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Einsum Is All You Need – Einstein Summation in Deep Learning (2018)
Tim Rocktäschel — Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Recursive; Professor of AI at UCL. Artificial General Intelligence, Open-Endedness, and Recursive Self-Improvement.
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Casting Glass from 3D Printed Molds
31 Jul 2019 | self-Amos , glass art , kiln casting , fabrication , kilncasting , lost-resin , lost-wax
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What Makes a Graphics Systems Paper Beautiful
Addendum: I've added a few additional tips for conference papers chairs, papers committee members, and papers sorters .
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An Introduction to Real-Time Subsurface Scattering
A little while ago I was doing some research into the state-of-the-art for approximating subsurface scattering effects in real-time (mainly for skin rendering), and I had taken a bunch of loose notes to help me keep all of the details straight. I thought it might be useful to turn those notes into a full blog post, in…
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Notes on AI Bias
Machine learning is the new centre of tech, and like all big new things there are issues. ‘AI bias’ is much-discussed right now: machine learning finds patterns but sometimes it finds the wrong one, and it can be hard to tell.
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A Brutal Look at Balanced Parentheses, Computing Machines, and Pushdown Automata
As discussed in Pattern Matching and Recursion , a well-known programming puzzle is to write a function that determines whether a string of parentheses is “balanced,” i.e. each opening parenthesis has a corresponding closing parenthesis, and the parentheses are properly nested.
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So Long, MSDN Blog
UPDATE 4: My original MSDN blog content, minus the comments, has been archived publicly on the MSDN site; thanks again to Scott and Dan and everyone else who made this happen. Why minus the comment…
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Positional Scarcity
Each day on Tech Twitter, we get up in the morning, open up the website, and then go see what it is we’re mad about. A few days ago, it was this: The concept of “pay to get a better place in l…
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Please Go Away, Tim Berners-Lee
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New partnership changes everything for the DIY diabetes community
I don’t speak in hyperbole very often, and I want to make sure that you all ...
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Serverless collaborative editor using CRDT
Previously I've worked on a collaborative tool, which worked like Google Docs. This project was called crepl . Because I stopped paying for hosting of its server, that project is now offline. That made me consider: what if a collaborative editor wouldn't need a server?
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Async.h – asynchronous, stackless subroutines in C
The async/await idiom is becoming increasingly popular. The first widely used language to include it was C#, and it has now spread into Jav...
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Asynchronous Programming in Rust
Asynchronous programming in Rust continues to make exciting strides, including the upcoming stabilization of the futures API . But, while these core APIs make it possible to write async Rust code today, it's not easy: it's a far cry from the smoothness of synchronous code.
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Outschooling
A few months ago I posted some data on this blog that showed the growth of homeschooling in the US with almost 5% of K12 students being schooled at home. I wrote at the end of that post: This is a trend to watch and, possibly, to invest in Well, invest in it we did. […]
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Apple’s Errors
Apple’s management made three errors that led to the restatement of revenue; those errors, though, suggest that the company’s business is in better shape than it appears.
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You probably don’t need input type=“number”
I'm Brad Frost, an independent creator, web designer & developer, teacher, speaker, writer, musician, and artist based in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity (2007)
An archive of the best articles from Marc Andreessen’s now defunct blog
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Just a Drop in the Bucket (1994)
Subject: mother of all grease fires Date: Fri, 23 Sep 94 17:34:09 PDT From: Brian Reid [email address lost in the bog standard forwarding frenzy]
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Geek Social Fallacies (2003)
Within the constellation of allied hobbies and subcultures collectively known as geekdom, one finds many social groups bent under a crushing burden of dysfunction, social drama, and general interp
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Study finds that mindfulness is associated with reduced procrastination
A study that was recently published in Personality and Individual Differences sheds light on the relationship between mindfulness and procrastination .
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Playing with model trains and calling it graph theory
You’ve probably played with model trains, for instance with something like the Brio set shown below.1 And if you’ve built a layout with a model train set, yo...
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Jumping Back and Forth
The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.
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Emulator basics: a stack and register machine
Writing an x86 emulator from scratch in JavaScript: 1. a stack and register machine
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Things You Can’t Say About Assange or WikiLeaks
A complete copy of the 140 things that WikiLeaks said journalists weren’t supposed to say about Julian Assange