Feature Visualization
How neural networks build up their understanding of images
Why Momentum Really Works
We often think of optimization with momentum as a ball rolling down a hill. This isn't wrong, but there is much more to the story.
Kernel Cookbook
A reference manual for creating covariance functions.
Overclocked Micron GDDR6 Memory Can Hit 20Gbps Speeds For Next Gen GPUs
Micron notes that GDDR6 has silicon changes, channel enhancements, and talks a bit about performance measurements of the new memory.
A Brief History of America's Appetite for Macaroni and Cheese
Popularized by Thomas Jefferson, this versatile dish fulfills our nation's quest for the 'cheapest protein possible'
The Two-Napkin Protocol
In 1989, Kirk Lougheed of Cisco and Yakov Rekhter of IBM were having lunch in a meeting hall cafeteria at an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) conference. They wrote a new routing protocol that became RFC (Request for Comment) 1105, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), known…
Introducing Similarity Search at Flickr | code.flickr.com
10 ways to offer shoppers a discount
Many online retailers unintentionally train consumers to expect discounts. Clothing stores are amongst the worst offenders. Constant discounting makes full-price shoppers believe they’re being overcharged. They often won’t shop until the next sale, which leads to a vicious…
Do platforms work?
The distributed network has gobbled the hierarchical firm. Only by seizing the platform can workers avoid digital serfdom
9 Tips to Manage Out-of-stock Inventory
Sometimes even the most-prepared retailers sell out of popular items. How these inventory shortages are communicated on an ecommerce website may impact
The Importance of Deep Work & The 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill
Browser Extensions I Actually Use - The Media Temple Blog
I'm a web developer and blogger. These are the browser extensions that I actually use right now.
kjw0612/awesome-rnn: Recurrent Neural Network - A curated list of resources
Recurrent Neural Network - A curated list of resources dedicated to RNN - kjw0612/awesome-rnn
Cambricon, Makers of Huawei's Kirin NPU IP, Build A Big AI Chip and PCIe Ca
Life Below The Rim Of The Grand Canyon At Phantom Ranch
Employees and guests alike will tell you that it's impossible to explain the feeling at Phantom Ranch, a bunkhouse and restaurant on the canyon's floor. It's a vibe you have to experience to get.
Free Music Archive
Free Music Archive is your number 1 resource for royalty free music and 'free to download' music.
Power Tools With Undeniable Style
While a power tool’s primary goal is functionality, there isn’t a reason as to why it can’t be a little more pleasant to look at! The Salley Power Tools set is made up of two devices, a cordless driver and a compact jig saw, both of which share the same core brand values…
General thinking tools
Pixie: a system for recommending 3 billion items to 200 million users in
The All-American Bank Heist
Having fallen on hard times, a former football star and the pride of his small town decides to rob the local bank. His weapons of choice: Craigslist, bear mace, and an inner tube.
The Moat Map
The Moat Map describes the correlation between the degree of supplier differentiation and the externalization (or internalization) of a company’s network effect.
Jeff Pike, Texas’s Own Tony Soprano
Earlier this spring, Jeff Pike, the head of the infamous Texas-based Bandidos motorcycle club, went on trial in federal court for racketeering. Prosecutors called him a ruthless killer, the man behind one of the deadliest biker shoot-outs in American history, at the Twin Peaks…
On the Strange, Artistic World of Marfa, Texas
I used to think Marfa was a kind of practical joke that West Texans were playing on cultural elites. It’s remote even for Texas. The nearest airports are in El Paso and Carlsbad, New Mexico, each 2…
Hiding Information in Plain Text
Subtle changes to letter shapes can embed messages
A New World’s Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine | Quanta Magazine
Astronomers argue that there’s an undiscovered giant planet far beyond the orbit of Neptune. A newly discovered rocky body has added evidence to the circumstantial case for it.
A Beginner’s Guide to the Dizzying World of Caribbean Rum
Consider this your entry-level guide to the curious world of Caribbean rum.
Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues explained visually
At 70, Smithsonian Folkways Is An Antidote To Music Algorithms
Smithsonian Folkways, known for its broad-based music catalog, wants to surprise you with sounds you didn't even know existed. The treasured American label turns 70 years old on May 1.
Inside the Final Days of Robin Williams
New York Times reporter Dave Itzkoff details the beloved star’s heartbreaking decline in this exclusive excerpt from Robin, his new biography.
Topic Modeling with Gensim (Python) - A Practical Guide
Topic Modeling is a technique to understand and extract the hidden topics from large volumes of text. Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA) is an algorithm for topic modeling, which has excellent implementations in the Python's Gensim package. This tutorial tackles the problem of…
Swarm Optimization: Goodbye Gradients - DataScienceCentral.com
Fish schools, bird flocks, and bee swarms. These combinations of real-time biological systems can blend knowledge, exploration, and exploitation to unify intelligence and solve problems more efficiently. There’s no centralized control. These simple agents interact locally…
Best Practices for Feature Engineering
Unsure how to perform feature engineering? Here are 20 best practices and heuristics that will help you engineer great features for machine learning.
Topic: computer-vision
GitHub is where people build software. More than 100 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.
AutonomousDrivingCookbook/AirSimE2EDeepLearning at master · Microsoft/Auton
Scenarios, tutorials and demos for Autonomous Driving - microsoft/AutonomousDrivingCookbook
Multi-label classification with Keras - PyImageSearch
In this tutorial you will learn how to perform multi-label classification using Keras, Python, and deep learning.
Alchip Minimizes Dynamic Power For High-Performance Computing ASICs
Alchip Minimizes Dynamic Power for High-Performance Computing ASICs How a fabless chipmaker successfully reduced power consumption within its fishbone clock tree methodology.
Why Entrepreneurship Programs for Engineers Fail
Entrepreneurship is an increasingly core component of commercial work, and one for which students in highly technical fields are ill-prepared. Blended entrepreneurial programs (BEPs) are attempting to answer this need by merging university-level entrepreneurial education with…
First Listen: Ry Cooder, 'The Prodigal Son' : NPR
The 71-year-old raconteur returns to the old songs and inhabits the guises of death-haunted bluesmen to speak to the issues of the current era.
Adit Deshpande – CS Undergrad at UCLA ('19)
Engineering at Forward | UCLA CS '19
Tearing Apart Google’s TPU 3.0 AI Coprocessor
Google did its best to impress this week at its annual IO conference. While Google rolled out a bunch of benchmarks that were run on its current Cloud TPU
Making useless things
Simone Giertz, bringer of joy and self-described expert in shitty robots, makes machines that succeed in failing. In her TED talk, Giertz talks about her path from “useless” things to e…
LightTag is a text annotation platform for data scientists creating AI trai
LightTag, a newly launched startup from a former NLP researcher at Citi, has built a "text annotation platform" designed to assist data scientists who
Google Announces 8x Faster TPU 3.0 For AI, Machine Learning - ExtremeTech
Google's new TPUs are here -- and they're quite a bit faster than last year's model.
The Most Unlikely D.A. In America - POLITICO Magazine
He’s a biker attorney who specialized in getting small-time defendants off. He’s considered a gang member by Texas police. And now he’s the county’s chief prosecutor. Can Mark Gonzalez change the system?
The Most Unlikely D.A. In America
Can Mark Gonzalez change the system?
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
Online retailers should take a tip from brick-and-mortar stores: shove your best deals to the back of the store. Research by Thales Teixeira and Donald Ngwe.
The Great Unsolved Mystery of Missing Marjorie West
Discover extraordinary true stories celebrating the diversity of humanity. Click to read Narratively, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Restored vintage Airstream is 140 square feet of mobile bliss
New Airstreams have all the bells and whistles customary in pricey builds, but nothing beats the vintage style of an old Airstream, made modern.
The Various Kinds of IO - Blocking, Non-blocking, Multiplexed and Async.
A blog where I write down my thoughts, ideas and notions, as an exercise to cement them in my memory and improve on their concepts.