Spatiotemporal Variance-Guided Filtering:
Real-Time Reconstruction for Path-Traced Global Illumination

This is huge. Literally blows every other rendering flow out of the water.
Raytraced real-time CG just became feasible for games, VR and other real-time media. Movie production becomes a lot faster, and probably cheaper, too.
http://cg.ivd.kit.edu/noscriptf.php

The referenced paper A Machine Learning Approach for Filtering Monte Carlo Noise is also interesting.
http://cvc.ucsb.edu/graphics/Papers/SIGGRAPH2015_LBF/

Growing a protocol
Practical notes on evolution of formally verified systems. Making them, well, more practical :)
https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotcloud17/program/presentation/ramasubramanian

TLDR: Modeling and simulation is a must for any kind of serious AI/autonomous system development
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/inside-waymos-secret-testing-and-simulation-facilities/537648/_page=true

Is that really a final epistle?..
http://www.marclaidlaw.com/epistle-3/

Big Mac Index + Waffle House Index
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/if-waffle-house-is-closed-its-time-to-panic/

smarter? faster? in general, no. in specific situation - yes. in a different situation - of course not.
http://theconversation.com/mayweather-will-beat-mcgregor-neuroscience-predicts-82790

proper user experience is still a must, even if you really have the most exciting technology. also, hilarious read
https://shitcoin.com/storj-not-a-dropbox-killer-1a9f27983d70

maybe at least after this post virtualbox authors will finally give up on trying to protect virtual machines from host... but chances are tiny...
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/08/bypassing-virtualbox-process-hardening.html

real-name policy = censorship.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/27/china-doubles-down-on-real-name-registration-laws-forbidding-anonymous-online-posts/

look ma, we've found NSA-authored parts in your Intel CPU!
http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html

So true.
https://erikbern.com/amp/2017/08/29/the-software-engineering-rule-of-3.html

The Mating Rituals of Deep Neural Networks: Learning Compact Feature Representations through Sexual Evolutionary Synthesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02043

hmmm, it stabilizes faster than I thought
https://reasonml.github.io/community/blog/#messengercom-now-50-converted-to-reason

a useful technical report, showing the amount of work that separates "shiny new ML model" from even a prototype product
A Deep Reinforcement Learning Chatbot
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.02349.pdf

CSS3 Font-Feature-Settings playground
Kerning, Ligatures, Character Alternates, Stylistic Sets, etc.
http://clagnut.com/sandbox/css3/

see also: http://stateofwebtype.com/

impressive peek
https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/09/14/rare-peek-inside-400g-cisco-network-chip/