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Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02851-w
Nature
‘Amazing feat’: US man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant
Nature - The first six months after an organ transplant are the riskiest for recipients.
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Zlib visualizer https://lynn.github.io/flateview/
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The phaseout of the mmap() file operation in Linux https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1038715/e4a2f8f50c244545/
LWN.net
The phaseout of the mmap() file operation
The file_operations structure in the kernel is a set of function pointers implementing, as the [...]
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Voronoi map generation in Civilization VII https://civilization.2k.com/civ-vii/from-the-devs/map-generation/
2K
Improved Map Generation | Civilization VII
Get developer insight into the new types of maps built into Update 1.2.5.
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max-inden.de
Fast UDP I/O for Firefox in Rust
Motivation
Around 20% of Firefox’s HTTP traffic today uses HTTP/3, which runs over QUIC, which in turn runs over UDP.
This translates to substantial UDP I/O activity.
Firefox uses NSPR for most of its network I/O.
When it comes to UDP I/O, NSPR only offers…
Around 20% of Firefox’s HTTP traffic today uses HTTP/3, which runs over QUIC, which in turn runs over UDP.
This translates to substantial UDP I/O activity.
Firefox uses NSPR for most of its network I/O.
When it comes to UDP I/O, NSPR only offers…
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Introduction to Multi-Armed Bandits (2019) https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07272
arXiv.org
Introduction to Multi-Armed Bandits
Multi-armed bandits a simple but very powerful framework for algorithms that make decisions over time under uncertainty. An enormous body of work has accumulated over the years, covered in several...
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Diff Algorithms https://flo.znkr.io/diff/
flo.znkr.io
Diff Algorithms - flo.znkr.io
How I overcame copying and modifying my own diff library from project to project by
diving too deep into diff algorithms and coming out at the other end with new diff
library in my hand.
diving too deep into diff algorithms and coming out at the other end with new diff
library in my hand.