Entries from September 2017 ↓
September 30th, 2017 — pinboard
- macOS for deep learning with Python, TensorFlow, and Keras – PyImageSearch
- Gerhard Steidl Is Making Books an Art Form | The New Yorker
- Where the software industry is growing outside Silicon Valley – Recode
- Beaker | Peer-to-peer Web browser. No blockchain required.
- eBooks.com: Buy Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Textbooks Online
(O’Reilly ebooks?)
- Nextjournal
hosted notebooks
- Brooke Shields: ‘I got out pretty unscathed’ | Fashion | The Guardian
- Raccoon family takes over Toronto bank | Toronto Star
- Puerto Ricans slam Trump administration’s response to crisis – ThinkProgress
- TAXI on Twitter: "This website lets you download, print old graphic design posters for free https://t.co/N0UVtr2uPk https://t.co/ZgBXdDko8K"
- Software for Good | Minneapolis Software Engineers
- Cybersecurity for the People: How to Protect Your Privacy at a Protest – YouTube
- Moocha – Search engine for online courses
- Gabriella Coleman
Courses
- Project Zero
- Project Zero: Over The Air – Vol. 2, Pt. 1: Exploiting The Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices
- Why Public Transportation Sucks in the US – YouTube
- Observable
“Data Science in JavaScript" … notebooks reboot
- why-did-scott-pruitt-take-an-expensive-flight-to-rural-oklahoma-to-talk-about-closing-epa-offices
- Thanksgiving in the Dust Bowl – The Atlantic
- Lost weekend: How Trump’s time at his golf club hurt the response to Maria – The Washington Post
- Albert Brooks – Rewriting The National Anthem – YouTube
- Exclusive: Fake black activist social media accounts linked to Russian government – Sep. 28, 2017
- Civic Ninjas | Connect : People | Inspire : Community | Create : Solutions
disaster response and recovery — OSS solutions
- The Mind of John McPhee – The New York Times
- Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony? – MIT Technology Review
- Google Cloud Platform Blog: PHP 7.1 for Google App Engine is generally available
RT @tpryan: PHP 7.1 is now GA for App Engine Flex on @googlecloud
- Kubernetes: Kubernetes 1.8: Security, Workloads and Feature Depth
RT @kubernetesio: Kubernetes 1.8 is here! Security, Workloads and Feature Depth, learn more:
- It’s time to get serious about Developer Relations – Glitch – Medium
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September 29th, 2017 — pinboard
- A letter from Puerto Rico: ‘No fuel, no cash … NO FOOD.’ – The Washington Post
- Twitter
RT @ErinChack: di—did the cat write this
- ‘You like that?’: St. Louis cops savagely beat handcuffed filmmaker while wife watched, suit says – ThinkProgress
- Twitter Adds 280 Characters – Be Nice To Bears
- Work and the Loneliness Epidemic
- Twitter
RT @sarahkendzior: Trump is hitting up citizens for money again — not for hurricane victims, but for him to fight the free press
- Donald Trump, explained (Maggie Haberman, New York Times, and David Fahrenthold, Washington Post) – Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher
- Twitter
RT @zeynep: 1.If you don’t like viral misinfo, fake news & Russian ads—you’re just uncomfortable with "ideas". 2.This is what g…
- A Walk in Willa Cather’s Prairie | The New Yorker
- Twitter
RT @MissConnieTran: #BREAKING: Another rock fall near #ElCapitan in @YosemiteNPS. My photographer and I witnessed the whole ordeal, it…
- The Case for Shunning the White House – The New York Times
- A worldwide portrait of a shared sky
- Price took military jets to Europe, Asia for over $500K – POLITICO
RT @ddiamond: SCOOP w @rachanadixit: Price’s travel on charter jets, government planes has topped $1 million since May.
- Twitter
RT @fchollet: People ask how to implement LSTM Seq2Seq in Keras. Here’s the tweet version (a bit verbose). I’ll publish the compl…
- Trump Administration Is Pressed to Step Up Hurricane Recovery in Puerto Rico – The New York Times
- François Chollet on Twitter: "People ask how to implement LSTM Seq2Seq in Keras. Here’s the tweet version (a bit verbose). I’ll publish the complete script soon. https://t.co/r85bNQpQwr"
- Twitter
haha/sigh
- With a focus on stability and security, Kubernetes 1.8 is ready for container management – GeekWire
- Twitter
The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends”
- Continuous Integration, Deployment & Delivery with Codeship
- Google Groups
RT @martin_wicke: We all owe a great deal to #Theano for getting us to where we are now.
