O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The AWS Europe (Milan) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers in early 2020. Currently we have 57 Availability Zones across 19 technology infrastructure Regions. In 2012, Amazon opened its first Italian office and its first Italian point of presence (PoP) based in Milan.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018. As a result, we have opened 43 Availability Zones across 16 AWS Regions worldwide. These companies include Cathay Pacific, CLSA, HSBC, Gibson Innovations, Kerry Logistics, Ocean Park, Next Digital, and TownGas.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

It’s been clear for a while that software designed explicitly for the data center environment will increasingly want/need to make different design trade-offs to e.g. general-purpose systems software that you might install on your own machines. But wow, I didn’t think we’d be at the point yet where we’d be abandoning TCP/IP! Enter Google!

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Over the years, we have built a recommendation system that uses many different machine learning algorithms to create these personalized recommendations. All of these algorithms and logic come together in our page generation system to produce a personalized homepage for each of our members, which we have outlined in a previous post.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Over the years, we have built a recommendation system that uses many different machine learning algorithms to create these personalized recommendations. All of these algorithms and logic come together in our page generation system to produce a personalized homepage for each of our members, which we have outlined in a previous post.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Over the years, we have built a recommendation system that uses many different machine learning algorithms to create these personalized recommendations. All of these algorithms and logic come together in our page generation system to produce a personalized homepage for each of our members, which we have outlined in a previous post.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Machine learning: a feature of AI that provides computer systems with the ability to automatically learn and improve from previous experience without being explicitly programmed. While AI has been used for a while now, recent enhancement has made the technology much more innovative and adaptable.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Preact lacks innovation and essentially mimics React. React framework has an entirely synthetic event system, while on the other side, Inferno only supports partial synthetic events and specific functions like onClick. You can shift to the latest updates with Ember’s advanced control system. Preact Vs. React. Ember JS Cons.

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Rather than understanding the disruption phenomenon through the lens of change that has already happened, it is worth looking at the change that has not happened but should have given the availability of technology to bring it about. For at least 40 years now, we‘ve been told that technology will revolutionize education.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

I love the way he manages to wrangle disparate topics across science and history to show how much of innovation and advancement is non-linear. Williams book is an example of why the pop-sci genre became so popular in the first place—it’s well-written, well-researched, engaging and entertaining. This isn’t one of them.

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