Mike C.flipped into Machine Learning And StuffMachine Learning Why AWS is selling a MIDI keyboard to teach machine learning TechCrunch - Frederic LardinoisEarlier this week, AWS launched DeepComposer, a set of web-based tools for learning about AI to make music and a $99 MIDI keyboard for inputting melodies. That launch created a fair bit of confusion, so
Mike C.flipped into Programming StuffRaspberry Pi Argon ONE fully features Raspberry Pi 4 case $25 geeky-gadgets.com - Julian Horsey Raspberry Pi 4 mini PC owners looking for a robust fully featured case to protect their powerful pocket PC may be interested in the Argon ONE …
Mike C.flipped into Science Fiction Books & ShowsThe Witcher A Cheat Sheet for The Witcher Books Before the Netflix Show Drops TV Guide - Sadie Gennis We are getting so close to the premiere of The Witcher on Netflix, and if you're a fan of the popular video game series of the same name, you've …
Mike C.flipped into Science Fiction Books & ShowsGeek The Nerd's Watch: The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in December io9 - Germain Lussier You can get comprehensive lists of everything coming to streaming services anywhere. But half of those titles you don’t care about, and the other …
Mike C.flipped into Machine Learning And Stuff Powered by AI: Instagram’s Explore recommender system facebook.com Over half of the Instagram community visits Instagram Explore every month to discover new photos, videos, and Stories relevant to their interests. …
Mike C.flipped into All the thingsOpinion It's time to retire metrics like GDP. They don't measure everything that matters The Guardian - Joseph StiglitzIf our measures tell us everything is fine when it really isn’t, we will be complacent The world is facing three existential crises: a climate crisis, an inequality crisis and a crisis in democracy. Will
Mike C.flipped into All the thingsKeynesian Economics 'Everything Is Not Fine': Nobel Economist Calls on Humanity to End commondreams.org Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz is warning the world that unless the obsession many world leaders have with gross national product …
Mike C.flipped into All the thingsSocial Media Sacha Baron Cohen gave the greatest speech on why social networks need to be kept in check ZDNet - Catalin Cimpanu Actor says six US billionaires more focused on their share prices shouldn't be allowed to dictate what is acceptable online. For an actor who made a …
Mike C.flipped into Science Fiction Books & ShowsThe Expanse The Art and Making of The Expanse Will Make You Even More Stoked for the Sci-Fi Standout's Return io9 - Cheryl Eddy We are just weeks away from The Expanse’s fourth season, its first to premiere on Amazon Prime, and we could not be more excited. Or so we …
Mike C.flipped into Science Fiction Books & ShowsThe Expanse The Expanse gets a new trailer ahead of season 4 Polygon - Charlie HallThe Expanse is back for a fourth season, and today it dropped a wild new trailer on YouTube. You can also watch it embedded above. The hard science fiction series by Alcon Entertainment premiered on the
Mike C.flipped into Mixed & Virtual RealityCanadian Real Estate WARNING: Canada’s Housing Bubble May Pop in 2020 fool.ca - Ryan Vanzo | November 16, 2019 The Motley Fool Canada » Dividend Stocks » WARNING: Canada’s Housing Bubble May Pop in 2020 According to experts, Canada has been in a housing bubble …
Mike C.flipped into All the thingsLong-form Journalism History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future The Guardian - Laura SpinneyIn its first issue of 2010, the scientific journal Nature looked forward to a dazzling decade of progress. By 2020, experimental devices connected to the internet would deduce our search queries by directly
Mike C.flipped into Science Fiction Books & ShowsBooks The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup The Guardian - Eric BrownAnnalee Newitz combines time travel, multi-alternative realities and feminist politics in the fast-paced, complex and mind-bending The Future of Another Timeline (Orbit, £8.99), a follow-up to her well-received
Mike C.flipped into Machine Learning And StuffCognitive Computing A neural net solves the three-body problem 100 million times faster MIT Technology Review - Emerging Technology from the arXiv Machine learning provides an entirely new way to tackle one of the classic problems of applied mathematics. In the 18th century, the great scientific …
Mike C.flipped into Machine Learning And StuffMachine Learning Netflix open-sources Polynote to simplify data science and machine learning workflows VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersMachine learning and data science development isn’t exactly a walk in the park, but Netflix hopes to streamline the arduous bits with a new freely available platform. The tech giant today announced that
Mike C.flipped into All the thingsRecipes Giant Oatmeal Chocolate Cookies Recipe allrecipes.com - leslie "These cookies are always served at our cafeteria, they are huge, moist, and full of chocolate!"
