The Weekly Weird - 2015-05-22
- http://buttersafe.com/2015/05/07/the-waiting-room/
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http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2015/05/21/deep-learning-robot-masters-skills-via-trial-and-error/ !!!!!!! (I don't have enough !s for this. The neural net is directly driving the motors, not being plugged into some existing control mechanism).
- The HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9586582
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more neural networks: http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/
- The new ocaml is (maybe) getting multicore! I'm not sure what this really means!
- http://kcsrk.info/ocaml/multicore/2015/05/20/effects-multicore/
- HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9582980
- Did I mention that I'm writing a science fiction story? Yeah, the far-future AI solves a crime by analyzing everyone's holiday photos to see when a billboard in the background of the victim's last photo changed so it can tell when the murder happened. Oh wait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wptzVm0tngc&feature=youtu.be
- A counterpoint to "everything is getting better": https://medium.com/bull-market/violent-warfare-is-on-the-wane-right-99223faa45e6
- ebf is going to be awesome: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2015-05-15/ebpf-one-small-step.html
- The RIPE conference just ended, there are many presentations up:
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https://ripe70.ripe.net/presentations/presentation-archive/
- I especially enjoyed https://ripe70.ripe.net/presentations/28-ripe70-ethernet-speeds-whats-new-and-next.pdf and there's lots of stuff about segment routing, ipv6, dnssec, bgp and other things that run that whole series of tubes thing.
- Kubernates: https://medium.com/s-c-a-l-e/google-systems-guru-explains-why-containers-are-the-future-of-computing-87922af2cf95
- VMs are too slow: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/644675/60762114d2a6e02e/
- https://github.com/bonzini/qboot
- Yawn, wake me when we have tachyonics computers: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/ibm-demos-first-fully-integrated-monolithic-silicon-photonics-chip/
- Old but clever: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-11/09/sea-water-antenna
- Ok, Yahoo, good job with that acronym: http://yahoolabs.tumblr.com/post/118966433256/egads-a-scalable-configurable-and-novel-anomaly
- How to scale, in a really accessible format: http://www.benstopford.com/2015/04/28/elements-of-scale-composing-and-scaling-data-platforms/
- Have you seen Ex Machina? If not you should, then come back and read this: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/365f9b/secret_code_in_ex_machina/