> Big data systems may scale well, but this can often be just because they introduce a lot of overhead
I believe I already posted this one, but somehow I can't find it in the history, so here it comes again
http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/15/COST.html
I believe I already posted this one, but somehow I can't find it in the history, so here it comes again
http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/15/COST.html
www.frankmcsherry.org
Scalability! But at what COST?
Michael Isard, Derek Murray, and I recently sent in a HotOS submission (it’s not blind, so no harm talking about it, we think). The subject is hinted at from...
CNTK 2.0. Nice production-related features, note Model Compression, Keras support and impressive multi-GPU scaling.
> If your project involves sequence processing, such as speech, natural language understanding, machine translation, etc., CNTK should be your best choice. And if you are a vision researcher working on video processing, you should definitely give CNTK a try.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cognitive-toolkit/blog/2017/06/microsofts-high-performance-open-source-deep-learning-toolkit-now-generally-available/
> If your project involves sequence processing, such as speech, natural language understanding, machine translation, etc., CNTK should be your best choice. And if you are a vision researcher working on video processing, you should definitely give CNTK a try.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cognitive-toolkit/blog/2017/06/microsofts-high-performance-open-source-deep-learning-toolkit-now-generally-available/
Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit
Microsoft’s high-performance, open source, deep learning toolkit is now generally available - Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit
Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit version 2.0 is now in full release with general availability. Cognitive Toolkit enables enterprise-ready, production-grade AI by allowing users to create, train, and evaluate their own neural networks that can then scale efficiently…
Unicode nuances you probably don't need to know about :)
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/#Grapheme_Cluster_Boundaries
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/#Grapheme_Cluster_Boundaries
Chronology of Math
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/full.html
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/full.html
Volume Sliders by Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/search?q=volume&restrict_sr=on
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/search?q=volume&restrict_sr=on
Exploring LSTMs - with pretty pictures
http://blog.echen.me/2017/05/30/exploring-lstms/
http://blog.echen.me/2017/05/30/exploring-lstms/
the ever-important stuff
http://opentrannoscripts.org/trannoscript/coming-war-general-computation/
http://opentrannoscripts.org/trannoscript/coming-war-general-computation/
Open Trannoscripts
The Coming War on General Computation - Cory Doctorow | Open Trannoscripts
The general shape of the copyright wars and the lessons they can teach us about the upcoming fights over the destiny of the general purpose computer are important.
not only nice visualizations, but an entertaining stories too!
http://quillette.com/2017/05/26/paradoxes-probability-statistical-strangeness/
http://quillette.com/2017/05/26/paradoxes-probability-statistical-strangeness/
Quillette
Paradoxes of Probability and Other Statistical Strangeness
You don’t have to wait long to see a headline proclaiming that some food or behaviour is associated with either an increased or a decreased health risk, or often both. How can it be that seemingly rigorous scientific studies can produce opposite conclusions?…
Even considering how much I generally dislike Linux — I'm very excited about userfaultfd and possibilities it provides to developers
https://lwn.net/Articles/718198/
https://lwn.net/Articles/718198/
lwn.net
The next steps for userfaultfd()
The userfaultfd() system call
allows user space to intervene in the handling of page faults. As Andrea
Arcangeli and Mike Rapoport described in a 2017 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
and Memory-Management Summit session dedicated to the subject,
userfaultfd()…
allows user space to intervene in the handling of page faults. As Andrea
Arcangeli and Mike Rapoport described in a 2017 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
and Memory-Management Summit session dedicated to the subject,
userfaultfd()…
Oh, the Dutch-lobbied movement is gaining traction! Meanwhile #scihub :)
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/dramatic-statement-european-leaders-call-immediate-open-access-all-scientific-papers
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/dramatic-statement-european-leaders-call-immediate-open-access-all-scientific-papers
Science
In dramatic statement, European leaders call for ‘immediate’ open access to all scientific papers by 2020
Observers are skeptical goal can be achieved
Siggraph '17: Wet Sand Simulation
http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~cffjiang/research/wetsand/wetsand_siggraph17.pdf
http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~cffjiang/research/wetsand/wetsand_siggraph17.pdf
surprisingly, the Ampere, the base SI unit of electrical current, is going to be redefined from scratch
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2016/08/counting-down-new-ampere
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2016/08/counting-down-new-ampere
NIST
Counting Down to the New Ampere
After it's all over, your lights will be just as bright, and your refrigerator just as cold. But very soon the ampere...
> In the "New SI" four of the SI base units – namely the kilogram, the ampere, the kelvin and the mole – will be redefined in terms of constants; the new definitions will be based on fixed numerical values of the Planck constant (h), the elementary charge (e), the Boltzmann constant (kB), and the Avogadro constant (NA), respectively. Further, the definitions of all seven base units of the SI will also be uniformly expressed using the explicit-constant formulation, and specific mises en pratique will be drawn up to explain the realization of the definitions of each of the base units in a practical way.
Cleaning Line Art with Deep Learning
http://hi.cs.waseda.ac.jp/~esimo/en/research/sketch/
http://hi.cs.waseda.ac.jp:8081/ (demo)
http://hi.cs.waseda.ac.jp/~esimo/en/research/sketch/
http://hi.cs.waseda.ac.jp:8081/ (demo)
Intel IoT is no more (current gen, at least)
http://hackaday.com/2017/06/19/intel-discontinues-joule-galileo-and-edison-product-lines/
http://hackaday.com/2017/06/19/intel-discontinues-joule-galileo-and-edison-product-lines/
Hackaday
Intel Discontinues Joule, Galileo, And Edison Product Lines
Sometimes the end of a product’s production run is surrounded by publicity, a mix of a party atmosphere celebrating its impact either good or bad, and perhaps a tinge of regret at its passing…
TLDR: new class of vulnerabilities, obvious in hindsight, 20+ CVE in Linux, *BSD and possibly other OSes
https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt
https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt
oh hai hello world bots are learning to talk
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.06585.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.06585.pdf