- Why I Joined Microsoft
- From source to production: The latest in open source container dev tools – YouTube
- Twitter
RT @bradfitz: Yay yay yay
- The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” | The New Yorker
- The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life: the new sleep science | Life and style | The Guardian
- Twitter
RT @s7ephen: If infosec was a sport…
- Fundraiser by Demma Rosa Rodriguez : Hurricane Maria Relief for PR!
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017: Shipping in Pirate-Infested Waters: Prac…
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September 28th, 2017 — pinboard
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September 27th, 2017 — pinboard
- How the Bankruptcy System Is Failing Black Americans
Bankruptcy is yet another way black folks get screwed. Excellent, maddening story from @paulkiel & @HannahFresques https://features.propublica.org/bankruptcy-inequality/bankruptcy-failing-black-americans-debt-chapter-13/
- Ventusky – Wind, Rain and Temperature Maps
- Saudi Arabia driving ban: Saudis are cheering the feminists whose public defiance pushed the kingdom to change — Quartz
- Regrowing a zebrafish heart | Cosmos
- 17,000 Wisconsinites in two counties likely didn’t vote in 2016 because of the state’s voter ID law – The Washington Post
- Boldly Go to Upstate New York to Board the USS Enterprise | WIRED
- Rob Graham٩(●̮̮̃●̃) on Twitter: "From @dildog: Click ‘Tweet’ in the web ui F12 Remove ‘disable’ on the tweet button Click it, and go to ‘network’, right click on the request… https://t.co/ZylobcBftU"
From @dildog:
Click ‘Tweet’ in the web ui
F12 Remove ‘disable’ on the tweet button
Click it, and go to ‘network’, right click on the request and copy as cURL
Then, add &weighted_character_count=true as a param to the end of the url
Then, resubmit the tweet with curl.
- [1709.04054] Shifting Mean Activation Towards Zero with Bipolar Activation Functions
We propose a simple extension to the ReLU-family of activation functions that allows them to shift the mean activation across a layer towards zero. Combined with proper weight initialization, this alleviates the need for normalization layers. We explore the training of deep vanilla recurrent neural networks (RNNs) with up to 144 layers, and show that bipolar activation functions help learning in this setting. On the Penn Treebank and Text8 language modeling tasks we obtain competitive results, improving on the best reported results for non-gated networks.
- [1709.06182] A Survey of Machine Learning for Big Code and Naturalness
Research at the intersection of machine learning, programming languages, and software engineering has recently taken important steps in proposing learnable probabilistic models of source code that exploit code’s abundance of patterns. In this article, we survey this work. We contrast programming languages against natural languages and discuss how these similarities and differences drive the design of probabilistic models. We present a taxonomy based on the underlying design principles of each model and use it to navigate the literature. Then, we review how researchers have adapted these models to application areas and discuss cross-cutting and application-specific challenges and opportunities.
- Sleeping Giants on Twitter: "HOLY SHIT! This is a bombshell. Not only is @amazon materially supporting Breitbart, but InfoWars, too! https://t.co/7ttGBMsHPe"
- Istio, Envoy and Honeycomb | Honeycomb
- Is Germany Still a Haven for Israelis? After Election, Some Wonder – NYTimes.com
- How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down – The New York Times
- What You Call a Color Depends on How You Use It | WIRED
- What is ‘hepeating?’ – Business Insider
- Google Cloud Platform Blog: Extending per second billing in Google Cloud
- Microsoft C.E.O. Says Tech’s Progress on Gender Equality Is ‘Not Sufficient’ – The New York Times
- Study says ID law kept up to 23,000 from voting
- Docker Blog Series Part 4 – Managing Secrets inside Kubernetes Cluster in Azure Container Service – Monub
- Google Cloud Dataprep – Data Handling Made Easier – Google Cloud Platform — Community – Medium
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on getting his executives on board with cultural change – Business Insider
- The Art Process on Twitter: "Starlings swarming over this sunset is mesmerizing… https://t.co/qQHxUlweqo"
- A Stanford psychologist on the art of avoiding assholes – Vox
- Twitter
RT @GlennF: The Jones Act enslaves Puerto Rico in the best of times. It’s ridiculous now. How about a unanimous bill, Congress?…
- Twitter
RT @Rainmaker1973: Playing catch in an uniform accelerated motion [i.e. while skydiving]
- Untitled (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r27Ga3DqSRg&feature=youtu.be)
RT @Rainmaker1973: Playing catch in an uniform accelerated motion [i.e. while skydiving]
- Twitter
RT @kashanacauley: Next time let’s get us a president who’s heard of airplanes and boats.
