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Joel Spolsky is (semi-)retired
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Joel on Software
So, howβs that retirement thing going, anyway?
For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of Stack Overflow. Iβm still going on some customer calls and have a weekly meeting with him, β¦
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Robots in Finance Could Wipe Out Some of Its Highest-Paying Jobs
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Bloomberg.com
Robots in Finance Could Wipe Out Some of Its Highest-Paying Jobs
Robots have replaced thousands of routine jobs on Wall Street. Now, theyβre coming for higher-ups.
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Indexing Billions of Text Vectors
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Tech @ Cliqz
Indexing Billions of Text Vectors
Optimizing memory-usage for approximate nearest neighbor search
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Understanding βDeep Double Descentβ
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www.alignmentforum.org
Understanding βDeep Double Descentβ β AI Alignment Forum
Double descent is a puzzling phenomenon in machine learning where increasing model size/training time/data can initially hurt performance, but then iβ¦
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File Systems Unfit as Distributed Storage Back Ends: 10 Years of Ceph
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Blogspot
SOSP19 File Systems Unfit as Distributed Storage Backends: Lessons from 10 Years of Ceph Evolution
This paper is by Abutalib Aghayev (Carnegie Mellon University), Sage Weil (Red Hat Inc.), Michael Kuchnik (Carnegie Mellon University), Mar...
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Attackers Used Look-Alike Domains to Steal $1M from a Chinese VC
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Dark Reading
How Attackers Used Look-Alike Domains to Steal $1 Million From a Chinese VC
Money meant to fund an Israeli startup wound up directly deposited to the scammers.
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The rise and fall of the PlayStation supercomputers
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The Verge
The rise and fall of the PlayStation supercomputers
For one short moment, some of the most powerful computers in the world could be hacked together with code, wire, and PS3s.
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Rust implementations of abstract algebraic structures
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GitLab
Stuart Hungerford / un-algebra
THIS PROJECT IS UNMAINTAINED. Please refer to the documentation for alternatives. Simple Rust implementations of selected abstract algebraic structures.
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Google Cloud Is Having IO Issues in US-EAST1
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The Social Subsidy of Angel Investing
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Substack
The Social Subsidy of Angel Investing
Two Truths and a Take, Season 1 Episode 33
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Show HN: Learn When to Quit
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victorqribeiro/googol
Googol Game or "You should learn when to quit". A JavaScript game. - victorqribeiro/googol
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FDA Approving Drugs at Breakneck Speed, Raising Alarm
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Msn
FDA Approving Drugs at Breakneck Speed, Raising Alarm
(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. is approving new drugs so fast that companies are now preparing for a green light months in advance of the scheduled decision date, a pace thatβs helping patients with rare or untreatable diseases but raising alarm among consumer advocates.
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βI lost my inheritance with one wrong digit on my sort codeβ
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the Guardian
βI lost my Β£193,000 inheritance β with one wrong digit on my sort codeβ
When Peter Teichβs money went to another Barclays customer, the bank offered Β£25 as a token gesture
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The Product-Minded Software Engineer
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The Pragmatic Engineer
The Product-Minded Software Engineer
Product-minded engineers are developers with lots of interest in the product
itself. They want to understand why decisions are made, how people use the
product, and love to be involved in making product decisions. They're someone
who would likely make a goodβ¦
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Which Areas Will Be Flooded with Homes Once Boomers Start Leaving Them?
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Zillow
The Silver Tsunami: Which Areas will be Flooded with Homes once Boomers Start Leaving Them?
Over the next 20 years, more than a quarter (27.4 percent) of the nationβs currently owner-occupied homes are likely to hit the market.
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HackerOne breach lets outside hacker read customersβ private bug reports
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Ars Technica
HackerOne breach lets outside hacker read customersβ private bug reports
Company security analyst sent session cookie allowing account take-over.
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Why smallpox is no more, but polio and other diseases persist
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Quanta Magazine
How to Permanently End Diseases
Smallpox was eradicated relatively quickly, but other diseases have proved harder to eliminate. The reasons are a mix of biology and psychology.
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Structuring Your Project β The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python
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docs.python-guide.org
Structuring Your Project β The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python
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Save .ORG from Arbitrary Censorship by Halting the Private Equity Buy-Out
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
We Need To Save .ORG From Arbitrary Censorship By Halting the Private Equity Buy-Out
The .ORG top-level domain and all of the nonprofit organizations that depend on it are at risk if a private equity firm is allowed to buy control of it. EFF has joined with over 250 respected
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Reducing the Performance Gap of Intel's MKL on AMD Threadripper
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Puget Systems
How To Use MKL with AMD Ryzen and Threadripper CPU's (Effectively) for Python Numpy (And Other Applications)
In this post I'm going to show you a simple way to significantly speedup Python numpy compute performance on AMD CPU's when using Anaconda Python.
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The Ketamine Chronicles, April 2019
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Medium
30 Years of Depression, Gone
The Ketamine Chronicles, April 2019
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