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One thing an ecosystem needs to survive is a constant supply of energy. The sun provides an uninterrupted supply of energy to the Earth. It can also be stored: liquefied dinosaurs are effectively stored energy that originated with the sun. Energy from the sun can be concentrated in many other forms, and accessible to parts of the planet when they're directly exposed to it. In commercial ecosystems, capital is energy. MORE
We can draw support and energy from others, especially if we focus on building deep, trust-based relationships where we can feel comfortable sharing our emotions and be more willing to rely on others as we embark on this journey together. MORE
But transportation creates a lot of other problems such as energy consumption and pollution, so cars are regulated for their safety equipment, the types and quantities of energy they use, and the amount of pollution they generate. MORE
Not everyone needs high performance but the blatant waste and energy consumption of our industry cannot continue. Wake up! MORE
Energy-efficient buildings don't fulfill their promise because "buildings don't use energy -- people do." It's a phenomenon called the rebound effect : tech-driven advances in energy efficiency result in increased rather than decreased consumption. "[P]redicting MORE
Shaun Raviv : Friston’s free energy principle says that all life, at every scale of organization—from single cells to the human brain, with its billions of neurons—is driven by the same universal imperative, which can be reduced to a mathematical function. Wake up! MORE
I’ve chosen another energy-related paper to end the week, addressing a problem many people can relate to: apps that drain your battery. Wasted energy. The BetterWeather app had a similar energy failure mode when it couldn’t get a GPS signal (e.g., MORE
But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Since 2009, Greenpeace has been putting pressure on big Internet companies to clean up their energy mix by way of their Clicking Clean campaign. MORE
It is worth noting that Summit is also the world’s 3 rd most energy-efficient machine, according to the Green500 list. The Green500 list ranks the most energy-efficient supercomputers. You may have heard of the Top500 list. MORE
Photo taken by Adrian at the Park Hyatt NingBo, China I recently read Annaka Harris’ new book Conscious about the mysteries and nature of consciousness and had an epiphany. What we do to make our computer systems observable is actually closely related to consciousness. MORE
Like a satellite launched to its orbit in space, it takes a lot of effort and energy to launch transformations like project to product–until they reach orbit–after which the behaviors and practices become ingrained in the culture and are self-sustaining in the long term. MORE
In addition to its goal of reducing energy costs, Shell needed to be more agile in deploying IT services and planning for user demand. Essent – supplies customers in the Benelux region with gas, electricity, heat and energy services. MORE
This layout keeps content ordered within spacial zones but maintains energy by making each zone a different size. It gives you extra flexibility and can transform an otherwise static layout into one which is filled with energy. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. MORE
A higher QoS value will also consume more energy due to it using more resources. Here is the list of QoS values from highest to lowest priority: Quality-of-service values of queue sorted by performance and energy efficiency ( Large preview ). MORE
We needed to serve our growing base of startup, government, and enterprise customers across many vertical industries, including automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, high technology, education, and energy. ENEL is one of the leading energy operators in the world. MORE
As of yet, I have not encountered such an application, despite having worked on numerous applications in healthcare and criminal justice, energy reliability, and financial risk assessment. MORE
Wake up! It's HighScalability time: 10 years of AWS architecture increasing simplicity or increasing complexity? Michael Wittig ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. MORE
Cennydd also makes the case that performance also has an impact on energy consumption: In 2016, video, tracking scripts and sharing buttons caused the average website to swell to the same size as the original version of Doom. In a 2012 paper, The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy estimated the internet uses 5 kWh on average to support every GB of data. Based on the 5 kWh energy consumption estimate, we’re looking at spending 17.6 MORE
Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. but now that you are here, read on and hopefully I can at least convince you that service workers can make a (little bit) difference to energy consumption! Energy Aware Caching. MORE
One of the important criteria in launching this AWS Region is the opportunity to power it with renewable energy. We chose Bahrain in part due to the country's focus on executing renewable energy goals and its readiness to construct a new solar power facility to meet our power needs. MORE
While client projects offered opportunities to be creative, they also depleted my energy reserves and any capacity I had to come up with ideas. I was eager to learn, and with the pressure of running my business lifted, I had the energy and the time for studying. MORE
In France, you can find one of the most vibrant startup ecosystems in the world, a strong research community, excellent energy, telecom, and transportation infrastructure, a very strong agriculture and food industry, and some of the most influential luxury brands in the world. MORE
Hey, it's HighScalability time: The amazing Zoomable Universe from 10^27 meters—about 93 billion light-years—down to the subatomic realm, at 10^-35 meters. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. MORE
