Today marks the 10th anniversary of Bazel’s public announcement so this is the perfect moment to reflect on what the next generation of build systems in the Bazel ecosystem may look like. I write this with the inspiration that comes … Read more
“Perovskite LEDs are cheaper and easier to manufacture than traditional LEDs, and they can also produce vibrant and intense colours if used in screens. I’d say that this is the next generation of LED technology,” says Feng Gao, professor of … Read more
In 2023, I wrote about how we’ve tuned Ruby’s garbage collector for Shopify’s monolith, including how we implemented out-of-band garbage collection to reduce the impact of major collection on latency. While the latency improvements were massive, we weren’t entirely satisfied … Read more
One of the things I like to do is compare how different languages solve the same problem — especially when they end up having very different approaches. It’s always educational. In this case, a bunch of us have been working … Read more
“Lorem ipsum is latin, slightly jumbled, the remnants of a passage from Cicero’s _de Finibus_ 1.10.32, which begins ‘Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit…’ [There is no one who loves pain itself, … Read more
Takeaways: Following up on the success of the Meta Segment Anything Model (SAM) for images, we’re releasing SAM 2, a unified model for real-time promptable object segmentation in images and videos that achieves state-of-the-art performance. In keeping with our approach … Read more
Generation Z is taking over. In the rich world there are at least 250m people born between 1997 and 2012. About half are now in a job. In the average American workplace, the number of Gen Zers (sometimes also known … Read more
6th Generation CPU Comparisons. by Paul Hsieh Update: 09/07/99 I have now started a seventh generation architecture web page. The following is a comparative text meant to give people a feel for the differences in the various 6th generation x86 … Read more
Generation X often is referred to as the forgotten generation, sandwiched between the large and culturally powerful Baby Boomer and Millennial generations. Today, Generation X commands less attention than Boomers and Millennials from both researchers and the media. A groundbreaking … Read more
[Submitted on 2 Sep 2020] Download a PDF of the paper titled Generation of megatesla magnetic fields by intense-laser-driven microtube implosions, by M. Murakami and 4 other authors Download PDF Abstract: A microtube implosion driven by ultraintense laser pulses is … Read more