Entries from November 2016 ↓
November 30th, 2016 — pinboard
- Texas to implement rules requiring burial or cremation of fetal remains | The Texas Tribune
- Alcohol Consumption As Self-Medication Against Blood-Borne Parasites In The Fruitfly
- The meaning of life? 42 suggestions for better modern living – The Malcontent
- The Entire Internet Will Be Archived In Canada to Protect It From Trump | Motherboard
- Twitter
RT @mmasnick: The total lack of self-awareness is impressive.
- Frightened by Donald Trump? You don’t know the half of it | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian
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RT @nycsouthpaw: The new Treasury Secretary-designee got $3.2 million Bernie Madoff stole from his victims and refuses to return it.…
- Erik Verlinde’s Gravity Minus Dark Matter | Quanta Magazine
- Glowing crystals can detect, cleanse contaminated drinking water | BIOENGINEER.ORG
- Twitter
RT @JoeBeOne: each time, after using @uber on iOS: Settings -> Uber -> Location -> Never
- How Stable Are Democracies? ‘Warning Signs Are Flashing Red’ – The New York Times
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RT @stevesilberman: This is crucial. Our democracy is in danger, and Trump figured out how to disable the alarm system.…
- Here’s Why Lagos, Nigeria is Africa’s Silicon Valley
- Google’s Hand-fed AI Now Gives Answers, Not Just Search Results | WIRED
- Seattle becomes nation’s hottest housing market, driven by tech boom – GeekWire
- A Cat Playing the Theremin
- Pinboard on Twitter: "If you’d like to attend the secret NYC meeting of the secret conspiracy in December, contact me: maciej@ceglowski.com, signal: 415 610 0231"
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RT @HeerJeet: Good introspective essay. I share many of these regrets.
- Home – National Immigration Law Center
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RT @Pinboard: We live in the world where @teenvogue and @TicTacUSA show more backbone than the mainstream press and tech industry
- The Tech Events Network
- Thomas Weise on Twitter: "@SEA_TechEvents Meetup "Streaming applications with Apache Beam and Apache Apex" at Google on 11/29: https://t.co/YugBiGp82x"
- XOXO on Twitter: ""No one expects the lady code troll.†@jennschiffer’s hilarious talk on how and why she satirizes the tech industry. https://t.co/6z9i8Usbve"
- I don’t belong in tech – Startup Grind – Medium
- The ‘alt-right’ splinters as supporters and critics agree it was white supremacy all along – LA Times
- Apache Apex
Apex is a Hadoop YARN native platform that unifies stream and batch processing. It processes big data in-motion in a way that is highly scalable, highly performant, fault tolerant, stateful, secure, distributed, and easily operable.
- Decoding the Thought Vector
Neural networks have the rather uncanny knack for turning meaning into numbers. Data flows from the input to the output, getting pushed through a series of transformations which process the data into increasingly abstruse vectors of representations. These numbers, the activations of the network, carry useful information from one layer of the network to the next, and are believed to represent the data at different layers of abstraction. But the vectors themselves have thus far defied interpretation.
In this blog post I put forward a possible interpretation of these vectors. I argue we shouldn’t take these vectors literally, but rather as an encoding for a simpler, sparse data structure. This gives rise to a simple technique (the -SVD) for reverse engineering this data structure, and gives us the tools to decode the vectors’ meaning.
- Google Developers Blog: TensorFlow 0.12 adds support for Windows
TensorFlow 0.12rc0 is out, and it includes pre-built binaries for Windows, including GPU support.
- Twitter
RT @eviloars: This from @baratunde. Obvious to many of us, somehow unseen by far too many others.
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November 29th, 2016 — pinboard
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November 28th, 2016 — pinboard
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November 25th, 2016 — pinboard
- The Constitution lets the electoral college choose the winner. They should choose Clinton. – The Washington Post
- Being popular is good for health – in monkeys, at least | New Scientist
- Capuchins recognize familiar faces
- Is There a MedellÃn Hype Machine? – CityLab
- The truth about smart cities: ‘In the end, they will destroy democracy’ | Cities | The Guardian
- Thingful – Umbrellium
Thingful is a search engine for the Internet of Things, providing a unique geographical index of connected objects around the world, including energy, radiation, weather, and air quality devices as well as seismographs, iBeacons, ships, aircraft and even animal trackers.
