Quantum-Chemical Insights from Deep Tensor Neural Networks
(Submitted on 27 Sep 2016)Abstract: Learning from data has led to paradigm shifts in a multitude of disciplines, including web, text, and image search, speech recognition, as well as bioinformatics....
View ArticleWhat is chemical intuition?
Image source: Buchi.comRecently I read a comment by a leading chemist in which he said that in chemistry, intuition is much more important than in physics. This is a curious comment since intuition is...
View ArticleWhen a disk cache performs better than an in-memory cache
21 September 2016TL;DR (especially for Bud Goode)The .NET garbage collector is a complex beast. Occasionally it might infuriate but remember that it's keeping you from the misery of manual memory...
View ArticleAsk HN: Alternatives to AWS?
Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?60 points by bachback10 hours ago | hide | past | web | 58 comments | favoriteAWS has captured an enormous market. As a user I'm surprised there are only few serious...
View ArticleCuda-Accelerated Polygon Mesh Voxelizer
Time to release something that’s been gathering dust on my hard drive for a bit too long: I wrote a CUDA-accelerated voxelizer. It converts polygon meshes into annotated voxel grids. You can download...
View ArticleNext Big Tech Corridor? Between Seattle and Vancouver, Planners Hope
But while median pay for tech-related jobs is $112,000 a year in the San Francisco Bay Area, it is just under $49,000 in Vancouver, according to an analysis by PayScale, a compensation data firm. (Some...
View ArticleMeet the mathekniticians – and their amazing woolly maths creations
In 1996 two British maths teachers active on an internet knitting forum were asked by a US yarn firm to design it an afghan.“We were sent into a panic! We had no idea what an afghan was!” remembers Pat...
View ArticleThe Art of Making a Nixie Tube [video]
Offentliggjort den 29. sep. 2016The nixie tube is a vintage display device which had been used until 70s when it was replaced with LED displays. The complex knowledge of manufacture of nixie tubes...
View ArticleNoScript is harmful and promotes malware
06 Jun 2016NoScript proudly calls itself a security extension advertising itself as an extension with “whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security...
View ArticleKarabiner – Easy Keyboard Remapping for OS X
README.mdKarabiner is a powerful utility for keyboard customization.Change the key mappings (For example, "Change Right Option to Enter")Change the key repeat speed.The revival of a lost NumPad key...
View ArticleScientists Trace Society’s Myths to Primordial Origins
The Greek version of a familiar myth starts with Artemis, goddess of the hunt and fierce protectress of innocent young women. Artemis demands that Callisto, “the most beautiful,” and her other...
View ArticlePutting my VB6 Windows Apps in the Windows 10 Store
I noticed today that Evernote was in the Windows Store. I went to the store, installed Evernote, and it ran. No nextnextnextfinish-style install, it just worked and it worked nicely. It's a Win32 app...
View ArticleGr-satellites – A collection of GNUradio decoders for satellite telemetry
This post is to present my gr-satellites project. The goal of this project is to make a collection of GNUradio decoders for the telemetry of different satellites. The decoders support submitting...
View ArticleNever accept a counter-offer
I guess we all have experienced a job change at least once. There might be different reasons to change the job; new opportunities, better salary, problems with coworkers and so on. I call it a trigger...
View ArticleOur Part of the Milky Way Is Bigger Than Previously Thought
Since the Earth is in the Milky Way, we can see only part of it (in this case one of the arms), so astronomers use other means to study it, including measuring distances between objects. Photograph by...
View ArticleEdward Tufte – The Future of Data Analysis
Data analysis seeks to learn from experience. Better inferences require better thinking and better tools. Practical advice about how to make more credible conclusions based on data. What we can...
View ArticleA list of all Android permissions
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.REAL_GET_TASKS" /><uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_CACHE_FILESYSTEM" /><uses-permission...
View ArticleDeep-Fried Data
I run a small web archive for about twenty thousand people. Being invited to speak at the Library of Congress is like being a kid who glues paper fins to a cardboard tube and then gets asked to talk to...
View ArticleSam Altman’s Manifest Destiny
Altman says, “Most people want to be accepted, so they won’t take risks that could make them look crazy.”Credit Illustration by R. Kikuo JohnsonOne balmy May evening, thirty of Silicon Valley’s top...
View ArticleLovely Hidden Paintings Adorned the Edges of Historic Books
While you don’t see them very often these days, fore-edge paintings were once some of the loveliest book illustrations around. Literally, they were around the edges of the book.A fore-edge painting...
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