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No Start Menu for You

Randon ASCII

I tend to launch most programs on my Windows 10 laptop by typing the <Win> key, then a few letters of the program name, and then hitting enter. On my powerful laptop (SSD and 32 GB of RAM) this process usually takes as long as it takes me to type these characters, just a fraction of a second. A lot longer.

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32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine

Randon ASCII

Memory is a relatively scarce resource on many consumer computers, so a feature to limit how much memory a process uses seems like a good idea, and Microsoft did indeed implement such a feature. KiPageFault is triggered whenever a process touches memory that is not currently in the working set of the process. That is remarkable.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Machine Learning

All Things Distributed

Such algorithms operate by building a model from example inputs and using that to make predictions or decisions, rather than following strictly static program instructions. A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning , Pedro Domingos, Communications of the ACM, 55 (10), 78-87, 2012. Murty, and P.J.

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Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT

O'Reilly

The inspiration (and title) for it comes from Mike Loukides’ Radar article on Real World Programming with ChatGPT , which shares a similar spirit of digging into the potential and limits of AI tools for more realistic end-to-end programming tasks. Setting the Stage: Who Am I and What Am I Trying to Build?

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As-Salaam-Alaikum: The cloud arrives in the Middle East!

All Things Distributed

We have supported the development of technology skills across the region with Training and Certification programs to help customers develop skills to design, deploy, and operate their infrastructure and applications on the AWS Cloud. This provides students and educators with the resources needed to accelerate cloud-related learning.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

I'm now program co-chair for SREcon 2023 APAC, and our 2023 conference is June 14-16 in Singapore. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. The call for participation ends on March 2nd 23:59 SGT!

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

Unilever – Unilever R&D program intended to accelerate the company’s scientific progress through improved access to global information. It makes use of the Eagle Genomics platform running on AWS, resulting in that Unilever’s digital data program now processes genetic sequences twenty times faster—without incurring higher compute costs.

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