Category: IB CS
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Living IoT: A Flying Wireless Platform on Live Insects
How cool is this? Bees with sensors! www.washington.edu/news/2018/12/11/sensor-bees/
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The IPK is Actually Older Than I Am!
But it doesn’t matter, it has been replaced with the Kibble balance. Of course, it may or may not be a step forward. Read more about it here in the article on The Atlantic: https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/13/18087002/kilogram-new-definition-kg-metric-unit-ipk-measurement. Why isn’t this necessarily a step forward? Why is it?
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Grumpy: Go running Python!
From Google Open Source Blog Google runs millions of lines of Python code. The front-end server that drives youtube.com and YouTube’s APIs is primarily written in Python, and it serves millions of requests per second! YouTube’s front-end runs on CPython 2.7, so we’ve put a ton of work into improving the runtime and adapting our…