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by heinrichf 8y ago
From the FAQ of pinboard.in ( http://pinboard.in/faq/#anxieties ): > What happens if the guy who runs Pinboard gets hit by a bus? > The bus is likely to be fine. They don't go very fast and are designed with p
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Training on the test set? An analysis of Spampinato et al(reddit.com)
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by heinrichf 8y ago
An amazing (word of a number theorist) documentary from the BBC's Horizon program: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x223gx8 You can see Wiles crying when he talks about his work.
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by heinrichf 8y ago
Hatcher is the author of famous freely available and beautifully typeset topology books http://pi.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/#anchor1772800 (most notably "Algebraic topology"). "By special arrangement wit
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by heinrichf 8y ago
Back in the 70s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissmetro https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissmetro
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by heinrichf 8y ago
Some reporting in MIT's newsletter on AI: https://mailchi.mp/technologyreview/a-new-type-of-deep-neura...
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Self-driving cars and advertisement(wired.com)
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From Airbnb to city bikes, the ‘sharing economy’ has been seized by big money(theguardian.com)
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"Tech companies pay poor Kenyans to produce training data for AI" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18369384
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This idea was extensively discussed here in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11354021
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Interesting comment at the end: > If they respond with “I don’t want to be recorded” or some variation of the phrase, the call is handed off to a human operator on an unrecorded line. (Those operators also annotate the call transcripts
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Google’s Duplex is rolling out to Pixel owners – here’s how it works(venturebeat.com)
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Google matrix: fundamentals, applications and beyond (conference videos)(youtube.com)
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by heinrichf 8y ago
The CEO says "Pizza was our prototype. There’s no reason why this technology wouldn’t work for any restaurant or any food category."
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SoftBank Deal Values Food Startup Zume at $2.25B(techcrunch.com)
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by heinrichf 8y ago
Note that (according to the article) they claim to have 120mio accounts, the 81k are a sample posted online and verified by Digital Shadows.
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by heinrichf 8y ago
From the README: "here is a hosted instance on http://triq.net/bitbench "
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Video doorbell firm Ring says its devices slash crime, but evidence looks flimsy(technologyreview.com)
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YC October 2018 Hackathon Recap(blog.ycombinator.com)
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by heinrichf 8y ago
The about page says: If I reach $500/month in donations, I will open-source F5Bot.
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Rosetta: large scale system for text detection and recognition in images(blog.acolyer.org)
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And a NPR Planet Money episode: https://www.npr.org/2018/03/22/595967382/why-the-graphing-ca...
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by heinrichf 8y ago
Duplicity https://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/ also supports asymmetric encryption (and works with many protocol/file servers).
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That's on purpose, to avoid repeating the domain of the email for each author at the same institution.
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The use of the mellotron by Genesis (Tony Banks) is notably remarkable in their "Selling England By the Pound" and "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" albums. Listen for example to the choirs in https://www.youtu
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Lenovo’s Yoga Book C930 swaps the keyboard for an E Ink display(techcrunch.com)
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by heinrichf 8y ago
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17549985
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by heinrichf 8y ago
Never meant for identification purposes, just like social security numbers: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor... (interesting Planet Money episode on the history of the SSN)
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Note: you need to disable PrivacyBadger (if installed) to allow the (many) requests to suggestqueries.google.com
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Facebook and NYU School of Medicine launch research collaboration to improve MRI(code.fb.com)
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