpful when you deal with external endpoints which need secret keys. Google Firebase functions as an alternate product for Amazon Lambda, and Google Firebase is offering Storage and Real-time databases.
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I'm a passionate problem solver that use code, design and empathy to help people through their digital challenges. Hi, my name is Marco and this is where I collect my thoughts, intuitions and ideas on the IT industry (and more). Occasionally, I do contribute to open-source projects and share some ideas with my fellows . If you are more into philosophy you should give a try to the manifesto . Online you can find me ..
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Here a collection of articles and videos I found interesting on the internet! Articles 3 Pillars For Effective Work - Herding Lions Videos Ariya Hidayat: Next-Generation JavaScript Language Tooling Ryan Carniato - Facing Frontend’s Existential Crisis, React Summit 2024 Jest Architecture Events Are Not Just for Notifications Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10
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Public speaking and self-presentation: 7 common sins of a public speaker
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www.thoughtworks.com
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6 years ago
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eng
Part One I remember only too well my first conference as a speaker. The thought of standing in front of an audience of over a hundred onlookers terrified me.
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The Product Canvas: A top down approach to product envisioning
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www.thoughtworks.com
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6 years ago
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eng
The Product Canvas In this article we will talk about product canvas, when it is helpful to use it and give an example product canvas for a specific product. Canvases are a great thinking framework for decision making and capturing the big picture. A canvas enables a structured way of thinking and with its real estate restrictions can intrinsically establish priority and constraints on how we think about a problem.
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Welcome to the newest Snyk blog series! In this monthly series, Snyk looks back on the vulnerabilities discovered by or reported to our research team. We choose one noteworthy vulnerability from the past month and tell the story behind the discovery, research, and disclosure of the vulnerability. We highlight the researchers, developers, and users who are helping identify and remediate vulnerabilities across the open source community.
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When working on command-line utilities which can be useful for various platforms, from Windows on x86 to Linux on MIPS, the existence of a cross-compilation is highly attractive. A number of different binaries can be constructed conveniently from a single, typically powerful host system.
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When working on command-line utilities which can be useful for various platforms, from Windows on x86 to Linux on MIPS, the existence of a cross-compilation is highly attractive. A number of different binaries can be constructed conveniently from a single, typically powerful host system.
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Recently I had the opportunity to write a Custom Connector for Power BI and come across something I didn't expect. To build a Connector you…
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Recently I had the opportunity to write a Custom Connector for Power BI and come across something I didn't expect. To build a Connector you…
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Migrating your workloads to Azure can help you leverage the benefits of cloud computing. This includes agility, scalability, lower costs, and easier management. However, the process of migration can sometimes be complicated. You have to select the proper service model for every workload and establish a migration strategy for all workloads. A well-planned migration strategy can help you make the move without impacting your business. The foll....
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DoubleMAD outlier detector based on the Harrell-Davis quantile estimator
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aakinshin.net
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6 years ago
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eng
This post presents a DoubleMAD-based outlier detector that handles asymmetric and heavy-tailed distributions using the Harrell-Davis quantile estimator. For symmetric scale estimation, Pragmastat recommends Spread — the Shamos estimator — as a more efficient alternative to MAD. Confidence intervals are available via SpreadBounds . pragmastat.dev github.com/AndreyAkinshin/pragmastat Outlier detection is an important step in da....
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At Jane Street, we have some experience using FPGAs for low-latency systems–FPGAs are programmable hardware where you get the speed of an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) but without being committed to a design that’s burned into the chip. It wasn’t so long ago that FPGAs were expensive and rare, but these days, you can rent a $5,000 card on the Amazon AWS cloud for less than $3 an hour.
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At Jane Street, we have some experience using FPGAs for low-latency systems–FPGAs are programmable hardware where you get the speed of an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) but without being committed to a design that’s burned into the chip. It wasn’t so long ago that FPGAs were expensive and rare, but these days, you can rent a $5,000 card on the Amazon AWS cloud for less than $3 an hour.
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DoubleMAD outlier detector based on the Harrell-Davis quantile estimator
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aakinshin.net
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6 years ago
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eng
This post presents a DoubleMAD-based outlier detector that handles asymmetric and heavy-tailed distributions using the Harrell-Davis quantile estimator. For symmetric scale estimation, Pragmastat recommends Spread — the Shamos estimator — as a more efficient alternative to MAD. Confidence intervals are available via SpreadBounds . pragmastat.dev github.com/AndreyAkinshin/pragmastat Outlier detection is an important step in da....
