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MP3 for Image Compression
(January 23, 2006)During some random discussion with my colleague today, I rediscovered an experiment I did quite some years ago: MP3 compression of image data. This is, feed raw 8-bit-per-pixel...
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SDF – Public Access Unix System
Linux/UNIX users can type 'ssh new@sdf.org' at their shell prompts.For Windows users who do not use Java we highly recommend the free SSH client putty.exe.If you do not want to use putty, you can try...
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A document to help you start a tech cooperative
Mar 31, 2017From the desk of Darius KazemiDear Reader,If you're interested in starting a worker-owned cooperative, this letter is for you.Feel Train is a worker-owned creative technology coop. The...
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Show HN: Zuck.js, a JavaScript library that lets you add Stories everywhere
README.mdAdd stories EVERYWHEREMWHAHAHAHA. Seriously. This script is a copy of Facebook Stories of a copy of Facebook Messenger Day of a copy of WhatsApp status of a copy of Instagram stories of a...
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The first woman to finish the Boston Marathon in 1967 has run it again at age 70
Kathrine Switzer was a few miles into her history-making run at the Boston Marathon on April 19, 1967, when Jock Semple, the co-director of the famous 26-mile race, suddenly appeared behind her and...
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Putting GPUs to work with Kubernetes
Over the last 4 months I have blogged 4 times about the enablement of GPUs in Kubernetes. Each time I did so, I spent several days building and destroying clusters until it was just right, making the...
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In a Dragon’s Blood, Scientists Discover a Potential Antibiotic
PhotoTujah, the Komodo dragon. Scientists are studying a substance from his blood that has germ-killing abilities.Credit Kent A. Vliet/University of Florida Biochemists may have discovered a type of...
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Moby: An open-source project to advance containerization
Since Docker democratized software containers four years ago, a whole ecosystem grew around containerization and in this compressed time period it has gone through two distinct phases of growth. In...
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A Cosmic Burst Repeats, Deepening a Mystery
“A minor point of interest regarding the Spitler Burst.” The email subject line popped up on Shami Chatterjee’s computer screen just after 3 in the afternoon on Nov. 5, 2015.When Chatterjee read the...
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Boeing to lay off hundreds more engineers
The Boeing logo in a file photo. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
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LinuxKit: A Toolkit for Building Secure, Lean and Portable Linux Subsystems
Last year, one of the most common requests we heard from our users was to bring a Docker-native experience to their platforms. These platforms were many and varied: from cloud platforms such as AWS,...
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Taming Recurrent Neural Networks for Better Summarization
This is a blog post about our latest paper, Get To The Point: Summarization with Pointer-Generator Networks, to appear at ACL 2017. Code will be released shortly.The internet age has brought...
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Caffe2: Open Source Cross-Platform Machine Learning Tools
Training and deploying AI models is often associated with massive data centers or super computers, with good reason. The ability to continually process, create, and improve models from all kinds of...
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Image-to-image translation in PyTorch
README.mdThis is our ongoing PyTorch implementation for both unpaired and paired image-to-image translation.The code was written by Jun-Yan Zhu and Taesung Park.Check out the original CycleGAN Torch...
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Street Fighter II's AI Engine
By today’s standards, the Artificial Intelligence in Street Fighter 2 World Warrior isn’t very sophisticated. These days, when most people talk about AI they’re talking about machine learning. There’s...
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Computers Create Recipe for Two New Magnetic Materials
Material scientists have predicted and built two new magnetic materials, atom-by-atom, using high-throughput computational models. The success marks a new era for the large-scale design of new magnetic...
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H-1B visas do mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms
MOST of the debate about immigration in America concerns the illegal sort. But legal immigration can be controversial too, even when the migrants in question have either an unusual talent for writing...
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The Art of Writing One-Sentence Product Descriptions
A look back at early interviews with Facebook and Uber CEOs illustrates an ingenious way to communicate hard-to-describe products.As a founder, I spent countless hours refining my elevator pitch and...
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React-Move – Beautifully and deterministically animate anything in react
README.mdreadmeBeautifully and deterministically animate anything in react.Features12kb! (minified)Animate anything you want.List Transitions eg. "enter", "update", and "leaving"Staggering and Stagger...
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Hallmarks of Soviet postwar building boom are finally meeting their demise
MOSCOW — The Soviets built Margarita Smurova’s five-story apartment building — and tens of thousands more like it — with an expiration date that’s long since passed.She thinks the building is still in...
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