Essentially let’s you verify computation is accurate without doing the computation yourself, and even treating the computation as a black box so you don’t know what is computed. Many applications in privacy, but also for outsourced computation.
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#331. Cloudflare Workers, I don't have the bandwidth to experiment with it right now but it interests me greatly. https://workers.cloudflare.com/ 2. Rust - definitely will be the next language I learn. Sadly the coronavirus cancelled a series of meetings in Michigan promising to give a gentle introduction to Rust. https://www.rust-lang.org/learn
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#34Only started to become available last year in AWS' more expensive instance types. But hoping it will become more widespread.
Benchmarks with Spark result in real world performance improvements of 2-3x and SSDs will be much faster with PCIe4.0.
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#35Self hosting - https://cloudron.io
They'd be so much more successful, if "Install" button did not have this: wget https://cloudron.io/cloudron-setup chmod +x ./cloudron-setup ./cloudron-setup --provider [digitalocean,ec2,generic,ovh,...]
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#36Redpanda https://vectorized.io/
Going to be interesting to see if they survive as the pace of JVM improvements has been rapidly increasing in the last year or so.
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#37A tool for networked thought that has been an effective "Second Brain" for me.
I'm writing way more than ever through daily notes and the bi-directly linking of notes enables me to build smarter connections between notes and structure my thoughts in a way that helps me take more action and build stronger ideas over time.
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#40The MiSTer FPGA-based hardware platform.
RISC-V is gonna change everything. Yeah, RISC-V is good.