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Interesting bits : Correspondence about Amazon’s recent move to tell some brands that they can only sell on Marketplace (not as vendors) and others that they can only sell as vendors (not on Marketplace). (By dictating this, Amazon can max its margins at the brands’ expense.)

Aws monthly cost: https://github.com/hjacobs/kube-resource-report/blob/master/... AWS spot monthly : https://github.com/hjacobs/kube-resource-report/blob/master/...

Vol 2 : Convexity, Risk, and Fragility -> https://www.dropbox.com/s/hslpj8xcqtszmvv/Technical%20Incert...

Paper : FPGA-based Data Partitioning - https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~jgiceva/papers/SIGMOD_FPGA_partiti... Thesis : Database/Operating System Co-Design - https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/...

It seems that this is the main reason behind OpenBSD disabling Hyperthreading support. But at the moment there is not a lot of information out there. I think that if we start to see other distribution (Redhat) disabling hyperthreading too we might have another Meltdown on our hands.

FT article on the subject can be found at: https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/06/13/1528904202000/Has-bit...

This didn't take long, on the same day GDPR kicks in Three complaints worth €3.9 billion were filed against Facebook and two subsidiaries, WhatsApp and Instagram via data regulators in Austria, Belgium and Hamburg. Another complaint worth €3.7 billion was filed with French data protection authority France CNIL in the case of Google’s Android operating system.

I really wonder what's going to happen if Blizzard (aka hearthstone) or someone else big (Steam) get shot with the GDPR bullet 1st. GDPR has special and more stringent provision when dealing with Minors data. Everybody look at the adtech industry as the one with the highest risk regarding GDPR but the Gaming industry (especially for online and mobile) is the one that can be shot first because of the Children's provisions of the regulation.

Quote: A single actor likely drove the USD/BTC exchange rate from $150 to $1000 in 2 months.

Slides: http://www.nasonline.org/programs/sackler-forum/frontiers-of...

Papers : http://proceedings.mlr.press/v70/kumar17a.html http://proceedings.mlr.press/v70/gupta17a.html

Slide deck : https://storage.googleapis.com/dawn-site/varma-edge-of-ml.pd...

video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZdOkDtYMoo

Video : http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2017/video/s7218-boris-...

Github : https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/sandsifter Paper : https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us-17-Domas-Bre...

I think that, with the emergence of OpenCapi and the like of CCIX, we will see more and more offloading to specialised HW as generic CPU are not able to cope with the required performance and amount of data. If you look at Infiniband roadmap, they plan to hit 1 Tb/S within a couple of years. And no core dedication a la DPDK will allow generic CPU to handle that. The heterogeneous hardware platforms are becoming the norm really quickly.

Slides : https://www.slideshare.net/kaigai/20170602ossummitanintellig...

Slide deck : https://taesoo.gtisc.gatech.edu/pubs/2017/maass:mosaic-slide...

It's the URL provided in the paper (first-page bottom left)

Real, you can download it there : http://nlp.cs.princeton.edu/SARC/

Slides: https://learning.acm.org/webinar_pdfs/JackDongarra_WebinarSl...

Yes, They guarantee consensus per key ( which is in this case per bucket as they aggregate them). You won't be able to have atomic operation across bucket neither you can have serialisation of transactions across bucket. It's a trade-off, my guess is that their use case does not require a consistent view of the overall k/v store.

Interesting concept but relies on multicast. SDN might help solve the inherent multicast drawbacks by creating topologies, distribution trees, etc.. ahead of time. But practically, how often do you see multicast deployed and enabled in modern datacenters ?

Too some extent the book business model is similar to the video one. By commoditizing the publishing industry (free self publish with high margin) they generated an explosion of new authors on their kindle platform. However, their book business model is more advanced than the video as it cover both business model the service and the complimentary business model. This is reflected by the existence of the prime and kindle unlimited offer. Ultimately, it is possible that the video and possibly gaming business will evolve to something similar to the book business. This is a decade long strategic play by amazon, it won't happen overnight.

Click bait and how to lie with statistics - the paper can be summarized : we show that adversarial environment drive selection. Hence women have to become better coder due to lack of opportunity acting as a filter through fiercer competition. Nothing new under the sun + the article doesn't address the underlying issues.