Entries from April 2016 ↓

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  text_cnn.py

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• We’d like to introduce you to Thington! — Welcome to Thington — Medium
• Raising the Bar on Leaving
• Why drinking red wine and eating chocolate may be good for your gut – The Washington Post
• Microscopic secrets of your immune system, unveiled | Cosmos Magazine
• President Obama Weighs His Economic Legacy – NYTimes.com
• Google Filed Patent For Injecting A Device Directly Into Your Eyeball To Improve Vision
• Gigs | Lisa Fischer
• New York Times boss sued over alleged ageist, racist and sexist hiring practices | Media | The Guardian
• University of Washington receives backlash over flyer promoting ideal cheerleading look
• Joe Brewer on Twitter: "Genes, epigenetics, and what you inherit from the culture of your ancestors… https://t.co/qrWOJrtVgi"
• Prince Remembered by Childhood Best Friend and Bandmate André Cymone | Billboard
• Half of Western European men descended from one Bronze Age ‘king’
• TensorFlow is Terrific – A Sober Take on Deep Learning Acceleration
• Genetic Secrets to Youthful Looks Revealed – Scientific American
• ProgrammableWeb on Twitter: "Microsoft’s #AI #APIs can now recognize smiles, facial hair, slang words https://t.co/mZhJ2TPZeJ https://t.co/b1dzDQFiqL"
• Twitter
  RT @carlmalamud: The first multimedia email message from 1992. “Let me send you email, if you have the time!”
• MIME & Me (nsb)
  RT @carlmalamud: The first multimedia email message from 1992. “Let me send you email, if you have the time!”
• London Review (LRB) on Twitter: "Jenny Diski’s 150 articles (and 65 blogs) for the LRB are all now freely available to read online: https://t.co/Ge2KQUjEQ5"
• Gene therapy reverses sight loss and is long-lasting – BBC News
• Python 201: An Intro to itertools | The Mouse Vs. The Python
• A poem about Silicon Valley, made up of Quora questions | Fusion
• Google Hires Rick Osterloh As SVP for New Unified Hardware Division | Re/code
• Rolling and Unrolling RNNs | The Shape of Data
• Container-VM Image – Compute Engine — Google Cloud Platform
• The Rachel Carson Award Honorees | Audubon
• Twitter
  RT @leahmcelrath: "suspect" vs "boy"

  "replica semi-automatic pistol" vs "toy gun"

  Words matter. Pay attention. Notice.

  #Baltimore

• Sam Ramji on Twitter: "If you’re feeling depressed by the news, you can turn to https://t.co/WlHNdfr4Ck to feel a lot better about how cool the future will be."
• Phys.org – News and Articles on Science and Technology
• Ziya Tong on Twitter: "Roomba long exposure shots… https://t.co/wiGG4VqUo4"

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• AI Meetup – Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotics By Pieter Abbeel – San Francisco Artificial Intelligence Meetup (San Francisco, CA) – Meetup
• How to be an ally to someone experiencing microaggressions (essay)
• #AirbnbWhileBlack: How Hidden Bias Shapes The Sharing Economy : NPR
• Rado Kirov on Twitter: "Heisenberg principle of software engineering – you either understand how something works or use its newest version. Never both."
• Google’s New Dataproc Service Facilitates Big Data Management — Upside
• Being A Developer After 40 — Free Code Camp
• FBI’s flawed forensics expert testimony: Hair analysis, bite marks, fingerprints, arson.
• Adam Chilton on Twitter: "A Princeton professor has posted a CV of his failures (https://t.co/NIvZRlboH9). The best part is the meta-failure. https://t.co/L1Y8zU8cTh"
• Johannes_Haushofer_CV_of_Failures.pdf
• Eric Horvitz receives ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award for groundbreaking artificial intelligence work – Next at Microsoft
• Google Cloud Platform Blog: Taming the herd: using Zookeeper and Exhibitor on Google Container Engine
• Google Cloud Conundrum: 7 Questions That Need Answering – InformationWeek
• Java Remote Debug for Applications Running in Kubernetes – DZone Performance
• Expanded list of seismically risky buildings could spur a new development wave on Capitol Hill | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle

