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Detecting Speech and Music in Audio Content

The Netflix TechBlog

Training examples were produced between 2016 and 2019, in 13 countries, with 60% of the titles originating in the USA. To evaluate and benchmark our dataset, we manually labeled 20 audio tracks from various TV shows which do not overlap with our training data. What constitutes music or speech?

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SQL Server 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: Always On Availability Groups Turbocharged

SQL Server According to Bob

The result is a design for SQL Server 2016 that provides high availability for the most demanding workloads on the latest hardware with minimal impact and scalable for the future. However, if you are looking to accelerate your hardware, our Always On Availability Group design for SQL Server 2016 can keep pace. one without a replica).

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The Surprising Effectiveness of Non-Overlapping, Sensitivity-Based Performance Models

John McCalpin

This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ). Building separate models for each of the benchmarks was required to get the correct asymptotic properties.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Co-founder Eliot Horowitz recounts ( {coding}bootcamps.io ): “MongoDB was born out of our frustration using tabular databases in large, complex production deployments. 2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix. 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB. looking out for MongoDB Inc.

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WAL Compression in PostgreSQL and Recent Improvements in Version 15

Percona

Some of the built-in features ( wal_compression ) have been there since 2016, and almost all backup tools do the WAL compression before taking it to the backup repository. This warning may mainly apply to users building their PostgreSQL from source code. But this comes with a considerable performance implication.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications. Using Webpagetest.

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Can You Afford It?: Real-world Web Performance Budgets

Alex Russell

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. For this page to be done loading it needs to be responsive to user input — the “interactive” in “Time to Interactive” Browsers process user input by generating DOM events that application code listens to. Execute the script. Global Ground-Truth.