Four Deep Learning Papers to Read in December 2021

From Sensory Substitution to Decision Transformers, Persistent Evolution Strategies and Sharpness-Aware Minimization

Brainwashing has a grim history that we shouldn’t dismiss | Psyche Ideas

Scientific research and historical accounts can help us identify and dissect the threat of ‘coercive persuasion’

Brain scans look stunning, but what do they actually mean? | Psyche Ideas

Functional brain scans are a valuable tool but their meaning must be interpreted with caution and scepticism

Why fast, effective data labeling has become a competitive advantage (VB Li

If an AI model can make decisions on the company’s behalf through products and services, that model is essentially their competitive edge.

The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf

If listeners today can stream just about any song they want, why are so many music aficionados still buying records? Ryan Raffaelli and Gold Rush Vinyl CEO Caren Kelleher discuss the resurgence of vinyl.

The Pigeon Puzzle: How Do They Figure Out Their Impossibly Long Routes Home? | The Walrus

You might consider them flying rats, but their odysseys stump scientists

Product Photography, Part 14: Optimizing for Speed, Search

The final step in product photography is optimizing the images for search engines and page speed. This is the 14th installment in my series on helping ecommerce merchants create better product images. In this post, I'll address making your photos faster to download and more…

How the Rosetta Stone Yielded Its Secrets

The quest to decode hieroglyphic writing.

csvkit 2.0.1 documentation

AI-Based Image Compression: The State of the Art

An overview of some of the leading libraries and frameworks out there

7 DevOps skills for Machine Learning Operations | by Ricardo Mendes | Nov,

Lessons learned from successful MLOps implementation

A Simple Interpretation of p-values

P-values & ice cream consumption simply explained.

Transformers

Deconstructing that $69million NFT

"NFTs" have hit the mainstream news with the sale of an NFT based digital artwork for $69 million. I thought I'd write up an explainer. Spec...

Marks & Spencer and Whole Foods Show Why Food Package Design Matters - The

European stores like Marks & Spencer and Monoprix, and U.S. chains like Whole Foods, understand the powerful "appetite appeal" of grocery labels.

Jekyll Tags on Github Pages · Long Qian

Github page does not allow customized plugins, and jekyll-tagging is not one of the supported GEMs of Github pages. It needs some effort to add tag support your Jekyll blog hosted by Github page. This blog shows you how to do this step by step.

Lam Research, Tokyo Electron, JSR Battle It Out In The $5B+ EUV Photoresist, Coater and Developer Market - CAR vs MOR vs Dry Resist

There is a battle brewing in the photoresist, coater, and developer market due to EUV advancement. This battle could cost Tokyo Electron their dominance over a $5B+ annual revenue market and lead to some photoresist companies such as TOK to lose a major market. JSR and Tokyo are…

From Street Fashion to Online – How to Set-up an E-commerce Store

These days, online shopping is a massive industry. In 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic in full swing, online retailers earned over $4.2 trillion from just over two billion shoppers. Overall, the industry grew by about 25 percent, and the trend doesn’t seem to be slowing. So, if…

Converting and Optimizing Images From the Command Line | CSS-Tricks

Images take up to 50% of the total size of an average web page. And if images are not optimized, users end up downloading extra bytes. And if they’re

The $5 billion hoard of metal the world wants but can’t have - MINING.COM

Experts say a raw aluminum stockpile in Vietnam is the biggest they have ever seen.

Add Labels to a Dataset for Sentiment Analysis

In this article, I will present a tutorial on how to add labels to a dataset for sentiment analysis using Python. Adding labels to a dataset.

NPM vs. YARN: Basic Commands

Here is a quick reference guide for basic commands that we can use when dealing with Node and...

Finding Memories in Reused Food Containers Like Cool Whip - The New York Ti

The containers we use over and over, from Cool Whip tubs to Taster’s Choice jars, can evoke stronger feelings than the food that came in them.

5 Useful and Interesting Web Animation Libraries

Introduction Libraries help us to code faster through their predefined classes for...

Bank transfers as a payment method

Bank transfers have exploded as a payment method in India and may become more common in much of the world.

