How to Quantize Neural Networks with TensorFlow « Pete Warden's blog

https://petewarden.com/2016/05/03/how-to-quantize-neural-networks-with-tensorflow/

They treat it like a compiler pass, unwrapping and wrapping around each operating and then removing redundant stages as a separate phase.

nonbeard 2016-05-04 11:07:44

AdBlock Plus teams up with Flattr to help readers pay publishers

http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/03/adblock-plus-teams-up-with-flattr-to-help-readers-pay-publishers/

Very interesting. The problem is pervasive tracking!

nonbeard 2016-05-03 17:32:36

Study: Elite scientists can hold back science - Vox

http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2015/12/15/10219330/elite-scientists-hold-back-progress

"Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time"?

nonbeard 2016-04-30 00:54:33

The Right Way to Practice

http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/not-all-practice-makes-perfect

The lesson I'm getting from this is: be very specific about your success criteria for practise. "Get this section right" isn't good enough. "Get this section note-perfect and to tempo three times in a row" is better.

nonbeard 2016-04-24 13:51:20

Qur’an Memorizers Who Don’t Speak Arabic Learn Grammar from Statistics Alone | Mental Floss

http://mentalfloss.com/us/go/78823

Surprisingly, the memorizers with no classroom Arabic did better than those who had had lessons, suggesting that a “top-down approach” that explains the rules of language “may negatively impact learners’ sensitivity to the bottom-up statistics of a language.”

nonbeard 2016-04-22 20:02:05

Khaju Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaju_Bridge

Khaju Bridge is a bridge in the province of Isfahan, Iran, which has been described as the finest in the province.

nonbeard 2016-04-17 11:55:57

Aposematism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aposematism

Aposematism describes a family of antipredator adaptations in which a warning signal is associated with the unprofitability of a prey item to potential predators.

nonbeard 2016-04-17 00:14:05

ElgensRepairs: Homemade 1MB Chip RAM Expansion for Amiga A600

http://elgensrepairs.blogspot.cl/2012/10/homemade-1mb-chip-ram-expansion-for.html

I, for some reason, am doing this.

nonbeard 2016-04-15 22:55:01

How to Build the CMoy Pocket Amplifier

http://tangentsoft.net/audio/cmoy/

Simple, popular, and extensible headphone amplifier

nonbeard 2016-04-08 02:55:16

Raymarching

http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/terrainmarching/terrainmarching.htm

Simples!

nonbeard 2016-04-06 10:57:10

Make your own RJ45 dongle for many PCMCIA network cards

http://labs.cexx.org/dongle.htm

Amiga networking

nonbeard 2016-03-31 00:54:55

The pebble component-based operating system

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1268728

Pebble is an OS which generates specialised code to improve the speed of cross-domain transfer. I studied it ten years ago and am bookmarking it now before every pebble-related link on the Web points to the Pebble smartwatch.

nonbeard 2016-03-18 02:01:55

A Guide to Men’s Hat Styles | Articles of Style

http://articlesofstyle.com/60664/a-guide-to-mens-hat-styles/

Really reinforces the point that if you want to wear a hat (or at least a formal hat) then you have to dress appropriately.

nonbeard 2016-03-01 11:07:15

amitools « Lallafa's Blog

http://lallafa.de/blog/amiga-projects/amitools/

Amiga disassembler

nonbeard 2016-02-22 16:21:06

British Shorthair breeds info, Temperament, kitten names, Price

http://www.catbreedslist.com/all-cat-breeds/british-shorthair.html

Here, or to alert master hair bulb, cat useful tongue self cleaning habits, but also eat a lot of maomao, so feed it to eat a little spit on a regular basis the bulb creams

nonbeard 2016-02-19 17:45:51

Aminet - dev/src/ScrollingTrick.lha

http://aminet.net/package/dev/src/ScrollingTrick

Amiga scrolling

nonbeard 2016-02-17 03:45:59

5th tutorial, Horizontal scroller - English Amiga Board

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=68751

Amiga horizontal scrolling with the blitter

nonbeard 2016-02-17 03:35:00

Hard Drive SMART Stats

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-smart-stats/

Primarily interesting because it shows that quite a few / most SMART stats aren't indicative of anything much.

nonbeard 2016-02-17 00:55:44

plipbox « Lallafa's Blog

http://lallafa.de/blog/amiga-projects/plipbox/

amiga networking via parallel port

nonbeard 2016-02-15 23:02:44

Amiga ATX Adaptors

http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/designs/Amiga_ATX_Adaptor/amiga_atx_adaptor.html
nonbeard 2016-02-05 01:22:36

Cheap RGB to VGA converter – Amiga – Retro Commodore

http://www.retro-commodore.eu/2014/03/11/cheap-rgb-to-vga-converter-amiga/

Looks like a good option

nonbeard 2016-02-05 01:12:08

Trippy spinning optical illusion

http://kottke.org/16/02/trippy-spinning-optical-illusion

A take on the spinning ballerina illusion

nonbeard 2016-02-02 19:16:15

Boron Nitride Products: Wurtzite Boron Nitride (WBN)

http://www.ukabrasives.com/boron-nitride/wurtzite-wbn.html

Wurtzite Boron Nitride is a new superabrasive material that is manufactured by detonation.

nonbeard 2016-01-30 01:21:03

LONDON CHEESECAKE | Recipes | Nigella Lawson

http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/london-cheesecake-147

I want this cheesecake so much.

