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03 Jun

Database connectivity comes to Deephaven | Deephaven

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Relational databases have become the backbone of entire industries since their inception. ETL pipelines that turn the gears of the corporate world would crumble without them. Deephaven has transformed the T in ETL (transforming transforms?), making it easier than ever to manipulate complex data in both static and real-time contexts all the same. Why not cover the E and the L, too? Well, now Deephaven does.Deephaven's v0.21 release brought the first Deephaven ODBC and ADBC client to the Python API. In this blog, I'll show you how simple it is to connect to and ingest data from a relational database…

03 Jun

Perl Weekly #671 – In-person and online events

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Originally published at Perl Weekly 671 Hi there! Last week I included an entry about the Getting started with Docker for Perl developers workshop I am going to run on June 13. This is part of a series of free virtual workshops I started to offer via the Code Mavens Meetup group. If things go well I'll run workshops for 3 languages: Perl, Python, and Rust and several related technologies. I've already schedule 3 events for Rust, 2 for Python, and 1 for Perl. Now, to plan ahead, I scheduled another Perl event: Continuous Integration (CI): GitHub Actions for Perl…

03 Jun

AlphaDev discovers faster sorting algorithms

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Impact Published 7 June 2023 Authors Daniel J. Mankowitz and Andrea Michi New algorithms will transform the foundations of computingDigital society is driving increasing demand for computation, and energy use. For the last five decades, we relied on improvements in hardware to keep pace. But as microchips approach their physical limits, it’s critical to improve the code that runs on them to make computing more powerful and sustainable. This is especially important for the algorithms that make up the code running trillions of times a day.In our paper published today in Nature, we introduce AlphaDev, an artificial intelligence (AI) system…

03 Jun

Netflix starts pushing Basic users to other plans forcefully – gHacks Tech News

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Netflix has started to ask basic plan customers to pick another plan to continue using the service without interruption. The streaming company has been at war with the Basic plan for some time. Basic, which is Netflix's cheapest ad-free plan, has not been available for selection during sign-up for some time. Now it appears that Netflix is going to discontinue the plan altogether. The decision affects current Netflix customers who are subscribed to the basic plan. Basic, available for $9.99 in the United States and in a selection of other countries, streams content in HD quality and download content to…

03 Jun

Apple’s third-gen AirPods are back on sale for $140

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You can get Apple’s third-generation AirPods for under $150 right now. In a deal on Amazon, the AirPods are back down to their record-low price of $140, a 17 percent discount. This model normally costs $170. The third-generation AirPods were released in 2021 and brought some big improvements over the previous version, with a more compact and comfortable design, and much better sound quality.AppleApple's third-generation AirPods are back down to their record low price. $140 at AmazonThe third-generation AirPods earned and marked a notable upgrade over their predecessors in the line of regular AirPods. They feature a shorter stem and…

03 Jun

Leverage GitHub’s awesome REST API | Deephaven

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The other week, I had one of our community developers reach out to me. He said:Another dev brought to my attention a Python client issue in GitHub that's been sitting around not triaged for over a month. Do you have any ideas for how we can make sure user issues don't stay this way for too long?Crap. I'm a Developer Relations Engineer. Arguably the most important part of my job is to make sure our community users feel heard when they find issues like this. Thankfully, that very same developer brought up this blog about ghapi, a third-party Python library…

03 Jun

Load Testing Solium Infernum with Docker, Kubernetes and Enemy AI

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Load testing a video game is a critical part of the development process if you have any intention of building online systems into your game. As we’ve seen many times before, it's important that you plan for both critical success as well as critical failure when it comes to online multiplayer systems. The results of being over or under prepared can have devastating effects on your players, or your bank account. For Solium Infernum, we had a 4-6 player, turn-based, asynchronous multiplayer game. That last part is important because it means that a game of Solium Infernum can last for…

03 Jun

RoboCat: A self-improving robotic agent

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Research Published 20 June 2023 Authors The RoboCat team New foundation agent learns to operate different robotic arms, solves tasks from as few as 100 demonstrations, and improves from self-generated data.Robots are quickly becoming part of our everyday lives, but they’re often only programmed to perform specific tasks well. While harnessing recent advances in AI could lead to robots that could help in many more ways, progress in building general-purpose robots is slower in part because of the time needed to collect real-world training data.Our latest paper introduces a self-improving AI agent for robotics, RoboCat, that learns to perform a…

03 Jun

Arc Browser is now available for Windows 11 – gHacks Tech News

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Arc Browser, a Chromium-based browser, is now available for Windows. The browser was previously available as a waitlist-restricted beta version. If you added your name to the waitlist, but never received an invite, now is your chance to give it a try. What you need to know about Arc Browser Arc Browser is only available for Windows 11. You cannot install it on Windows 10 or any other version of Windows. It is also not a browser that you install and run right away. The developers have added several mandatory steps to the setup process. First, you are required to…

02 Jun

The Keyper is a casual adventure game for Playdate that unexpectedly made me cry

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Sometimes it’s the simplest games that end up leaving you all teary-eyed and emotional.When I first downloaded Cool Lemon Club’s The Keyper for Playdate, I didn’t have much in the way of expectations beyond a general sense that it should be pretty good, since lots of people online seemed to be recommending it. The adventure game, which is available on and the official , sees the player searching for the many different keys needed to unlock areas of the mysterious Winchester 21 building after taking over the role of caretaker. The person who formerly held the job is gone, leaving…