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Monday, August 20, 06:16 UTC @ Hacker Noon - Medium

Monday, August 20, 04:09 UTC @ Computational Complexity

Some graphs are 2-colorable, some graphs are 3-colorable, some graphs are...Does it make sense to say that a graph is 2.1-colorable? It does!(Source_ Factional Graph Theory by Schneinerman and Ullman-- I saw a talk on this by Jim Propp a long time ago.) Def 1: A graph is (a,b)-colorable (with a \le b) if you can assign to every vertex a set of a numbers from {1,...,b} such that if u and v are adjacent then the set of numbers are disjoint. Note that k-colorable is (1,k)-colorable. Let chi_b(G) b

Monday, August 20, 03:35 UTC @ Hacker Noon - Medium

Monday, August 20, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

In the decremental single-source shortest paths (SSSP) problem we want to maintain the distances between a given source node $s$ and every other node in an $n$-node $m$-edge graph $G$ undergoing edge deletions. While its static counterpart can be solved in near-linear time, this decremental problem is much more challenging even in the undirected unweighted case. In this case, the classic $O(mn)$ total update time of Even and Shiloach [JACM 1981] has been the fastest known algorithm for three decades. At

Monday, August 20, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

An algorithm observes the trajectories of random walks over an unknown graph $G$, starting from the same vertex $x$, as well as the degrees along the trajectories. For all finite connected graphs, one can estimate the number of edges $m$ up to a bounded factor in $O\left(t_{\mathrm{rel}}^{3/4}\sqrt{m/d}\right)$ steps, where $t_{\mathrm{rel}}$ is the relaxation time of the lazy random walk on $G$ and $d$ is the minimum degree in $G$. Alternatively, $m$ can be estimated in $O\left(t_{\mathrm{unif}} +t_{\ma

Monday, August 20, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

We show that every graph is spectrally similar to the union of a constant number of forests. Moreover, we show that Spielman-Srivastava sparsifiers are the union of O(logn) forests. This result can be used to estimate boundaries of small subsets of vertices in nearly optimal query time.

Monday, August 20, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

Cardinality estimators like HyperLogLog are sketching algorithms that estimate the number of distinct elements in a large multiset. Their use in privacy-sensitive contexts raises the question of whether they leak private information. In particular, can they provide any privacy guarantees while preserving their strong aggregation properties? We formulate an abstract notion of cardinality estimators, which captures this aggregation requirement: one can merge sketches without losing precision. We propose an

Monday, August 20, 01:30 UTC @ cs.CG updates on arXiv.org

This paper presents a robust and efficient method for tracking topological features in time-varying scalar data. Structures are tracked based on the optimal matching between persistence diagrams with respect to the Wasserstein metric. This fundamentally relies on solving the assignment problem, a special case of optimal transport, for all consecutive timesteps. Our approach relies on two main contributions. First, we revisit the seminal assignment algorithm by Kuhn and Munkres which we specifically adapt

Monday, August 20, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

In the classical binary search in a path the aim is to detect an unknown target by asking as few queries as possible, where each query reveals the direction to the target. This binary search algorithm has been recently extended by [Emamjomeh-Zadeh et al., STOC, 2016] to the problem of detecting a target in an arbitrary graph. Similarly to the classical case in the path, the algorithm of Emamjomeh-Zadeh et al. maintains a candidates' set for the target, while each query asks an appropriately chosen vertex

Monday, August 20, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

Notions of local and non-local curvatures of higher-dimensional geometric shapes and topological spaces play a fundamental role in physics and mathematics in characterizing anomalous behaviours of these higher dimensional entities. However, using curvature measures to detect anomalies in networks is not yet very common due to several reasons such as lack of preferred geometric interpretation of networks and lack of experimental evidences that may lead to specific desired curvature properties. To this end

Monday, August 20, 01:30 UTC @ cs.CC updates on arXiv.org

In the article \The State of SAT", the authors asked whether a procedure dramatically different from DPLL can be found for handling unsatisfiable instances. This study proposes a new linear programming approach to address this issue efficiently. Our experiments showed that the new method works for many unsatisfiable instances. However, we must concede that this method should be incomplete; otherwise, it will imply P=co-NP.

