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Facebook has posted details on its work with Google Chrome and Firefox browsers to significantly improve web page loading times. Thanks to this joint effort, the companies have seen, according to Facebook, the following results: New features in both Chrome and Firefox that make their caches significantly more efficient. Facebook was able to reduce static…

The meme that captured the 2004 post-election blues.

Over the last couple of years, we have focused extensively on the hardware required for training deep neural networks and other machine learning

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This is the final post of the series “Every Day Is Monday in Operations.” Throughout this series we’ve discussed our challenges, shared our war stories, and walked through the learnings we’ve gained as Operations leaders. You can read the introduction and find links to the rest of the series here.

How Project Jupyter got here and where we are headed.

Amidst growing experimentation, a mix of factors leads energy industry pros to believe Africa has is fertile ground for applying blockchain in the power-energy sectors.

Data, algorithms, and better business results are key to developing AI.

The label-correction algorithm is a generalization which includes very common graph search algorithms like breadth first search (BFS), depth first search (DFS), A*, Dijkstra's algorithm and Branch and bound as special cases. Pseudocode Pseudocode for the Label correction algorithm Explanation: First if: The left hand side is a lower bound …

Watching a foreign movie without subtitles can be difficult. Luckily, here is a big list of sites for you to download subtitles for movies and TV shows.

Posted by Ryan Hurst, Security and Privacy Engineering In support of our work to implement HTTPS across all of our products ( https://www.g...

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Last week we discussed the projected momentum for FPGAs in the cloud with Deepak Singh, general manager of container and HPC projects at Amazon Web

The New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration got us back on track

Journalism is in a world of hurt because it has been marginalized by a new business model that requires maximizing “content” instead. That model is called adtech. We can see adtech’s effects in The…

Answer by David Heinemeier Hansson, Creator of Ruby on Rails, Founder & CTO at Basecamp

Codemods with jscodeshift How many times have you used the find-and-replace functionality across a directory to make changes to JavaScript source files? If you…

Kill your antivirus, maybe keep Windows Defender

Our customers have traditionally used directories (typically Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service or LDAP-based) to manage hierarchically organized data. Device registries, course catalogs, network configurations, and user directories are often represented as hierarchies, sometimes with multiple types of relationships between objects in the same collection. For example, a user directory could have one hierarchy based […]

Target has remained cutting edge over the years, not only compared to other brick-and-mortar stor

My co-workers had uncertain futures, and no easy explanation for why the American dream didn’t work out for them.