- Twitter
RT @wildlifedirect: Last chance to send your view to @NemaKenya DG about EIA on #SGR passing thru Nairobi National Park. Please RT
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RT @cczona: We know.
Signed,
– millions of women in STEM
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RT @AFP: Alarmed scientists say freakishly high temps in the Arctic are reinforced by a "vicious circle" of climate change…
- The 13 impossible crises that humanity now faces | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian
"From Trump to climate change, this multiheaded crisis presages collapse."
- Twitter
"This is the crisis facing Western democracies: we don’t know what failure looks like anymore and we have no idea h…
- Twitter
RT @AoDespair: This may be the biggest story of 2016. And it’s being covered and pursued fitfully or not at all by many news organ…
- Arctic ice melt could trigger uncontrollable climate change at global level | Environment | The Guardian
Arctic ice melt could trigger uncontrollable climate change at global level
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RT @ClimateCentral: National Parks are on the front lines of climate change — and rangers are speaking up about it…
- National Parks | Climate Central Special Report
- Alexander Verbeek 🌠on Twitter: "🇺🇸 How the Parks of Tomorrow Will Be Different because of Climate Change https://t.co/ClcaI3II1O #climate #nature #environment #science https://t.co/BE66M4yhhm"
- How the Parks of Tomorrow Will Be Different
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RT @AJENews: Syria’s war: Aleppo residents ’10 days from starvation’
- Syria’s war: Aleppo residents ’10 days from starvation’ – News from Al Jazeera
- Flight Delayed? Know Your Rights to Compensation | WIRED
- We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here’s What We Learned : All Tech Considered : NPR
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RT @joshtpm: Legitimately offensive to see news orgs now waking up to this when as you say, completely obvious in real time
- dotGo 2016 – John Cinnamond – A Look at the Criticism of Go – YouTube
- Aleppo Bombs Leave Quarter Million ‘Living in Hell’ and Without Hospital Care – The New York Times
- Margaret Hamilton, the Engineer Who Took the Apollo to the Moon – Medium
- ‘Bruce’ is the darkly funny web series taking on Australia’s convict past
- Is Social Media Disconnecting Us From the Big Picture? – The New York Times
- Edward R. Murrow – Wikiquote
- Quote by Edward R. Murrow: “No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless …â€
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November 24th, 2016 — pinboard
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November 23rd, 2016 — pinboard
- [1611.04558] Google’s Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System: Enabling Zero-Shot Translation
We propose a simple, elegant solution to use a single Neural Machine Translation (NMT) model to translate between multiple languages. Our solution requires no change in the model architecture from our base system but instead introduces an artificial token at the beginning of the input sentence to specify the required target language. The rest of the model, which includes encoder, decoder and attention, remains unchanged and is shared across all languages. Using a shared wordpiece vocabulary, our approach enables Multilingual NMT using a single model without any increase in parameters, which is significantly simpler than previous proposals for Multilingual NMT. Our method often improves the translation quality of all involved language pairs, even while keeping the total number of model parameters constant. On the WMT’14 benchmarks, a single multilingual model achieves comparable performance for English→French and surpasses state-of-the-art results for English→German. Similarly, a single multilingual model surpasses state-of-the-art results for French→English and German→English on WMT’14 and WMT’15 benchmarks respectively. On production corpora, multilingual models of up to twelve language pairs allow for better translation of many individual pairs. In addition to improving the translation quality of language pairs that the model was trained with, our models can also learn to perform implicit bridging between language pairs never seen explicitly during training, showing that transfer learning and zero-shot translation is possible for neural translation. Finally, we show analyses that hints at a universal interlingua representation in our models and show some interesting examples when mixing languages.
