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a review on Serious Statistics
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 ”After some more experimenting with R, and remembering that box plots exist (as I said, I am not a statistics guy), I put together the following graphs. They are boxplots of the frame time data for each of the runs on each of the graphs. For those of you not familiar, boxplots show the quartiles of the data, letting us see how the data is distributed. The lower line of the box represents the first quartile (25th percentile), the middle line is the median (50th percentile), and the top line is the third quartile (75th percentile). The two lines sticking out from the box are the whiskers, and show where the data outside of the first and third quartile fall, though the outliers are still shown as dots. These percentiles might not line up with those I was finding earlier in the data, but editing the boxplots to reach to the 1st and 99th does not look as good. (This also removes the outlier dots from the graph, and I think showing them outside the boxplot is valuable.) I should also mention that I did impose a limit on the y-axis of 50 ms, and that there were some runs that had outliers reaching past that, but allowing the graphs to stretch enough to show those points scales down the plots too much to be of any value. Also this ensures the vertical scale for all of the graphs is the same.”
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Five Years Without Facebook
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In 2012 I wrote an article about leaving Facebook. I've kept this stance for about five years now, but an accumulation of several small things during this time have had me questioning whether or not abandoning the social network was the brilliant idea I once thought it was.
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Visiting the Verizon 5G House at the Indy500 @ LanOC Reviews
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So last week Adam and I took a break from the office and made the trip over to Indianapolis as Verizon invited us to check out their 5G Home of the Future that they had set up just outside of Indianapolis Speedway during the week of the Indy500. The original plan was a short visit to check out the home but we ended up also getting invited over to the track to also take a quick look at their 5G setup over there as well along with a peek inside of their mobile 5G truck. The main headlines were the low latency and the extremely high speeds but they had a few demos setup that I’m going to quickly run through today.
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Key Talks At The Dimension Data Technology Summit
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The Dimension Data Technology Summit 2017 showcased a host of industry experts and leaders who lend their expertise on new digital strategies that businesses can adopt to stay ahead, specifically in the areas of digital infrastructure, hybrid cloud, workspaces for tomorrow, and cybersecurity.
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Konica Minolta Unveils the Future of Work
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When Konica Minolta invited us to an event called Spotlight Live about the “rise of the cognitive company and the evolution of employment” we were intrigued, but also a little nonplussed. Konica Minolta is historically known for its optical devices – cameras, lenses, photocopies and printers – and KitGuru doesn’t particularly focus on any of these. But with the legendary author Douglas Coupland as keynote speaker, Spotlight Live piqued our interest, so off we went to Berlin. This is what we learned on our travels.
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leakSMART Complete Home Water Protection Shut-off System
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The main leakSMART system components are the shut-off valve, remote sensors, and hub. They all use the ZigBee protocol, which uses a mesh network for communication, but does require a hub for control. This review will be handled a little different than our typical reviews. First we will go over the components of the leakSMART system, and then we will go over system performance with their proprietary hub, Iris by Lowes hub, the Wink hub, and then the SmartThings hub.
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20 of the Worst PC Setups – April 2017
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"I’m sure at some point you’ve had a bad PC setup. Maybe moving into a new place, waiting for a new desk to arrive or you just ran out of room. I can remember my horrible PC setups from when I was living at the dorms in college. If you have ever ventured over to the Shitty Battlestations sub-reddit you will find a lot of horrible PC setups. We will are going to pick 20 each month and feature them as 20 of the Worst PC setups for that month. Here are some of the bad ones from April."
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20 of the Worst PC Setups
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"I’m sure at some point you’ve had a bad PC setup. Maybe moving into a new place, waiting for a new desk to arrive or you just ran out of room. I can remember my horrible PC setups from when I was living at the dorms in college. If you have ever ventured over to the Shitty Battlestations sub-reddit you will find a lot of horrible PC setups. We will are going to pick 20 each month and feature them as 20 of the Worst PC setups for that month. Here are some of the bad ones from March."
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Days of Awesome Wallpapers: Geometric Wallpapers
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A great background can start your day off on a good mood. Whether you are into beautiful landscapes, minimalism, abstract illustrations, or eye-catching designs and patterns, with the kind of hours we spend looking at our computer and smartphone screens, why not make them a little prettier?
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NikKTech And AZiO Dominate The Battlefield Global Giveaway
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It may be April fool's day but we're telling you the truth, today up for grabs in yet another worldwide giveaway we have the latest gaming keyboards by AZiO and more specifically the Armato CE, L80 RGB and MK Hue models. So dominate the battlefield and good luck to you all !
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Veritas 360 Enterprise Data Management Tech Briefing
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Veritas is famous for its enterprise backup software – NetBackup. But as enterprises migrate their data to the cloud, they are transforming themselves beyond backup, into enterprise data management (EDM) solutions. Check out their tech briefing on the Veritas 360 Enterprise Data Management approach.
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20 of the Worst PC Setups
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"I'm sure at some point you've had a bad PC setup. Maybe moving into a new place, waiting for a new desk to arrive or you just ran out of room. I can remember my horrible PC setups from when I was living at the dorms in college. If you have ever ventured over to the Shitty Battlestations sub-reddit you will find a lot of horrible PC setups. We will are going to pick 20 each month and feature them as 20 of the Worst PC setups for that month. Here are some of the bad ones from February."
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Two And A Half Geeks Webcast!
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In this episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks webcast, Marco, Dave and Chris talk AMD Ryzen processors for desktop enthusiasts and gamers, AMD's Naples server platform based on the Zen architecture, NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, LG's hot new G6 Android flagship, the HP Elite x3 phone that proposes to deliver a Windows Office in your pocket, EVGA's innovative iCX cooling for graphics cards, Dell's XPS 15 with GeForce 10 and more!
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how Zen compares to Intel
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David was kind enough to spend an hour with us to talk about a recently-made-public report he wrote on Zen. It's definitely a discussion that dives into details most articles and stories on Zen don't broach, so be prepared to do some pausing and Googling phrases and technologies you may not be familiar with. Still, for any technology enthusiast that wants to get an expert's opinion on how Zen compares to Intel Skylake and how Ryzen might fare when its released this year, you won't want to miss it.
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IBM's Watson Dons a Suit and Tie
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Watson gets down to business In 2011 IBM’s supercomputer won a game of Jeopardy against two of Jeopardy’s greatest champions. That brought the name IBM's Watson to the forefront of the computer world. That was, however, just the beginning. Watson’s story is both fast-moving and unique. Watson Gets in Shape After the Jeopardy win, IBM got down to business.
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