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LeMUR is a powerful tool designed to optimize accuracy for specific tasks that developers commonly want to build with. It offers a range of features, including automatic summarization of virtual meetings and phone calls, question and answer capabilities, and action item generation from meetings. LeMUR is also extensible and allows users to define their own […]
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In the Namib Desert and northwestern Australia, there are mysterious circular patches known as “fairy circles” that have sparked scientific debate. Some scientists believe that sand termites are responsible for these patterns, while others argue that they are a self-organizing ecological phenomenon known as a Turing pattern. A recent paper published in the journal Perspectives […]
Researchers from ETH Zürich and Università di Bologna have published a technical paper titled “Fast Shared-Memory Barrier Synchronization for a 1024-Cores RISC-V Many-Core Cluster.” The paper addresses the issue of synchronization in shared-memory parallel programs and focuses specifically on barrier synchronization for TeraPool, a cluster of 1024 RISC-V processors. The researchers compare different synchronization strategies […]
In this paper, Phillip Rogaway discusses the political and moral nature of cryptography. He argues that cryptography is a tool that rearranges power and has significant societal implications. The Snowden revelations, which exposed mass surveillance, prompt a reevaluation of the field of cryptography and its role in resisting such surveillance. Rogaway calls for a community-wide […]
The Cheesecake Factory’s menu is notoriously extensive, with over 250 items spread across 20 pages. The dishes range from sandwiches to pastas to, of course, cheesecakes. What sets the menu apart are the personal endorsements from unknown individuals attached to certain dishes, giving it a unique touch. The restaurant’s decor is opulent and extravagant, with […]
In 1946, Louis Slotin, a nuclear physicist working on the Manhattan Project, lost his life in a tragic accident. Ben Platts-Mills recounts the story in a specially illustrated feature for BBC Future. Using reconstructions, photographs, and his own mock-up of the apparatus, Platts-Mills created illustrations that capture the events leading up to the accident. He […]
Team Topologies is a model developed by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais that aims to help organize software development teams. It defines four types of teams and three modes of team interactions. The primary type of team is the stream-aligned team, which is responsible for software for a single business capability. These teams are full-stack […]
Commander Keen’s Adaptive Tile Refresh (ATR) is a crucial piece of technology that powered the first trilogy of the Commander Keen series. The Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) card, with its four planes of graphics data storage, was the key to running the game at its best. The EGA CRTC (screen controller) read four bytes in […]
The web content discusses two key features of a distributed system: clustering and quorum-based replication, and message routing strategies. The system is built on industry-standard best practices to ensure highly-available queues. It offers different routing strategies to aid in implementing complex message processing pipelines. One unique aspect is the multi-hop network topology that creates a […]
In this web content, the author, Andy Warfield, shares his insights and experiences working on Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). He explains that S3 is a large-scale storage system with various components and teams, and it operates as a continuous, evolving system rather than traditional software. Warfield highlights the incredible scale of S3, with millions […]