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Why GEMM is at the heart of deep learningpetewarden.com
Photo by Anthony Catalano I spend most of my time worrying about how to make deep learning with neural networks faster and more power efficient. In practice that means focusing on a function called... -
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unix-toolbox.js-gnupg - A port of the GNU Privacy Guard to Javascript using Emscripten -
regehr/ub-canariesgithub.com
ub-canaries - collection of C/C++ programs that try to get compilers to exploit undefined behavior -
A Solar-Powered Soil Sensor for Serious Gardeners | WIREDwired.com
The Edyn Garden Sensor was built after CEO Jason Aramburu spent years with farmers in Panama and Kenya, and it's a low-cost sensor designed to coach anyone to a better yield. -
Exploring an Alternate Universelaphamsquarterly.org
A peculiar presentiment—the feeling that LSD-25 could possess properties other than those established in my first investigations—induced me, five years after the first synthesis, to produce it once ag -
Can Auto-Dystopian Los Angeles Sell the Myth of Becoming a Green, Sustainable City?slate.com
Earlier this month, Gov. Jerry Brown’s announcement of California’s first-ever mandatory restrictions on water use drew attention to the state’s uneasy relationship with its natural resources. “Mother Nature didn’t intend for 40 million people to live ... -
Itamar Simonson: What Makes People Collect Things?gsb.stanford.edu
A marketing professor explores the world of collectibles and consumer motivation. -
Don’t make bicyclists more visible. Make drivers stop hitting them.washingtonpost.com
Mandatory helmet laws and glow-in-the-dark spray paint just show who really owns the roads. -
Quitting + failures + a microscope in the living room = Nobel Prizearstechnica.com
At Bell Labs, Eric Betzig describes his very indirect path to scientific success. -
Null Pointer Dereferencing Causes Undefined Behavior | Intel® Developer Zonesoftware.intel.com
I have unintentionally raised a large debate recently concerning the question if it is legal in C/C++ to use the &P->m_foo expression with P being a null pointer. The programmers' community divided into two camps. The first claimed with confiden... -
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A blueprint for clearing the skies of space debrissciencedaily.com
Scientists have put forward a blueprint for a purely space-based system to solve the growing problem of space debris. The proposal will be used to detect objects, and a recently developed high-efficiency laser system will be used to track space debris ... -
Rogue Woundslaphamsquarterly.org
In March 1876 Dr. Carlos MacDonald, newly appointed medical superintendent of the State Asylum for Insane Criminals at Auburn, New York, received word that a new prisoner was convulsing. He found the -
New Theory Leads to Gigahertz Antenna on a Chip - IEEE Spectrumspectrum.ieee.org
Tech history and modern physics inspire a new path to smaller antennas -
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Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard Deconstructs the Science of Songwritingmedium.com
On balancing the “blurred lines” between borrowing and being “a f**king idiot.” - williamngan.github.io
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The Spandrels Of San Marco Revisited: An Interview With Richard C. Lewontinevolution-institute.org
One of the most widely cited and discussed articles in evolutionary biology is “The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme”, which was written by Harvard biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Richard C...