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• A Helmsman meets a Daughter of Troy: The introduction of Kubernetes & Cassandra – Kubernetes Colorado (Boulder, CO) – Meetup
  A Helmsman meets a Daughter of Troy: The introduction of Kubernetes & Cassandra
• Nowhere Near Ithaca: Robert Floyd’s Tiny and Beautiful Algorithm for Sampling without Replacement
  Robert Floyd’s Tiny and Beautiful Algorithm for Sampling without Replacement
• GeePS: Scalable deep learning on distributed GPUs with a GPU-specialized parameter server | the morning paper
  GeePS: Scalable deep learning on distributed GPUs with a GPU-specialized parameter server – Cui et al. 2016

  (EuroSys 2016)

• The Pool | Life – What mourning for a celebrity looks like in 2016
• Google, Volvo, Uber and Lyft form a self-driving car coalition
• Yellow Fever’s Comeback Was Utterly Avoidable, But We Blew It | WIRED
• Kubernetes Analyst – Google Sheets
• FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades – The Washington Post
• Google Cloud Platform Blog: Why Google App Engine rocks: A Google engineer’s take
• Kyle Roche on Twitter: ". @awscloud Core Tenets of IoT whitepaper: https://t.co/mJpZeuCE9G #aws #iot"
• core-tenets-of-iot.pdf
• Uncanny Valley | Issue 25 | n+1
• If you use Waze, hackers can stalk you | Fusion
• Inside Capacitor, BigQuery’s next-generation columnar storage format | Google Cloud Big Data Blog — Google Cloud Platform
• Princeton Undergrad Creates Google Deep Dream-Inspired Deepjazz A.I. Music Maker | Inverse
• Twitter
  RT @asynchio: Excited to announce KubeCon has been donated to CNCF. CFP is also now open! Come join us in Seattle this November!
• [1508.06576] A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style
  In fine art, especially painting, humans have mastered the skill to create unique visual experiences through composing a complex interplay between the content and style of an image. Thus far the algorithmic basis of this process is unknown and there exists no artificial system with similar capabilities. However, in other key areas of visual perception such as object and face recognition near-human performance was recently demonstrated by a class of biologically inspired vision models called Deep Neural Networks. Here we introduce an artificial system based on a Deep Neural Network that creates artistic images of high perceptual quality. The system uses neural representations to separate and recombine content and style of arbitrary images, providing a neural algorithm for the creation of artistic images. Moreover, in light of the striking similarities between performance-optimised artificial neural networks and biological vision, our work offers a path forward to an algorithmic understanding of how humans create and perceive artistic imagery.
• protocol buffers – Is there an example on how to generate protobuf files holding trained Tensorflow graphs – Stack Overflow
• How to use tf.train.write_graph() and tf.import_graph_def()? It seems that it does not work. · Issue #616 · tensorflow/tensorflow
• Fundamentals of Stream Processing with Apache Beam | Kafka Summit 2016
  RT @vambenepe: Going to #KafkaSummit summit next week? Then don’t miss the session by @francesjperry and @takidau on @ApacheBeam:

