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escapon Predictive Learning [pdf]

it's a bit more complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolutional_neural_network#H...

https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-convolution-neural-networ...

escapon Introducing OpenType Font Variations

Not exactly what you want, but "Recurrent Net Dreams Up Fake Chinese Characters in Vector Format with TensorFlow" - http://blog.otoro.net/2015/12/28/recurrent-net-dreams-up-fak...

previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10801712

escapon Pinebook ARM Linux Laptop Powered by Allwinner A64 CPU

if you don't mind X86, http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/10/24/jumper-ezbook-2-cherr...

Current black friday sale is $178 to $185

escapon Mobile Holoportation

How does it work with N people ? Do I see other with Vive or hololens on their head ? or the head is actually "reconstructed", and in that case, the eyes are not tracked ?

escapon Show HN: My first web app – PDF memo creator

or using https://github.com/bpampuch/pdfmake e.g. http://pdfmake.org/playground.html "pdfmake is based on a truly amazing library pdfkit.org"

escapon BlazingDB uses GPUs to manipulate huge databases in no time

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvlink.html - NVIDIA® NVLink™ is a high-bandwidth, energy-efficient interconnect that enables ultra-fast communication between the CPU and GPU, and between GPUs.

And a big on the PowerPC roadmap http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/04/07/ibm-unfolds-power-chi... "With NVLink, multiple GPUs can be linked by 20 GB/sec links (bi-directional at that speed) to each other or to the Power8 processor so they can share data more rapidly than is possible over PCI-Express 3.0 peripheral links. (Those PCI-Express links top out at 16 GB/sec and, unlike NVLink, they cannot be aggregated to boost the bandwidth between two devices.)"

escapon Apple Unveils the Apple Watch Series 2

https://9to5mac.com/2016/08/09/apple-health-and-fitness-hard...

escapon Google shelves plan for phone with interchangeable parts

like LG G5 magic slot ? http://www.lg.com/us/mobile-phones/g5#G5Modularity

but it seems LG has reliability with it http://www.alphr.com/lg/1002753/lg-g5-review-2016s-cleverest...

escapon Google Duo, a simple 1-to-1 video calling app

both wechat or line do video and/or audio call on iPhone/Android.

escapon Ask HN: How to reconcile “teach everyone to code” and “only hire the top 1%”?

Do you reconcile “Teach everyone to read and write English” and “Only hire the best writers”?

No because you write: >Literacy is not vocational: it can be applied in many contexts-everyone uses reading all the time. Arithmetic is also plenty useful.

So the question is more: "is coding vocational" ?

escapon Splice Machine open-sources its “dual engine” RDBMS

and nothing on https://github.com/splicemachine

escapon Stealthy Military Startup Launches Neural Processor

http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/06/06/former-nasa-exec-brin... has a few more details

escapon The truth about deep learning

I read the "universal algorithm" as a reference to the book 'The Master Algorithm'

escapon Phrack Magazine is back again

previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11644340

escapon AMD releases FireRays 2.0 ray-tracing library as open source

it can use OpenCL GPU as backend, so it works on Non AMD hardware (e.g. NVidia Titan X )

Vulkan support for FireRays is currently a work-in-progress.

escapon A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript

a nice project is the Positive Lexicography Project, an evolving index of 'untranslatable' words related to wellbeing from across the world's languages: http://www.drtimlomas.com/#!positive-lexicography/cm4mi

(previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11001695 )

escapon A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/...

Available in OS X v10.7 and later

escapon A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript

>> the Shapir/Worf hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity >That's an interesting point, but on the other hand I'm still not convinced that this means that having a lot of distinct languages is "better". While on the other hand, there would be clear benefits to everyone speaking the same language or having at least one common language.

Would the computer world be "better" if anyone standardize on one single programming language (e.g. java) or is it "better" that different languages are there, ( dartmouth basic , javascript, python, lisp, haskell or perl) so you can code differently ?

As for the universal language, Esperanto tried: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto a nice documentary about it: http://esperantodocumentary.com/en/about-the-film

escapon Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Natural Language Parser

Previous discussion on “Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively” quote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7754905

escapon Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Natural Language Parser

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