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February 28th, 2018 — pinboard
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February 27th, 2018 — pinboard
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RT @Ehmee: Eliminating the Biological Survey Unit from the @USGS will result in these people losing their jobs, their position…
- "Dial Down the Feminism (American English)" Art Prints by dialitdown | Redbubble
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- GitHub – norvig/paip-lisp: Lisp code for the textbook "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming"
- African elephants are migrating to safety—and telling each other how to get there — Quartz
- "Dial Down the Feminism (American English)" Art Prints by dialitdown | Redbubble
- ‘SOS’: the rainforest distress call carved into Sumatra’s oil palms | Kate Lamb | Global development | The Guardian
- APOD: 2018 February 27 – Dueling Bands in the Night
- Black Women Running for Office in the U.S.
- Why Ageism Never Gets Old | The New Yorker
- Iran: police increase crackdown on hijab protesters with ten-year jail threat | Amnesty International UK
- Trump has long vowed to slash government. Now the knives are finally coming out. – The Washington Post
Biological Survey Unit of USGS
- Twitter
RT @counternotions: We’ve finally reached the point wherein the first sentence of a piece on bitcoin in NYTimes ends with the word ‘pen…
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RT @Rainmaker1973: This is the amount of acorns that woodpeckers can store into a telecom antenna: nearly 150 kg…
- The Seductive Confinement of a Weighted Blanket in an Anxious Time | The New Yorker
- Twitter
North Pole surges above freezing in the dead of winter, stunning scientists
- Untitled (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/02/26/north-pole-surges-above-freezing-in-the-dead-of-winter-stunning-scientists/)
North Pole surges above freezing in the dead of winter, stunning scientists
- North Pole surges above freezing in the dead of winter, stunning scientists – The Washington Post
- Twitter
RT @EricHolthaus: The northernmost permanent weather station in the world, just 440 miles from the North Pole, has warmed to 43°F tod…
- Language Log on Twitter: "The letter * has bee* ba**ed in China: Since the announcement by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) yesterday that the President of China would no longer be limited to two five-year terms in office, as had been the case since the
- Mother Jones on Twitter: "It’s been 51 days since a massive toxic oil spill off China’s coast. There’s still so much we don’t know. https://t.co/fGPUjlmw76… https://t.co/xzAvnXSfu8"
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RT @schweizercomics: Did you know that Victor Hugo, author of Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, was also an artist who wou…
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- Welcoming the Era of Deep Neuroevolution | Uber Engineering Blog
In the field of deep learning, deep neural networks (DNNs) with many layers and millions of connections are now trained routinely through stochastic gradient descent (SGD). Many assume that the ability of SGD to efficiently compute gradients is essential to this capability. However, we are releasing a suite of five papers that support the emerging realization that neuroevolution, where neural networks are optimized through evolutionary algorithms, is also an effective method to train deep neural networks for reinforcement learning (RL) problems. Uber has a multitude of areas where machine learning can improve its operations, and developing a broad range of powerful learning approaches that includes neuroevolution will help us achieve our mission of developing safer and more reliable transportation solutions.
- Propel ML
Propel provides a GPU-backed numpy-like infrastructure for scientific computing in JavaScript. JavaScript is a fast, dynamic language which, we think, could act as an ideal workflow for scientific programmers of all sorts.
- Twitter
RT @michikokakutani: The Parkland kids continue to have a huge impact… now Wall Street is reassessing:
This from Wall Street Journal:…
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RT @KateRaworth: Let’s get personal. Here’s my life – along with my mum’s, my kids and their kids – mapped out on a climate timeline…
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RT @mathewi: One thing this suggests — as with the main FB news feed itself — is that using raw “engagement” as a metric has all…
- Twitter
RT @jsmccullou: ICYMI: Amarillo churchgoer who helped wrestle gun away from potential shooter was shot by police because he was hol…
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February 26th, 2018 — pinboard
- Firms Reassess Involvement in Gun Industry in Wake of Florida Shooting – WSJ
- Photographing Australia’s large, venomous snakes – Australian Geographic
- The New No. 3 Person At DOJ Is Only In The Role On A Temporary Basis. The Same Is True Of Many Offices He Oversees.
- The New No. 3 Person At DOJ Is Only In The Role On A Temporary Basis. The Same Is True Of Many Offices He Oversees.
- Trump officials fight eviction from Panama hotel they manage
- Monica Lewinsky: Emerging from “the House of Gaslight” in the Age of #MeToo | Vanity Fair
- [1802.07228] The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation
This report surveys the landscape of potential security threats from malicious uses of AI, and proposes ways to better forecast, prevent, and mitigate these threats. After analyzing the ways in which AI may influence the threat landscape in the digital, physical, and political domains, we make four high-level recommendations for AI researchers and other stakeholders. We also suggest several promising areas for further research that could expand the portfolio of defenses, or make attacks less effective or harder to execute. Finally, we discuss, but do not conclusively resolve, the long-term equilibrium of attackers and defenders.