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California Privacy Rights Act to define and limit “cross-context behavioral advertising”
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brave.com
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6 years ago
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eng
Following a court decision on Friday, it is now highly likely that California will curtail "cross-context behavioral advertising".
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Life after accepting the offer: juggling a new role and fatherhood
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www.thoughtworks.com
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6 years ago
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eng
TL;DR María Caparrós hired Giovanny Sayas as a Senior Developer Consultant in the middle of Spain’s lockdown and he couldn’t be happier to be at Thoughtworks. (Yay!)The long version
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2022-03-16.jpg]] “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced… Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock"
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Here’s how attempting to export images off a Word Document led to a quest for data deduplication and classification using the shell. The images I wanted to export were MS Word diagrams drawn in Word, rather than PNG files 1 . Because those doodle-shapes do not export to PNG well, I first copy-pasted them into Powerpoint to get the familiar “save as picture” context menu. But a couple of images were still deformed beyond recognition.
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Here’s how attempting to export images off a Word Document led to a quest for data deduplication and classification using the shell. The images I wanted to export were MS Word diagrams drawn in Word, rather than PNG files 1 . Because those doodle-shapes do not export to PNG well, I first copy-pasted them into Powerpoint to get the familiar “save as picture” context menu. But a couple of images were still deformed beyond recognition.
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I’m a big fan of Will Larson’s blog so his recent post on practicing backend engineering inspired me to write an equivalent article for frontend given my previous experience in that space before moving into management.
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I’m a big fan of Will Larson’s blog so his recent post on practicing backend engineering inspired me to write an equivalent article for frontend given my previous experience in that space before moving into management.
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What went wrong with the internet (and how can it be fixed)?
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michael-lewis.com
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6 years ago
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eng
Then and now Link to heading I remember when the internet, or more specifically the web, was new. There was so much hope and optimism. Early adopters talked excitedly of the seemingly endless ways in which it would revolutionise so many aspects of society in positive ways. There was the idea that “information wants to be free”, where free, at least how I understood it, was free as in “libre” (freedom) rather than “gratis” (zero ....
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What went wrong with the internet (and how can it be fixed)?
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michael-lewis.com
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6 years ago
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eng
Then and now Link to heading I remember when the internet, or more specifically the web, was new. There was so much hope and optimism. Early adopters talked excitedly of the seemingly endless ways in which it would revolutionise so many aspects of society in positive ways. There was the idea that “information wants to be free”, where free, at least how I understood it, was free as in “libre” (freedom) rather than “gratis” (zero ....
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Introduction This is another blog post related to the Build Systems à la Carte paper. See Using type-classes to model the expressivity of build systems for the first one. The paper proposes splitting build systems into two components: Rebuilders decide when to rebuild a particular key (file). Schedulers decide how to rebuild multiple keys - handling dependencies while maintaining correctness and efficiency. Schedulers come in 3 flavors (see..
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Introduction This is another blog post related to the Build Systems à la Carte paper. See Using type-classes to model the expressivity of build systems for the first one. The paper proposes splitting build systems into two components: Rebuilders decide when to rebuild a particular key (file). Schedulers decide how to rebuild multiple keys - handling dependencies while maintaining correctness and efficiency. Schedulers come in 3 flavors (see..
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One of the core principles of modern “DevOps” development is to treat your documentation as code, just like code. My team at Cisco open sourced how we do that.
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One of the core principles of modern “DevOps” development is to treat your documentation as code, just like code. My team at Cisco open sourced how we do that.
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One of the core principles of modern “DevOps” development is to treat your documentation as code, just like code. My team at Cisco open sourced how we do that.
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One of the core principles of modern “DevOps” development is to treat your documentation as code, just like code. My team at Cisco open sourced how we do that.
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The DevOps virtual conference we built with the help of Snyk and Patrick Debois
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snyk.io
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6 years ago
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eng
DevOps Enterprise Summit London - Virtual is our first virtual event, and we’ve all been studying online events for months, trying to understand what makes the great ones great, and why the worst ones make you feel like you’re stuck on the worst, multiple-day video conference call ever.
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