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September 30th, 2018 — pinboard
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September 28th, 2018 — pinboard
- Microsoft/LightGBM: A fast, distributed, high performance gradient boosting (GBDT, GBRT, GBM or MART) framework based on decision tree algorithms, used for ranking, classification and many other machine learning tasks. It is under the umbrella of the DMTK
A fast, distributed, high performance gradient boosting (GBDT, GBRT, GBM or MART) framework based on decision tree algorithms, used for ranking, classification and many other machine learning tasks. It is under the umbrella of the DMTK(http://github.com/microsoft/dmtk) project of Microsoft.
- The rape culture of the 1980s, explained by Sixteen Candles – Vox
- Trump administration sees a 7-degree rise in global temperatures by 2100 – The Washington Post
Last month, deep in a 500-page environmental impact statement, the Trump administration made a startling assumption: On its current course, the planet will warm a disastrous 7 degrees by the end of this century.
A rise of 7 degrees Fahrenheit, or about 4 degrees Celsius, compared with preindustrial levels would be catastrophic, according to scientists. Many coral reefs would dissolve in increasingly acidic oceans. Parts of Manhattan and Miami would be underwater without costly coastal defenses. Extreme heat waves would routinely smother large parts of the globe.
But the administration did not offer this dire forecast as part of an argument to combat climate change. Just the opposite: The analysis assumes the planet’s fate is already sealed.
- Deborah Eisenberg, Chronicler of American Insanity – The New York Times
“‘People always talk about how horrible old age is, but I couldn’t disagree more,’ she said, the candlelight glimmering on her inclined face. ‘I find age is as intense as adolescence. You know you could hurtle off a cliff at any second.’” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/magazine/deborah-eisenberg-chronicler-of-american-insanity.html
- Opinion | Christine Blasey Ford’s Heartbreaking Desire to Please – The New York Times
- Michael Luo on Twitter: ".@dstfelix: "Thursday’s ordeal reifies that male indignation will be coddled, and the gospel of male success elevated. It reifies that there is no fair arena for women’s speech. Mechanisms of accountability will be made irrele
- The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearings Will Be Remembered As a Grotesque Display of Patriarchal Resentment | The New Yorker
Good god, @dstfelix is good: “What took place on Thursday confirms that male indignation will be coddled, and the gospel of male success elevated. It confirms that there is no fair arena for women’s speech.” https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-ford-kavanaugh-hearings-will-be-remembered-for-their-grotesque-display-of-patriarchal-resentment
- Help Democrats Retake the Senate — Donate via ActBlue
- ‘The Good Place’ Creator Mike Schur Breaks Down Season 2 – Rolling Stone
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September 27th, 2018 — pinboard
- The algorithms that are currently fueling the deep learning revolution
- This Moment Isn’t (Just) About Sex
- Crypto and Cannabis Are the Perfect Post-Crisis Bubbles – Bloomberg
- Alejandro Escovedo’s Return to the Border | The New Yorker
- Here’s proof that Russian-backed accounts pushed the Nike boycott | WIRED UK
- Mapped: How every part of the world has warmed – and could continue to warm | Carbon Brief
- Google Maps VP Jen Fitzpatrick on 20 years at Google
- A quick and easy way to set up an end-to-end IoT solution on Google Cloud Platform | Google Cloud Blog
- Introduction to Machine Learning for Coders: Launch · fast.ai
- American Prisons are not a Revolving Door: Most Released Offenders Never Return | USAPP
- Manta Rays’ Gill Rakers Filter Water Without Clogging – The Atlantic
- The Always-On Police Camera – The Atlantic
- Twitter
RT @laurenarankin: Check on the women in your life today, especially those you know are survivors, and even those who may not be. Havi…
- Meet Deb Haaland, Likely to Be the First Native Woman in Congress – Rolling Stone
- China’s Quest to Become a Quantum Superpower
- Twitter
RT @ProfCAnderson: @jelani9 brilliant, once again. Cosby, Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas: "This is the rhetoric of men whose definit…
- An Aging Bank Robber’s Last Heist | The New Yorker
- The Feigned Victimhood of Bill Cosby, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas | The New Yorker
- The Crisis of Election Security – The New York Times
- Opinion | Brett Kavanaugh and America’s ‘Himpathy’ Reckoning – The New York Times
- Edward Snowden on Protecting Activists Against Surveillance | WIRED
- The Incredible Story of How a Golf Magazine Helped Free an Inmate – Mother Jones
- It’s Google’s Turn in Washington’s Glare – The New York Times
- Twitter
RT @davidmackau: 🚨 A fourth accusation 🚨
"According to an anonymous complaint sent to Republican Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, Kav…
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- trailofbits/algo: Set up a personal IPSEC VPN in the cloud
Algo VPN is a set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal IPSEC VPN. It uses the most secure defaults available, works with common cloud providers, and does not require client software on most devices. See our release announcement for more information.