Mike C.flipped into All the things The 25 Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 21st Century, From ‘Children of Men’ to ‘Her’ indiewire.com - By Chris O'Falt, Kate Erbland, Zack Sharf, Graham Winfrey With themes that range from love to fear to humanity itself, the best sci-fi movies of the 21st century all share distinctly original visions. Sci-fi …
Mike C.flipped into All the things Servers Ultimate Turns Your Old Android Phone Into a Tiny, Multipurpose Server Lifehacker Home servers can be really handy for streaming media, securing public Wi-Fi, or sharing files between friends. But if you don't have a spare computer …
Mike C.flipped into All the things Boston Dynamics’ Atlas can now do an impressive gymnastics routine The Verge - Jon PorterAlongside the news that Boston Dynamics is going to let its robot dog, Spot, out of its laboratory for the first time, the company has released a new video of Atlas, its spectacular bipedal robot that’s
Mike C.flipped into Machine Learning And Stuff In love with the graph: Neo4j spreads the obsession of a new database one app at a time ZDNet - Tiernan Ray Lyft's "Amundsen" metadata system is an example of how knowledge graphs are spreading throughout companies with grass-roots projects. It's all part …
Mike C.flipped into Science Fiction Books & Shows 10 Authors Shaking Up Space Opera publishersweekly.com - By John Birmingham Birmingham’s gripping near-future novel, The Cruel Stars, launches readers into a genocidal interstellar war amid sudden violence and dark humor. A …
Mike C.flipped into All the thingsRecipes The best chocolate cake recipe is an old-school classic Los Angeles Times - Ben MimsThis chocolate cake is a descendant from the famous chocolate cake made popular by advice columnist Abigail Van Buren (real name, Pauline Phillips) of the long-running “Dear Abby.” Where as hers was a
Mike C.flipped into All the things A stunning 4K art tour of Burning Man 2019 boingboing.net - Rusty Blazenhoff Wow, my pal Shalaco (previously) really hit it out of the park with this ultra-high-definition video tour of (some of) Burning Man 2019's art. I …
Mike C.flipped into Science Fiction Books & ShowsJames S.A. Corey The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books Are 50% Off in the B&N Book Haul barnesandnoble.com - Joel Cunningham The Barnes & Noble Book Haul is our semi-annual celebration of reading and building your library twice as fast at half the cost. (Sounds like …
Mike C.flipped into Machine Learning And Stuff Here’s how to use CuPy to make Numpy 700X faster towardsdatascience.com - George Seif Numpy has been a gift to the Python community. It’s allowed Data Scientists, Machine Learning Practitioners, and Statisticians to process huge …
Mike C.flipped into Machine Learning And Stuff Deep Learning Illustrated: Building Natural Language Processing Models dominodatalab.com - Andrea Lowe Many thanks to Addison-Wesley Professional for providing the permissions to excerpt “Natural Language Processing” from the book, Deep Learning …
Mike C.flipped into Science Fiction Books & Shows Keanu Reeves and Carrie Anne-Moss are making a fourth Matrix movie The Verge - Chaim GartenbergWarner Bros. has just announced a fourth film in the Matrix series, with original stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss set to reprise their iconic roles as Neo and Trinity, respectively. Lana Wachowski
Mike C.flipped into Programming Stuff PressReader aims to add more personalization to its digital news platform by acquiring News360 TechCrunch - Anthony HaA pair of digital news companies are teaming up, with PressReader acquiring News360. PressReader was founded back in 1999 as Newspaper Direct. It now operates a platform that converts newspapers and magazines
Mike C.flipped into Science Fiction Books & ShowsGeek Here Are Your Hugo 2019 Award Winners io9 - James Whitbrook Last night one of the biggest events in genre writing, the Hugo Awards, awarded creators at the 77th World Science Fiction Convention in Dublin, …
Mike C.flipped into All the thingsSkiing The World’s 10 Best Ski Towns snowmagazine.com - Sian Lewis What makes the dream ski town? We’re not talking about touristy winter resorts here, but proper communities that just happen to have fantastic …
Randy Hollingerflipped into Void Where ProhibitedOttoman Empire Why the Ottoman Empire rose and fell National Geographic - Erin BlakemoreOne of the greatest empires in history, the Ottomans reigned for more than 600 years before crumbling on the battlefields of World War I. Known as one of history’s most powerful empires, the Ottoman Empire
Chance Hensonflipped into Games SNES The SNES Pixel Book Captures The Magic Of Super Nintendo Graphics Kotaku - Mike Fahey There’s something soothing about printed 16-bit art. The way the page captures the color and composition of pixels, capturing a moment of gaming in …
