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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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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. The Art of SEO.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Follow him on Twitter @ RickByers and be sure to watch the video of his conversation at Chrome Dev Summit 2016 , where he discussed the ways Chrome is “improving predictability for developers.” Prior to founding start-ups, Luke was an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Benchmark Capital , the Chief Design Architect (VP) at Yahoo!,

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Fixing a slow site iteratively

CSS - Tricks

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. In that spirit, what we’re looking at in this article is focused more on the incremental wins and less on providing an exhaustive list or checklist of performance strategies. Again, every millisecond counts.

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). Intel has been stuck at 14nm in the server space since the Broadwell release in Q4 of 2016. So, what has changed my mind?

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

Alex Russell

This rework delays launch which, in turn, delays gathering data about the viability of a PWA strategy. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. The true median device from 2016 sold at about ~$200 unlocked. Global Ground-Truth.

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What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites

Smashing Magazine

As a result, she came back to me concerned with publishing a post on a strategy her agency had yet to adopt successfully. Let the web developer handle all of the necessary speed optimizations like caching and file minification while you take on the following design tips and strategies: 1. second benchmark for mobile loading.

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