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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 5th, 2018

High Scalability

Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. Comments tell you about the state, not the code. So many more quotes.

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ChatGPT, Author of The Quixote

O'Reilly

And the space is moving quickly: SORA , OpenAI’s text-to-video model, is yet to be released and has already taken the world by storm. It takes the prompt and just returns one of the most similar “training documents” it has in its database, verbatim. At the other end of the extreme consider a search engine. joined Flickr.

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Sustainable Web Development Strategies Within An Organization

Smashing Magazine

The internet accounts for an estimated 3–4% of global emissions — equivalent to some countries. The carbon emissions of the internet are roughly equivalent to those generated by the entire aviation industry, or the whole of Africa. For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs.

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Open Source Software Security: Is Open Source Software Safe?

Percona

Watch the “Using Open Source Software to Optimize and Troubleshoot Your MySQL Environment” video sessions Open source software powers the Internet. Open source databases, like MySQL and PostgreSQL, are among the most widely used and popular databases for workloads large and small.

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Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4)

Smashing Magazine

Part 3 : Models, Admin, And Harnessing The Relational Database. Also called “static assets,” these files include CSS and JavaScript, both written by the application developer and third-party libraries, as well as PDFs, software installers, images, music, videos, and icons. Part 2 : Templating Saves Lines. Definitions.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). Next-generation video codecs, supported in many modern chips, but also a licensing minefield. Fundamentally enabling for video creation apps.

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AI Powered Misinformation and Manipulation at Scale #GPT-3

O'Reilly

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. It is likely that entire companies will be in the business of identifying these nuances and selling them as “fingerprint databases” for identifying fake news articles.