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Hacking stood out as a philosopher who was interested in knowing what we know and the nature of our knowledge, with interests spanning across probability, experimental physics, philosophy of language, logic, mental health, race, and poverty.

From the blog of Ben Rothke at The Times of Israel

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) will commence the registration process for the Indian Economic Service/Indian Statistical Service (IES/ISS) on April 19, 2023. The deadline for registration is May 9th, 2023. Candidates must qualify both a written examination and an interview to be selected for the IES/ISS.

High-performance data streaming technologies are increasingly adopted in IT companies to support the integration of heterogeneous and possibly distributed applications. Compared with the traditional message queuing middleware, a streaming platform enables the implementation of event-streaming systems (ESS) which include not only complex queues but also pipelines that transform and react to the streams of data. By analysing the centralised data streams, one can evaluate the Quality-of-Service for...

Jul 23, 2021 | 5:40 PM Elliot Tanis, age 87, of Holland, died peacefully on July 22, 2021, at The Inn of Freedom Village surrounded by his wife and three children. Elliot was born on April 23, 1934, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the third of four children. His father, Edward Tanis, was a minister in the Reformed Church in America, and so the Tanis family moved regularly, also living in Wisconsin and Iowa as he grew up. In fact, Elliot first met his wife, Elaine Buteyn, in Waupun, Wisconsin, when t...