Warren Campbellflipped into Dogfather News BitesApple John Wick director shoots epic snowball fight entirely on iPhone Cult of Mac - Buster HeinDavid Leitch, the visionary director behind John Wick and Deadpool 2, teamed up with Apple for the latest “shot on iPhone” ad that takes snowball fights to an all-new level. The 90-second ad, titled Snowbrawl,
Arnie B.flipped into Flipboard Machine Learning Powered by AI: Instagram’s Explore recommender system facebook.com Over half of the Instagram community visits Instagram Explore every month to discover new photos, videos, and Stories relevant to their interests. …
TR flipped into STEM Photography This Incredible Time-Lapse Shows an Immune Cell Moving Through the Body petapixel.com - DL Cade In April of 2018, a team of scientists made an imaging breakthrough that allowed them to capture this incredible video of an immune cell moving …
Romano Xflipped into UniversalEqual Solution: ‘Randomness From Determinism’ Quanta Magazine - Pradeep Mutalik Readers’ modifications of a bean machine showed how deterministic laws are capable of producing random-seeming behavior. Our last Insights puzzle …
Arnie B.flipped into PicksLong-form Journalism History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future The Guardian - Laura SpinneyIn its first issue of 2010, the scientific journal Nature looked forward to a dazzling decade of progress. By 2020, experimental devices connected to the internet would deduce our search queries by directly
Krishnaflipped into AnalyticsCognitive Computing A neural net solves the three-body problem 100 million times faster MIT Technology Review - Emerging Technology from the arXiv Machine learning provides an entirely new way to tackle one of the classic problems of applied mathematics. In the 18th century, the great scientific …
Karen Ristaflipped into Technology and InternetRouters Turn your $60 router into a $600 router Lifehacker Of all the great DIY projects at this year's Maker Faire, the one project that really caught my eye involved converting a regular old $60 router into …
Ken Yeungflipped into FYI Boston Dynamics’ Atlas can now do an impressive gymnastics routine The Verge - Jon PorterAlongside the news that Boston Dynamics is going to let its robot dog, Spot, out of its laboratory for the first time, the company has released a new video of Atlas, its spectacular bipedal robot that’s
VoxClimate Photos: What the youth climate strike looks like around the world Vox - Brian ResnickThis story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. Friday may be remembered as the largest global demonstration
Geeky GadgetsApps Roland Zenbeats application now available to download for free geeky-gadgets.com - Julian Horsey Roland has launched their new Zenbeats cross-platform music making application this week making it available to download for free with a wealth of …
GizmodoDavid Copperfield A Self-Solving Rubik’s Cube That Floats In the Air is Completely Hands-Off Gizmodo - Andrew Liszewski You’d be forgiven for assuming that this video was the work of a talented animator, a visual effects artist, or an illusionist. But the only magic at …
Guardian US California bans private prisons – including Ice detention centers Guardian US - Darwin BondGraham in San FranciscoBill removes profit motive from incarceration and marks latest clash in state’s battle with Trump over treatment of immigrants The private prison industry is set to be upended after California lawmakers
Peta Pixel This Video Was Made from 400,000 Photos of Comet 67p Taken by Rosetta petapixel.com - DL Cade From 2014 to 2016, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft followed the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67p) around space: collecting scientific …
C. Kristina Kassura☺️❤️✍️ flipped into Science & Researching: Building, Gathering & Organizing Knowledge📚📝💡🌍📚 Sleep, drugs and mental health: how altered states of consciousness could keep us happy sciencefocus.com - James Kingsland Every night, we experience an altered state of consciousness called dreaming. Could we harness this power to boost our mental health? In a record …
Marcosflipped into Data ScienceSingularity Google Open Sources Real-Time Hand Gesture Recognition Algorithm For Developers - Tech Mashable - Prasham ParikhIn a recent blog post, Google stated the importance of hand-gesture recognition and how its development could spur new applications that would allow us to interact with our smartphones naturally. The also
Andrew Jonesflipped into Materials Science Meet Tesla's self-driving car computer and its two AI brains CNET - Stephen Shankland Tesla's in-house chip is 21 times faster than the older Nvidia model Tesla used. And each car's computer has two for safety.
