Making WordPress faster the hardcore way: Optimizing Memcached with in-kernel caching

nyob zoo tus hlub, in my blog I am cheating a little for performance as I have heavy Cloudflare caching in front of it, but the default optimization for WordPress is using Memcached, a widely…

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Generate cats out of nowhere with using generative adversarial networks (GANs)

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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If we fly to Mars, we will bring our file system with us. IPFS, the distributed Inter Planetary File System

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…

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How generating images from a sketch helps to improve your Zoom call

გამარჯობა დიდებული ადამიანი, Last week I promised you a paper about how to do video encoding via neural networks. To be frank, I will fail to deliver that paper as it does not exist in…

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How Cloudflare works…maybe

Using Cloudflare myself for my blog and my overall interest in DDoS protection draw me to this weeks paper. It discusses a design of an overlay network for DDoS protection. Quite interesting to learn about the considerations coming into play. Sure Cloudflare, Akamai, Google etc. evolved since then, but this paper gives quite nice fundamentals on how to design such a protection. Especially the computation powered puzzles is a nice concept (was programming one on the weekend actually)….most like Bitcoins proof of work 😉