nonbeard 2016-01-23 19:27:01

John Barton (engineer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barton_(engineer)

Barton's engraved metal buttons, mentioned by Babbage as a curio to amuse people he met whilst travelling.

nonbeard 2016-01-20 22:18:02

An overview of gradient descent optimization algorithms

http://sebastianruder.com/optimizing-gradient-descent/
2016-01-20 14:31:57

backdoor in IRC code · Issue #1 · alerj78/lucky7coin · GitHub

https://github.com/alerj78/lucky7coin/issues/1

holy shit, people

nonbeard 2016-01-16 15:29:36

Inside the Eye: Nature’s Most Exquisite Creation -- National Geographic Magazine

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/evolution-of-eyes-text
nonbeard 2016-01-16 03:36:55

Sock and Buskin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sock_and_Buskin

Symbols of the theatre

nonbeard 2016-01-15 20:44:43

Arduino/boards.md at master · esp8266/Arduino · GitHub

https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/blob/master/doc/boards.md#minimal-hardware-setup-for-bootloading-and-usage

esp8266 arduino ide

nonbeard 2016-01-13 01:38:11

How to C (as of 2016)

https://matt.sh/howto-c

Dreadful title, good advice

nonbeard 2016-01-08 16:20:03

How to Make an Ethernet Cable - Cat5, RJ45 Connectors - VSAT Installation Training

http://www.groundcontrol.com/galileo/ch5-ethernet.htm

Manipulate a specific ordering of 8 wires which are constantly moving and/or under tension in unexpected ways into a space about the width of a pinky fingernail, and then ensure that the resulting wires, which were previously in a circular shape and are now flattened out in a line, are all the same length.

nonbeard 2016-01-08 15:26:26

Seitan Roast Stuffed With Shiitakes And Leeks | Post Punk Kitchen | Vegan Baking & Vegan Cooking

http://www.theppk.com/2011/11/seitan-roast-stuffed-with-shiitakes-and-leeks/

Ihor made this. Not sure about the seitan but 100% sure about shiitakes and leeks

nonbeard 2016-01-04 20:35:14

Differentiable Programming

http://edge.org/response-detail/26794
nonbeard 2016-01-03 02:33:24

Placebo effects are weak: regression to the mean is the main reason ineffective treatments appear to work

http://www.dcscience.net/2015/12/11/placebo-effects-are-weak-regression-to-the-mean-is-the-main-reason-ineffective-treatments-appear-to-work/
nonbeard 2015-12-16 13:32:57

Do deep nets really need to be deep?

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.6184v7.pdf

Paper on deep learning / neural network distillation: training a shallower net to approximate(?) the results of the larger net

nonbeard 2015-12-15 22:44:33

Classifying plankton with deep neural networks – Sander Dieleman

http://benanne.github.io/2015/03/17/plankton.html

Sander Dieleman's talk. Again, a convolutional neural network with many tricks, and plenty of commonalities with Jeffrey's approach

nonbeard 2015-12-15 22:14:26

Detecting diabetic retinopathy in eye images

http://jeffreydf.github.io/diabetic-retinopathy-detection/

Jeffrey De Fauw's talk on this competition (convolutional neural network-based stack with many tricks)

nonbeard 2015-12-15 22:05:44

https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets

https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets
2015-12-14 08:02:43

Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace—Stephen Wolfram Blog

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-of-ada-lovelace/

Great essay on Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage. Self-aggrandisement on the part of Stephen Wolfram is present but mercifully does not intrude too much.

nonbeard 2015-12-12 21:13:22

Paradise Mill - Museum in Macclesfield, Macclesfield - Discover Cheshire

http://www.visitcheshire.com/things-to-do/paradise-mill-p27671

They've got possibly the world's largest collection of Jacquard looms. Must visit!

nonbeard 2015-12-11 02:06:05

Artificial intelligence centre launched by the University of Cambridge - Market Business News

http://marketbusinessnews.com/artificial-intelligence-centre-launched-by-the-university-of-cambridge/114410

Sounds a little like the Future of Humanity Institute.

nonbeard 2015-12-06 17:49:31

Snowman Decompiler MIPS version 1.0 : ReverseEngineering

https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/comments/3vh7f7/snowman_decompiler_mips_version_10/

finally a mips decompiler which doesn't suck (possibly)

nonbeard 2015-12-05 18:31:56

microG Project

https://github.com/microg

The microG Project aims to provide a free and fully-compatible replacement for Google's proprietary user space components in Android.

nonbeard 2015-12-02 23:46:41

Language Log » Quinoa: way more than one way to pronounce it

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=22551#more-22551

kee-NU-wa. Now I feel bad for telling everyone that it was keen-wa. Not that bad.

nonbeard 2015-11-30 20:03:32

Playing music on a Raspberry Pi using UPnP and DLNA (v3)

http://blog.scphillips.com/posts/2014/05/playing-music-on-a-raspberry-pi-using-upnp-and-dlna-v3/

dlna audio streamer for raspberry pi

nonbeard 2015-11-29 13:27:35

nonbeard 2015-11-28 00:55:58

No more Type I/II error confusion « Mind Hacks

http://mindhacks.com/2015/11/16/no-more-type-iii-error-confusion/
nonbeard 2015-11-23 16:06:27