Month: December 2025

Amazon and Google’s new cloud link could make it easier to deal with outages

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Google and Amazon Web Services are teaming up to offer a link between their cloud services, as reported earlier by Reuters. With this tool, companies can establish a private connection between AWS and Google Cloud within “minutes,” giving online businesses a possible safety net if either of the providers experiences an outage. Though the tool … Read more

Uncovering Data Debt : A Diagnostic Framework for Investigating Model Performance Degradation

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Your production model’s accuracy was 90% during launch. 6 weeks later, user complaints and evals show accuracy at 70%. What to do? This kind of silent performance decay is one of the most dangerous failure modes in production machine learning. Models that work flawlessly on day one can drift quietly into irrelevance. And when the … Read more

How I Found Sim Racing at Age 60

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I Woke Up This Morning and Realized that I’m Old I’m sixty years old. My knees ache, my back has a knot that will not go away, and the doctor keeps using the word “moderation” like it’s a curse word. But just about every night, I’m sideways at 110 mph through a snow-covered forest in … Read more

Your Stakeholder Reports Have a 99% “Bounce Rate”? Here’s the Fix

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You spend four hours compiling data from Jira, Salesforce, and Excel. You polish the formatting. You double-check the metrics. You hit send on Friday afternoon with a sense of accomplishment. On Monday morning, your executive stakeholder opens it. They spend exactly 11 seconds scanning the first paragraph. They close it. The gap between your 4-hour … Read more

Beyond Pretty Videos: 5 Surprising Ideas Behind PAN, The AI That Simulates Reality

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Introduction: The Hidden Flaw in Today’s AI Video Generators Recent breakthroughs in AI have flooded our feeds with stunningly realistic videos generated from simple text prompts. But beneath the visual magic lies a critical flaw. Today’s top models are like artists who can paint a beautiful, static image of a river; they can show you … Read more

The ping pong movie is very stressful

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The origins of table tennis have often obscured its influence – it was literally designed to be the diminutive form of tennis, after all. But the idea of “spin” first originated with ping pong; politically, it would become the thing that opened up negotiations between the US and China under Nixon. There are gestures to … Read more

India is ordering Apple and other phone makers to preinstall a state-owned app

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India’s Department of Telecommunications is giving phone manufacturers 90 days to comply with an order to pre-install a state-owned app on new phones and push it to existing phones through software updates, reports Reuters. The government order was privately sent out to phone manufacturers on November 28th, according to Reuters, including Apple, Samsung, Vivo, Oppo, … Read more