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WarpStream, which is building a cheaper, cloud-native data streaming service based on the Apache Kafka protocol, raised $20M led by Greylock and Amplify (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/14/warpstream-is-build…

WarpStream is building a cheaper, cloud-native data streaming service | TechCrunch
WarpStream is building a streaming application for the cloud world they claim is cheaper and faster to operate.

"The Discarded interweaves stories about imaginary #books with reflections on libraries, both real and dreamt. In an age of decreasing literacy, disposable content, and banned books, what do we preserve and discard?"

The Discarded | Colin Hamilton | Short Fiction - Unbound Edition Press
A dazzling array of metafictions, Colin Hamilton’s The Discarded focuses on the lonely work of a solitary librarian assigned to the discard room. This hidden basement space is piled high with books purged from the stacks above. With Borgesian panache, The Discarded interweaves stories about imaginary books with reflections on libraries, both real and dreamt. Hamilton’s nuanced collection asks a seemingly simple question: In an age of decreasing literacy, disposable content, and banned books…

Tensorized Ant Colony Optimization for GPU Acceleration
Luming Yang, Tao Jiang, Ran Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04895 https://ar…

Tensorized Ant Colony Optimization for GPU Acceleration
Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is renowned for its effectiveness in solving Traveling Salesman Problems, yet it faces computational challenges in CPU-based environments, particularly with large-scale instances. In response, we introduce a Tensorized Ant Colony Optimization (TensorACO) to utilize the advancements of GPU acceleration. As the core, TensorACO fully transforms ant system and ant path into tensor forms, a process we refer to as tensorization. For the tensorization of ant system, we pr…

Because people can't click a link and read it that way apparently, I'll post images from the Fediverse wiki page here that supports my claim that AP is the Fediverse. If anyone has anything else to say that isn't covered in these images, I'm willilng to entertain it.
But don't come into my replies saying "AP isn't the only protocol that's a part of the Fediverse" because I'm literally covering that right here, right now.
Sorry, I'm an…

„Sie halten die meisten Wählerinnen und Wähler der AfD für Protestwähler?
Ich glaube, viele beschäftigen sich nicht damit, wohin es führen kann, wenn sie die AfD wählen. Dass sie damit auch rechtsextreme Strukturen unterstützen. Ich bin aber auch davon überzeugt, dass man diese Menschen mit einer guten Arbeit zurückholen kann. Das ist genau jetzt die Aufgabe von guter Kommunalpolitik: zuhören, verstehen und mit gutem Beispiel ins Tun kommen, um neue, einfallsreiche Antworten auf lokale Herausforderungen zuliefern.“
Ich bin der taz so dankbar für die veränderte Berichterstattung über den #Osten. Und ja, liebe Sessel-#Antifa: Man muss mit (potentiellen) #noAfD-Wählerinnen reden. Und ich bin Karolin Ring dankbar dafür, dass sie das tut. Macht sicher nicht immer Spaß.
https://www.taz.de/!5998077

"The state-run Grodno Azot plant has made no comment on the claim by the Belarusian Cyber-Partisans group to have done damage including destroying backup systems and encrypted internal mail, document flow and hundreds of PCs. However, the company’s website has been unavailable since Wednesday, the day the group claimed the attack."
Hackers claim Belarus fertilizer plant infiltrated to demand political prisoner release
https://apnews.com/article/belarus-opposition-hackers-fertilizer-plant-8aa5369df02341fc3aa0e25d0fc37a2a

RainyScape: Unsupervised Rainy Scene Reconstruction using Decoupled Neural Rendering
Xianqiang Lyu, Hui Liu, Junhui Hou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11401 ht…

RainyScape: Unsupervised Rainy Scene Reconstruction using Decoupled Neural Rendering
We propose RainyScape, an unsupervised framework for reconstructing clean scenes from a collection of multi-view rainy images. RainyScape consists of two main modules: a neural rendering module and a rain-prediction module that incorporates a predictor network and a learnable latent embedding that captures the rain characteristics of the scene. Specifically, based on the spectral bias property of neural networks, we first optimize the neural rendering pipeline to obtain a low-frequency scene re…

„Sie halten die meisten Wählerinnen und Wähler der AfD für Protestwähler?
Ich glaube, viele beschäftigen sich nicht damit, wohin es führen kann, wenn sie die AfD wählen. Dass sie damit auch rechtsextreme Strukturen unterstützen. Ich bin aber auch davon überzeugt, dass man diese Menschen mit einer guten Arbeit zurückholen kann. Das ist genau jetzt die Aufgabe von guter Kommunalpolitik: zuhören, verstehen und mit gutem Beispiel ins Tun kommen, um neue, einfallsreiche Antworten auf lokale Herausforderungen zuliefern.“
Ich bin der taz so dankbar für die veränderte Berichterstattung über den #Osten. Und ja, liebe Sessel-#Antifa: Man muss mit (potentiellen) #noAfD-Wählerinnen reden. Und ich bin Karolin Ring dankbar dafür, dass sie das tut. Macht sicher nicht immer Spaß.
https://www.taz.de/!5998077

RainyScape: Unsupervised Rainy Scene Reconstruction using Decoupled Neural Rendering
Xianqiang Lyu, Hui Liu, Junhui Hou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11401 ht…

RainyScape: Unsupervised Rainy Scene Reconstruction using Decoupled Neural Rendering
We propose RainyScape, an unsupervised framework for reconstructing clean scenes from a collection of multi-view rainy images. RainyScape consists of two main modules: a neural rendering module and a rain-prediction module that incorporates a predictor network and a learnable latent embedding that captures the rain characteristics of the scene. Specifically, based on the spectral bias property of neural networks, we first optimize the neural rendering pipeline to obtain a low-frequency scene re…