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Ultima VI
After Richard Garriott and his colleagues at Origin Systems finished each Ultima game — after the manic final crunch of polishing and testing, after the release party, after the triumphant show...
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Zi2zi: Master Chinese Calligraphy with Conditional Adversarial Networks
Generated samples. Related code can be found hereMotivationzi2zi is the follow-up work for my last project, once again tackling the same problem of style transfer between Chinese fonts.It is a pleasant...
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Erlang's Internal Data Representation
I find it interesting how the Erlang BEAM engine represents data in memory.Quick look: An Erlang listThis is the in-memory layout of the Erlang list "phi".[112, 104, 105]As a reminder, Erlang treats a...
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Feed two billion people with TerrAvion (YC W14)
Working at TerrAvionTerrAvion is the largest volume provider of aerial imagery to farms in the US. Each week or month, we map more than 100 times as much area as the whole electric drone industry...
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The BEAM Book – A Description of the Erlang RTS and the Virtual Machine BEAM
README.mdHi I opened this repo to the public today (April 7) to share it with some students. I was giving a lecture about the BEAM at Chalmers. I didn't think anyone else would notice. I was not...
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Incredible low-light camera turns night into day
The X27 camera takes videos in darkness that looks like they were shot in the daytime. And they’re in color…none of this black and white, thermal, or infrared stuff. The camera was developed for...
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The reference D compiler is now open source
Joseph Rushton WakelingPosted in reply to Walter BrightOn Friday, 7 April 2017 at 15:14:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6680>> Yes, this is for real! Symantec...
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A girl was found living among monkeys in an Indian forest
Police in northern India are reviewing reports of missing children from the past few years in the hopes of identifying a young girl who they say they found more than two months ago in a forest living...
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React v15.5.0
It's been exactly one year since the last breaking change to React. Our next major release, React 16, will include some exciting improvements, including a complete rewrite of React's internals. We take...
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Behind the Scenes of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel
Shortly after Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escaped from Mexico's supermax Altiplano fortress-prison, a period when his Sinaloa Cartel seemed to have near-total impunity, Spanish documentarian David...
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Auto Insurers Chase an Elusive Motorist: The Uber Driver
Hundreds of thousands of drivers who pick up passengers for Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. are frustrating a push by big insurers to sell new ride-sharing plans.Firms including Allstate Corp. and...
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Google offers at least $880M to LG display for OLED investment
The Google logo adorns the entrance of Google Germany headquarters in Hamburg, Germany July 11, 2016. Picture taken July 11, 2016. REUTERS/Morris Mac Matzen
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What it means to believe that “real” trees no longer exist (2016)
Something tremendous is happening; over the last few weeks, without too many of its globe-headed detractors noticing, a surprisingly vast community on the tattered fringes of intellectual orthodoxy is...
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Show HN: LuaGB – A Gameboy emulator written in pure Lua
README.mdA gameboy emulator written in Pure Lua. Approaching feature completeness, but still a work in progress.This is designed to be fairly cross platform, and currently consists of a...
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Factorization tricks for LSTM networks
(Submitted on 31 Mar 2017)Abstract: We present two simple ways of reducing the number of parameters and accelerating the training of large Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks: the first one is...
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Netflix blocks Fedora users
Netflix should finally support their HTML5 player in Firefox 52 on Linux. This version has already landed in Fedora and been there for a couple of weeks and we’ve already received complaints from...
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A Cypherpunk's Manifesto (1993)
A Cypherpunk's Manifesto by Eric Hughes Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know,...
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Show HN: NoDB
New project!I'm happy to announce the first public release of NoDB, an incredibly simple, Pythonic object store based on Amazon's S3 static file storage. NoDB isn't a database.. but it sort of looks...
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How developers can charge more than $150 per hour
You, developer, are underpaid.And odds are you don’t know the right way to charge for projects or side jobs. Like most developers you charge by the hour. And like most developers you don’t get paid as...
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