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Failures of Deep Learning
(Submitted on 23 Mar 2017)Abstract: In recent years, Deep Learning has become the go-to solution for a broad range of applications, often outperforming state-of-the-art. However, it is important, for...
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FedEx will give you $5 to reinstall Flash
The world’s most hated plug-in is clinging on thanks to a generous $5 discount offer from FedEx, which apparently desperately needs customers to reenable Adobe Flash to be able to print things from its...
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Chasing the First Arcade Easter Egg
It all started with a soon to be released project I am working on called “Fixing Gran Trak 10” about the first car racing arcade video game from 1974. I had completed the electrical repairs and was...
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No, I Don’t Want to Subscribe to Your Newsletter
No, I don’t want to subscribe to your newsletter. No, I don’t want to complete a short survey. And no, I don’t want to become a member. … Is that text in the background? There is content on this page,...
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How Noisy Is Your Neighborhood? Now There's a Map for That
A pointillist portrait of the United States in noise. Bureau of Transportation Statistics/Screenshot by NPRhide captiontoggle caption Bureau of Transportation Statistics/Screenshot by NPRThere's no...
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World's First Deep-Sea Mining Venture Set to Launch in 2019
The world's first deep-sea mining operation will kick off in early 2019 when a Canadian firm, Nautilus Minerals Inc., lowers a trio of massive remote-controlled mining robots to the floor of the...
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Gryadka is not Paxos, so it's probably wrong
23 Mar 2017Leslie Lamport purportedly once said (though I can’t prove it):If it’s not Paxos, it’s probably wrong.In this post, I take a look at gryadka, which claims to be built on top of a...
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Google Talk Is Being Discontinued
Streamlining the messaging experience for Android: At Google Cloud Next, we announced that we’ve evolved Hangouts to focus on two new experiences that help bring teams together and keep work moving...
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Lisp Quickstart
Let's look a little more closely at the function RANDOM. We can ask for more details about the nature of RANDOM by typing:(describe 'random)Note the single quote. Also beware that on clisp on zeus, the...
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Computer Scientists Don't Learn Math
Computer Scientists Don't Learn Math Last modified 3 October 2016 I recently attended the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, in which some older researchers--mainly Fields Medalists and Turing Award...
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Guide to the CoreCLR Source Code
23 Mar 2017 - 4965 wordsphoto by Alan O’RourkeJust over 2 years ago Microsoft open-sourced the entire .NET framework, this posts attempts to provide a ‘Hitchhikers Guide’ to the source-code found in...
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Ask HN: Am I being exploited?
Ask HN: Am I being exploited?3 points by throwawayaya54 minutes ago | hide | past | web | 5 comments | favoriteHi there! (using a throwaway)I currently work as a student engineer at state school in...
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Exploring how deaf people ‘hear’ voice-hallucinations
A new UCL study, published in the July 2007 issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, systematically explores the perceptual characteristics of voice hallucinations in deaf people with schizophrenia for the...
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Futhark: APL on the GPU
Futhark is a small programming language designed to be compiled to efficient GPU code. It is a statically typed, data-parallel, and purely functional array language, and comes with a heavily optimising...
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APFS does not normalize Unicode filenames
David Reed (via Alastair Houghton):I received a polite reply from my bug stating:“iOS HFS Normalized UNICODE names, APFS now treats all files as a bag of bytes on iOS. We are requesting that...
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Too Much Experience to Be Hired? Some Older Americans Face Age Bias
Blatant discrimination against older workers is illegal, but new research shows that it can be harder to get hired when you're older. Aleutie/Getty Images/iStockphotohide captiontoggle caption...
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Under the Spell of James Baldwin
I Am Not Your Negro a documentary film directed by Raoul PeckNancy CramptonJames Baldwin, New York City, 1976; photograph by Nancy CramptonWhen James Baldwin died in 1987, at the age of sixty-three,...
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Uber Suspends Tests of Self-Driving Vehicles After Arizona Crash
PhotoUber’s modified Ford Fusion sedans in Pittsburgh last year.Credit Jeff Swensen for The New York Times Uber said on Saturday that it was suspending the testing of its self-driving vehicles, a day...
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Crossbar.io: Real-Time Distributed RPC in Python (Interview)
SummaryAs our system architectures and the Internet of Things continue to push us towards distributed logic we need a way to route the traffic between those various components. Crossbar.io is the...
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