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Collections: The Battlefield After the Battle – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

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Fail at Scale & Controlling Queue Delay – the morning paper

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Grasp2Vec: Learning Object Representations from Self-Supervised Grasping

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Adventures in Netflix – Random Thoughts

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How to steal Ethers: scanning for vulnerable contracts — palkeo

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MENTAL MOUNTAINS

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64 Bits ought to be enough for anybody! | Trail of Bits Blog

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Unsong

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Why It's So Difficult to Buy Contacts in the U.S. - The Atlantic

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What randomisation can and cannot do: The 2019 Nobel Prize | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal

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How "special register groups" invaded computer dictionaries for decades

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Neural Models for Information Retrieval - YouTube

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Suspect can’t be compelled to reveal “64-character” password, court rules | Ars Technica

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The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

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Clang-format tanks performance | Performance Matters

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Sendy is Insecure: How Not to Implement reCAPTCHA - victorzhou.com

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Hyder – A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash

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Embeddings for Everything: Search in the Neural Network Era

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An analysis of Uniswap markets

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Why Did China Just Devalue the Yuan?

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Waltz: A Distributed Write-Ahead Log

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PyTorch at Tesla - Andrej Karpathy

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Using Deep Learning to Inform Differential Diagnoses of Skin Diseases

ai.googleblog.com/2019/09/using-deep-learning-to-inform.html
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Learning to Predict Without Looking Ahead

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Search Query Embeddings using query2vec

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This Science Vigilante Calls Out Bogus Results in Prestigious Journals

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Libra is Architecturally Unsound

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Evaluability (And Cheap Holiday Shopping)

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Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation

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They might never tell you it's broken

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Revisiting Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data in Deep Learning Era

arxiv.org/pdf/1707.02968.pdf
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Visual Model-Based Reinforcement Learning as a Path towards Generalist Robots

bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2018/11/30/visual-rl/
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Color from hexcodes to eyeballs

jamie-wong.com/post/color/
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Tether, the story so far

kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/
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What are unevaluated operands in C++?

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Newsweek: Dropshipping journalism

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why async fn in traits are hard [rust]

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Books: Accounting DB system from Square

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63 Cores Blocked by Seven Instructions

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Overload control for scaling WeChat microservices – the morning paper

blog.acolyer.org/2018/11/16/overload-control-for-scaling-wec...
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Coffee is Hard

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The structure of DNA

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Introducing Zero Round Trip Time Resumption (0-RTT) Share

blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-0-rtt/
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Death Note: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy - Gwern.net

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ffwd: delegation is (much) faster than you think – the morning paper

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Verb-Noun vs Noun-Verb

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A Comprehensive Guide to Genetic Algorithms (and how to code them)

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BagNet: Analog circuit design with EA and deep learning

bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2019/09/26/circuits/
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UMAP vs tSNE

towardsdatascience.com/how-exactly-umap-works-13e3040e1668
@Michael 1 month, 4 weeks ago
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Tall building of the last 50 years

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Discovery of Fast Inverse Chirp Z-Transform

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The Scholar's Stage: Public Opinion in Authoritarian States

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@Michael 2 months, 1 week ago
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Confidential Transactions

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GAN Dissection

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Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency is Easy

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Four common mistakes in audio development

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WeWTF part deux

profgalloway.com/wewtf-part-deux
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Morning Paper summary of "No Silver Bullet"

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FaRM details and protocols

blog.acolyer.org/2016/01/14/no-compromises/
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A warm welcome to DNS

powerdns.org/hello-dns/
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p-value thresholds are not the problem, p-values are

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/09/06/__trashed-2/
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Ethereum Layer 2 Status 03/2019

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Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

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Visualizing probabilistic models and data with Intensive Principal Component Analysis

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Papers related to Surprisingly Popular

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Relational Networks, Deepmind (2017)

arxiv.org/abs/1706.01427
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Tool use from Reinforcement Learning

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Brazilian Day Traders Overwhelmingly Lose Money

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The Riemann Hypothesis (Part 1)

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Exploring the Limitations of Behavior Cloning for Autonomous Driving

arxiv.org/pdf/1904.08980.pdf
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Illusions that tricked Arthur Conan Doyle

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Attention is all you Need

arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf
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Ronald Fisher, a Bad Cup of Tea, and the Birth of Modern Statistics | Science History Institute

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@Michael 3 months ago
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Google AI Blog: Curiosity and Procrastination in Reinforcement Learning

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Learning Concepts with Energy Functions

openai.com/blog/learning-concepts-with-energy-functions/
@Michael 3 months, 1 week ago
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Getafix, automated bug fixing system from Facebook

engineering.fb.com/developer-tools/getafix-how-facebook-tool...
@Michael 3 months, 1 week ago
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Canadian-Chinese comedian Dashan doing xiangsheng

