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by NotSwift 5y ago
The input space for these neural networks is huge, it is roughly the number of colors to the power of the number of pixels. What neural networks do is subdivide the input space and assign a label to it. Because of the high dimension of the
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The business of voluntourism: do western do-gooders do harm? (2018)(theguardian.com)
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A giant crawling brain: the world of termites (2018)(theguardian.com)
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The last bat: the mystery of Britain’s most solitary animal (2018)(theguardian.com)
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The science of spying: how the CIA recruits academics (2017)(theguardian.com)
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The Surprising Benefits of Talking to Strangers(theatlantic.com)
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by NotSwift 5y ago
When you are young and care about other people, you should really get vaccinated. When there are many vaccinated individuals the number of infections drops dramatically, which helps to protect vulnerable individuals (some of them might be y
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by NotSwift 5y ago
I have no real needle phobia but in the past I was never very fond of them either, because they felt unpleasant. But with my recent vaccinations I really could not tell when it started or ended. Modern injection needles are a lot smaller th
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Where on Gartner's Hype Cycle Is Gartner's Hype Cycle?(theregister.com)
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Ezra Klein Interviews Brian Christian(nytimes.com)
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Congress Is Slashing a $30B Plan to Fight the Next Pandemic(theatlantic.com)
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You’ve Never Seen Legs Like These(theatlantic.com)
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by NotSwift 5y ago
This article focuses on the technical side of Pixar, which was truly revolutionary. But the thing that makes Pixar a really amazing company is that they also have great graphical designers and story writers. It is the integration that makes
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The collapse of Enron and the dark side of business(bbc.com)
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by NotSwift 5y ago
Humans are definitely not Turing Machines. The halting problem for humans is solved. Just wait long enough and they will die.
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Florida Sheriff's Office Now Notifying People Of Inflicting Pre-Crime Program(techdirt.com)
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How to Defend Yourself Against the Powerful New NSO Spyware Attacks(theintercept.com)
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Misplaced chair shuts down nuclear plant in Taiwan(theregister.com)
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Phantom Warships Are Courting Chaos in Conflict Zones(wired.com)
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If You Don’t Trust A.I. Yet, You’re Not Wrong(nytimes.com)
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Macaques at Japan reserve get first alpha female in 70-year history(theguardian.com)
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by NotSwift 5y ago
Both mammals and reptiles that live in the water use very similar methods even though they are not at all closely related. It is an example of convergent evolution.
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A very interesting article. I was really surprised to learn that electric vehicles were used earlier than I thought.
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This is a very well written article about search engine technology.
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This is the main source for the article[0]. The system would need to integrate a wide range of information sources, which is a difficult job. Given the reputation of the DOD in developing complicated systems, it seems very unlikely that it
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by NotSwift 5y ago
The whole idea seems pretty unlikely to me. The ratio of the length of the day versus the night has not changed, and I don't see any reasonable biological explanation for a process that is possible only when the days are long. The most
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Physics and chemistry impose some serious constraints on all life forms. On earth we have convergent evolution, independent groups of species independently develop similar solutions for a specific problem. Life on other planets will have si
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by NotSwift 5y ago
From An Empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libraries[0]: > Among our most interesting findings is that only 27.2% of > vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries are cryptographic > issues while 37.2% of vulnerabil
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A worldwide platform for storing, validating and sharing nature information(observation-international.org)
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Real-world String Comparison: How to handle Unicode sequences correctly(queue.acm.org)
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