Final Stage (4K intro by 0x4015 @ Revision 2017)
4k is really the new 64k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rML-KvlWk5s

good one

The Hidden Agenda User Simulation Model (IEEE'09)
http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~sjy/papers/scyo09.pdf

nice one! (TLDR: Transhumanism looks eerily similar to an evolutionary offspring of Christianity)
https://nplusonemag.com/issue-28/essays/ghost-in-the-cloud/

Interactive voice synth in-browser
https://dood.al/pinktrombone/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argonne_National_Laboratory my new favourite lab %)

A Summary of New Results in Mathematics Obtained with Argonne's Automated Deduction Software

*This page covers work up through 1995.
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/AR/new_results/

that CAPTCHA!
http://random.irb.hr/signup.php

A Logarithm Too Clever by Half — on functions which can never be computed exactly, even with arbitrary-precision arithmetic
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/LOG10HAF.TXT

Infiniswap - using free cluster memory as swap; great demonstration of the power of randomized and decentralized algorithms
https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi17/technical-sessions/presentation/gu

Datasaurus Dozen: Generating Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Statistics through Simulated Annealing
https://www.autodeskresearch.com/publications/samestats

MapD: Interactively query and visualize massive datasets with the parallel power of GPUs. Now open source.
https://www.mapd.com/

Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems
https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5656-hidden-technical-debt-in-machine-learning-systems.pdf

Very good one.
http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail

Goods: Organizing Google’s Datasets '16
TLDR: Internal search engine operating over 26*10^9 *datasets* (e.g. DB tables), 5% daily churn, schema inference... interesting stuff
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/45390.pdf

This common and unfortunate fact of the lack of an adequate presentation of basic ideas and motivations of almost any mathematical theory is, probably, due to the binary nature of mathematical perception: either you have no inkling of an idea or, once you have understood it, this very idea appears so embarrassingly obvious that you feel reluctant to say it aloud; moreover, once your mind switches from the state of darkness to the light, all memory of the dark state is erased and it becomes impossible to conceive the existence of another mind for which the idea appears nonobvious.
— Gromov

Source: M. Berger, Encounter with a geometer, Part II, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 47 (2000), no. 3, 326--340.
via @atemerev
http://www.ams.org/notices/200003/fea-berger.pdf

Google support at its best
(TLDR: Firebase costs increased 70x because they started including SSL handshake in traffic calculation)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14356409

On the Turing Completeness of MS PowerPoint 😂
https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/twildenh/PowerPointTM/Paper.pdf

Neurosurgeon: Collaborative Intelligence
Between the Cloud and Mobile Edge
TLDR: It's best to split processing between device and cloud, here's how to do it automatically (for DNNs)
http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~jahausw/publications/kang2017neurosurgeon.pdf

DeepXplore: Automated Whitebox Testing of Deep Learning Systems '17
TLDR: Neuron coverage, use 3+ cross-referencing oracles to detect outliers
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.06640.pdf

Bash Strict Mode
http://redsymbol.net/articles/unofficial-bash-strict-mode/