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• [1412.6550] FitNets: Hints for Thin Deep Nets
  While depth tends to improve network performances, it also makes gradient-based training more difficult since deeper networks tend to be more non-linear. The recently proposed knowledge distillation approach is aimed at obtaining small and fast-to-execute models, and it has shown that a student network could imitate the soft output of a larger teacher network or ensemble of networks. In this paper, we extend this idea to allow the training of a student that is deeper and thinner than the teacher, using not only the outputs but also the intermediate representations learned by the teacher as hints to improve the training process and final performance of the student. Because the student intermediate hidden layer will generally be smaller than the teacher’s intermediate hidden layer, additional parameters are introduced to map the student hidden layer to the prediction of the teacher hidden layer. This allows one to train deeper students that can generalize better or run faster, a trade-off that is controlled by the chosen student capacity. For example, on CIFAR-10, a deep student network with almost 10.4 times less parameters outperforms a larger, state-of-the-art teacher network.
• Tech’s new diversity leaders explain how they plan to fix sexism and racism in the industry | TechCrunch
• Debugging data transformations using Cloud Dataflow and Stackdriver Debugger | Google Cloud Big Data Blog — Google Cloud Platform
• GigaSpaces and Mist.io Integrate Cloudify for One-click Kubernetes Cluster Deployment on OpenStack, AWS and Other Clouds | Business Wire
• AWS CloudFormation Updates Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, AWS Lambda, and Amazon GameLift Resource Support
• Using the Cloud Vision API with Twilio Messaging on Kubernetes
  Use the Google Cloud Vision API+@twilio to text an image and get a reply with what’s in it… then scale w/ Kubernetes
• Andrew Rader on Twitter: "Zoom in on the NGC 3324 star cluster and reflection nebula. https://t.co/sxfrwCp7GJ"
• serving/mnist_export.py at master · tensorflow/serving
  # WARNING(break-tutorial-inline-code): The following code snippet is
  # in-lined in tutorials, please update tutorial documents accordingly
  # whenever code changes.
• TensorFlow Serving
• xkcd: Women on 20s
• What The New York Times Didn’t Tell You — Medium
• Apache Beam’s Ambitious Goal: Unify Big Data Development
• T_CO2_CAP12YearsLater.pdf
• Home – glot.io
• Camlistore at LinuxFest Northwest 2016 – YouTube
• UMassTTS: "Intro to Machine Learning" by Cassidy Williams, Clarifai – YouTube
• First happiness genes have been located: Genetic overlap between happiness, depression discovered — ScienceDaily
• NEXUS | U.S. Customs and Border Protection
  The NEXUS program allows pre-screened travelers expedited processing when entering the United States and Canada. Program members use dedicated processing lanes at designated northern border ports of entry, NEXUS kiosks when entering Canada by air and Global Entry kiosks when entering the United States via Canadian Preclearance airports. NEXUS members also receive expedited processing at marine reporting locations.
• Millennials Show Us What ‘Old’ Looks Like – YouTube

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• Stunning photos of the solar-powered plane that just flew across the Pacific | Re/code
• Dan Grover | Bots won’t replace apps. Better apps will replace apps.
• 70 years ago, six Philly women became the world’s first digital computer programmers | PhillyVoice
• Andrew Rader on Twitter: "Pelican in the Swan – part of the star forming region of the Orion Nebula. https://t.co/sBvHFOsham"
• Solar-powered plane reaches California after journey across Pacific
• Google wants to put machine learning right into your phone
• The Ice Age on Twitter: "Meltwater channels & ponds on Mendenhall Glacier, #Alaska by Bernhard Edmaier https://t.co/GVAW5Ycjbu #photography https://t.co/7gwF8xQlH4"
• Twitter
  They used troff (!)
• Andrew Gorcester on Twitter: "Casco Antiguo in Pioneer Square has the best corn mash I’ve ever had. Its menu is solid all around but the corn mash is incredible."
• A Billion Taxi Rides on Google’s BigQuery
• doc/search-ui.txt – camlistore – Git at Google
• The State of Camlistore
• Camlistore
• Restoring TensorFlow Models
• python – tensorflow: saving and restoring session – Stack Overflow
• Tensorflow: How to restore a previously saved model (python) – Stack Overflow
• Using TensorFlow to create your own handwriting recognition engine | Niek Temme
• Scikit Flow: Easy Deep Learning with TensorFlow and Scikit-learn
• tensorflow/skflow: Simplified interface for TensorFlow (mimicking Scikit Learn) for Deep Learning
  Simplified interface for TensorFlow (mimicking Scikit Learn) for Deep Learning
• Native Docker comes to Windows and Mac – The New Stack
• mist64/xhyve: xhyve, a lightweight OS X virtualization solution
  xhyve, a lightweight OS X virtualization solution
• Pavan Yara on Twitter: "Reading again now! my favorite @paultoo’s blog post: "I am nothing" https://t.co/a8swukYWQT https://t.co/d5kuQuiydG"
• Florian Graillot on Twitter: "Great map of financial corp. investing in #blockchain. #FinTech #Bitcoin #blckcn https://t.co/dJLqARBlaT https://t.co/gYicyIHgzU"

