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Spam detection in the physical world
We've created the world's first Spam-detecting AI trained entirely in simulation and deployed on a physical robot.Our vision system successfully flagging a can of Spam for removal. The vision system is...
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Async JavaScript Generators
Want the TL;DR version? Here’s a gist of all three examples.Async generators and async iteration have arrived! Err, they’ve reached Stage 3, which means they are likely to ship in a future version of...
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Spotify’s Love/Hate Relationship with DNS
Forward: This blog post accompanies our presentation given at SRECon 2017 in San Francisco. The recording of the talk can be viewed here, with the accompanying slides here.Spotify has a history of...
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AT&T gets $6.5B contract to build US-wide public safety network
Enlarge/ Fire martial texting a message on his cell phone.Getty Images | yougottaloveAT&T has won a lucrative contract to build and manage a nationwide public safety network for America's police,...
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Loading Microsoft 4K BASIC on ALTAIR 8800 with Papertape
Two years ago, I demonstrated the loading of Micro-Soft's first software product on their first platform. If you didn't already know, it was BASIC for the ALTAIR 8800 computer. The story is well...
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Why is my tcp not reliable? (2009)
editThe ultimate SO_LINGER page, or: why is my tcp not reliablePosted by bert hubertSun, 18 Jan 2009 13:03:00 GMTThis post is about an obscure corner of TCP network programming, a corner where almost...
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Cancer Isn’t a Logic Problem
A year ago, Joe Biden launched his “cancer moonshot,” a major national push to improve the prevention, detection, and treatment of cancer, a plan that was widely recognized to be incremental. “I...
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Fuzzing is magic – Or how I found a panic in Rust's regex library
Recently in the Rust world, a new tool called cargo fuzz was released. Fuzzing is a technique to intelligently generate arbitrary input for a program in order to find bugs in it.cargo fuzz promises a...
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AWS for Kids
Your child shouldn't miss a single Cloudwatch alertOur toy integrations make sure that your child can drill on AWS service names wherever they are.Satisfied Parents"My child was a huge fuck up but with...
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Why Japan’s Rail Workers Point at Things
A Tokyo train driver pointing at meters on the dashboard. Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty ImagesIt is hard to miss when taking the train in Tokyo. White-gloved employees in crisp uniforms pointing smartly down...
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Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam
[tor-dev] Tor in a safer language: Network team update from AmsterdamSebastian Hahnsebastian at torproject.orgFri Mar 31 21:23:27 UTC 2017Hi there tor-dev, as an update to those who didn't have the...
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More data can make you more wrong
In a one-day international against Australia last year, Ben Stokes was dismissed for ‘obstructing the field’, a rule rarely invoked in-cricket. The bowler had thrown the ball towards the wicket (and...
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"John Henry"
2016 Southern Music Issue CD: Visions of the BluesTrack 11 – “John Henry” by John Lee HookerIn 1943, John Lee Hooker, then in his mid-twenties, born in Mississippi, starting off as a professional...
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Lou's Pseudo 3d Page
(C) 2013 Louis Gorenfeld, updated May 3, 2013NEW: Important details on the segmented road system and some additional linksNEW: An (optional) explanation of finding field-of-view for the 3d projection...
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How Algolia Reduces Latency
By Josh Dzielak, Developer Advocate at Algolia.Algolia helps developers build search. At the core of Algolia is a built-from-scratch search engine exposed via a JSON API. In February 2017, we processed...
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Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Many seemingly unrelated scientific techniques, from NMR spectroscopy to medical MRI and timekeeping using atomic clocks, rely on measuring atomic spin – the way an atom’s nucleus and electrons rotate...
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Using Ms. Pac-Man to Train the Next Generation of Military Drones
The classic arcade game demands flexibility and quick decision-making—the same skills that artificial-intelligence researchers want in their algorithms.CreditILLUSTRATION BY TOMI UMThirty-five years...
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What is property based testing?
I get asked this a lot, and I write property based testing tools for a living, so you’d think I have a good answer to this, but historically I haven’t. This is my attempt to fix that.Historically the...
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Announcing AudioSet: A Dataset for Audio Event Research
Developing an Ontology When we started on this work last year, our first task was to define a vocabulary of sound classes that provided a consistent level of detail over the spectrum of sound events we...
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Manually Throttle the Bandwidth of a Linux Network Interface
In complex service oriented application stacks, some bugs only manifest themselves on congested or slow networking interfaces. Consider a web-service running on a generic Linux box with a single...
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