"SSIMULACRA" is a #graphics #compression assessment algorithm; it does #psychovisual image quality assessment.
Successful cryptanalysis of Enigma with recurrent #neural-networks. #crypto #deep-learning
#China mandates installation of #censorship #malware "Jingwang" on everyone’s #cellphone in #Xinjiang using police checkpoints. #human-rights
#SSIMULACRA #graphics #compression #psychovisual image quality assessment algorithm #source-code. It’s based on DSSIM.
"DSSIM" is a #graphics #compression #psychovisual image quality assessment algorithm.
#DSSIM #graphics #compression #psychovisual image quality assessment algorithm #source-code.
#HackerChick on “agile” vs. “lean”
#Malware on a coffee machine disabled a chemical plant control room. #security
A book review of #Days-of-Rage: “simultaneously disturbing and annoying”
"Butteraugli" #graphics #compression #psychovisual assessment algorithm.
The sensational #Roomba #privacy story that #iRobot later denied.
On rendering #latency. Apparently 1000fps cameras only cost €115 now?
#Ray-tracing with global illumination “using unbiased Monte Carlo path tracing” in 99 lines of C++. #smallisbeautiful #rendering #graphics
#Bitcoin Cash is currently at US$205 with a US$3.4B “market capitalization”. #finance
most #gig-economy workers make around US$100/month, though Airbnb’s median is US$440 and Lyft’s is US$210
#Bitcoin #darknet "Hansa Market" was penetrated and taken over.
Discussion on the idea that in #React you shouldn’t learn Redux first.
a dude saying that in #React you shouldn’t learn Redux first.
Rachel Thomas announces a #linear-algebra #MOOC on fast.ai.
A followup to the epic #Days-of-Rage book review: more book reviews on organizing #activism
A #paper on “imitation learning” in #robotics with #deep-learning
Freddie de Boer says conservatives are good at predicting what will happen, just not whether it will be good or not. #politics
Freddie de Boer argues that leftist #censorship of mainstream #politics on #USA university campuses is real
#Lead exposure interventions provide “modest but real” benefits
As an exercise in #rationality, write your “hypothetical apostasy”
Discussion of #live-coding on #Twitch.
Paper abstract: “Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks”: “the presence of moral-emotional language in political messages substantially increases their diffusion within (and less so between) ideological group boundaries” #politics
use double HMAC verification in #crypto instead of constant-length string compares
NASA scientist "Serkan Golge" still in jail a year after being accused of supporting the #Turkey #coup. #human-rights
Ivana Kurecic’s summary of “Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness: A Procedure and Some Preliminary Findings” (A. Aron et al.; 1997): reciprocal self-disclosure and intimacy-related behavior, gradually escalating. #psychology
#Psychology #paper #PDF of “Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness: A Procedure and Some Preliminary Findings”. Includes the questionnaire; §1 begins, “Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest?”
Rooftop #solar feed-in tariff is under pressure in #USA. #energy #politics
#Russia #politics allows carrying #guns in public for self-defense again, as of 2014-11
#USA #photovoltaic #energy #predictions: Morgan Stanley says, ‘“by 2020, renewables will be the cheapest form of new-power generation across the globe,” with the exception of a few countries in Southeast Asia.’ Also, ‘the price of #solar panels has fallen 50% between 2016 and 2017.’
Biography of #Chuck-Moore, touching on #Forth and stack #hardware
More on #Chuck-Moore, #Forth, and #hardware, up to #GreenArrays (as of 2013). Especially in the comment thread. #stack-machines #architecture
#History of #Fethullah-Gulen and #politics and the #Turkish-coup. #Turkey
#ZCash, #Ethereum, (and #Bitcoin?) in #Venezuela. #politics
#China #censorship via side-channel attacks on TLS. #security
“27 000 Errors in the Tizen Operating System”, #formal-methods for finding bugs in 72 million lines of C++
rebuttal to #The-Uninhabitable-Earth by Wallace Smith Broecker #climate-change
more rebuttals to #The-Uninhabitable-Earth
Kai-Fu Lee on “friendly” #AI; he doesn’t expect AGI. “The AI revolution is on the scale of the Industrial Revolution—probably larger and definitely faster.”
#Alan-Kay on the famous Steve Jobs visit to Xerox PARC. “I was present at the visit and demo, and it was the work of my group and myself that Steve saw, yet the Quora question is the first time that anyone has asked me what happened.”
Grid-scale Li-ion #batteries are predicted to reach parity with gas turbine peakers in a U Minnesota paper. #energy
#PDF #paper on grid-scale #batteries saying they’ll be cheaper than gas peakers. A 322-page #ebook actually
Nafeez Ahmed says #Iraq #Mosul victory is “prelude to Iraqi state-failure”. #politics
points out that online abuse is bipartisan or panpartisan
Most hyped technologies just fail; #predictions are hard
‘“But Vulkan is the hardz” I hear you saying. “Shouldn’t I start with something easy like OpenGL?” Emphatically I say NO. The point is that #Vulkan removes the mystery. It spells things out, plain as day. And for a programmer, this is awesome! It’s intellectually honest about what it needs, and what it’s doing. It will teach you what it really means to program a GPU.’ #graphics #tutorial
John Carmack on #latency (won’t load)
#Putin in #Russia favors #Bitcoin and especially #Ethereum, perhaps thanks to the #USA Magnitsky Act imposing sanctions on Russian citizens. #politics