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This reminds me a bit of the octree quantization implementation I hacked up to improve speed of generating Racket's animated gifs. * https://github.com/racket/racket/commit/6b2e5f4…

Thank you for bringing this up. I had not read this before, but it speaks to my deep concerns.

Thank you for organizing this. It's been a long time since I've listened to these last, and I remember these were enjoyable for Knuth's gentle humor.

I'm sure the folks working on protein folding are losing sleep over role-playing chatbots.

You may want to read the history of banana republics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic . Given the wildness of that particular dark corner of our history, I'm looking …

I misparsed this as Two Years (With Emacs as a CEO and now CTO) as opposed to Two Years (With Emacs) as a CEO and now CTO. and it greatly confused me: how could Emacs act as a CEO?…

There's a very nice article about how single-page web applications work that explain the mechanics of using the location API. https://blog.pshrmn.com/entry/how-single-page-applicat…

He's also a co-author of Lex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_(software) It's human nature to demonize folks.

... and people ask why browsers are so complicated.

Example reference: see the "abbreviations and acronyms" section in: https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-a Hilariously enough, "Nasa" is specifically called ou…

Can anyone tell which low calorie sweeteners the study is talking about? Certain artificial sweeteners elicit a large insulin response even if they are "low-calorie". Did they use …

The Commonwealth Club of California had a pretty good session from the reporter: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2018-06-07/theranos-...

If by "laughingstock", you mean of the millions of lives that his foundation has saved from infant mortality, thus giving those folks the opportunity to smile and laugh, then I agr…

How many of you have immigrant parents who, where English is a second language, would have great difficulty performing the kind of verbal gymnastics that you take for granted?

I'm reminded of: https://qz.com/475975/video-robot-is-bullied-by-children-so-... .

Another point: the documentary about FineArt from Tencent makes it very clear that folks there consider the race for AI analogously to the race to the atomic bomb. https://www.redd…

The bikes literally have an explicit warning sign on them saying not to take them. There's nothing implicit about this. http://www.timboelaars.nl/media/image/resized/7f65959de38848…

I was really hoping that this article was going to talk about some kind of machine-learned model that had been used to improve holiday parties. My hopes, dashed against the shores …

Also in the Korean community. https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-05-01/biggest-megachurch-ea...

His "Word Crimes" is one of the more entertaining videos I've seen, because not only is it a "ha ha just serious" kind of song, but the animations in the video are just spot on.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08144 , as well as the References section at the bottom of: https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/a-neural-network-for...