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chào anh yêu, this week’s paper will help you to generate as many cat images you need for your internet-memes. Jokes aside, with generative adversarial networks (GANs) we are able to train an ML network…
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Buna draga, traveling to another country, you might have faced it before: The anti-account-hijacking systems implemented by the various online providers. There is a wide range from entering your “secret” email address, double verifying via…
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សួស្តីជាទីស្រឡាញ់, I am currently playing around with IPFS in a little weekend project and wanted to understand more about the inner workings of this peer to peer distributed file system. Especially how it differs in…
tena koe tangata maere, When learning about this week’s paper, I was wondering why I did not think of something like that before: Resize images, but do not remove important parts. Most of the time…
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你好神奇的人 We already learned a few weeks back that Google uses a tool called borg for running their cluster infrastructure and thereby the backbone of our modern internet. This weeks paper is about the Omega…
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هيلو عظيم ماڻهو I already found out about crypto mining in the browser a few years back and find it a fascinating idea. While someone has your website open you can mine crypto in the…
Ndewo egwu mmadu, The more I learn about probabilistic systems, the more they fascinate me. Bloom filters are a key mechanism in probabilistic systems: You can verify 100% sure if an element is not in…
Ciao grande persona, somewhat troughout the week the name Borg came to my ears for google running their clusters with that. As it has the same name as my favorite backup tool, I was keen…
ahoj báječný člověk, back to the roots, this week’s newsletter is about a fundamental routing technology being the de-facto backbone of free speech online: Onion routing. This routing technology was first proposed in this week’s…
Sawubona muntu owesabekayo, being a producer and massive consumer of open source software in my private and professional live I am always wondering how this whole system still works. We use a massive amount of…
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