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…
every technology sufficiently advanced becomes programmable, intentionally... or not.
https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us-17-Tsai-A-New-Era-Of-SSRF-Exploiting-URL-Parser-In-Trending-Programming-Languages.pdf
https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us-17-Tsai-A-New-Era-Of-SSRF-Exploiting-URL-Parser-In-Trending-Programming-Languages.pdf
Live International Space Station telemetry
https://isslive.com/displays/index.html
https://isslive.com/displays/index.html
License Zero: An interesting take on the Open Source sustainability problem
https://writing.kemitchell.com/2017/09/12/The-License-Zero-Manifesto.html
https://writing.kemitchell.com/2017/09/12/The-License-Zero-Manifesto.html
jQuery is so 2006...
http://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/
http://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/
Joel Grus
Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow
interviewer: Welcome, can I get you coffee or anything? Do you need a break? me: No, I've probably had too much coffee already! interviewer: Great, great. And are you OK with writing code on the...
Voevodsky is no more 😢
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/obituaries/vladimir-voevodsky-revolutionary-mathematician-dies-at-51.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/obituaries/vladimir-voevodsky-revolutionary-mathematician-dies-at-51.html
NY Times
Vladimir Voevodsky, Revolutionary Mathematician, Dies at 51 (Published 2017)
A once-restless student who flunked out of college went on to found entirely new fields of mathematics. “He has given us a new constitution,” a colleague said.
The beginnings of TypeScript, 2010-2011
https://hackernoon.com/the-first-typenoscript-demo-905ea095a70f
https://hackernoon.com/the-first-typenoscript-demo-905ea095a70f
Hackernoon
The first TypeScript demo
This strongly smells like a dawn of the real cyberpunk, not movie-like one.
http://blog.ycombinator.com/the-hidden-forces-behind-toutiao-chinas-content-king/
http://blog.ycombinator.com/the-hidden-forces-behind-toutiao-chinas-content-king/
YC Startup Library
Hidden Forces Behind Toutiao: China’s Content King: China, Growth, Consumer | Y Combinator
Toutiao, a news aggregator, has quickly become one of the top apps in China. Learn how it grew into its popularity and why users use it everyday more often than any other daily app.
building inside flood reservoirs? what could possibly go wrong?
https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/harvey-reservoirs
https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/harvey-reservoirs
ProPublica
Everyone knew Houston’s reservoirs would flood — except for the people who bought homes inside them
Despite concerns about flooding in and around the Addicks and Barker reservoirs, government officials prioritized development.
You can have more data, smarter computers, but only so much attention
https://www.kitchensoap.com/2013/07/22/owning-attention-considerations-for-alert-design/
https://www.kitchensoap.com/2013/07/22/owning-attention-considerations-for-alert-design/
Kitchen Soap
Kitchen Soap – Owning Attention (Considerations for Alert Design)
In the past month or two, I’ve spoken on the topic of alert design. There’s a video of my giving the talk (at Monitorama, as well), but I thoug
Systems engineering invades design :)
https://programmingdesignsystems.com/introduction/
https://programmingdesignsystems.com/introduction/
Sorry, we're temporarily closed, please come back in about 1 trillion years
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/computing-and-the-fermi-paradox-a-new-idea-emergestheyre-all-asleep
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/computing-and-the-fermi-paradox-a-new-idea-emergestheyre-all-asleep
IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News
Computing and the Fermi Paradox: A New Idea Emerges—The Aliens Are All Asleep
Perhaps we’re not alone in the universe; it’s just that everyone else is snoozing
Speech recognition may be considered solved for a narrow set of cases, now we need to cover the remaining ones
https://awni.github.io/speech-recognition/
https://awni.github.io/speech-recognition/
awni.github.io
Speech Recognition Is Not Solved
Ever since Deep Learning hit the scene in speech recognition, word error rates
have fallen dramatically. But despite articles you may have read, we still
don’t have human-level speech recognition. Speech recognizers have many failure
modes. Acknowledging…
have fallen dramatically. But despite articles you may have read, we still
don’t have human-level speech recognition. Speech recognizers have many failure
modes. Acknowledging…