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How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View | MIT Technology Reviewtechnologyreview.com
Google can identify and transcribe all the views it has of street numbers in France in less than an hour, thanks to a neural network that’s just as good as human operators. Now its engineers reveal how they developed it. -
High-Speed Train in California Is Caught in a Political Stormnytimes.com
A high-speed rail line from Los Angeles to San Francisco, which Gov. Jerry Brown has made a personal crusade, is reeling from a court ruling on its financing and from slipping public support. -
Java bytecode hacking for fun and profitcory.li
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Visualizing my bionic partner's data - @statwonkstatwonk.github.io
My partner is a loving and willing lab-rat. She’s bionic and carries an insulin pump that automatically doses insulin for her diabetes. The … -
‘I would love to teach but…’washingtonpost.com
'Education cannot be objectively measured... Our problems began when we came to that realization and instead of embracing it, decided to force it into a quantifiable box that is much too small and too much the wrong shape.' -
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Dolphin Emulatordolphin-emu.org
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is one of the most popular Gamecube games, if not Nintendo games, in existence. Its mixture of an open world, sharp dungeons, and an inventive art style turned heads more than ten years ago when it was released. Dolp... -
OHGB: Beating the Wheel of Fortune Bonus Round - thoughts on programmingblog.edweng.com
Ever wonder what the optimal Wheel of Fortune strategy is? A letter frequency analysis is conducted on historical bonus round answers to determine … -
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Valve releases first hardware specs, prices for third-party Steam Machinespolygon.com
At CES today, Valve released new details on the third party partners that will release Steam Machines that run the company's new SteamOS operating system. Valve and its partners also released initial... -
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See what's New with The New York Times.nytimes.com
Sleeker. Faster. More intuitive. The new design of The Times website makes the world's best journalism even more impactful. Experience it now. -
SPACEX SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES THAICOM 6 SATELLITE TO GEOSTATIONARY TRANSFER ORBITspacex.com
THAICOM 6 mission marks second successful GTO flight for the upgraded Falcon 9 launch vehicle Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida – Today, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) successfully launched the THAICOM 6 satellite for leading Asian sat... -
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Cards for Humanityneltnerb.tumblr.com
There are really big problems out there in the world to solve, but it’s often very difficult to identify what to do because the problems, the world, and the solutions are all so open ended. As a... -
High-end CNC machines can't be moved without manufacturers' permissionboingboing.net
On Practical Machinst, there's a fascinating thread about the manufacturer's lockdown on a high-priced, high-end Mori Seiki NV5000 A/40 CNC mill. -
John Harrison and the Longitude problem : Royal Observatory & history of astronomy : Astronomy fact files : Astronomy & time : Explore online : RMGrmg.co.uk
Harrison's marine timekeepers are the centrepiece of a permanent display at the Royal Observatory.