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• The hyper-gendering of women in Silicon Valley is predictable and awful | Technology | The Guardian
• This may shock you: Hillary Clinton is fundamentally honest | Jill Abramson | Opinion | The Guardian
• Is Hillary Clinton Dishonest? – NYTimes.com
• Gene-editing hack yields pinpoint precision : Nature News & Comment
  RT @NatureNews: CRISPR engineered to edit single DNA bases could now correct or introduce point mutations
• Twitter
  RT @NatureNews: CRISPR engineered to edit single DNA bases could now correct or introduce point mutations
• Gene-editing hack yields pinpoint precision : Nature News & Comment
• Prince | Music | The Guardian
• Dαve Cheney on Twitter: "Here’s the slides (with speaker notes) from my #gocon talk. #golang https://t.co/GGPr7HJZYR https://t.co/IwITZaapuW"
• British Library posts 1 million copyright-free images online / Boing Boing
• Dropbox – Grid PDFs
• Dropbox – PDFs for Notability
• Prince, a Prodigious Musical Talent, Dies – WSJ
• Due South / Recap – TV Tropes
• Hadley Freeman: I like Bernie as much as the next idealist, but Hillary gets my vote | US news | The Guardian
• [1412.6980] Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization
  Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization
• How to rebuild a party: the Democrats’ comeback is a lesson for Republicans | US news | The Guardian
• The $15 Minimum Wage Wins Where Silicon Valley Fails Hard | WIRED
• Kaweco Liliput Fountain Pen – Copper – Medium Nib – JetPens.com
• Kaweco Brass Sport Fountain Pen – Medium Nib – JetPens.com
• Cassandra Clare Created a Fantasy Realm and Aims to Maintain Her Rule – The New York Times

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• blog.campoy.cat: Integrating goimports with GoSublime on Sublime Text 3
• Prince Spent His Life Elevating and Mentoring Women
• First gene therapy successful against human aging – BioViva USA Inc
• Prince’s lyrics were surrealist poetry that overloaded your senses and short-circuited your brain.
• The art of looking | The Economist
  Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change. By Andrew Solomon
• Inside Amy Schumer’s Sister: Meet Kim Caramele, Amy’s Secret Weapon – The Daily Beast
• Tip your Uber driver | TechCrunch
• harper on Twitter: "If you were wondering, @fipradio is playing a bunch of prince. It is good."
• Shakespeare in The New Yorker – The New Yorker
• Here’s what’s leaving Netflix in May
• GitHub · Where software is built
• GitHub – ultimateboy/slack8s: Slackbot to send important alerts from the Kubernetes event stream API to a slack channel
• Prince Can’t Die – MTV
• Inshallah Is Good for Everyone – NYTimes.com
• Mike Davidson on Twitter: "The cat just sneezed right into my eye. https://t.co/Tgxlb7F6k3"
• Prince Knew What He Wanted: Sex, Soul and You – NYTimes.com
• Laurie Voss on Twitter: "Aphantasia is the inability to picture things in your mind. Hear from somebody who just learned they have it: https://t.co/mqQa5cMDwu"
• This paragraph perfectly nails Prince’s insane talent | Fusion
• eScience Institute – Data Science for Social Good
• Microsoft, Google agree to stop complaining to regulators about each other | Re/code
• 4 Companies Making Clean Water Abundant — Singularity University Blog — Medium
• Ultimate Everyday Carry Jacket – The Joey by Global Travel Clothing — Kickstarter
• Tim Bray on Twitter: "Amazon open-sources Ion (GH: https://t.co/S3rLbgaFRb, HN: https://t.co/kIxUKAghe6). Like JSON with some more types, text/binary."
• Command Line Magic on Twitter: "curl -sr 0-1024 www.nasa.gov/images/content/618486main_earth_full.jpg |strings # View image metadata without downloading whole 16MB image"
• Twitter
  RT @therealfitz: Well that escalated quickly
• Troy Hunt on Twitter: "#DropBearAware https://t.co/4coMz1qDt7"
• Twitter
  RT @troyhunt: #DropBearAware
• Clarifai | Visual recognition API and services
• Websites That Work | Indiegogo

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• Engineers Race to Entomb the Decaying Chernobyl Reactor [Video] – Scientific American
• Tilt Brush by Google

  Tilt Brush lets you paint in 3D space with virtual reality. Your room is your canvas. Your palette is your imagination. The possibilities are endless.