In particular, he’s put an absurd amount of time and energy into advocating for being careful about the overreliance on JavaScript that is leading to much of the web’s current performance issues. The other day I was listening to the latest Shop Talk Show podcast while out for my morning run. They had Jen Simmons on the show, talking about (among other things) the standards process. MORE
Manager Energy Drain | Lara Hogan. This is the last in a series of scheduling- and calendaring-related topics. This one’s about my overall strategy of using scheduling as a tool to manage my time. MORE
Hacking Lighthouse takes time, energy, and resources from your team. While you can hack Google Lighthouse to handle more complex monitoring tasks, is it worth your team's time & energy to do so? MORE
For the most recent hack day, we channeled our creative energy towards our studio efforts. Netflix Studio Hack Day ?—?May May 2019 By Tom Richards , Carenina Garcia Motion , and Marlee Tart Hack Days are a big deal at Netflix. MORE
Automating resource selection with client hints doesn’t just save you time and energy. The concept of responsive web design has been around for a while, but all of the kinks have yet to be ironed out. MORE
It breeds positive energy. As long as the two people get along, pair testing can often lead to new, positive energy. Sometimes two is better than one. In pair testing, two people sit behind one machine to test the software. One person controls the mouse and keyboard. MORE
We actively choose whether to devote our time and energy to improving it, or to ignore it and leave it up to chance. The five most read posts of 2015, in order. Apple’s Web. I’m good for a heat of the moment rant about either standards or Apple (often both) every couple years. This year, it was about Apple’s influence over the standardization process after some fallout around the Pointer Events specification. Client-side MVC’s Major Bug. MORE
Wake up! It's HighScalability time: This is your 1500ms latency in real life situations - pic.twitter.com/guot8khIPX. — Ivo Mägi (@ivomagi) November 27, 2018. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed (31 reviews on Amazon and 72 on Goodreads!) book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. MORE
Hey, it's HighScalability time: 4 th of July may never be the same. China creates stunning non- polluting drone swarm firework displays. Each drone is rated with a game mechanic and gets special privileges based on performance (just kidding). TicToc ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? MORE
We don’t have to stop there, we can also change the energy performance bias setting to performance as well./x86_energy_perf_policy HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. MORE
Consider, for example , a hedge fund storing portfolios of stocks in an IMDG as objects, where each portfolio tracks a given market sector (high tech, energy, healthcare, etc.). MORE
Different layers offer trade-offs in terms of resource capacity, cost and network latency, management overheads, and energy-efficiency. A case for managed and model-less inference serving Yadwadkar et al., HotOS’19. MORE
Thousands of customers in China are already using AWS services operated by Sinnet, to innovate in diverse areas such as energy, education, manufacturing, home security, mobile and internet platforms, CRM solutions, and the dairy industry, among others. MORE
Motivation represents a positive energy, at the other end of the spectrum is we have burnout. Vigor is characterised by high levels of energy and mental resilience while working. The assumption that engagement is somehow strongly correlated with performance is misplaced. MORE
Boosted race trees for low energy classification Tzimpragos et al., We don’t talk about energy as often as we probably should on this blog, but it’s certainly true that our data centres and various IT systems consume an awful lot of it. MORE
Galvanized by the new energy that was instilled across the team, we decided to try something a bit different. In the latest release of Tasktop Integration Hub (19.3) , the Product Development team tried out an experiment to deliver even more business value out of our flagship product. MORE
It helps to achieve the following goals: Smaller dimensionality helps to concentrate the energy of the signal, so each basis vector significantly contributes to the rating estimation. MORE
Yup – as if there weren’t a million other reasons why having an optimized site is important, you can now take pride in knowing that a fast website: saves energy, reduces economic disparity, increases happiness, and – in the most recent news – can prevent hate. MORE
The end of Dennard Scaling and Moore's Law means architecture is where we have to innovate to improve performance, cost, and energy. Hey, it's HighScalability time: Scaling fake ratings. A 5 star 10,000 phone Chinese click farm. English Russia ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? MORE
You might think that a complex grid could stifle creativity and would result in designs which look stiff, but in Pressing Matters, the compound grid feels fluid and full of energy. “. Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. Andrew Clarke. MORE
Energy Related Topics 
The Morning Paper
MAY 28, 2019
Boosted race trees for low energy classification Tzimpragos et al., We don’t talk about energy as often as we probably should on this blog, but it’s certainly true that our data centres and various IT systems consume an awful lot of it.
The Agile Manager
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
One thing an ecosystem needs to survive is a constant supply of energy. The sun provides an uninterrupted supply of energy to the Earth. It can also be stored: liquefied dinosaurs are effectively stored energy that originated with the sun. Energy from the sun can be concentrated in many other forms, and accessible to parts of the planet when they're directly exposed to it. In commercial ecosystems, capital is energy.
