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CS231n Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognitioncs231n.github.io
Course materials and notes for Stanford class CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition. - ebb.org
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Report Sees Weak Security in Cars’ Wireless Systemsnytimes.com
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Children aren’t worth very much—that’s why we no longer make manyqz.com
The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have been characterized by a massive decline in fertility, beginning in rich western countries and spreading all over the world. It is a transformation that is still underway in poor countries today. Technological... -
The Strange and Complicated History of Patenting the E-Cigarettepointsadhsblog.wordpress.com
Editor's Note: Today's post is brought to you by Camille Higham, a patent attorney in Jacksonville, Florida, with extensive experience researching e-cigarettes. About a year ago, I wrote about e-c... - blog.rongarret.info
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An-225 Mriya is the world’s largest aircraft (English version)gelio.livejournal.com
An-225 Mriya (which is referred to Dream from Ukrainian) is the heaviest airlift cargo aircraft ever taken off in the sky. The maximum takeoff weight makes 640 tons. An-225 was designed, due to the necessity to create the air transport system for the S... -
The Failed Dream of the Easy Commute - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
The deadly collision last week between a Metro-North train and a private car reflects much about U.S. history and American attitudes toward transportation. -
The “Web Application” Mythmedium.com
The last few weeks were full of lots of great articles about an old topic: should things on the internet be dependent on… - apa.org
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Better rate limiting with Redis sorted sets | ClassDojo Engineeringengineering.classdojo.com
At ClassDojo, we’ve recently been building out our push notification infrastructure. Our plans required a rate limiter that met the following … -
Listen to Freddie Mercury and David Bowie on the Isolated Vocal Track for the Queen Hit ‘Under Pressure,’ 1981openculture.com
In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot Space, at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland. As it happened, David Bowie had scheduled time at the same studio to record the title song for the... -
Measles in Historysloaneletters.com
The terror of smallpox lives on in popular memory, but measles are often dismissed by many as just a childhood disease: How much harm could it really cause? And aren’t childhood diseases useful for... -
The New Age Of Platformsdigitaltonto.com
It’s easy to scoff at early adopters, but that shouldn’t blind us to new capabilities that can either propel us forward or run us over. - traviswingo.github.io
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