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Analysis of the satellite image of failed Iranian launch leaked by Trump

sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2019/09/image-from-trump-tweet-iden...
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Waymo’s Backseat Drivers: Confidential Data Reveals Self-Driving Taxi Hurdles

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How We Built a Cost-Based SQL Optimizer - Cockroach Labs

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Controllable attributes for chatbots and how they affect human judgement

abigailsee.com/2019/08/13/what-makes-a-good-conversation.htm...
@Michael 3 months, 1 week ago
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Quanta Magazine

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Lawsplainer: IT'S NOT RICO, DAMMIT

popehat.com/2016/06/14/lawsplainer-its-not-rico-dammit/
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Zoncolan: Using static analysis to prevent security issues - Facebook Engineering

engineering.fb.com/security/zoncolan/
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The Fully Remote Attack Surface of the iPhone

googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-fully-remote-atta...
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Circumventing Windows RT’s Code Integrity Mechanism

surfsec.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/circumventing-windows-rts-c...
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Spaced Repetition for Learning Mathematics

cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics
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Black Lives and the Boston Massacre - The American Scholar

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@Michael's Reviews

Eyes wide shut or eyes wide open? | pigee

Why Smallpox Is No More but Polio and Other Diseases Persist | Quanta Magazine

Green Bonds without The Bond

Building AI that can master complex cooperative games with hidden information

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Where Have You Gone, Peter Norton? | Technologizer by Harry McCracken

Collections: The Battlefield After the Battle – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fail at Scale & Controlling Queue Delay – the morning paper

no title

Grasp2Vec: Learning Object Representations from Self-Supervised Grasping

Adventures in Netflix – Random Thoughts

How to steal Ethers: scanning for vulnerable contracts — palkeo

MENTAL MOUNTAINS

64 Bits ought to be enough for anybody! | Trail of Bits Blog

Unsong

Why It's So Difficult to Buy Contacts in the U.S. - The Atlantic

What randomisation can and cannot do: The 2019 Nobel Prize | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal

How "special register groups" invaded computer dictionaries for decades

Neural Models for Information Retrieval - YouTube

Suspect can’t be compelled to reveal “64-character” password, court rules | Ars Technica

The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

Clang-format tanks performance | Performance Matters

Sendy is Insecure: How Not to Implement reCAPTCHA - victorzhou.com

Hyder – A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash

Embeddings for Everything: Search in the Neural Network Era

An analysis of Uniswap markets

Why Did China Just Devalue the Yuan?

Waltz: A Distributed Write-Ahead Log

PyTorch at Tesla - Andrej Karpathy

Using Deep Learning to Inform Differential Diagnoses of Skin Diseases

Learning to Predict Without Looking Ahead

Search Query Embeddings using query2vec

This Science Vigilante Calls Out Bogus Results in Prestigious Journals

Libra is Architecturally Unsound

Evaluability (And Cheap Holiday Shopping)

Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation

They might never tell you it's broken

Revisiting Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data in Deep Learning Era

Visual Model-Based Reinforcement Learning as a Path towards Generalist Robots

Color from hexcodes to eyeballs

Tether, the story so far

What are unevaluated operands in C++?

Newsweek: Dropshipping journalism

why async fn in traits are hard [rust]

Books: Accounting DB system from Square

63 Cores Blocked by Seven Instructions

Overload control for scaling WeChat microservices – the morning paper

Coffee is Hard

The structure of DNA

Introducing Zero Round Trip Time Resumption (0-RTT) Share

Death Note: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy - Gwern.net

ffwd: delegation is (much) faster than you think – the morning paper

Verb-Noun vs Noun-Verb

A Comprehensive Guide to Genetic Algorithms (and how to code them)

BagNet: Analog circuit design with EA and deep learning

UMAP vs tSNE

Tall building of the last 50 years

Discovery of Fast Inverse Chirp Z-Transform

The Scholar's Stage: Public Opinion in Authoritarian States

Confidential Transactions

GAN Dissection

Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency is Easy

Four common mistakes in audio development

WeWTF part deux

Morning Paper summary of "No Silver Bullet"

FaRM details and protocols

A warm welcome to DNS

p-value thresholds are not the problem, p-values are

Ethereum Layer 2 Status 03/2019

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

Visualizing probabilistic models and data with Intensive Principal Component Analysis

Papers related to Surprisingly Popular

Relational Networks, Deepmind (2017)

Tool use from Reinforcement Learning

Brazilian Day Traders Overwhelmingly Lose Money

The Riemann Hypothesis (Part 1)

Exploring the Limitations of Behavior Cloning for Autonomous Driving

Illusions that tricked Arthur Conan Doyle