The limitations of deep learning
july 2017
"Similarly, if you developed a deep net controlling a human body, and wanted it to learn to safely navigate a city without getting hit by cars, the net would have to die many thousands of times in various situations until it could infer that cars are dangerous, and develop appropriate avoidance behaviors. Dropped into a new city, the net would have to relearn most of what it knows. On the other hand, humans are able to learn safe behaviors without having to die even once—again, thanks to their power of abstract modeling of hypothetical situations."
ai
july 2017
Coin Dance | Bitcoin Statistics
july 2017
One of the best designed crypto-currency info sites I've come across.
bitcoin
btc
cryptocurrency
july 2017
Your Passport to the Metabrain
january 2017
Venkatesh Rao's newsletter has got off to a great start this year.
internet
neurology
january 2017
A Bigger Problem Than ISIS? - The New Yorker
december 2016
Where's Noah when you need him?
infrastructure
iraq
mosul
dam
december 2016
Ray Kurzweil: The world isn't getting worse — our information is getting better - GeekWire
july 2016
"People think the world’s getting worse, and we see that on the left and the right, and we see that in other countries. People think the world is getting worse. … That’s the perception. What’s actually happening is our information about what’s wrong in the world is getting better."
politics
july 2016
Illegal Math
march 2016
Like a lot of political discourse, the current controversy over cryptography is fueled by fear, uncertainty, doubt, and ignorance. But, thanks to freedom of speech and a relatively independent media, we can have these discussions openly and educate people who otherwise would never have learned about the topic in the first place. Happy Freedom of Information Day!
crypto
law
politics
math
infosec
march 2016
Exploring (Semantic) Space With (Literal) Robots
august 2015
An excellent talk about the why of poetry bots
poetry
bots
talk
language
from iphone
august 2015
Design Principles Behind Smalltalk
march 2015
This seems like an important philosophical text that I doubt many contemporary philosophers have read. An "object oriented philosophy" must cite this.
language
smalltalk
history
design
programming
philosophy
march 2015
An algorithm to extract looping GIFs from videos - __del__( self )
march 2015
This could make a fun basis for a bot
video
python
gif
bot
idea
from iphone
march 2015
Beyond Open Source | Sealed Abstract
february 2015
Great article that lucidly explores problems with Open Source software and proposes a reasonable solution to the problem. The immediate problem I see is the reliance on Bitcoin, which is not a technical problem as much as an education/marketing/PR problem.
business
oss
foss
software
programming
february 2015
The Quietus | Features | Tome On The Range | The Third Man: William S. Burroughs At One Hundred
february 2015
"To concern yourself with surface political conflicts" he said in a discussion for the Journal For the Protection of All Beings (1961), "is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth." When his fellow Beat Gregory Corso asked him, "Who manipulates the cloth?"
Burroughs replied, "Death." Take away that fear and you take away the control.
burroughs
writing
culture
Burroughs replied, "Death." Take away that fear and you take away the control.
february 2015
My Computer Language is Better than Yours — Backchannel — Medium
december 2014
I would hope Google makes Go an option for Android development, but it's out of their hands now.
swift
apple
google
go
programming
december 2014
IntelliBriefs: Lebanon: Hezbollah's Communication Network
november 2014
8th grade me loves this article. Hezbollah has its own fiber network. Very curious how NSA and their Israeli equivalent deal with this
lebanon
hezbollah
fiber
networks
geopolitics
from iphone
november 2014
The CADT Model
november 2014
"Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers." As a twenty-something, with ~10 years of Linux usage, the truth of this has become apparent, and annoying.