The Morning Paper
MAY 30, 2019
I’ve chosen another energy-related paper to end the week, addressing a problem many people can relate to: apps that drain your battery. Wasted energy. The BetterWeather app had a similar energy failure mode when it couldn’t get a GPS signal (e.g.,
MachMetrics
AUGUST 7, 2019
Yup – as if there weren’t a million other reasons why having an optimized site is important, you can now take pride in knowing that a fast website: saves energy, reduces economic disparity, increases happiness, and – in the most recent news – can prevent hate.
The Netflix TechBlog
JUNE 20, 2019
For the most recent hack day, we channeled our creative energy towards our studio efforts. Netflix Studio Hack Day ?—?May May 2019 By Tom Richards , Carenina Garcia Motion , and Marlee Tart Hack Days are a big deal at Netflix.
High Scalability
MARCH 1, 2019
Wake up! It's HighScalability time: 10 years of AWS architecture increasing simplicity or increasing complexity? Michael Wittig ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them.
PDC
APRIL 14, 2019
It is worth noting that Summit is also the world’s 3 rd most energy-efficient machine, according to the Green500 list. The Green500 list ranks the most energy-efficient supercomputers. You may have heard of the Top500 list.
Tim Kadlec
JANUARY 9, 2019
Cennydd also makes the case that performance also has an impact on energy consumption: In 2016, video, tracking scripts and sharing buttons caused the average website to swell to the same size as the original version of Doom. In a 2012 paper, The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy estimated the internet uses 5 kWh on average to support every GB of data. Based on the 5 kWh energy consumption estimate, we’re looking at spending 17.6
High Scalability
DECEMBER 7, 2018
Wake up! It's HighScalability time: This is your 1500ms latency in real life situations - pic.twitter.com/guot8khIPX. — Ivo Mägi (@ivomagi) November 27, 2018. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed (31 reviews on Amazon and 72 on Goodreads!) book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.
High Scalability
JUNE 22, 2018
Hey, it's HighScalability time: 4 th of July may never be the same. China creates stunning non- polluting drone swarm firework displays. Each drone is rated with a game mechanic and gets special privileges based on performance (just kidding). TicToc ). Do you like this sort of Stuff?
The Agile Manager
OCTOBER 31, 2019
Energy-efficient buildings don't fulfill their promise because "buildings don't use energy -- people do." It's a phenomenon called the rebound effect : tech-driven advances in energy efficiency result in increased rather than decreased consumption. "[P]redicting
Smashing Magazine
JANUARY 15, 2019
But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Since 2009, Greenpeace has been putting pressure on big Internet companies to clean up their energy mix by way of their Clicking Clean campaign.
All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
We needed to serve our growing base of startup, government, and enterprise customers across many vertical industries, including automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, high technology, education, and energy. ENEL is one of the leading energy operators in the world.
Adrian Cockcroft
JUNE 29, 2019
Photo taken by Adrian at the Park Hyatt NingBo, China I recently read Annaka Harris’ new book Conscious about the mysteries and nature of consciousness and had an epiphany. What we do to make our computer systems observable is actually closely related to consciousness.
Rigor
OCTOBER 30, 2019
Hacking Lighthouse takes time, energy, and resources from your team. While you can hack Google Lighthouse to handle more complex monitoring tasks, is it worth your team's time & energy to do so?
All Things Distributed
DECEMBER 11, 2017
Thousands of customers in China are already using AWS services operated by Sinnet, to innovate in diverse areas such as energy, education, manufacturing, home security, mobile and internet platforms, CRM solutions, and the dairy industry, among others.
Abhishek Tiwari
JULY 8, 2018
Motivation represents a positive energy, at the other end of the spectrum is we have burnout. Vigor is characterised by high levels of energy and mental resilience while working. The assumption that engagement is somehow strongly correlated with performance is misplaced.
The Morning Paper
JUNE 13, 2019
Different layers offer trade-offs in terms of resource capacity, cost and network latency, management overheads, and energy-efficiency. A case for managed and model-less inference serving Yadwadkar et al., HotOS’19.
Testlodge
JANUARY 28, 2016
It breeds positive energy. As long as the two people get along, pair testing can often lead to new, positive energy. Sometimes two is better than one. In pair testing, two people sit behind one machine to test the software. One person controls the mouse and keyboard.
High Scalability
JUNE 15, 2018
The end of Dennard Scaling and Moore's Law means architecture is where we have to innovate to improve performance, cost, and energy. Hey, it's HighScalability time: Scaling fake ratings. A 5 star 10,000 phone Chinese click farm. English Russia ). Do you like this sort of Stuff?
HammerDB
OCTOBER 18, 2019
We don’t have to stop there, we can also change the energy performance bias setting to performance as well./x86_energy_perf_policy HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own.
Smashing Magazine
AUGUST 8, 2019
While client projects offered opportunities to be creative, they also depleted my energy reserves and any capacity I had to come up with ideas. I was eager to learn, and with the pressure of running my business lifted, I had the energy and the time for studying.
