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Summary of the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference 2016
The 30th annual Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference took place in Barcelona in early December. In this post, I share my thoughts on the conference. Let me know your thoughts in the...
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Oblique programming strategies
Ever since I found out about it (probably on Hacker News), the idea of Oblique Strategies has fascinated me. The first editions are going on ebay for \$2500-\$3300 bucks, which I think is incredible....
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Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub
Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic language for technical computing.The main homepage for Julia can be found at julialang.org.Julia programs are organized around multiple dispatch; by...
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Russian government hackers do not appear to have targeted Vermont utility
As federal officials investigate suspicious Internet activity found last week on a Vermont utility computer, they are finding evidence that the incident is not linked to any Russian government effort...
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CS 294 Deep Reinforcement Learning, Spring 2017
Instructors: Sergey Levine, John Schulman, Chelsea FinnLectures: Mondays and Wednesdays, 9:00am-10:30am in 306 Soda Hall.Office Hours: TBDCommunication: Piazza will be used for announcements, general...
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Cheap and Painless eGPU Thrills on a 2013 MacBook Pro
My late-2013 15” MacBook Pro’s discrete GPU — an NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M — was pretty good for gaming during the first year of its life. But around the time that the new generation of consoles dropped,...
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SpaceX concludes anomaly investigation, sets return to flight target date
Below are updates regarding the anomaly that occurred in preparation for the AMOS-6 mission:January 2, 2017, 9:00am EST Over the past four months, officials at the Federal Aviation Administration...
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HPE's New Chip Marks a Milestone in Optical Computing
Image: Hewlett Packard EnterpriseLight And Heat: A lot of the real estate on this all-optical processor is taken up by wiring for on-chip heaters. We may use photons to carry our data, but we rely on...
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Basic Category Theory
(Submitted on 30 Dec 2016)Abstract: This short introduction to category theory is for readers with relatively little mathematical background. At its heart is the concept of a universal property,...
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Basic Economy Fares Don't Lower Ticket Prices, They Increase Ticket Prices
When Delta started testing ‘Basic Economy’ fares in 2012 the idea was to compete with the ultra low cost carriers — they already had to match price, so they wanted to be able to offer a product that...
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Why recursive data structures?
In this essay, we are going to look at recursive algorithms, and how sometimes, we can organize an algorithm so that it resembles the data structure it manipulates, and organize a data structure so...
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Why isn't there a Google for the law?
Some people may remember, back in the deep, dark, early days of the Web, using search engines like Lycos and Alta Vista to find web pages. It wasn’t easy: you had to assemble complex search queries,...
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Learning to Learn in TensorFlow
README.mdCompatible with TensorFlow 0.12.Trainingpython train.py --problem=mnist --save_path=./mnistCommand-line flags:save_path: If present, the optimizer will be saved to the specified path every...
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Forget Survival of the Fittest: It Is Kindness That Counts
Why do people do good things? Is kindness hard-wired into the brain, or does this tendency arise via experience? Or is goodness some combination of nature and nurture?Dacher Keltner, director of the...
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Apple’s 2016 in review
This has been the winter of our discontent. 2016 was the year the tone changed. There’s always been a lot of criticism and griping about anything Apple does (and doesn’t do — it can’t win) but in 2016...
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Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake review: Is the desktop CPU dead?
Mark WaltonSpecs at a glance: Intel Core i7-7700KArchitectureKaby LakeCores/Threads4/8Core Clock4.2GHzBoost Clock4.5GHzL3 Cache8MBMemory ControllerTwo channel DDR4TDP91WPrice£330/$350The Intel Core...
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Show HN: Zazu App – An OSS app launcher, similar to Alfred
A fully extensible and open source launcher for hackers, creators and dabblers. It comes with sane defaults to make it useful out of the box. But everything can be changed to fit your needs. Don't let...
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What Nutmeg Can Tell Us About Nafta
It was in hopes of bypassing Venice and the Middle East that the monarchs of Spain and Portugal funded the great voyages of the age of discovery. The Portuguese mariners who pioneered the sea route to...
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Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?
Many folks have said it here but I'll say it again: Common Lisp.I have been using it professionally for 5+ years as a full-time employee at various companies. Some big-name ones, some smaller start-up...
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