programming
november 2014
Retired NSA Technical Director Explains Snowden Docs
october 2014
If you didn't know already
security
politics
nsa
october 2014
rat traders - art marcovici
october 2014
"I am now working on a software generating real time ticker tracks in order to put the system to the ultimate test (the real life market conditions). If the performance is good, I will keep the experiment going and either setup an own hedge fund managed by my rats or train rats to work for hedge funds and banks... "
economics
finance
sonification
science
biology
bus
october 2014
An Account of Randomness in Literary Computing | SAMPLE REALITY
september 2014
Know your history, bot allies
lit
bot
history
from iphone
september 2014
Weizenbaum examines computers and society - The Tech
september 2014
"the computer has acted as fundamentally a conservative force, a force which kept power or even solidified power where is already existed."
ethics
compsci
mit
september 2014
fartscroll.js | Everyone farts. And now your web pages can too.
september 2014
The Onion does GitHub
dev
code
js
theonion
farts
september 2014
The Many Faces of Swift Functions - Swift - objc.io issue #16
september 2014
For the Applites out there
swift
apple
ios
Mac
from iphone
september 2014
Discount – a C implementation of the Markdown markup language
september 2014
Tool to use to help replace Jekyll with a few very small shell scripts
c
markdown
from iphone
september 2014
Lineman | Build awesome web apps, easily.
september 2014
Tooling for html5 continues to evolve
js
cli
web
html
from iphone
september 2014
iRedMail - Free, Open Source Mail Server Solution for Linux/BSD
august 2014
Quick mail server setup
email
from iphone
august 2014
Perspectives - Data Center Cooling Done Differently
august 2014
Co-locating a desalination plant and data-center for mutual benefit
hardware
from iphone
august 2014
The Disruption Machine - The New Yorker
august 2014
Sober take-down of the 'disruption' cult
culture
business
from iphone
august 2014
GitHub · Build software better, together.
august 2014
Facebook takes the lead on PHP, again
php
spec
facebook
from iphone
august 2014
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
july 2014
The book I should read, but reading Zizek on Lacan seems to have a more general applicability.
compsci
programming
scheme
book
from iphone
july 2014
Collection Pipeline
july 2014
Map, reduce, group_by, etc.
ruby
programming
unix
code
functional
from iphone
july 2014
ai
ambient
android
api
apple
art
aws
benchmark
biology
bitcoin
book
bot
bots
bsd
btc
burroughs
bus
business
c
capital
cars
catalonia
cheese
christmas
chrome
cities
cli
cljs
clojure
cloud
clsx
cms
code
collaboration
compass
compsci
cookbook
crypto
cryptocurrency
css
cuda
culture
cvlts
dada
dam
data
dataviz
db
deleuze
deploy
design
dev
devops
doge
drone
economics
economist
electronica
email
embedded
env
ethics
facebook
farts
fiber
fig
film
finance
flask
food
foss
framework
functional
futurism
geopolitics
gif
git
go
google
gov
gpu
grunt
hardware
hateoas
health
hezbollah
history
horror
html
hypermedia
idea
impermanence
indieweb
infosec
infrastructure
internet
ios
iraq
java
jquery
js
keto
language
law
lebanon
linguistics
links
linux
lit
lua
mac
macros
make
malware
manifesto
mapbox
maps
markdown
markov
math
meat
middleman
military
mit
mobile
money
mongo
mongodb
mosul
movie
movies
mozilla
music
nba
netneutrality
networks
neuralnet
neurology
nginx
nlp
node
noise
nsa
nutrition
nvidia
om
oop
openbsd
ops
oss
p2p
pandas
pandoc
parallelism
pasta
perl
philosophy
php
pizza
pkd
poetry
politics
pomo
postgresql
privacy
programming
prolog
python
react
redis
rest
resume
robots
ruby
rwd
saas
sass
scheme
science
scifi
security
server
services
shelley
smalltalk
smtp
software
sonification
spain
spam
spec
stanford
story
sweet
swift
sysadmin
syslog
systems
talk
talks
theology
theonion
time-tracking
torch
track
transport
tutorial
tv
typography
ubuntu
ui
undo
unix
usg
ux
vanity
vehicles
via:popular
video
vim
wall
war
web
webrtc
wifi
writing
youtube