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How I Fail – Ian Goodfellow
Ian Goodfellow is a staff research scientist on the Google Brain team, where he leads a team of researchers studying adversarial techniques in AI. He was included in MIT Technology Review’s “35 und…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,419 posts.
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Granular Audio Synthesis
If you want to make a sound shorter, you can play it faster. Doing this also makes it higher pitch unfortunately. If you want to make a sound longer, you can play it more slowly. This also makes it…
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To predict the future, the brain uses two clocks
In sports, music and other activities, our movement is calculated in two different parts of the brain
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Version Control Before Git with CVS
What it was like using version control before distributed repositories and commit graphs.
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Working on an iPad Pro as my main computer
tl;dr I can do all of my programming and system admin work with an iPad Pro because I work on remote servers over ssh, and I prefer using the Unix/Linux command line.
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Why I use the IBM Model M keyboard that is older than me
The last primary keyboard I’ll use in my life might be the IBM Model M. It’ll probably last me the decades to the day that keyboards should become obsolete. - Kheng Meng, 2018 I just had to start my blog post with that self quote ^^^ but I’m pretty confident it’ll hold true for me. I have owned several keyboards so…
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WHOIS blackout period likely starting in May
What do you do when you want to look up the owner of a domain name? You probably perform a "WHOIS search" to find out the owner's name and contact information. The WHOIS system, which makes certain domain registration data publicly available, is an invaluable research tool for trademark owners a...
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Walkthrough for Systemd Portable Services
Posts and writings by Lennart Poettering
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Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything
Is he secretly the best young economist today?
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Chrome developer tools to master
With the advent of modern frameworks, ES6 and the increasing risk of security everyday, knowing how to use Chrome developer tools can give you a major boost in productivity and help in easy diagnosis of a website’s performance. This article aims to give an overview of different features available in Chrome developer…
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Night Sight: Seeing in the Dark on Pixel Phones
Posted by Marc Levoy, Distinguished Engineer and Yael Pritch, Staff Software Engineer Night Sight is a new feature of the Pixel Camera app that let...
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Think You’ve Got Your Credit Freezes Covered? Think Again
I spent a few days last week speaking at and attending a conference on responding to identity theft. The forum was held in Florida, one of the major epicenters for identity fraud complaints in United States. One gripe I heard from several presenters was that identity thieves increasingly are finding ways to open new…
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Coinbase Commerce: merchants can accept multiple digital currencies
We’re excited to announce Coinbase Commerce, available today for merchants around the world. Merchants everywhere can use Coinbase Commerce…
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Lossy GIF compressor
This is an encoder (based on gifsicle ) which implements lossy LZW compression. It can reduce animgif file sizes by 30%—50% at a cost of some dithering/noise.
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Protecting Mozilla’s GitHub Repositories from Malicious Modification
At Mozilla, we’ve been working to ensure our repositories hosted on GitHub are protected from malicious modification. As the recent Gentoo incident demonstrated, such attacks are possible. Mozilla’s original usage ...
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An Israeli spacecraft is gearing up for a 2019 Moon mission
SpaceIL, a privately funded Israeli non-profit, will attempt to land a small spacecraft on the Moon in early 2019.
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Making floating point math highly efficient for AI hardware
In recent years, compute-intensive artificial intelligence tasks have prompted creation of a wide variety of custom hardware to run these powerful new systems efficiently. Deep learning models, suc…
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A Call of Duty exploit
A few years ago, I became aware of a security issue in most Call of Duty games. Although I did not discover it myself, I thought it might be interesting to see what it could be used for. Without going into detail, this security issue allows users playing a Call of Duty match to cause a buffer overflow on the host’s…