Big Mac Index + Waffle House Index
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/if-waffle-house-is-closed-its-time-to-panic/
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/if-waffle-house-is-closed-its-time-to-panic/
FiveThirtyEight
If Waffle House Is Closed, It’s Time To Panic
On a warm, cloudy morning in the first week of October, in an anonymous office park just outside Atlanta, operations analyst Matt Stark opened a computer progra…
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
http://theconversation.com/mayweather-will-beat-mcgregor-neuroscience-predicts-82790
The Conversation
Mayweather will beat McGregor, neuroscience predicts
Everything we know about the way experts’ brains work tells us that Mayweather is likely to win the fight.
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
https://shitcoin.com/storj-not-a-dropbox-killer-1a9f27983d70
Medium
Storj: Not a Dropbox Killer
Storj is a “storage coin” with over $30M of ICO funding. The thousands of investors would be outraged if Storj was anything less than a…
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
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/08/bypassing-virtualbox-process-hardening.html
Blogspot
Bypassing VirtualBox Process Hardening on Windows
Posted by James Forshaw, Project Zero Processes on Windows are securable objects, which prevents one user logged into a Windows machine...
real-name policy = censorship.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/27/china-doubles-down-on-real-name-registration-laws-forbidding-anonymous-online-posts/
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/27/china-doubles-down-on-real-name-registration-laws-forbidding-anonymous-online-posts/
TechCrunch
China doubles down on real-name registration laws, forbidding anonymous online posts
China's crackdown on Internet freedom is getting even more intense. Last Friday, the country's top Internet censor announced a new set of regulations (link via Google Translate) meant to eliminate posts by anonymous users on Internet forums and other platforms.…
look ma, we've found NSA-authored parts in your Intel CPU!
http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html
http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html
The Mating Rituals of Deep Neural Networks: Learning Compact Feature Representations through Sexual Evolutionary Synthesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02043
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
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
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/
Kerning, Ligatures, Character Alternates, Stylistic Sets, etc.
http://clagnut.com/sandbox/css3/
Security is hard. Security is not composable, either.
TLDR: Abusing CPU power management to completely take over ARM TrustZone (and probably Intel SGX too), by inducing physical faults while trusted code is running.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity17/technical-sessions/presentation/tang
TLDR: Abusing CPU power management to completely take over ARM TrustZone (and probably Intel SGX too), by inducing physical faults while trusted code is running.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity17/technical-sessions/presentation/tang
one more point against large, open offices
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21528171
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21528171
PubMed
Sickness Absence Associated With Shared and Open-Plan Offices--A National Cross Sectional Questionnaire Survey - PubMed
Occupants sharing an office and occupants in open-plan offices (>6 occupants) had significantly more days of sickness absence than occupants in cellular offices.
I was surprised (though it's obvious in hindsight) to discover that noise removal always results in information loss and hence can't always help legibility — though under certain conditions it sure helps
RNNoise: Learning Noise Suppression
https://people.xiph.org/~jm/demo/rnnoise/
RNNoise: Learning Noise Suppression
https://people.xiph.org/~jm/demo/rnnoise/
Julia seems to be quietly amassing momentum
http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/comparison-differential-equation-solver-suites-matlab-r-julia-python-c-fortran/
http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/comparison-differential-equation-solver-suites-matlab-r-julia-python-c-fortran/
Stochastic Lifestyle
A Comparison Between Differential Equation Solver Suites In MATLAB, R, Julia, Python, C, Mathematica, Maple, and Fortran - Stochastic…
Many times a scientist is choosing a programming language or a software for a specific purpose. For the field of scientific computing, the methods for solving differential equations are one of the important areas. What I would like to do is take the time…