Three R Libraries Every Data Scientist Should Know (Even if You Use Python)

Powerful R libraries built by the World’s Biggest Tech Companies

AI-Based Image Compression: The State of the Art

An overview of some of the leading libraries and frameworks out there

The Rising Tide of Semiconductor Cost - by Doug (mule) - Fabricated Knowled

It Isn't Transistory

Why more people are saying 'y'all' - BBC Worklife

The distinctive Americanism is making its way across the world and becoming an unlikely favourite catch-all term.

The Notorious Mrs. Mossler

In the mid-sixties, Candace Mossler was one of the most widely known socialites in Houston. She was in her forties, vivacious and full of charm, with wavy blond hair, deep-blue eyes, and a surgically enhanced figure that was often remarked upon in the many newspaper columns…

SQL Basics Cheat Sheet

This 2-page SQL Basics Cheat Sheet will be a great value for beginners as well as for professionals. Download it in PDF or PNG format.

What is a Health Savings Account (HSA)? And, Why It's a Great Retirement Savings Option

What is a Health Savings Account? Explore 4 ways it saves you money and why you might want to use one for retirement savings.

Can a Boxer Return to the Ring After Killing?

In 2019, Charles Conwell unintentionally ended Patrick Day’s life with his fists. Now he’s trying to make sense of his life, and boxing itself.

They set out to hike three of America's longest trails in less than a year. What could go wrong?

Jackson Parell and Sammy Potter hatched an ambitious plan during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic: to hike three of the nation’s most arduous trails — the Appalachian, Pacific Crest and Continental Divide — in a single year.

Bash Patterns I Use Weekly

5 bash tricks I find myself using often that I wish I'd discovered sooner.

Concepts – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Explore Stratechery by: Concepts | Companies | Topics | Search Aggregation Theory Disruption Theory Incentives Technology and Society Evolution of Technology Media Strategy and Product Management

Can I automatically forward my email newsletters from my inbox to the Feedly email?

Yes, you can. The emails will show up in your Feedly. Do you prefer to learn by watching? If so, click here to skip to the video. Set up a forwarding rule in Gm

How to compress the whole directory using xz and tar

Explains how to compress the whole directory using xz and tar on Linux, macOS, and Unix-like systems to get maximum compression.

Remix | Remix Docs Home

Commoditizing Suppliers

Aggregators, by virtue of owning demand, gain power over suppliers which become modularized and commoditized. The Moat Map The Moat Map describes the correlation between the degree of supplier diff…

Aggregation Theory – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Aggregation Theory provides a framework to understand the impact of the Internet on nearly all industries.

An Introduction to Lagrange Multipliers

Converting PDF preview in Rails 6 using Active Storage and MiniMagic

In this demo application we will demonstrate that how you can upload documents using active records and convert preview of PDF pages as images. We have also used action cable to display progress of PDF pages to image conversion inside bootstrap modal. Though this is a simple and…

A beginner’s guide to how cryptocurrencies work

For those who are just wading into the crypto territory, here’s a basic explainer on how the computer science behind these systems work.

Taking Humor Seriously on “The Simpsons”

David Owen’s 2000 Profile of George Meyer: Humor has to reframe reality, Meyer says. “It’s like seeing in two dimensions and then opening the other eye or looking through a View-Master and suddenly seeing in three.”

David Simon and the Creation of “The Wire”

Margaret Talbot’s 2007 Profile of the show’s creator, with a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of “The Wire” ’s fifth season.

What It Takes to Climb the World’s Most Forbidding Cliffs

After decades of dominance, Tommy Caldwell is still seeking new ascents.

How Twitter got research right

Twitter is doing its failing — and fixing — in public.

It’s Never Too Late to Pick Up Your Life and Move to Italy

Holly Herrmann vowed to move to Italy when she was 20. Her dream came true 38 years later.

The World’s Deadliest Thing — Anthony Warner

It is deadly, invisible and shapes much of the food we eat. A teaspoon of it could kill millions of people, and it is probably the most expensive material on earth. Yet you probably have some stuck to the bottom of you shoe.