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In a world of complex authorization queries, the Distributed Authorization feature by Oso Cloud shines by allowing users to apply application data to authorization decisions without the need to synchronize it to Oso Cloud. This unique approach challenges the traditional belief that an authorization service should answer authorization questions independently. By distributing authorization decisions between […]
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This web content explores the process of building a weather data warehouse, focusing on loading a large amount of weather data into a database. The data being used is the ERA5 climate reanalysis product, offering a comprehensive historical view of Earth’s weather. The content delves into different methods of data insertion, comparing single-row inserts, multi-valued […]
In 1997, a 13-year-old Hispanic teenager named Alex is being raised in a risky environment with parents who are uninvolved and in financial distress. Over the next 25 years, researchers will continue to follow Alex and hundreds of other teenagers who are part of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. This research shows that adverse […]
The author explores the complex Knuth-Morris-Pratt (KMP) algorithm for string search, notorious for being hard to understand due to many explanations obscuring its essence. Through step-by-step illustrations and elementary functional programming techniques, the paper simplifies the algorithm, emphasizing visual intuition over program manipulation, leading to an optimal solution. The evolution from naive string search to […]
A Florida appeals court has issued a groundbreaking ruling allowing citizens to secretly record law enforcement officers conducting official duties due to their lack of privacy expectations. The case involved a citizen accusing the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office of misconduct. The court overturned five felony wiretapping convictions against Michael Leroy Waite, emphasizing the public’s ability […]
A group of seismologists from various institutions report that the San Andreas Fault near Parkfield, California, is not showing typical signs of an impending earthquake, despite past patterns. Typically, earthquakes occur every 22 years in that region, with similar magnitudes each time. However, recent seismic activity does not indicate an imminent quake. The researchers believe […]
The lost notebook of Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, containing groundbreaking mathematical formulas, was rediscovered by George Andrews in 1976 in the effects of G. N. Watson. This “notebook” is made up of loose sheets of paper with over 600 formulas, some of which have been proven by Andrews and Bruce C. Berndt in their publications. […]
Hono v4, a web framework for the Edges, has been released, boasting speed and simplicity. It can run on various JavaScript runtimes such as Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Vercel, and Node.js. Not only is it fast, but it’s also lightweight with zero dependencies. Hono includes built-in middleware and supports TypeScript. In benchmarks, Hono outperformed other routers […]
Scientific research is crucial but hindered by complexity and slow progress. To address this, a ResearchAgent powered by a language model generates research ideas and refines them based on literature. It connects information through an academic graph and a knowledge store, mining entities shared across papers. ReviewingAgents provide feedback aligned with human preferences, enhancing idea […]
BTFS allows you to mount any .torrent file or magnet link as a read-only directory in your file system. Files are downloaded on-demand as they are accessed. Common tools like ls, cat, and cp work seamlessly with BTFS, as well as media players like vlc and mplayer. Installation guides are available for Debian/Ubuntu, Arch Linux, […]