What is that text-encoded data embedded in so many Property Lists? Most are Bookmarks, and here's how to decode them. | Continue reading
There are a lot of tools to visualize data. Some are visualization-specific. Some are tools that let you make charts but are focused on other data things. New apps come out with new features that promise new things. This can make it tricky to find the best visualization tool. Tag … | Continue reading
I rewrote it [the Oracle of Bacon] in Rust in January 2023 when I switched over to TMDB as a data source. The new data source was a deep change, and I didn’t want the headache of building it in the original 1990s-era C codebase. — Patrick Reynolds | Continue reading
The Renewables and Wholesale Electricity Prices (ReWEP) visualization tool from Berkeley Lab has been updated with nodal electricity pricing and wind and solar generation data through the end of 2023: https://emp.lbl.gov/renewables-and-wholesale-electricity-prices-rewep. ReWEP us … | Continue reading
Corey Quinn: I’m sorry Slack, you’re doing fucking WHAT with user DMs, messages, files, etc? I’m positive I’m not reading this correctly. [Screenshot of the opt out portion of Slack’s “privacy principles”: Contact us to opt out. If you want to exclude your Customer Data from Slac … | Continue reading
Reddit has been eager to sell data from user posts. | Continue reading
The government violates the privacy rights of individuals on pretrial release when it continuously tracks, retains, and shares their location, EFF explained in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In the case, Simon v. San Francisco, individual … | Continue reading
The WebTPA Employer Services (WebTPA) data breach disclosed earlier this month is impacting close to 2.5 million individuals, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services notes. [...] | Continue reading
The FBI has seized the BreachForums website, used by ransomware criminals to leak stolen corporate data. If law enforcement has gained access to the hacking forum’s backend data, as they claim, they would have email addresses, IP addresses, and private messages that could expose … | Continue reading
Product manager Ash Zade joins the home team to talk about the journey to OverflowAI, a GenAI-powered add-on for Stack Overflow for Teams that’s available now. Ash describes how his team built Enhanced Search, the problems they set out to solve, how they ensured data quality and … | Continue reading
When you analyze data, there are times when a trend, pattern, or outlier jumps out and smacks you in the face. Or, you might calculate results that seem surprising. Maybe they're real, but maybe not. Tags: analysis, error, questions | Continue reading
Electronic prescription provider MediSecure in Australia has shut down its website and phone lines following a ransomware attack believed to originate from a third-party vendor. [...] | Continue reading
Photo credits: fdecomite / Flickr Technology transfer and innovation are central themes of Germany’s traffic light government coalition. However, the scientific institutions responsible for technology transfer suffer from insufficient resources and a lack of appreciation. Further … | Continue reading
After fiddling with various ways to sync notes across multiple vaults and iterating on my local data backup strategy, I figured I needed a new overview on the current design and the tools involved. I tried to keep things as simple and as low-friction as possible, with varied succ … | Continue reading
Discover how to request data with aggregated information in Elasticsearch. | Continue reading
An earlier iteration of the site was taken down last year; now its reincarnation is gone. | Continue reading
Google is introducing multiple anti-theft and data protection features later this year, some available only for Android 15+ devices, while others will roll out to billions of devices running Android 10 and later. [...] | Continue reading
One item on my todo list for ages was to put in place some sort of monitoring for silent data corruption on my NAS. This turned out to be surprisingly easy to do, thanks to two programs: cshatag and my own runner! Before we dive in, some background information: My NAS (aka “home … | Continue reading
For the first time in a long while, America’s drug overdose crisis has not gotten worse. New preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that total overdose deaths took a slight dip in 2023, including deaths tied to fentanyl and other synthetic opio … | Continue reading
The regulator is warning OEMs to respect data privacy or it will get mad. | Continue reading
Scientists have predicted that by 2040, almost 50 percent of the world’s electric power will be used in computing. What’s more, this projection was made before the sudden explosion of generative AI. The amount of computing resources used to train the largest AI models has been do … | Continue reading
Today’s CPI report has continued an 11-week trend of data arriving above 3%, leaving traders skeptical about the possibility of… Continue reading Bitcoin and Altcoins Prices Pump as CPI Report Shows US Inflation Falls to 3.4% – Best AI Cryptocurrencies to Buy Now The post Bitcoin … | Continue reading
The second pattern in Juntao Qiu's series on data fetching is on how to avoid the dreaded Request Waterfall. Parallel Data Fetching queries multiple sources in parallel, so that the latency of the overall fetch is largest of the queries rather than the sum of them. more… | Continue reading
In a small trial, some people with inherited vision loss experienced improvements in their sight after being treated with CRISPR. | Continue reading
But unlike the phone system, we can’t separate an LLM’s data from its commands. One of the enormously powerful features of an LLM is that the data affects the code. We want the system to modify its operation when it gets new training data. We want it to change the way it works ba … | Continue reading
