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Good morning. Simon & Hudson are sleeping in late. I think they have the right idea. #CatsofMastodon
View on Mastodon (opens in a new tab)Deep Learning for Sand Foundry Defects Detection In modern manufacturing, the quality of precision castings is of paramount importance, especially for components used in automotive, aerospace, and heavy machinery industries. I have developed an automatic defect detection system for precision castin…
View on Mastodon (opens in a new tab)Optimizing Diffusion Models For Generative Antibody Design Antibodies are crucial components of the immune system and are increasingly used as drug candidates. While we can use AI to design them in silico, these models typically require massive datasets to learn effectively. Introduced guidance tec…
View on Mastodon (opens in a new tab)Someone has tried twice in the past 2 hours to login to my M$ account. I didn't even remember that I had one.
View on Mastodon (opens in a new tab)Virtual-Memory Assisted Buffer Management Most database management systems cache pages from storage in a main memory buffer pool. we propose vmcache, a buffer manager design that instead uses hardware-supported virtual memory to translate page identifiers to virtual memory addresses. In contrast to…
View on Mastodon (opens in a new tab)Welp, OpenLDAP's gitlab is updated now. But I'm pretty sure we weren't vulnerable before because the load average is always too high to actually access any pages there.
View on Mastodon (opens in a new tab)srand(time(0L)) is looking pretty good now...
View on Mastodon (opens in a new tab)How Does Kong API Gateway Work? NGINX, LuaJIT, and the OpenResty Data Plane A systems-level look at Kong Gateway: how OpenResty and LuaJIT turn NGINX into a dynamic data plane with radix tree routing, shared memory caching, and non-blocking plugin execution. https://anantagarwal.me/posts/how-it-wor…
View on Mastodon (opens in a new tab)RE: https://glauca.space/@q/117474051360413376 I too use easily memorized private keys so I don't have to leave them lying around on random filesystems...... /s
View on Mastodon (opens in a new tab)A reminder: #OpenLDAP has included support for running your own automated CA for over a decade. https://mastodon.social/@hyc/2102699 You probably couldn't do a worse job than #eMudhra
View on Mastodon (opens in a new tab)RE: https://m6n.io/@fuzzychef/117470032602711001 A fun conference, I presented there a couple times while I lived in LA.
View on Mastodon (opens in a new tab)#LMDB readers: a stable snapshot can exhaust a fixed map An LMDB reader can leave the writer mutex available while preventing old pages from being reused. In our fixed-map workload, a live snapshot exhausted the map; ending that snapshot restored write progress without increasing capacity. A stalle…
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