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TensorKart: self-driving MarioKart with TensorFlow
This winter break, I decided to try and finish a project I started a few years ago: training an artificial neural network to play MarioKart 64. It had been a few years since I’d done any serious...
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Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI’s Do Not Call List
December 13, 2016Fed-up physicist pulled “I helped make the A-bomb” card to get out of Bureau interviewsRichard Feynman’s sprawling FBI file covers two-thirds of the physicist’s legendary career, from...
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Google reveals secret test of AI bot to beat top Go players
AlamyComputer mastery of the complex board game Go has long been seen as a landmark for artificial intelligence.A mystery player causing a stir in the world of the complex strategy game Go has been...
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Grumpy: Google's experimental Python runtime written in Golang
Grumpy is an experimental Python runtime for Go. It translates Python code into Go programs, and those transpiled programs run seamlessly within the Go runtime. We needed to support a large existing...
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Woolim – Lifting the Fog on DPRK’s Latest Tablet PC
C3TV - Woolim – Lifting the Fog on DPRK’s Latest Tablet PC Florian Grunow,Niklaus Schiess andManuel LubetzkiLast year we have been talking about DPRK’s operating system Red Star OS and its...
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Transitioning Firefox's rendering engine from Gecko to Servo
by Jen SimmonsJanuary 4, 2017Safari runs on Webkit. Chrome runs on Blink. And Firefox runs on Gecko. Which is old. Like really old. I think it's the oldest rendering engine still in wide use. Of...
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Easy 6502 – How to get started writing 6502 assembly language
IntroductionIn this tiny ebook I’m going to show you how to get started writing 6502 assembly language. The 6502 processor was massive in the seventies and eighties, powering famous computers like the...
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Nvidia and Audi aim to bring a self-driving AI car to market by 2020
Nvidia announced several new partners for its efforts to bring autonomous cars to public roads in a production capacity today, but the biggest by far was Audi. Nvidia is working with the carmaker to...
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Experimental Cancer Treatment That Terminates Rogue Cells Could Arrive in 2017
If there were such a thing as a cancer silver bullet, it would be something that only targets those cells in your body that have gone rogue, while leaving the rest of you unharmed. This prospect more...
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Taichi – Physically based Computer Graphics Library
Open sourceTaichi provides open source implementation of state-of-the-art computer graphics research results.CodeState-of-the-artWith various latest algorithms included in Taichi, researchers and...
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Americans Are Putting Billions More Than Usual in Their 401(k)s
Saving for retirement requires making sacrifices now so your future self can afford to stop working later. Someday. Maybe.It’s not news that Americans aren’t saving enough. The typical baby boomer,...
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The True Size of Countries
It is hard to represent our spherical world on flat piece of paper. Cartographers use something called a "projection" to morph the globe into 2D map. The most popular of these is the Mercator...
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Yubikey with USB-C
Each year the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) ushers in the new year by revealing the latest in tech, and we’re excited to take part. This year, our CEO is speaking on a security panel, and we’re...
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Mermaid: Generate Diagrams and Flowcharts with Markdown Like Syntax
README.mdGeneration of diagrams and flowcharts from text in a similar manner as markdown.Ever wanted to simplify documentation and avoid heavy tools like Visio when explaining your code?This is why...
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Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?437 points by mdoliwa6 hours ago | hide | past | web | 357 comments | favoriteThis question was asked 3 years ago...
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The Griffin Warrior Tomb Upends What We Know About the Roots of Mycenae
They had been digging for days, shaded from the Greek sun by a square of green tarpaulin slung between olive trees. The archaeologists used picks to break the cream-colored clay, baked as hard as rock,...
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Show HN: My cross-platform minimalistic cryptocurrency tracker (open source)
Donut is released under MIT license. Baked by Harsh VakhariaTwitterGitHubLinkedInDonut icon is designed by Freepik. Apple, Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, Windows, open-source, coins, search and update icons...
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Learning to code at 56
I’m 56 years old and learning to code.Why? Because I love it. And I’ve got a knack for it.That doesn’t mean it’s easy. It’s hard. And that’s OK.I love losing myself in an algorithm challenge. I love...
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105-Year-Old Cyclist Rides 14 Miles in an Hour En Route to a World Record
French cyclist Robert Marchand, 105, reacts after setting a record for distance cycled in one hour, at the velodrome of Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, outside Paris on Wednesday. Thibault Camus/APhide...
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HDMI 2.1 Announced:10Kp120, Dynamic HDR, New Color Spaces, New 48G Cable
The HDMI Forum on Wednesday announced key specifications of the HDMI 2.1 standard, which will be published in the second quarter. The new standard will increase link bandwidth to 48 Gbps and will...
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