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The NERF and Heads projects bring Linux back to the cloud servers’ boot ROMs by replacing nearly all of the vendor firmware with a reproducible built Linux runtime that acts as a fast, flexible, and measured boot loader.
With U.S. tax reform legislation seemingly poised for enactment, one might assume that policy uncertainty generally—and tax policy uncertainty, specifically—is falling. The reality is more complicated.
Architecture overview for the future of the Python Pandas data analytics library.
An overview of BeakerX, a collection of kernels and extensions to the Jupyter interactive computing platform.
One way allocators can improve their inflation forecasts is to analyze it from as many perspectives as possible—just as a data scientist would.
A Two Sigma researcher introduces the Pandas UDFs feature in the upcoming Apache Spark 2.3 release, which substantially improves the performance and usability of user-defined functions (UDFs) in Python.
The authors provide a solution for the Efficient Server Audit Problem based on several new techniques, including simultaneous replay and efficient verification of concurrent executions, implemented for PHP web applications.
Designing a system that can extract immediate insights from large amounts of data in real-time requires a special way of thinking. This talk presents a “reactive” approach to designing real-time, responsive, and scalable data applications that can continuously compute analytics on-the-fly. It also highlights a case study as an example of reactive design in action.
The cost of rolling futures contracts, rather than the decline in commodity prices, has been the largest drag on commodity index performance over the past 10 years. Although difficult to implement, asset allocators’ best response may be to develop dynamic execution strategies to mitigate the roll return “tax.”