The United States has come out on top in worldwide gambling market data. Statista, a leading market analyst, has ranked… Continue reading The US tops the global gambling market rankings The post The US tops the global gambling market rankings appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
And… send. Sorry, I’m just wrapping up my application for a six-figure Data Analyst position at a fancy tech startup. Please continue with your interview questions. What makes me the ideal candidate for the open content director position at your fancy tech startup? Terrific quest … | Continue reading
Latest data shows the dramatic reduction in charging emissions can be achieved by utilising DriveElectric Plus. New technology helps drivers ensure their EVs deliver the maximum impact on business carbon reduction targets Data shows dramatic variation in the emissions associated … | Continue reading
Nikita Prokopov https://tonsky.me/blog/allekinos/ So I decided to take matters into my own hands and build a cinema selection website I always dreamed of. I love it! 🍿 | Continue reading
Based on data from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), Villanova University… Tags: magnetic fields, Milky Way, NASA, Strange Maps | Continue reading
This episode dives into some of the most important data science libraries from the Python space with one of its pioneers: Wes McKinney. He's the creator or co-creator of pandas, Apache Arrow, and Ibis projects and an entrepreneur in this space. Episode sponsors Neo4j Mailtrap Tal … | Continue reading
ARTIKEL DER WOCHE: Im Eventsektor kann Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) Symbiose zwischen menschlichem Know-how und maschineller Produktivität schaffen. Grundlage dessen ist der Zugang zu hochwertigen Daten bzw. Open Data. | Continue reading
Datomic is a general purpose database system designed for data-of-record applications. A Datomic database is a set of immutable atomic facts called datoms. Datomic transactions add datoms, never updating or removing them, so you have a complete audit trail for data and the abilit … | Continue reading
Most batteries used in technology like smart watches and electric cars are made with lithium that travels across the world before even getting to manufacturers. But what if nearly half of the lithium used in the U.S. could come from Pennsylvania wastewater? A new analysis using c … | Continue reading
Sales of raw milk in the U.S. have risen 21% since bird flu was first confirmed in dairy cattle in late March, according to a report from PBS Newshour, citing new data from research firm NielsenIQ. Why on Earth would people drink raw milk at a time when pasteurization has been sh … | Continue reading
The meme stock rally triggered by the return of “Roaring Kitty” to social media has cost GameStop stock short-sellers more than $2 billion in just two days, according to data firm S3 Partners. Read more... | Continue reading
Students have new avenues for learning and research on the most effective approaches to fighting poverty in the US and other high-income countries. | Continue reading
Jonathan Kandell in the New York Times: Mr. Simons equipped his colleagues with advanced computers to process torrents of data filtered through mathematical models, and turned the four investment funds in his new firm, Renaissance Technologies, into virtual money printing machine … | Continue reading
Juntao Qiu is a thoughtful front-end developer experienced with the React programming environment. He's contributed a couple of useful articles to this site, describing helpful patterns for front-end programming. In this article he describes patterns for how single-page applicati … | Continue reading
You might have heard about the Northwestern University journalism school’s Local News Initiative, a “team of experts in digital innovation, audience understanding and business strategy” with the goal to “reinvent the relationship between news organizations and audiences to elevat … | Continue reading
Results from the longest-running trial of semaglutide—the active ingredient in the popular drugs Ozempic and Wegovy—are in, and the verdict is decidedly positive. The study found that people taking semaglutide tended to maintain their initial weight loss for up to four years. Oth … | Continue reading
The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations | Continue reading
Every month we pick and share some of our favourite infographics, visualisations and data stories. Here’s what we found in our work folders and around the web. CREATED BY US » The most controversial moderation decisions made by Facebook’s “Supreme Court” » Why the US Senate’s mil … | Continue reading
Data Bugs is an immersive emotional installation that makes tangible and experiential the working mechanism of a neural network, demystifying the omnipotence that is too often attributed to AI. Category: Python / TouchDesigner Tags: Artificial Intelligence / classification / comp … | Continue reading
On this episode: Al Sweigart is a software developer, developer advocate, and author of ten Python books. He tells Ben and Ryan why he’s such a fan of the language, why it’s a great programming language for beginners, and how it became the default for so many data science and bac … | Continue reading
"The data collected in Seychelles gives us hope and encourages us to do more." Researchers surprised to find several rare blue whales during expedition: 'These are positive steps towards their conservation' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
How I build a website for choosing movies | Continue reading
Quick NVMe performance testing with fio I've recently been debugging some NVMe / PCIe bus errors on a Raspberry Pi, and I wanted a quick way to test NVMe devices without needing to create a filesystem and use a tool like iozone. I don't care about benchmarks, I just want to quick … | Continue reading