High Scalability
AUGUST 17, 2018
Hey, it's HighScalability time: The amazing Zoomable Universe from 10^27 meters—about 93 billion light-years—down to the subatomic realm, at 10^-35 meters. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me.
All Things Distributed
SEPTEMBER 25, 2017
One of the important criteria in launching this AWS Region is the opportunity to power it with renewable energy. We chose Bahrain in part due to the country's focus on executing renewable energy goals and its readiness to construct a new solar power facility to meet our power needs.
ScaleOut Software
JULY 27, 2018
Consider, for example , a hedge fund storing portfolios of stocks in an IMDG as objects, where each portfolio tracks a given market sector (high tech, energy, healthcare, etc.).
Smashing Magazine
JUNE 13, 2019
This layout keeps content ordered within spacial zones but maintains energy by making each zone a different size. It gives you extra flexibility and can transform an otherwise static layout into one which is filled with energy. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine.
Baron Schwartz
MARCH 16, 2019
Sometimes anger arises, and I can use it for energy to help me do things I need to do, but don’t want to do. I was raised in an environment where feelings were minimized, denied, brushed aside. In some circumstances, acknowledging feelings could even be risky.
Tasktop
AUGUST 1, 2019
Galvanized by the new energy that was instilled across the team, we decided to try something a bit different. In the latest release of Tasktop Integration Hub (19.3) , the Product Development team tried out an experiment to deliver even more business value out of our flagship product.
High Scalability
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Shaun Raviv : Friston’s free energy principle says that all life, at every scale of organization—from single cells to the human brain, with its billions of neurons—is driven by the same universal imperative, which can be reduced to a mathematical function. Wake up!
Highly Scalable
MARCH 10, 2015
It helps to achieve the following goals: Smaller dimensionality helps to concentrate the energy of the signal, so each basis vector significantly contributes to the rating estimation.
Tasktop
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Like a satellite launched to its orbit in space, it takes a lot of effort and energy to launch transformations like project to product–until they reach orbit–after which the behaviors and practices become ingrained in the culture and are self-sustaining in the long term.
The Morning Paper
OCTOBER 27, 2019
As of yet, I have not encountered such an application, despite having worked on numerous applications in healthcare and criminal justice, energy reliability, and financial risk assessment.
Edge Perspectives
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
We can draw support and energy from others, especially if we focus on building deep, trust-based relationships where we can feel comfortable sharing our emotions and be more willing to rely on others as we embark on this journey together.
Smashing Magazine
JULY 11, 2019
You might think that a complex grid could stifle creativity and would result in designs which look stiff, but in Pressing Matters, the compound grid feels fluid and full of energy. “. Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. Andrew Clarke.
All Things Distributed
DECEMBER 18, 2017
In France, you can find one of the most vibrant startup ecosystems in the world, a strong research community, excellent energy, telecom, and transportation infrastructure, a very strong agriculture and food industry, and some of the most influential luxury brands in the world.
High Scalability
MAY 10, 2019
Not everyone needs high performance but the blatant waste and energy consumption of our industry cannot continue. Wake up!
Smashing Magazine
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
A higher QoS value will also consume more energy due to it using more resources. Here is the list of QoS values from highest to lowest priority: Quality-of-service values of queue sorted by performance and energy efficiency ( Large preview ).
All Things Distributed
SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
In addition to its goal of reducing energy costs, Shell needed to be more agile in deploying IT services and planning for user demand. Essent – supplies customers in the Benelux region with gas, electricity, heat and energy services.
Baron Schwartz
MARCH 9, 2019
Manager Energy Drain | Lara Hogan. This is the last in a series of scheduling- and calendaring-related topics. This one’s about my overall strategy of using scheduling as a tool to manage my time.
Tim Kadlec
OCTOBER 21, 2019
In particular, he’s put an absurd amount of time and energy into advocating for being careful about the overreliance on JavaScript that is leading to much of the web’s current performance issues. The other day I was listening to the latest Shop Talk Show podcast while out for my morning run. They had Jen Simmons on the show, talking about (among other things) the standards process.
The Agile Manager
JUNE 30, 2019
But transportation creates a lot of other problems such as energy consumption and pollution, so cars are regulated for their safety equipment, the types and quantities of energy they use, and the amount of pollution they generate.
KeyCDN
JANUARY 16, 2019
Automating resource selection with client hints doesn’t just save you time and energy. The concept of responsive web design has been around for a while, but all of the kinks have yet to be ironed out.
Tim Kadlec
DECEMBER 29, 2015
We actively choose whether to devote our time and energy to improving it, or to ignore it and leave it up to chance. The five most read posts of 2015, in order. Apple’s Web. I’m good for a heat of the moment rant about either standards or Apple (often both) every couple years. This year, it was about Apple’s influence over the standardization process after some fallout around the Pointer Events specification. Client-side MVC’s Major Bug.
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