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Life Lessons from Machine Learning
What comes to mind when you hear the term “Machine Learning”? A bunch of programmers hunched over their computers in a dark room, working on something completely virtual & divorced from reality…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,426 posts.
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What we learned from designing 200 pitch decks
We have now worked with over 200 companies to help them impress investors and raise capital for businesses through designing pitch decks.
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Packet capturing on Windows with netsh
No Wireshark? No TCPDump? No Problem!, Author: Rob VandenBrink
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Irmin: Git-like distributed DB
Read the post on "Introducing Irmin: Git-like distributed, branchable storage" from our blog.
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Ghost Streets of Los Angeles
architectural conjecture :: urban speculation :: landscape futures
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Getting started with maps in Python
Kristoffer over at rpsychologist.com wrote a really nice tutorial on getting up to speed with maps in R. It looked something like this.
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Optimized Go gzip/zip packages, 30-50% faster
I have worked on optimizing the standard library deflate function, and I am happy to announce revised gzip/zip packages, that on x64 is about 30-50% faster with slightly improved compression. Project: https://github.com/klauspost/compress All packages are drop-in replacements for the standard libraries, so you can use…
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Market Rate is for Lobsters
Ernie Miller is a values-driven engineering leader, conference speaker, and lover of people based in Naples, Florida.
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How the Dutch got their cycling infrastructure (2011)
How did the Dutch get their cycling infrastructure? This question keeps coming back because it is of course relevant to people who want what the Dutch have. Road building traditions go back a long …
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Considering performance in the small is not “premature optimization”
DISCLAIMER : The following are my own personal opinions and are not shared, sanctioned or endorsed by anybody in particular, especially my employer. Any criticisms expressed herein are of a general nature and are neither inspired by nor directed at any person, entity, or product in particular. Links to other online…
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The button that isn’t
Is there a big red button that can launch nuclear war? No — but thinking about why there isn't is a nice way into the complexities of command and control issues.
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VW
Do you know the name Michael Horn ? He’s the CEO of Volkswagen of America . You know what’s going on with Volkswagen, right? Dieselgate? The fact that the software that controls the Diesel engine in some of their cars was specifically written to defeat emissions tests? Yeah, apparently that software could detect when…
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Why Deep Learning Works II: the Renormalization Group
Deep Learning is amazing. But why is Deep Learning so successful? Is Deep Learning just old-school Neural Networks on modern hardware? Is it just that we have so much data now the methods work b…
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Using logs to build a solid data infrastructure
Confluent is building the foundational platform for data in motion so any organization can innovate and win in a digital-first world.
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Jython 2.7.0 Final Released
On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that the final release of Jython 2.7.0 is available! It's been a long road...
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Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (v5)
I'm assuming you're familiar with the basic idea of what a Turing machine is . There are a few parts to building one in Magic: a tape extending in two directions storing cells of a few different "colours"; a processing head that can read the current cell's colour, write a new colour and change its state if necessary…
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Etcd 2.0 – First Major Stable Release
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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Turn any part of your screen into a playable level of Super Mario Bros
Screentendo is a desktop application that allows you to turn a selection of your screen into a playable level of Super Mario Bros. I’ve never built a Cocoa app or used Sprite Kit before, so it was …
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8088 PC Speaker MOD player: How it’s done
The last 100 seconds of 8088 MPH sound very different to the rest of the demo. The end tune is actually a 4-channel Amiga MOD file (which you can download here ) composed by coda . Playing back a MOD through PC speaker on such a slow machine has never been done before. Here is how we did it.
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Engineers demo first processor that uses light for ultrafast communications
Landmark advance to usher in new era of ultrafast communications
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Why OCaml GADTs matter for performance
When GADTs (Generalized Algebraic Data Types) landed in OCaml, I wasn’t particularly happy about it. I assumed that it was the kind of nonsense you get when ...