By Serdar Yegulalp Microsoft has released DeepSpeed, a new deep learning optimization library for PyTorch, that is designed to reduce memory use and train models with better parallelism on existing hardware. According …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: February 2020
South Korea’s government explores move from Windows to Linux desktop
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•In what may prove to be the biggest migration from Windows to the Linux desktop, the South Korean government is looking into shifting from Windows 7 to a trio of …read more Source:: Linux
‘Rule breaking’ plants may be climate change survivors
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•Plants that break some of the ‘rules’ of ecology by adapting in unconventional ways may have a higher chance of surviving climate change, according to researchers. …read more Source:: Science
Simple, solar-powered water desalination
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•A completely passive solar-powered desalination system could provide more than 1.5 gallons of fresh drinking water per hour for every square meter of solar collecting area. Such systems could potentially …read more Source:: Science
One small grain of moon dust, one giant leap for lunar studies
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•Scientists have found a new way to analyze the chemistry of the moon’s soil using a single grain of dust brought back by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972. Their technique …read more Source:: Science
Revived Windows 95 PowerToys lets you create Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts
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•Microsoft PowerToys developers say the new keyboard manager will help Linux- and Mac-to-Windows switchers. …read more Source:: Linux
Microsoft VS Code 1.42 is out: New debug tools for TypeScript, JavaScript, Chrome
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•Microsoft delivers new improvements and fixes for its popular cross-platform code editor, Visual Studio Code. …read more Source:: Linux
Molecular ‘switch’ reverses chronic inflammation and aging
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•Scientists have identified a molecular ‘switch’ that controls the immune machinery responsible for chronic inflammation in the body. The finding could lead to new ways to halt or even reverse …read more Source:: Science
Normal resting heart rate appears to vary widely from person to person
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•A person’s normal resting heart rate is fairly consistent over time, but may vary from others’ by up to 70 beats per minute, according to analysis of the largest dataset …read more Source:: Science
Bumblebees carry heavy loads in economy mode
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•Bumblebees are the big lifters of the insect world, able to fly back to the hive with almost their own bodyweight in nectar on board. A new study shows how …read more Source:: Science