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D: The Dark Factor of Personality

Ethically, morally, and socially questionable behavior is part of everyday life and instances of ruthless, selfish, unscrupulous, or even downright evil behavior can easily be found across history and cultures. Psychologists use the umbrella term âdark traitsâ to subsume personality traits that are linked to these classes of behavior â most prominently, Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and Psychopathy. Over the years, more and more allegedly distinct and increasingly narrow dark traits have been introduced, resulting in a plethora of constructs lacking theoretical integration.

Introducing Petastorm: Uber ATG’s Data Access Library for Deep Learning

Dropbox: How we rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations ever

The Fed stalls the creation of a bank with a novel business model

AI Company Accused of Using Humans to Fake Its AI

Linux developers threaten to pull “kill switch”

Linux developers threaten to pull “kill switch” Most of the internet could be affected as Linux devs threaten to revoke entire histories of code commits in response to CoC controversy. Linux powers the internet, the Android in your pocket, and perhaps even some of your household appliances. A controversy over politics is now seeing some of its developers threatening to withdraw the license to all of their code, potentially destroying or making the whole Linux kernel unusable for a very long time.

Researchers Discover a Pattern to the Seemingly Random Distribution of Prime Numbers

Your gut is directly connected to your brain, by a newly discovered neuron circuit

eBay Moves Away From OpenStack, Embraces Kubernetes and Docker

As part of an initiative to completely revamp its data center infrastructure, eBay is “re-platforming, using Kubernetes and Docker and moving away from OpenStack,” according to a message to SDxCentral from Mazen Rawashdeh, VP of platform engineering at eBay. In May 2017 at the OpenStack Summit in Boston, an eBay executive said that 95 percent of all eBay traffic ran on its OpenStack cloud, which at the time managed 167,000virtual machines(VMs) and 4,000 applications. But since then, eBay has pivoted away from OpenStack as part of a major three-year infrastructure initiative.

Multi-Cloud Is a Trap

It comes up in a lot of conversations with clients. We want to be cloud-agnostic. We need to avoid vendor lock-in.