• Donnie Berkholz on Twitter: "Kubernetes now clear #1 for platforms atop OpenStack, as Cloud Foundry and Docker Swarm drop https://t.co/PbBtox0Mnd https://t.co/GenfEvrNoS"
• Libdave on Twitter: "Carter’s grandson on why Carter Center doesnt monitor US elections. Let it sink in for a mo. via @nicolesandler https://t.co/WEyXLZQGiN"
• Pando: Bill Gurley is either the most unselfaware man on the planet or he just wrote an open letter to Uber
• Canary — know when it matters
• canarytokens.net
• Samsung applies deep learning to ultrasound device | ZDNet
• Why Using a Cloud Native Platform Transforms Enterprise Innovation [Video] | Linux.com | The source for Linux information
• SRI International spins off robotics project as Superflex, aiming at human augmentation | TechCrunch
• I Am Your Conscious, I Am Love | Harper’s Magazine
• Research Blog: Genomic Data Processing on Google Cloud Platform
• Untitled (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVbik9ovwbg&feature=youtu.be)
  RT @phparch: Another php[tek] 2016 Speaker Preview! This time Terry Ryan (@tpryan) from @googlecloud about Kubernetes:
• Global Analysis – March 2016 | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
  RT @DJ44: Mother Nature just fired a warning shot across humanity’s bow.
  Here’s the report on how bad March was
• The Half Degree That Will Change Earth – Bloomberg
• 93 Percent of the Great Barrier Reef Is Suffering
• An independent organization just ranked Google as the best cloud, beating Amazon
• Twitter
  RT @AstroKatie: Society raises men to assume their voices will be heard & valued. For women, the opposite.
• Untitled (http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F04%2F21%2Fopinion%2Fhow-to-explain-mansplaining.html%3F_r%3D2)
  RT @AstroKatie: Society raises men to assume their voices will be heard & valued. For women, the opposite.
• Untitled (http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2016/04/12/405089.htm)
  RT @billmckibben: Fed official: sea level could rise 9 feet by 2050. ‘Latest field data out of West Antarctic is kind of an OMG thing’
• Jason Goldman on Twitter: "Today we’ve launched a redesign of the White House petitions site to make it easier, fast and more accessible https://t.co/s6pNkZ8dCt"
• Danilo Poccia on Twitter: "Deal of the Day April 21: Half off my book AWS Lambda in Action. Use code dotd042116au at https://t.co/SB3OgMI2CX https://t.co/vhCwiYmrkm"
• What would everyone like to see in the 2nd edition? · Issue #37 · pydata/pydata-book · GitHub
• Hot-potato and cold-potato routing – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• How to Explain Mansplaining – NYTimes.com
• Engineering The Simple Postcard with Twilio
• Andrew Jessup on Twitter: "For anyone interested in the business of early stage HW, https://t.co/yb4mLZyyyj is a slide of fried gold."
• Bolt Blog
• conda-forge and PyData’s CentOS moment – Wes McKinney

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• conda vs. pip vs. virtualenv — Conda documentation
• Miniconda — Conda
• Deep Learning Demystified – The New Stack
• Ask HN: Which cloud provider to use in 2016? AWS or GCE? | Hacker News
  If you have to pick one, GCE hands down. AWS has more features but is more expensive and more operationally complex. GCE may have less features, but the ones it has are better thought out and the user experience is in a league of it’s own. Also keep in mind that if for some reason you want to take advantage of something like Amazon’s video transcoding service, nothing says you have to build 100% of your app on a single provider’s services.
• Breakthrough method means CRISPR just got a lot more relevant to human health | The Verge
  Now, scientists at Harvard University say they’ve modified the CRISPR method so it can be used to effectively reverse mutations involving changes in one letter of the genetic code.
• Fancy Juice Doesn’t Cleanse the Body of Toxins – NYTimes.com
• Fiora Aeterna ☄ on Twitter: "clever and evil: detecting when someone is using ‘curl | bash’, server-side, so you can serve a different script: https://t.co/vMUz6TONkl"
• Working with Matplotlib in Virtual environments — Matplotlib 1.5.1 documentation

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