Cat or COVID?
I was always puzzled on why nobody checks their models or code on out-of-sample examples, glad this question finally got some traction
https://wz.ax/cat-or-covid-oov-oos-gnipbisv
I was always puzzled on why nobody checks their models or code on out-of-sample examples, glad this question finally got some traction
https://wz.ax/cat-or-covid-oov-oos-gnipbisv
on the latest twitter hack
TLDR: nothing changed, everybody dreams about supervillains and secret agencies, in reality high-profile hacks are done by teens for lulz and street cred
https://wz.ax/nytimes/twitter-hackers-interview
TLDR: nothing changed, everybody dreams about supervillains and secret agencies, in reality high-profile hacks are done by teens for lulz and street cred
https://wz.ax/nytimes/twitter-hackers-interview
NY Times
Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside
Several people involved in the events that took down Twitter this week spoke with The Times, giving the first account of what happened as a pursuit of Bitcoin spun out of control.
rather nice application of ML - note it's not dreaming up any details, just picks up details from previous frames into a high-res picture
https://wz.ax/neural-supersampling-fb
https://wz.ax/neural-supersampling-fb
Facebook Research
Introducing neural supersampling for real-time rendering - Facebook Research
Real-time rendering in virtual reality presents a unique set of challenges — chief among them being the need to support…
I'm tempted to write a React+Express middleware that does a similar thing for an arbitrary React app >_<
https://wz.ax/css-only-chat
https://wz.ax/css-only-chat
GitHub
kkuchta/css-only-chat
A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS whatsoever on the frontend - kkuchta/css-only-chat
hm, lots of things I thought about and worried they might be overkill are not that much of an overkill, it turns out
https://wz.ax/martin-thompson-evolution-of-fx-architecture
https://wz.ax/martin-thompson-evolution-of-fx-architecture
InfoQ
Evolution of Financial Exchange Architectures
Martin Thompson looks at the evolution of financial exchanges and explores what is considered state of the art today.
Am I the only one puzzled when they say "autonomous driving will require faster connectivity" with a straight face?
https://wz.ax/zerohedge/autonomous-f1-race-indy
https://wz.ax/zerohedge/autonomous-f1-race-indy
Zerohedge
Zerohedge
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
Technology Empowerment: Security Challenges (Sandia NL'17)
“innovation is increasingly accessible to ordinary people of limited means”
is a... “national security challenge”.
so sweet.
https://wz.ax/sandia-technology-empowerment-2017
“innovation is increasingly accessible to ordinary people of limited means”
is a... “national security challenge”.
so sweet.
https://wz.ax/sandia-technology-empowerment-2017
Stephen Wolfram's writings are notably hard to summarize. So let it be as it is.
https://wz.ax/p04-wolfram-physics
https://wz.ax/p04-wolfram-physics
Stephenwolfram
Finally We May Have a Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics… and It’s Beautiful—Stephen Wolfram Writings
How does our universe work? Scientist Stephen Wolfram opens up his ongoing Wolfram Physics Project to a global effort. His team will livestream work in progress, post working materials, release software tools and hold educational programs.
Hans-J. Boehm: Towards an API for real numbers —
Adrian Colyer's excellent review, as always %)
(also: applied number theory! in a calculator near you!)
Adrian Colyer's excellent review, as always %)
(also: applied number theory! in a calculator near you!)
Linux 4.8-5.9 Zero-Click Remote Code Execution
Intel recommends updating the Linux kernel to version 5.10 or later [when it will be released lol]
https://wz.ax/linux-48-59-bt-rce
Intel recommends updating the Linux kernel to version 5.10 or later [when it will be released lol]
https://wz.ax/linux-48-59-bt-rce
YouTube
BleedingTooth: Linux Bluetooth Zero-Click Remote Code Execution
More information:
Blog post available soon on: https://security.googleblog.com/
Google Security Research Repository: https://github.com/google/security-research
Intel Security Advisory: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel…
Blog post available soon on: https://security.googleblog.com/
Google Security Research Repository: https://github.com/google/security-research
Intel Security Advisory: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel…
#books while this one does have some gems, the more important part is a story about how to find them.
https://wz.ax/mind-management-book-review-grtg
https://wz.ax/mind-management-book-review-grtg
Goodreads
Oleksandr Nikitin’s review of Mind Management, Not Time Management: Productivity When Creativity Matters
Messy, rough, uneven. Honest, open, inspiring. How do you tell a "make-you-feel-good" book from the true story? Instead of arming you with rose-colored glasses and dragging you deeper into the wishful thinking swamp, like so many "self-help" books do,…
OK, how does one evaluate an impact of this 😑?
> Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer is claimed to be 10^14 times faster than Google's one (Sycamore?)
#quantumcomputing
https://wz.ax/doi/10.1126/science.abe8770
> Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer is claimed to be 10^14 times faster than Google's one (Sycamore?)
#quantumcomputing
https://wz.ax/doi/10.1126/science.abe8770
Science
Quantum computational advantage using photons
Quantum computers promises to perform certain tasks that are believed to be intractable to classical computers. Boson sampling is such a task and is considered as a strong candidate to demonstrate the quantum computational advantage. We perform Gaussian boson…
more on 'night owls' — matches my observations pretty well
https://wz.ax/revenge-bedtime-procrastination
https://wz.ax/revenge-bedtime-procrastination
Well+Good
‘Revenge Bedtime Procrastination’ Is the Chinese Term To Describe So Many of Our Nighttime Behaviors
Twitter often makes me feel seen, but almost never more so than when a tweet surfaced recently identifying a phenomenon I'd long experienced but never named: "revenge bedtime procrastination." The phr
wanted to build something like this for quite a long time. oh well.
https://wz.ax/hash.ai/
https://wz.ax/hash.ai/
hash.ai
HASH - Complex Systems Simulation
Build simulations in minutes not days. HASH is an open-source platform backed and built by the founders of Kaggle, Stack Overflow, Trello and Glitch.
to know if something is a scam or has real value, you first have to understand what is "real value"
https://wz.ax/rene-girard-financial-bubbles
https://wz.ax/rene-girard-financial-bubbles
Ssrn
Manias and Mimesis: Applying René Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles by Byrne Hobart, Tobias Huber :: SSRN
While next-generation models in quantitative finance have illuminated the origins of market bubbles and crashes by incorporating herding and imitation behavior,
TLDR: Thermal noise => graphene as a low-pass filter => rectifier diodes => heat-to-electricity converter. Still looks like a perpetual motion machine. 10 mW is A LOT o_O
https://wz.ax/energy-harvester
https://wz.ax/energy-harvester
Electronics-Lab.com
Graphene energy harvesting chips closer to availability - Electronics-Lab.com
Nanotechnology company NTS Innovations says it has achieved a major milestone in its development of a...