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Instant Runoff Voting - Contest #2Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) is a fascinating way to run an election. The basic idea is that voters rank the candidates and the votes for th… Started by Michael LevinLatest Reply |
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Instant Runoff Voting - Contest #2Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) is a fascinating way to run an election. The basic idea is that voters rank the candidates and the votes for th… Started by Michael Levin |
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Apr 5, 2010 Reply by Dan Lackey |
Apps for Healthy KidsOn President Obama’s first full day in office, he called for recommendations to make the Federal Government more transparent, participatory… Started by Michael Levin |
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Wari - Contest #1Senegal is a land of magic and mystery. People there use their heads for recreation! How? Well, here's an example. The photo you see abov… Started by Michael Levin |
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Feb 17, 2010 Reply by Lamine Ba |
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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Cloudflare recently documented how it reduced the memory footprint of its internal load-balancing service by more than 100 TB by optimizing the Rust implementation of consistent hashing in pingora-ketama. The changes compacted hash-ring entries and used statistical analysis of hash distribution and collision rates to reduce the number of hashes per backend by about 90%.
By Renato LosioCSIRO Uses Serverless Architecture to Query 100x More Genomic Variants on AWS
CSIRO has developed Serverless Beacon, a serverless architecture for querying genomic variants without copying VCF files into a central database. The system combines Amazon S3, Lambda, Athena and DynamoDB, using metadata indexes and HTTP byte range requests to query compressed genomic regions. Tests reported 1.52 second average latency for 10,000 base pair queries.
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AWS recently introduced Lambda Web Functions, allowing developers to run Node.js web applications using frameworks such as Express and Hono directly on Lambda, with support for concurrent requests and response streaming.
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