- ‘It’s not a hairstyle, it’s a lifestyle’: scenes from Australia’s first mullet festival | Fashion | The Guardian
- The Inside Story Of How An Ivy League Food Scientist Turned Shoddy Data Into Viral Studies
- How Companies Scour Our Digital Lives for Clues to Our Health – The New York Times
- Back in Control – The DOC (Direct your Own Care) Project
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- Twitter
RT @deesix: This is a bigger deal than people realize. Globally consistent bucket listings for object storage is a big win for…
- Twitter
Comforting words, since I accidentally am in the process of doing this for ML.. which was pretty different back whe…
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February 25th, 2018 — pinboard
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February 24th, 2018 — pinboard
- #NotOKGoogle Search Suggestions: 2018 Edition – Jonathan Albright – Medium
- Moonlight Gliders – bioGraphic
- A 3-D Look Inside the Tasmanian Tiger’s Pouch, Long After Extinction – The New York Times
- Docs for: ingress, kube-lego, GKE, GCR & cloud product philosophy · Issue #488 · jupyterhub/mybinder.org-deploy · GitHub
- Site Reliability Guide for mybinder.org — Site Reliability Guide for mybinder.org 1.0 documentation
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- Opinion | The Misguided Drive to Measure ‘Learning Outcomes’ – The New York Times
- Marilynne Robinson’s Essays Reflect an Eccentric, Exasperating, Profound and Generous Mind – The New York Times
- This Couple’s Idea of a Romantic Getaway Is Chasing Tornadoes | WIRED
- Twitter
RT @goodfellow_ian: By looking at this image, you can see how sensitive your own eyes are to contrast at different frequencies (taller…
- Doctors Said Immunotherapy Would Not Cure Her Cancer. They Were Wrong. – The New York Times
- Gangsters of the Mediterranean – The Atlantic
- Twitter
RT @ACLU: Lots of questions about students’ rights in a walkout.
Here’s the gist: Your school can punish you for missing cl…
- How ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Director Ava DuVernay Became a Creator of Worlds | WIRED
- Twitter
RT @lak_gcp: Strong list consistency of storage objects. Your analytics pipeline probably assumes this, but only on @googlecloud…
- Boomtown Seattle: Why we move here — and how we’re all in it together | The Seattle Times
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RT @TheOnion: Unstable Man Plots To Bring Guns To Schools
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RT @TheOnion: Unstable Man Plots To Bring Guns To Schools
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RT @marcan42: `sudo npm –help` randomly chown your entire /etc, /usr, /boot. On a stealth pre-release version with a version num…
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February 23rd, 2018 — pinboard
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February 22nd, 2018 — pinboard
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February 21st, 2018 — pinboard
- Fair Is Not the Default – Library – Google Design
When the child smiled or laughed, participants agreed universally that the infant’s dominant emotion was joy. But when the child interacted with something jarring, like a buzzer or a jack-in-the-box, there was a split. If a participant had been told the child was a girl, they thought her dominant emotion was fear. But if they’d been told the child was a boy, participants thought the dominant emotion was anger. Same child, same reaction, different perception.
- The Best Thunderbolt 3 and 2 Docks: Reviews by Wirecutter | A New York Times Company
- The Best USB-C Adapters, Cables, and Hubs: Reviews by Wirecutter | A New York Times Company
- Twitter
RT @azalben: I ❤️ my reps
(Text NRA to 50409 to find out how yours stand)
- Why is the Manhattan DA Looking at Newsweek’s Ties to a Christian University?
- First Gene Drive in Mammals Could Aid Vast New Zealand Eradication Plan – MIT Technology Review
Campbell says they are pursuing the creation of “daughterless” mice, which, due to a gene drive, are only able to have male offspring
- research!rsc: Go += Package Versioning (Go & Versioning, Part 1)
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February 20th, 2018 — pinboard
- design | Architecture and UX design of KAML-D
KAML-D can be deployed on any cloud (or on-premises) platform that allows you to run Kubernetes. Most of the components are open source. As a SaaS, it integrates with the cloud providers (user) identity management system, on-prem something like LDAP.
Existing open source components KAML-D uses:
Kubernetes for workload management and to ensure portability
TensorFlow for machine learning execution
JupyterHub for data scientists (dev/test of algorithms)
Storage layer: To hold the datasets, Minio, Ceph, as well as cloud-provider specific offerings such as EBS, with built-in dotmesh support for snapshots
New components KAML-D introduces:
KAML-D Workbench: a graphical UI for data scientists, data engineers, developers, and SREs to manage datasets as well as to test and deploy ML algorithms. Builds on the metadata layer to find and visualize datasets. Builds on the storage layer to store and load datasets.
KAML-D Metadata Hub: a data and metadata layer using PrestoDB and Elasticsearch for indexing and querying datasets.
KAML-D Observation Hub: a comprehensive observability suite for SREs and admins (as well as developers on the app level) to understand the health of the KAML-D platform and troubleshoot issues on the platform and application level:
Prometheus and Grafana for end-to-end metrics and monitoring/alerting
EFK stack for (aggregrated) logging
Jaeger for (distributed) tracing
The user management and access control part is outside of the scope of KAML-D but standard integration points such as LDAP are offered.
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- Modern, highly scalable file storage – Qumulo
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- Whatever Trump Is Hiding Is Hurting All of Us Now – The New York Times
- The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM – The Atlantic
- Tim Urban: Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | TED Talk | TED.com
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February 19th, 2018 — pinboard
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