Arnie B.flipped into Flipboard Machine Learning Why Momentum Really Works distill.pub 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.
Science magazineflipped into News from ScienceIcon version of the Flipboard logo Watch this plant fire seeds with bulletlike force sciencemag.org - Sabine Galvis You don’t want to be in front of the Chinese witch hazel when its fruit bursts open. The plant—long known for its anti-inflammatory properties—can …
Arnie B.flipped into Flipboard Machine LearningMachine Learning spaCy meets PyTorch-Transformers: Fine-tune BERT, XLNet and GPT-2 · Blog · Explosion explosion.ai Huge transformer models like BERT, GPT-2 and XLNet have set a new standard for accuracy on almost every NLP leaderboard. You can now use these models …
WWflipped into Relevant: GamingIndie Gaming Everreach: Project Eden is an indie action-adventure with a strong Mass Effect vibe pcgamer.com - Andy Chalk Everreach: Project Eden is a story-driven, third-person action-RPG set on the distant world of Eden, home of humanity's first interstellar colony. …
Rick Sanchez C-137flipped into Science, Or Near It This Stunning Picture By NASA Of The ISS Passing In Front Of The Sun Has Twitter In Awe! Mashable - Afiya QureshiEvery day, NASA chooses a different image or a photograph of fascinating cosmos to feature in its Astronomical Picture of the Day, along with a brief explanation penned by a pro astronomer. On Monday,
Flipboard Partnersflipped into All Technology Partners 2 Voyant Photonics raises $4.3M to fit lidar on the head of a pin TechCrunch - Devin ColdeweyLidar is a critical method by which robots and autonomous vehicles sense the world around them, but the lasers and sensors generally take up a considerable amount of space. Not so with Voyant Photonics,
io9Geek Katee Sackhoff Attempts to Save Humanity in the Trailer for Netflix's Another Life io9 - Germain Lussier After years of watching her as Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica, there’s just something that feels right about seeing Katee Sackhoff in a spaceship, …
A.W.C.flipped into West End Ave.Electronic Music Skrillex Shares New Drum and Bass Tune via Instagram Story edm.com - Niko Sani Skrillex (real name Sonny Moore) has shared a new drum and bass track via his Instagram Story. Reddit user jkrhu has shared a screen recording of …
Engadget Here's how multiplayer works in 'Dr. Mario World' Engadget - Christine FisherNintendo released a trailer ahead of the game's July 10th release. Nintendo is set to release its latest mobile game Dr. Mario World on July 10th, and we're starting to get a better idea of what the game
CBC News Canada by the numbers: Happiness, immigration, life expectancy and more CBC News - Jonathon Gatehouse Welcome to The National Today newsletter, which takes a closer look at what's happening around some of the day's most notable stories. In anticipation …
WWflipped into Relevant: Gaming Best Steam summer sale 2019 deals CNET - Oscar Gonzalez These are some of the best deals on the best games during the current Steam summer sale. We'll keep this updated with new picks daily.
Tom Falkflipped into Ai, Deep Learning And Neural NetworksMachine Learning The data that trains AI increasingly calls into question AI ZDNet - Tiernan Ray After 10 years of ImageNet, AI researchers are digging into the details of test sets and some are asking just how much knowledge has really been …
