Machine Learning And Human Learning
The funny thing about machine learning is that it closely seems to mimic human-learning algorithms which when studied closely(by a human:), could help him to learn even more, and that could eventua…
EmacsConf - 2020 - Talks
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Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
Deep learning's successes are often attributed to its ability to automatically discover new representations of the data, rather than relying on handcrafted features like other learning methods. We show, however, that deep networks learned by the standard gradi…
Amazon’s First Non-Employee Customer and What He Bought
The story of John Wainwright and his journey to the first purchase at Amazon.
The Grenfell Tower inquiry is uncovering a major corporate scandal | The Spectator
A picture of an enormous corporate scandal has emerged at the Grenfell Tower inquiry to little fanfare over the last three weeks. The mammoth inquiry has been slowly going through the evidence surrounding the build-up to the fire, which killed 72 people in Ju…
The Tragic Tale Of DEC, The Computing Giant That Died Too Soon - Digital.com
Learn about DEC, one of the first tech giants, their tragic and eventual downfall, and what it meant to the future of tech.
CSS Variables are cool (secretGeek.net)
html, tools, podcast, blog, color, UX, microISV, tdd, [code], javascript, nimbletext, ideas rat, css
Welcome to Privacy & Compliance Week
Over the course of the week, we'll be announcing ways that our customers can use our service in order to ensure they are in compliance with an increasingly complicated set of rules and laws around the world.
LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe
How the professional platform makes networking weird
World's worst video card gets better?
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The nightmare is real: 'Excel formulas are the world's most widely used programming language,' says Microsoft
So here's LAMBDA to make custom functions out of those formulas
InstaHide Disappointingly Wins Bell Labs Prize, 2nd Place
[What follows are my thoughts on some recent research in machine learning privacy. These are my thoughts, and do not represent those of others.]
Run EF Core Migrations in Azure DevOps
This post is about running Entity Framework Core migrations on Azure DevOps which helps you to continuously deploy your database changes to your staging or your QA environments or even to production - even though I won’t recommend it. We will be using Entity F…
Permit key-reuse in PKCS12. by vcsjones · Pull Request #45618 · dotnet/runtime
In .NET 5 when switching to the managed PKCS12 decoding in Unix, a more-restrictive behavior was introduced where two certificates could not reference the same key, to match Windows' behavior. ...
Apple’s “EDR” Brings High Dynamic Range to Non-HDR Displays — Prolost
Apple caused quite a stir with the announcement of their Pro Display XDR, a High Dynamic Range display that occupies a convoluted space in the market. It seeks to be both a Very Nice Computer Display, and a reference HDR video monitor — but by most measures it…
Being honest about code coverage
Reframing the question as: how does one achieve high code coverage beneficially?
That Time I Built a Crack for Nearly all Shareware
It was in the ’90s and shareware was still cool. I had written a couple of small shareware programs and I was worried about bugs related to dates and times.
Newsletter Week 49, 2020
Sergey .NET Continue to write about how to get started with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) framework, called Farmer. Cloud stories from Norway The date is defined for special technical blog's edition of Episode 4 "Cloud stories from Norway" with me together with…
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Remapping Keys with XKB and KLFC
An introduction to hacking keyboard layouts with X keyboard extension (XKB) and klfc, focused on Colemak and vim bindings Background Inspite of maximizing ergonomic bindings for most common software (e.g. Vimium, doom-emacs), every operation with the arrow ke…
In defense of blub studies
Why it’s worth it to deeply understand the fiddly, boring-seeming details of the computer systems you use every day.
Mental Models
Is Youtube machine learning drawing a connection between Steve Jobs and DevOps? Is that why Youtube keeps recommending a Steve Jobs related video after I watch a DevOps related video? Maybe Youtube is on to something. I had an aha moment after watching an inte…
On Trusting Macintosh Hardware
The personal website of Jeffrey Paul.
Navel Gazing on Hacker News
Little thoughts
Thinking About Decentralized Communities
Building a feature store - nlathia.github.io
The corner of the internet that I read is awash with posts about feature stores: systems that aim to be “the interface between models and data.”