- ProPublica
- Fake News Onslaught Targets Pizzeria as Nest of Child-Trafficking – NYTimes.com
- Experts Urge Hillary Clinton to Challenge Election Results
- Google’s AI translation tool seems to have invented its own secret internal language | TechCrunch
- GitHub – googleapis/openapi-compiler: Compile OpenAPI specifications into equivalent Protocol Buffer representations
- trace – GoDoc
Now I’m tracing everything. The Stackdriver Trace Go package makes it too easy. https://godoc.org/cloud.google.com/go/trace https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/801222046633988096/photo/1
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RT @nycsouthpaw: Most interesting item in the Trump Fdn’s 2015 filing, imo: A $150,000 contribution from the fdn of Ukrainian oligar…
- Google Cloud creates machine-learning group, describes technology and new GCP features
- Kubernetes – From Evolution to an Established Ecosystem – Charting Stacks
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RT @aminatou: I grew up under 3 african dictators and certainly didn’t move to america for this deja vu
- Internet2 Welcomes Google Cloud to its Community | Internet2 News
nternet2, announced today that Google has joined its community, a not-for-profit, member driven advanced technology and networking consortium dedicated to enabling innovation and scientific discoveries for the next generation of research and education. Google plans to work with Internet2 and its member institutions to explore higher education technology opportunities with Google Cloud Platform, which enables developers to build, test, and deploy applications on Google’s highly-scalable and reliable infrastructure.
- Research Blog: How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience
The ability to learn from experience will likely be a key in enabling robots to help with complex real-world tasks, from assisting the elderly with chores and daily activities, to helping us in offices and hospitals, to performing jobs that are too dangerous or unpleasant for people. However, if each robot must learn its full repertoire of skills for these tasks only from its own experience, it could take far too long to acquire a rich enough range of behaviors to be useful. Could we bridge this gap by making it possible for robots to collectively learn from each other’s experiences?
While machine learning algorithms have made great strides in natural language understanding and speech recognition, the kind of symbolic high-level reasoning that allows people to communicate complex concepts in words remains out of reach for machines. However, robots can instantaneously transmit their experience to other robots over the network – sometimes known as "cloud robotics" – and it is this ability that can let them learn from each other.
- Google’s AI can now learn from its own memory independently – ScienceAlert
The DeepMind artificial intelligence (AI) being developed by Google’s parent company, Alphabet, can now intelligently build on what’s already inside its memory, the system’s programmers have announced.
Their new hybrid system – called a Differential Neural Computer (DNC) – pairs a neural network with the vast data storage of conventional computers, and the AI is smart enough to navigate and learn from this external data bank.Â
- Google acquires natural language understanding startup Api.ai | VentureBeat | Bots | by Jordan Novet
- MXNet – Deep Learning Framework of Choice at AWS – All Things Distributed
- Open Letter to Stephen Bannon from the Seven Sisters Presidents | Bryn Mawr College
- We know what’s going on and we know what to do | Benlog
- Dakota Access pipeline: 300 protesters injured after police use water cannons | US news | The Guardian
RT @juliacarriew: 26 hospitalized at #StandingRock after use of water cannon, sheriff says it’s "basically just a fire hose" #NoDAPL
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RT @marginoferror: Remember and even quote this the next time someone says it’s only humor, satire or sarcasm
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RT @doubleocherry: LOL @DLin71 @davidfrum
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November 22nd, 2016 — pinboard
- Ava gives the deaf and hard-of-hearing a more present voice in group conversations | TechCrunch
- kubernetes/faster_reviews.md at master · kubernetes/kubernetes · GitHub
- SwiftOnSecurity on Twitter: "#SurvivalGuideToThanksgiving A guide I wrote specifically for people working on their family PCs over the holidays: https://t.co/AS2hM8qNsn"
- GothamGo 2016: The Go Open Source Project’s Innards – YouTube
- { Tableauing Dangerously } | The Tableau Drag Race Results
- William Vambenepe on Twitter: "The Tableau Drag Race Results https://t.co/URgeCHPWqk BigQuery is a Tableau user’s best friend. https://t.co/cxsDAL0gqj"
- Twitter
RT @davidmackau: The US Holocaust museum has released a statement calling on all Americans to "confront racist thinking and divisive…
- Bernie Sanders: “It is not good enough for someone to say, ‘I’m a woman! Vote for me!’†– Vox
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RT @stevesilberman: If you were wondering if previously unthinkable ideas are being mainstreamed in the Trump era, the answer is F*CK Y…
- Pat McCrory is trying to steal the North Carolina governorship.
- Jonathan Weisman on Twitter: "Hillary Clinton’s popular vote lead over Trump stands at 1,720,053 and still climbing. A strange history is being made here, very quietly."
