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Oxford Deep NLP – An advanced course on natural language processing
README.mdThis repository contains the lecture slides and course description for the Deep Natural Language Processing course offered in Hilary Term 2017 at the University of Oxford. This is an advanced...
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A how and why primer on video transcoding: Webm to H.264 and more
Rendering videos seamlessly across browser types is often an arduous process for developers. It is important to consider the format and codec of a video file. Different browser types support different...
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The Dogs of Amazon
Amazon Fulfillment NetworkCutting Edge Technology, 50,000+ EmployeesAmazon's fulfillment centers feature cutting edge technology and provide tens of thousands of full-time jobs around the world.Read More
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Show HN: Citii, a React App that compares the Cost of Living between cities
README.md✨Citii is a react app that allows users to compare and analyze the cost of living between cities around the world. ✨Launch AppFeaturesDemoBuildLocally using npmClone/download the repocd...
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MXNet Joins Apache
Intel processors are the driving force behind many of today’s most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) applications. In the past year, Intel has added support and optimizations for many of the most...
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Simple Cryptol specifications – Exploring formal verification (part 2)
Exploring formal verification (part 2)February 7, 2017In the previous post I showed how to prove equivalence of two different implementations of the same algorithm. This post will cover writing an...
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John Ruskin Taught Victorian Readers and Travelers the Art of Cultivation
Near the dawn of the twentieth century, a young Englishwoman named Lucy is visiting an ancient church in Florence, unsure of what she is looking at, or how, exactly, to see it. She doesn’t have her...
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Demystifying Word2Vec
Research into word embeddings is one of the most interesting in the deep learning world at the moment, even though they were introduced as early as 2003 by Bengio, et al. Most prominently among these...
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FBI will no longer accept FOIA requests by email
As tech-savvy government efforts like 18F and the USDS take technological strides forward, other parts of the government are abandoning modern technology altogether.Starting next month, the FBI will no...
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Jepsen: MongoDB 3.4.0-rc3
In the past year and a half, MongoDB has put a good deal of work into improved read safety, enabled by the adoption of their new replication protocol and the WiredTiger storage engine. Dirty reads were...
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Silicon Valley Hedge Fund Takes on Wall Street with AI Trader
Babak Hodjat believes humans are too emotional for the stock market. So he's started one of the first hedge funds run completely by artificial intelligence."Humans have bias and sensitivities,...
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Kilt for Hire
Kilt for HireThe Tartan Turban: In Search of Alexander GardnerBy John KeayKashi House 324pp £25order from our bookshopLiterary Review - Britain's best-loved Literary MagazineOnly a selection of our...
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Hans Rosling passed away this morning
We are extremely sad to announce that Professor Hans Rosling died this morning. Hans suffered from a pancreatic cancer which was diagnosed one year ago. He passed away early Tuesday morning, February...
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An introduction to GO and Cassandra
IntroductionSoftware performance is critical to a SaaS company like Stream and while the majority of our infrastructure is written in Python, we are actively porting portions of our code base to...
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What cats can teach us about how to live
A philosopher once assured me, many years ago, that he had converted his cat to veganism. Believing he was joking, I asked how he had achieved this feat. Had he supplied the cat with mouse-flavoured...
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Goldman Sachs automated trading replaces 600 traders with 200 engineers
Average compensation for staff in sales, trading, and research at the 12 largest global investment banks, of which Goldman is one, is $500,000 in salary and bonus, according to Coalition. Seventy-five...
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Lessons from Doing YC Twice – Harj Taggar [video]
Harj Taggar is the CEO and cofounder of Triplebyte (YC S15), a marketplace for connecting software engineers with companies that are hiring.Before Triplebyte Harj was a Partner at YC and cofounded...
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An Ad Hoc Affair: Jane Jacobs’s Clear-Eyed Vision of Humanity
Most PopularJacobs hinted at this approach near the end of her talk: “the least we can do is to respect—in the deepest sense—strips of chaos that have a weird wisdom of their own not yet encompassed...
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