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Troy Hunt: How BeerAdvocate Learned They’d Been Pwned

Well that’s… damning. You simply don’t have that many matches without there being a very high likelihood BeerAdvocate had suffered a data breach. For every one instance of an email address or password with the string “beeradvocate” in it there’ll be another 100 instances that still came from their service but didn’t use a customised […]

What I learned from looking at 200 machine learning tools

To better understand the landscape of available tools for machine learning production, I decided to look up every AI/ML tool I could find. The resources I used include: After filtering out applications companies (e.g. Read more

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Olivia de Havilland, golden age of Hollywood star, dies at 104

Olivia de Havilland, one of the last remaining stars from the golden age of Hollywood, has died at the age of 104. De Havilland’s career spanned more than 50 years and almost 50 feature films, and she was the last surviving star of Gone with the Wind (1939). Read more

Special Drawing Right (SDR)

The SDR is an international reserve asset, created by the IMF in 1969 to supplement its member countries’ official reserves. So far SDR 204.2 billion (equivalent to about US$281 billion) have been allocated to members, including SDR 182. Read more

Exploring Hearing Aid Integration in iOS

Last year I got my first hearing devices. For some time I had noticed that I turned up the TV much louder than my wife did, and I had problems following discussions with larger groups of people. Read more

A Jupyter kernel for SQLite

While it is well known in the Python scientific computing community, Jupyter is in fact a language-agnostic development environment. High-quality language kernels exist for the main languages of data sciences, such as Python, C++, R or Julia. Read more