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September 26th, 2018 — pinboard
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September 25th, 2018 — pinboard
- “America is becoming more like Russia” says Russian-born novelist Gary Shteyngart | Salon.com
- Seattle-area women of color share how they navigate the workplace | The Seattle Times
- Literary awards season heats up with $50,000 Kirkus Prize finalists – Los Angeles Times
- BBC – Future – How to use seawater to grow food – in the desert
- Federal judge restores grizzly protections, canceling bear hunt
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- New PPP Poll: Jess King Makes PA-11 Single-Digit Race – Jess King for Congress
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- Stormwater management: How Dutch solutions could have mitigated Hurricane Florence damage – 60 Minutes – CBS News
- Kavanaugh’s Yearbook Page Is ‘Horrible, Hurtful’ to a Woman It Named – The New York Times
- [1705.05355] Probabilistic Matrix Factorization for Automated Machine Learning
In order to achieve state-of-the-art performance, modern machine learning techniques require careful data pre-processing and hyperparameter tuning. Moreover, given the ever increasing number of machine learning models being developed, model selection is becoming increasingly important. Automating the selection and tuning of machine learning pipelines consisting of data pre-processing methods and machine learning models, has long been one of the goals of the machine learning community. In this paper, we tackle this meta-learning task by combining ideas from collaborative filtering and Bayesian optimization. Using probabilistic matrix factorization techniques and acquisition functions from Bayesian optimization, we exploit experiments performed in hundreds of different datasets to guide the exploration of the space of possible pipelines. In our experiments, we show that our approach quickly identifies high-performing pipelines across a wide range of datasets, significantly outperforming the current state-of-the-art.
- Microsoft unveils AI capability that automates AI development – The AI Blog
- kubeflow/kubebench: Repository for benchmarking
The goal of Kubebench is to make it easy to run benchmark jobs on Kubeflow with various system and model settings. Kubebench enables benchmarks by leveraging Kubeflow’s capability of managing TFJobs, as well as Argo based workflows.
- chainer/chainer: A flexible framework of neural networks for deep learning
Chainer is a Python-based deep learning framework aiming at flexibility. It provides automatic differentiation APIs based on the define-by-run approach (a.k.a. dynamic computational graphs) as well as object-oriented high-level APIs to build and train neural networks. It also supports CUDA/cuDNN using CuPy for high performance training and inference.
- Microsoft Learn | Microsoft Docs
The skills required to advance your career and earn your spot at the top do not come easily. Now there’s a more rewarding approach to hands-on learning that helps you achieve your goals faster.
- Country-level social cost of carbon | Nature Climate Change
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September 24th, 2018 — pinboard
- Google Cloud Seattle (Seattle, WA) | Meetup
- How Russia Helped Swing the Election for Trump | The New Yorker
- Twitter
RT @natasharothwell: I feel like we’re all in a super shitty Escape Room with really obvious clues like, “vote” and “believe women” and…
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RT @TheLondonLib: For #BannedBooksWeek, here’s our 1859 copy of #GeorgeEliot’s first novel, #Adam Bede, banned by the then hugely pop…
- Denisovan hybrid cave yields four more hominin bones
- Esquire Classic, Our 85-Year Archive of More Than 1,000 Issues, Has a New Look
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RT @zachheltzel:
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RT @EricHolthaus: Just a friendly reminder:
In the coming years, the Supreme Court will decide major rulings on climate change — th…
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RT @ClinicEscort: Being a feminist in 2018 is a never-ending Groundhog’s Day nightmare of thinking "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME WITH T…
- xkcd: Curve-Fitting
- Watch this bizarre, hilarious history of the whole world – Vox
- Deciding on AIOps? – Krish – Medium
- Stephanie Hurlburt on Twitter: "Found a new “relaxing music” livestream that doesn’t feel repetitive! Here: https://t.co/5lhcCSxHWc"
- 名曲J-POPメドレー – Relaxing Piano Music – 24/7 Live – 勉強用BGM, 作業用BGM, 結婚式BGM – YouTube
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RT @ericuman: Remarkable stat I just heard on @onthemedia:
Nearly nine in 10 House Republicans are white men, while 6 in 10 Hous…
- it’s arturo! 💫 on Twitter: "it’s bruce springsteen’s 69th birthday! as promised, to celebrate i am going to drop my sizeable bruce folder (at least some of it!!) full of pictures of 70s-90s bruce lookin hot. ready? let’s goooo… https://t.co/DMsSwdNfg
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RT @MJ_Mouton: This lady right here proved Plate Tectonics/Continental Drift to be true. She used sonar data to map the ocean floo…
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RT @PaulWitcover: Rep. Steve King: "No man will ever qualify for the Supreme Court" if being accused of sexual assault is "new standa…
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"A Timeline Showing the Full Scale of Russia’s Unprecedented Interference in the 2016 Election, and Its Aftermath"
- A Timeline Showing the Full Scale of Russia’s Unprecedented Interference in the 2016 Election, and Its Aftermath – The New York Times
- Low pay, poor prospects, and psychological toll: The perils of microtask work | Ars Technica
- GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-tensorboard
Google App Engine can provide an easy way to get a persistent Tensorboard server with authentication for a small cost.
In addition if you find yourself pulling a large amount of data from GCS when starting up Tensorboard servers, you may actually pay less for a persistent GAE server, since you don’t pay for data egress between GCS and GAE.
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RT @AleZ2016: Drone caught the exact moment when dolphins and whales are playing. Magical moment!!!!
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RT @CherylStrayed: Every powerfully true word of this. Thank you, @dcopaken
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September 23rd, 2018 — pinboard
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September 22nd, 2018 — pinboard
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September 21st, 2018 — pinboard
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