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Diagrams can tell a story that is often complex and hard to understand by viewing consoles or CLI's. But for many developers and engineers they are often an afterthought.

If I had the opportunity to define my own eponymous law it would be this:

According to a prominent IT analyst: "WebAssembly has the potential of fixing the one big flaw of serverless computing today: vendor-lock in."

It has become easier, thanks to new specialized technologies designed to handle the processing, analysis and visualization of location-based data.

Deep learning is a sub-field of machine learning which particularly focuses on the class of algorithms that are inspired by

Imagine tapping into the mind of a coma patient, or watching one’s own dream on YouTube. With a cutting-edge blend of brain imaging and computer simulation, UC Berkeley scientists are bringing thes…

Accepted at CVPR 2023 Yu Takagi* 1,2 , Shinji Nishimoto 1,2 1. Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Japan 2. CiNet, NICT, Japan

A decade ago, UC Berkeley researchers decoded fMRI data of people’s brains to reconstruct images of movie trailers they had previously watched. Back then, the images were noisy and grainy. If…

Why Mastodon, ActivityPub and the Fediverse Will Change Social Media Forever Today we’re making it easy for you to sign up for Mastodon and flip through it all on your Flipboard. Our immediate goal is to provide you with a new source of great content and conversation while helping our curators connect with new audiences.

There is something noble about two longtime rivals — competitors, yes, but with nothing but deep respect and camaraderie for each other — facing this terrible cliff together, with dignity and grace, considering their users first, as ever.

I've had a busy month. Something had to drop and it was regular updates here. Technological change is messy and hard to predict. Still we can look at the direction in which digital identity is evolving to get an idea what's coming—even if we can't predict the timing.

What O'Reilly Learning Platform Usage Tells Us About Where the Industry Is Headed

Twitter user opdroid1234 remarked that they are getting more performance out of the ARM nodes than out of the Intel nodes on Amazon’s cloud (AWS). I found previously that the Graviton 3 processors had less bandwidth that comparable Intel systems. However, I have not done much in terms of raw compute power. The Intel processors have … Continue reading ARM vs Intel on Amazon’s cloud: A URL Parsing Benchmark

We discuss the limitations of the current SaaS model, such as difficulty with document organization, communication, and pricing. Then, we propose a solution in the form of an open SaaS platform (based on the Web platform) that offers better organization, communication, and a pay-as-you-go pricing model.

We need an open platform for a new generation of SaaS apps to enhance user experience and developer productivity.

We discuss the limitations of the current SaaS model, such as difficulty with document organization, communication, and pricing. Then, we propose a solution in the form of an open SaaS platform (based on the Web platform) that offers better organization, communication, and a pay-as-you-go pricing model.

Earlier this week someone reached out to me on LinkedIn after listening to a podcast episode I was on where I discussed security architecture and cloud migration. He had been thinking about moving …

We’ve started inviting people from our waitlist to test out a beta app. This app will be a reference client for the AT Protocol, and a landing place for users to enter the ecosystem.

David optimizes a slow query by splitting up a left join into two calls and using UNION ALL to combine them. The proof is in the pudding.

The workhorse computing language suffers from a “major image problem” rooted in fundamental misperceptions, researchers say.

Shai Almog worked at Sun on Mobile JVMs just as phones started to turn from phones into something else. Sun had deep expertise in mobile development, and amazing engineering driven culture and relationships with manufacturers and operators. And yet interal politics and the collapse of its server market made it hard to get things done.At Sun, as the mobile market... […]

*I posted this on Mastodon a couple weeks ago and I'm not sure why I did that instead of posting it here. So here it is. The best description I've ever heard of AI is the following. I heard this in the 80s, and it has held up since: AI is magic. You see a magic trick. You are amazed by the magic. You are shown how the trick works. You are impressed by the technique. You learn how to perform ...

Large language models like ChatGPT have recently spooked a great many, and my Twitter feed is full of worriers saying how irresponsible orgs have been to make and release such models. Because, they say, such a system might have killed us all. And, as some researchers say that they are working on how to better control such things, worriers say we must regulate to slow/stop AI progress until these researchers achieve their goals. While I’ve written on

Sheila has been an IT manager for twenty years. In the last few, when the going was good, she was sold tall tales of zero-to-infinite…