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Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction
When we offered CS231n (Deep Learning class) at Stanford, we intentionally designed the programming assignments to include explicit calculations involved in backpropagation on the lowest level. The...
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Building Jarvis
My personal challenge for 2016 was to build a simple AI to run my home -- like Jarvis in Iron Man. My goal was to learn about the state of artificial intelligence -- where we're further along than...
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Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return on Investment Than Oil
The future is not good for oil, no matter which way you look at it. — Motherboard*****Solar — it’s not just a clean power source producing zero emissions and almost no local water impact, it’s also now...
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U.S. Startups Are Piling on Debt
Persado Chief Executive Officer Alex Vratskides could raise venture funding. He's just not sure he wants to.His New York-based startup doubled annual revenue this year and is on track to break even in...
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How Xerox Invented the Copier and Artists Pushed It to Its Limits
People have been photocopying their faces since Andy Warhol’s first attempt with Xerox-style photostat machine in 1969. ilovebutter/CC BY 2.0A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a...
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A Junior Data Scientist Bookshelf (including Free Versions and HN Discussions)
Hi! I am a Junior Data Scientist based in London with a strong background in Engineering Sciences. I have been self-learning Machine Learning and related skills throughout the past year, leveraging my...
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Windows Server Support Comes to Kubernetes
Editor’s note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.5Extending on the theme of giving users choice, Kubernetes 1.5 release includes the support for Windows...
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What can we do with this domain?
We don't need no educationWe dont need no thought controlNo dark sarcasm in the classroomTeachers leave them kids aloneHey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!All in all it's just another brick in the...
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ChakraCore 1.4 includes cross-platform JIT and experimental WebAssembly support
ChakraCore 1.4.0 includes cross-platform JIT support and experimental WebAssembly support along with other language, performance and JSRT updates. See notable changes below.This patch release of...
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Apple Delays iOS SSL Requirement Indefinitely
December 21, 2016App Transport Security (ATS), introduced in iOS 9 and OS X v10.11, improves user security and privacy by requiring apps to use secure network connections over HTTPS. At WWDC 2016 we...
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Raspberry Pi makers release own-brand OS
Image copyrightAFPImage caption The first Raspberry Pi was released in 2012 and more than 10 million have now been soldThe makers of the tiny Raspberry Pi computer have created a version of its...
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Razorpay (YC W15) Is Hiring Sr. Infrastructure Engineer
Jobs · Senior Infrastructure EngineerWhat do we expect from you?Minimum 3 years of hands on experience in software development and Infrastructure Engineering, specifically managing AWS Infrastructure...
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You’re an Adult. Your Brain, Not So Much
PhotoAn MRI scan highlighting the frontal lobe. As people mature, reshaping of the brain slows, but in the frontal lobe new links are still forming at age 30.Credit Living Art Enterprises/Science...
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Disclosing the Primary Email address for each Facebook user
This post is going to be discussing how I was able to get the primary/hidden email address for any Facebook user. This also happens to be my first accepted bug to the Facebook Bug Bounty...
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Play Netflix on Linux with Firefox
December 21, 2016by Nick Congleton1. Introduction Netflix and Linux have a somewhat troubled past. For years, Netflix actively blocked Linux users. More recently, support for Google Chrome was added....
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Do Not Eat, Touch, or Even Inhale the Air Around the Manchineel Tree
The fruit of the Manchineel tree. (Photo: Hans Hillewaert/CC BY-SA 3.0)Throughout the coasts of the Caribbean, Central America, the northern edges of South America, and even in south Florida, there can...
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A convenient untruth: Array notation in C is a lie
Array notation in C is a lie!Sorry, dear reader*, but I cannot participate in this conspiracy any longer. You have been lied to, manipulated and coerced into thinking arrays are a construct of the C...
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To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power
Unfortunately, some of our federal policies to encourage clean energy, such as the Clean Energy Incentive Program within President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, do not explicitly include or incentivize...
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OpenJDK now available for Windows
We are pleased to announce the availability of OpenJDK 8 for Windows.OpenJDK is a fully open-source implementation of the Java SE specification. It is comparable in performance to Oracle and IBM...
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