- MultiMarkdown Composer 4 (+Giveaway) – BrettTerpstra.com
- What We Know—and Don’t Know—About Facebook, Trump, and Russia
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September 26th, 2017 — pinboard
- Fashion-MNIST | Kaggle
- Notes on a Lifetime of Passing | The New Yorker
- Democrats Don’t Need to Win Texas—But They Just Might, Anyway – Mother Jones
- The Man Taking On Ted Cruz Talks Sanders, Single-Payer, and Beowulf – Mother Jones
- A Novelist’s Powerful Response to the Refugee Crisis | The New Yorker
- From Louis Armstrong to the N.F.L.: Ungrateful as the New Uppity | The New Yorker
RT @susanorlean: From Louis Armstrong to the N.F.L.: Ungrateful as the New Uppity
- Eric Reid: Why Colin Kaepernick and I Decided to Take a Knee – The New York Times
RT @tomcoates: Moving and important article about sportsmen kneeling during the National Anthem
- At Least 6 White House Advisers Used Private Email Accounts – The New York Times
RT @jdickerson: At Least 6 White House Advisers Used Private Email Accounts
- Climate-exodus expected in the Middle East and North Africa
- Yes, the Republican Party has become pathological. But why? – Vox
- Puerto Rico’s Agriculture and Farmers Decimated by Maria – The New York Times
- Real patriotism, Mr. Trump, isn’t how you treat a flag. It’s how you treat Americans – The Globe and Mail
- Twitter
RT @julieplec: Long-ass thread that speaks a whole heap o’ truth.
- Colin Kaepernick, 49ers Super Bowl Quarterback, Has a Slow Sidekick — Sammy the Tortoise – WSJ
- Microsoft launches new machine learning tools | TechCrunch
- Modern Evasion Techniques
- Why the world expert on Asperger’s took 30 years to notice condition in his own son | Society | The Guardian
- A Divider, Not a Uniter, Trump Widens the Breach – The New York Times
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September 25th, 2017 — pinboard
- Twitter
RT @BerniceKing: People didn’t approve of the way my father protested injustice either; said he was causing trouble, called him an "…
- Twitter
RT @mattblaze: This is such a beautiful picture to see.
- AfD party enters German parliament: The country is no longer immune from the far right
- Facebook’s Ad Scandal Isn’t a ‘Fail,’ It’s a Feature – The New York Times
- Puerto Rico may be without electricity for months – Vox
- NASA Langley’s Katherine Johnson Computational Research Facility Opens | NASA
- Obama tried to give Zuckerberg a wake-up call over fake news on Facebook – The Washington Post
- Twitter
RT @TopherSpiro: This is remarkable. In unprecedented joint letter, the entire American health care system – 1/6 of the economy – re…
- Lara Hogan on Twitter: "Still so much to learn on this; I’ll probably be updating it over time. Also check out this guide by @projectinclude https://t.co/fZ1Ti1myjj"
- Measuring progress
- Lara Hogan on Twitter: "My thoughts on assessing compensation and promotion inequity issues in an engineering organization: https://t.co/Am8fQ1dLkJ"
- Tracking compensation and promotion inequity | Lara Hogan
- From Louis Armstrong to the N.F.L.: Ungrateful as the New Uppity
- Twitter
RT @Patrick_Wyman: Protests, even those that seem to be obviously just in hindsight, are basically never popular as they’re going on.…
- App Engine Task Queue satisfaction survey
RT @steren: Using App Engine Task Queue? take one minute to answer these three questions. It will directly help me. Thanks!
