سلام د خوښې کس this weeks paper is a classic. It talks about how to combine several decision trees into a so called (random forest – term coined by the paper). In the end the…
One tree is not enough – Random forest
How gpt-4o image mode works – Visual Autoregressive Modeling
Halo orang ti pemadu dikesayau, actually I wanted to send a paper and article around for seam carving (image resizing without losing important parts)…but apparently we already had that in 2021 (I forgot – if…
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How to handle a service overload? Just turn features off…at least that is what Facebook does
Silav, kesê bijare, everyone working in large scale infrastructure (e.g. as SRE) experienced this situation: The system gets overloaded due to a one (or worst-case many consecutive) of the following conditions: In all of this…
AI, but with real privacy. Homomorphic Encryption for Machine Learning
Our use of AI right now is a privacy nightmare. Basically, all users & companies send their data to an arbitrary third party (e.g. OpenAI) for them to run their analysis on and return the…
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Yahoo Reveals: This is how you earn more with an Ad platform, by using “soft frequency capping”
Last week, I was talking with the main tech coordinator from one of Germany’s biggest Coupon platform, on how they are currently transforming into a full-fledged Adtech platform. And one hugely important thing for every…
yaDCP – Yet another distributed consensus paper
A few weeks ago I posted the Newsletter about the Paxos Paper over on Reddit. And boy, Reddit did deliver…quite some hate, but also great comments and ideas. So I did, what every reasonable, grown…
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Google, but the private way. Using homomorphic encryption to fix the internet
I thought I understood one core principle of encryption: You take clear text, encrypt it, and now that encrypted gibberish can’t be worked with until it is decrypted again. THIS IS WRONG. There is a…
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If we are all trapped in a simulation (and that is likely). How can we escape?
One of the topics, which fascinates many geeks (like you and me) is the idea, that we all might live in a giant matrix-like simulation. And if you argue it from a mathematical standpoint, that…
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The age-old mathematics behind the ELO system and is it any worth?
The ELO player rating system, originally introduced for chess, can now be found in many competitive (e)sports. It aims to be a measure to compare players against each other, but it is any worth? This…
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The most beautiful computer science paper I have ever read
A mathematical algorithm, greek politics and a bunch of priests…this is what you need for the most beautiful paper I have ever read. This week I am bringing you a paper about the Paxos distributed…
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