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Color Night Vision (2016) [video]
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 s
Zi2zi: Master Chinese Calligraphy with Conditional Adversarial Networks
zi2zi is the follow-up work for my last project , once again tackling the same problem of style transfer between Chinese fonts.
Fact Check now available in Google Search and News
Now the Fact Check label in Google News is available everywhere, and has been expanded into Search globally in all languages.
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 appearances and interviews in full Lord British regalia — there must always arise the daunting question of what to do next…
In love with the BBC micro:bit
I finally got my hands on the micro:bit , the BBC ’s new educational computer and spiritual successor to the legendary BBC Micro , and I’m absolutely in love with its potential as a platform for learning how to code.
Quote Origin: Computer Memory: 640K Ought to be Enough for Anyone
Bill Gates? James E. Fawcette? Nancy Andrews? Jerry Pournelle? InfoWorld? Apocryphal?
Open sourcing Sonnet – a new library for constructing neural networks
It’s now nearly a year since DeepMind made the decision to switch the entire research organisation to using TensorFlow (TF). It’s proven to be a good choice - many of our models learn significantly faster, and the built-in features for distributed training have hugely simplified our code. Along the way, we found that…
Where the Apple accounts that hackers are threatening to wipe came from
The tech news recently has seen quite a lot of chatter about an alleged haul of Apple credentials [http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-icloud-ransom-what-you-need-to-know/], apparently about 250 million of them in all. Allegedly. Maybe. Or was it 300 million? [https://www.macrumors.com/
Lego Macintosh Classic with e‑paper display
*tl;dr: I built a Wi-Fi enabled LEGO Macintosh Classic running Docker on a Raspberry Pi Zero with an e‑paper display. Docker deployments via resin.io. photos
Anomalous keys in Tor relays
Counting almost 7,000 relays , the Tor network is one of the largest volunteer-run anonymity networks operating today. Most of the volunteers who operate these relays choose to remain anonymous, and little is known about how they set up or operate their relays. As a result, it is not clear if all relays correctly…
Marc Andreessen: “Take the Ego Out of Ideas”
The venture capitalist explores how to shape an innovative mindset.
Machine learning without centralized training data
Posted by Brendan McMahan and Daniel Ramage, Research ScientistsStandard machine learning approaches require centralizing the training data on one ...
FDA Authorizes Ten 23andme Genetic Health Risk Reports
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted 23andMe authorization to offer ten genetic health risk reports including late-onset Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, celiac disease, and a condition associated with harmful blood clots. For several years, 23andMe has worked on demonstrating that its reports are…
Unsupervised sentiment neuron
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
Stripe opens its Atlas program to US-based startups
We're excited to roll out a bunch of improvements to Stripe Atlas today.
The Minimally-Nice Open Source Software Maintainer
Being involved in open source software is rewarding, yeah? You start off contributing to your favorite project, and it feels so heartwarming when that project’s maintainers recognize your effort. Then a few years later you somehow end up responsible for that project, and maybe some satellite projects, and people are…
The Glimmer VM: Boots Fast and Stays Fast
Great web applications boot up fast and stay silky smooth once they've started. In other contexts, applications can choose quick loading or responsiveness once they've loaded. Great games can get away with a long loading bar as long as they react instantly once the gamer gets going. In
An off-grid social network
Open Source Freelancer
A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu
A huge THANK YOU to the entire HackerNews community, from the Ubuntu community! Holy smokes...wow...you are an amazing bunch! Your f...
How Bank of America Gave Away My Money
TLDR: Bank of America is a horrible business and it should be ashamed by how bad it is. Two weeks ago, I suddenly received emails informing me that my Bank of America…