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Bayesian Statistics and Multi-armed Banditstech.gc.com
A few weeks ago, during a GameChanger Hack Day, my fellow data engineer Zach Markin and I prototyped a multi-armed bandit micro service. As a motivating example, consider the problem of deciding between these three buttons on some page of a website. -
Coolest jobs in tech (literally): running a South Pole data centerarstechnica.com
You know it's cold when you have to heat the air used to cool your data center. -
Artificial photosynthesis could help make fuels, plastics, and medicine | KurzweilAIkurzweilai.net
Schematics of a general artificial photosynthetic approach. The proposed approach for solar-powered CO2 fixation includes four general components: (1) -
Why, after a year with Adobe EchoSign, I’m taking my business elsewheremedium.com
Neal Stephenson was right about bugs. A jobless Belgian might hold the answer. -
Grooveshark music-sharing service closes down - BBC Newsbbc.com
Music-streaming service Grooveshark has announced that it is shutting down. -
Venture Capitalists Enlist Student-Run Funds to Find the Next Facebookwsj.com
With fierce competition for spotting early startup winners, some venture capitalists are developing new strategies to find promising young businesses, such as sponsoring student-run funds. -
Bringing Clang to Windows - Visual C++ Team Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogsblogs.msdn.com
Catch up on the latest news, events, and technical insights from the Microsoft Visual C++ product team. Learn about new compiler and IDE features, dive into some code with language and feature samples, see how to build modern Windows 8 apps, meet the p... - pricetheory.uchicago.edu
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The best museum in Pariscraftsmanship.net
Gary Rogowski makes the case for a former church made into an encyclopedia of mankind’s greatest innovations and creative genius. -
Programmer Convicted in Bizarre Goldman Sachs Case—Again | WIREDwired.com
An ex-Goldman Sachs programmer convicted and then acquitted on federal charges that he stole code from his employer was convicted a second time today on state charges. -
Dangerous Times For The World's Cultural Heritagefivethirtyeight.com
Some of the world's most important historical, cultural and natural sites were already battered by war and disasters before things recently got worse. Last year, 46 of 1,007 places designated as Wo... -
Gravity data show that Antarctic ice sheet is melting increasingly fasterrdmag.com
During the past decade, Antarctica's massive ice sheet lost twice the amount of ice in its western portion compared with what it accumulated in the east, according to Princeton Univ. researchers who came to one overall conclusion: The southern continen... -
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New tool can switch neural behavior ‘on’ and ‘off’ | KurzweilAIkurzweilai.net
The updated DREADD (Designer Receptors Activated Exclusively by Designer Drugs) achieves bidirectional remote control of a neuron (bottom) and behavior by -
Talking About Moneykalzumeus.com
Twitter is presently abuzz with #talkpay folks sharing their salaries. The movement is rather Marxist in character, but this capitalist encourages you to look beyond that, as it is in the general i... -
A Stagecoach to the Starscentauri-dreams.org
Imagine the kind of spaceship we'll need as we begin to expand the human presence into the nearby Solar System. We'd like something completely reusable, a vessel able to carry people in relative co... -
If We Can 3-D Print the Venus de Milo With Arms, What Are Her Arms Doing?slate.com
The Venus de Milo is a paradox: the embodiment of beauty, yet disfigured. And she is a puzzle, gazing serenely at something we cannot see, something once held, we assume, by her missing arms. “La Vénus de Milo est un mystère,” declared the French archa... - rigsomelight.com
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