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hopsworks··on Swimmable Cities
In Stockholm, you can swim in most of the city center - except where the large ship lanes are. Thousands of people out swimming on a hot summers day.
hopsworks··on Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules
Other countries in the EU, however, can sue ireland for taxes they missed out on. Which is probably what will happen. The money will be divided up over many countries.
hopsworks··on Bible Semantic Search
Is the source code available for this?
hopsworks··on Show HN: RonDB – fast key-value database in the cloud
Some sysbench benchmark results are here comparing results on AWS, GCP, and Azure. Interesting to see AWS is better at lower low load (due to better interrupt handling in VMs?), while GCP is best at highest loads.

http://mikaelronstrom.blogspot.com/

hopsworks··on Perf Benchmark AWS/GCP/Azure with Sysbench OLTP and RonDB
So, GCP > AWS > Azure for RonDB?
hopsworks··on Techniques for Distributed TensorFlow
Disclaimer: developer of Hops. This blog basically argues that systems like Horovod (Ring AllReduce) are architecturally superior to Parameter Server models (like TensorFlowOnSpark).