- Doc Searls Weblog · Uber’s pending sale of your personal data
- D.C. restaurant apologizes after hosting alt-right dinner with ‘Sieg Heil salute’ – The Washington Post
- The secretive brain trust of Silicon Valley insiders who are helping Trump – The Washington Post
- "Tiny hands," the insult that’s been driving Donald Trump bonkers since 1988, explained – Vox
- Pinboard on Twitter: "If you work at Facebook/Google and are frustrated by their non-efforts, please contact me and join our Bay Area meetup. maciej@ceglowski.com"
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RT @andrewmcgill: "Hail Trump!" and Nazi salutes. This happened in D.C., in a giant convention.
- White Nationalists Salute the President-Elect: "Hail Trump!" – The Atlantic
RT @andrewmcgill: "Hail Trump!" and Nazi salutes. This happened in D.C., in a giant convention.
- Generating music and images with deep learning Registration, Wed, 23 Nov 2016 at 18:30 | Eventbrite
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RT @Tierney_Megan: Muslim registry, religious test, refugee ban, wall, mass deportation and voting restrictions all hinted at, and tha…
- opentracing.io
A vendor-neutral open standard for distributed tracing
- Kelsey Hightower on Twitter: "If you’re running more than a handful of applications you should consider distributed tracing based on @opentracing. https://t.co/AcAGNIbyVK"
- Stay Angry – Rands in Repose
- Google Cloud Platform Blog: What is Google Cloud Deployment Manager and how to use it
- "We’re His Problem Now" Calling Sheet
- Share petition · U.S. Senate: No confirmations for Trump nominees until Obama’s nominee confirmed to Supreme Court. · Change.org
- Paxos Made Live – An Engineering Perspective (2006 Invited Talk)
- Distributed-Systems-What-is-a-simple-explanation-of-the-Paxos-algorithm
- $15 Production Kubernetes Cluster on DigitalOcean
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November 21st, 2016 — pinboard
- How to Install Node.js and NPM on a Mac
- Cleverbot.io – Cloud based Cleverbot
Open-source cloud-based cleverbot application for easy integration, management and tracking of AIs
- The Factory of Fakes – The New Yorker
- A Dark View from Flyover Country – WhoWhatWhy
- If Berlusconi is like Trump, what can Italy teach America? | World news | The Guardian
- Innovative Fork Design Unexpectedly Helps Users With Limited Mobility | Mental Floss
- Trump poised to violate Constitution his first day in office, George W. Bush’s ethics lawyer says
- North Pole above freezing in sign of ‘sudden’ and ‘very serious’ climate change | The Independent
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RT @amnesty: Concerned about reports of force against protesters in #StandingRock. Peaceful protest is a human right and police…
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RT @davebernstein: I agree with Dan Rather.
#AuditTheVote
- Sessions’ Anti-Immigration Influence Will Go Far Beyond His Role as Attorney General | Mother Jones
- How a Nation Lost Its Mind – Los Angeles Review of Books
- Brain Implants Let Rats See In Infrared | Popular Science
- For the ‘new yellow journalists,’ opportunity comes in clicks and bucks – The Washington Post
- Smart Money – Mark Pesce – Medium
- American Museum of Natural History envisions human population growth (VIDEO).
- Google Taps AMD For Accelerating Machine Learning In The Cloud
- A Dying Mule Always Kicks the Hardest – BillMoyers.com
- Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and the Crisis in American Life
- The End of Identity Liberalism – The New York Times
- Just a Friendly Chat Between 2 Worried Late-Night Hosts – The New York Times
- How the Loyal Opposition Will Work in Trump’s America
- Blame Trump’s Victory on College-Educated Whites, Not the Working Class | New Republic
- Expendable America | by Charles Simic | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
- Google’s cloud GPU undercuts, outperforms AWS, Microsoft | InfoWorld
- Scaling Microservices Beyond a Single Cluster w/ Kubernetes by Dan Wilson, Concur – YouTube
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RT @mlcalderone: “But as the night wore on and most reporters had gone home, the language changed.â€
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RT @mlcalderone: “But as the night wore on and most reporters had gone home, the language changed.â€
- Alt-Right Exults in Donald Trump’s Election With a Salute: ‘Heil Victory’ – The New York Times
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