- missing-datasets/README.md at master · MimiOnuoha/missing-datasets · GitHub
- Lin-Manuel Miranda on Twitter: "Thanks to your generosity, first responders from NY are on a chartered plane em route to 🇵🇷. Don’t stop now: https://t.co/pxx7qvHPdf"
- Erin Kissane on Twitter: "I think that NYT article about Damore is pretty bad in the same way a lot of articles are bad, so I wrote about why https://t.co/wovCt9PB8M"
- Writing Well about Terrible People | Incisive.nu
- Twitter
RT @kevinmgill: Detail in Saturn’s rings during @CassiniSaturn orbital insertion on July 1st 2004
- How convolutional neural networks see the world
- ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’: One of the Best Cold War Spy Movies Is Streaming on Netflix | GQ
- From Louis Armstrong to the N.F.L.: Ungrateful as the New Uppity | The New Yorker
- Twitter
RT @LettersOfNote: Never forget.
- ‘Stupidly politically correct society is the death of comedy’, warns veteran comedian Mel Brooks
- The Awakening of Colin Kaepernick – The New York Times
RT @LailaLalami: For those who keep asking what Kaepernick has done, aside from kneeling:
- Twitter
RT @LailaLalami: For those who keep asking what Kaepernick has done, aside from kneeling:
- Kushner used private email to conduct White House business – POLITICO
- Twitter
RT @adamcbest: National anthem singer for the Falcons-Lions game takes a knee in Detroit. An amazing moment.
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September 24th, 2017 — pinboard
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September 23rd, 2017 — pinboard
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September 22nd, 2017 — pinboard
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September 21st, 2017 — pinboard
- PipelineAI – Features
- Why is Python Growing So Quickly? – Stack Overflow Blog
- Where to Donate to Mexico Earthquake Victims – The New York Times
- Twitter
RT @douglasmack: See also: residents of the *U.S.* Virgin Islands.
- How to get the Kubernetes help you need | ZDNet
- San Francisco, Oakland sue major oil companies over rising seas – SFGate.com
- The Political Awakening of Silicon Valley — The California Sunday Magazine
- Bruce Arthur on Twitter: "Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue on health care tonight was angry, funny, smart and incredible. https://t.co/P2vTrQmAgs"
- SEC reveals it was hacked, information may have been used for illegal stock trades – The Washington Post
- Twitter
RT @ericgeller: Almost 3.5 million Americans will be without power for four to six months.
- Manafort Working on Kurdish Referendum Opposed by U.S. – NYTimes.com
- Channel 4 News on Twitter: "60 perfectly preserved shipwrecks over 2,400 years old have been found in the Black Sea. The last time anyone saw them, Socrates was alive. https://t.co/bUBPJnGcHb"
- Manafort offered to give Russian billionaire ‘private briefings’ on 2016 campaign – The Washington Post
- World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
- Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years
- “Devastating:" Authors retract paper in Nature journal upon discovering error – Retraction Watch at Retraction Watch
- Twitter
RT @edd: Happy news: I’ve joined Google, to work on making TensorFlow an even more successful open source project…
- Twitter
RT @EricaJoy: I appreciate James Damore continuing to provide evidence that the bar at Google was most certainly lowered in a spe…
- Twitter
RT @ClimateCentral: The scariest thing about 2017’s hurricanes: They got really bad really fast via…
- What’s scary about 2017’s hurricanes isn’t just their strength. It’s how fast they’re achieving it – The Washington Post
RT @ClimateCentral: The scariest thing about 2017’s hurricanes: They got really bad really fast via…
- Research Blog: Revisiting the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data
- PipelineAI – About Us
- Azure/Machine-Learning-Operationalization: Deploying machine learning models to Azure
Deploying machine learning models to Azure
Operationalization is the process of publishing models and code as web services and the consumption of these services to produce business results.
Azure Machine Learning Operationalization is a component of the Azure CLI that enables operationalization of models that you create through Vienna that use the CNTK, SPARK, and Python machine learning platforms.
- terinjokes/StickerConstructorSpec: The Sticker Standard – hexagon sticker spec
This specifications defines the standard sizes and orientation to allow consistent sticker sizes between vendors. Allowing maximum enjoyment from receivers of stickers, and allow sticker companies to develop tools and interfaces for creating compliant stickers. This specification is also a definitive place to know what dimensions a sticker should be.
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