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melan13··on Breast cancer detection in mammography using deep learning approach
Mammogram Images are far away to present any privacy challenge especially if identities are not disclosed.
melan13··on Apple apologizes for listening to Siri recordings, promises changes
> "If you ask Siri to read your unread messages, Siri simply instructs your device to read aloud your unread messages."

Great excuse because iMessage servers are already recording.

melan13··on When did “&” stop being taught alongside the alphabet?
More importantly as not discussed, the '&' character also derives also from the french word 'et' which refers to 'and' in English. Something we can call a Norman influence.
melan13··on Beijing's US Treasury holdings dip
Swiss Franc is the primary alternative. I don't see digital currencies going farther away than being used in the dark market/crypto-trading.
melan13··on US Customs Database Of Traveler Photos Was Hacked And Stolen
anyone ? Why is a 3rd party given the ability to store such a large database to conduct such business ? They should at most store the last 3 months border documents, nothing older than this.
melan13··on Concurrency in Python: CSP and Coroutines
Chapel programming language has been around a long time
melan13··on Predictive CPU Isolation of Containers at Netflix
Decent advancements. Dell EMC cloud has done this a year ago.
melan13··on Concurrency in Python: CSP and Coroutines
Great article. mpi4py is the ideal solution presented, but I am wondering how hard the error tracking will be on Python since MPICH2 doesn't help much natively.
melan13··on Uber's Tech Stack Evolution
It surprises me that PrestoDB only works out for Silicon companies (Facebook, Netflix, DropBox and Uber)
melan13··on Google terminated my developer account and started a competing business
They should at least give the subject area related to the violation.

> We’ve reviewed and confirmed this association.

Such a detail...

melan13··on Creating LFortran, an interactive Fortran compiler built on top of LLVM
Again, should your users understand the code you present or should you use the language you feel more comfortable with. Reading FORTRAN formulas is a pain (just reading for example a Prime factorization function implemented in parallel written in Fortran takes 10-15min to understand). Hence, I see a large advantage of OPEN_MP & C++ here.
melan13··on Creating LFortran, an interactive Fortran compiler built on top of LLVM
> Hence why learning Fortran ?
melan13··on Creating LFortran, an interactive Fortran compiler built on top of LLVM
> I see two reasons why C++ is not a suitable language for domain specialists in numerical computing.

Have you heard of MPI or even OpenMP ?. They can be used to accelerate fast computation in C++ or even work on domain-specified parallel execution.

melan13··on Why Turning on HTTP/2 Was a Mistake
It does, think twice about the CPU flow.
melan13··on Why Turning on HTTP/2 Was a Mistake
This is where micro-services shine.
melan13··on QUIC and HTTP/3: Too big to fail?
The way they think they can fight Amplification ddos attacks is a joke. They need to research more about how to beat layer 7 attacks before crying during the release version.
melan13··on Microsoft reverts decision to discontinue Skype 7 (Skype Classic) after backlash
1. Buy Skype for 8 Billion

3. Force upgrade to TCP-server and end p2p communications

2. Roll a new UI + useless features like read receipt

4. Make profit of the backdoor

melan13··on How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours
The company success is good, but the SELECT ALL query is a shame bigger...
melan13··on Oo7: Low-Overhead Defense Against Spectre Attacks
1. You do not reduce an overhead by creating another overhead. 2. Aren't the 'NOP' inserted making the read easier for the code to be reversed ?
melan13··on Oo7: Low-Overhead Defense Against Spectre Attacks
One of the best binary analysis I've read. However, I stopped after "Inserting NOP instructions".
melan13··on Bitmovin raises $30M Series B for ‘next-gen’ online video software
Funny how they already support the AV1 encoding but neither the encoding is finished nor the hardware implementation is done.