Monday, August 20, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

In the online packet scheduling problem with deadlines (PacketScheduling, for short), the goal is to schedule transmissions of packets that arrive over time in a network switch and need to be sent across a link. Each packet $p$ has a deadline $d_p$, representing its urgency, and a non-negative weight $w_p$, that represents its priority. Only one packet can be transmitted in any time slot, so, if the system is overloaded, some packets will inevitably miss their deadlines and be dropped. In this scenario,

Monday, August 20, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

Graph randomisation is a crucial task in the analysis and synthesis of networks. It is typically implemented as an edge switching process (ESMC) repeatedly swapping the nodes of random edge pairs while maintaining the degrees involved. Curveball is a novel approach that instead considers the whole neighbourhoods of randomly drawn node pairs. Its Markov chain converges to a uniform distribution, and experiments suggest that it requires less steps than the established ESMC. Since trades however are

Monday, August 20, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

Mixtures of Mallows models are a popular generative model for ranking data coming from a heterogeneous population. They have a variety of applications including social choice, recommendation systems and natural language processing. Here we give the first polynomial time algorithm for provably learning the parameters of a mixture of Mallows models with any constant number of components. Prior to our work, only the two component case had been settled. Our analysis revolves around a determinantal identity o

Monday, August 20, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

Karger used spanning tree packings to derive a near linear-time randomized algorithm for the global minimum cut problem as well as a bound on the number of approximate minimum cuts. This is a different approach from his well-known random contraction algorithm. Thorup developed a fast deterministic algorithm for the minimum $k$-cut problem via greedy recursive tree packings. In this paper we revisit properties of an LP relaxation for $k$-cut proposed by Naor and Rabani, and analyzed by Chekuri, Gu

Monday, August 20, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

We introduce and study the problem of optimizing arbitrary functions over degree sequences of hypergraphs and multihypergraphs. We show that over multihypergraphs the problem can be solved in polynomial time. For hypergraphs, we show that deciding if a given sequence is the degree sequence of a 3-hypergraph is NP-complete, thereby solving a 30 year long open problem. This implies that optimization over hypergraphs is hard already for simple concave functions. In contrast, we show that for graphs, if the

Monday, August 20, 01:21 UTC @ Hacker Noon - Medium

Sunday, August 19, 21:33 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

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Sunday, August 19, 08:31 UTC @ Azimuth

I’ve been talking about my new paper with Jade Master: • John Baez and Jade Master, Open Petri nets. In Part 1 we saw the double category of open Petri nets; in Part 2 we saw the reachability semantics for open Petri nets as a double functor. Now I’d like to wrap up by showing […]

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Sunday, August 19, 03:35 UTC @ Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP

Not anything to do with electrical engineering Alexei Miasnikov, Alexander Ushakov, and Dong Wook Won are the authors of a brilliant paper, “Power Circuits, Exponential Algebra, and Time Complexity.” It and several followup papers give polynomial-time algorithms for problems in group theory where only highly exponential algorithms were previously known. The algorithms use a new […]

Sunday, August 19, 02:46 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

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Saturday, August 18, 21:39 UTC @ Cocoa Samurai

Swift contains protocols in which you can declare methods, which something claiming to adhere to the protocol must implement. One thing Swift protocols can’t do are optional methods... sort of. In Objective-C we’d specify an optional method in a protocol like so @protocol MyProtcol -(void)someRequiredMethod:(id)param; @optional -(void)someOptionalMethod:(id)param; @end In Swift you

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Saturday, August 18, 13:04 UTC @ 250bpm-blogs

She was nineteen when she joined Gliese Liberation Movement. She didn't fight in the insurgency, of course. She lived at Earth, twenty light years away from the conflict. However, she did attend the protests and she did help with the distribution of leaflets. She had a poster of comandante Iñigo hung above her bed. Part Che Guevara, part Zorro the Avenger, the young daredevil with a wry smile and a submachine gun guarded her sleep. Once, she sent him a letter. May

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Saturday, August 18, 09:00 UTC @ Azimuth

I’d like to continue talking about this paper: • John Baez and Jade Master, Open Petri nets. Last time I explained, in a sketchy way, the double category of open Petri nets. This time I’d like to describe a ‘semantics’ for open Petri nets. In his famous thesis Functorial Semantics of Algebraic Theories, Lawvere introduced […]

Saturday, August 18, 07:09 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

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Saturday, August 18, 03:49 UTC @ tecosystems

anyone know what happens if you refuse to leave your vacation rental? A post shared by stephen o'grady (@stephenogrady) on Aug 3, 2018 at 6:29pm PDT As those of you who follow me on social media may have seen, I’ve already had my annual summer week up north in a cottage on the water. Which

Saturday, August 18, 03:49 UTC @ tecosystems

anyone know what happens if you refuse to leave your vacation rental? A post shared by stephen o'grady (@stephenogrady) on Aug 3, 2018 at 6:29pm PDT As those of you who follow me on social media may have seen, I’ve already had my annual summer week up north in a cottage on the water. Which

Friday, August 17, 23:00 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Rene Ritchie, writing at iMore: This is basically the best worst kept secret in technology. Best, because Apple never tells anyone. Worst, because, since iPhone 5, Apple has announced every new iPhone during a special event held the first or second Tuesday or Wednesday of September. […] Now, past isn’t always predicate, but past events are the best indicator for future events. Apple can and will throw curveballs whenever the company’s logistics or strategy dem

Friday, August 17, 22:53 UTC @ Daring Fireball

One last piece in today’s Dragonfly trifecta, this one from Carolin O’Donovan for BuzzFeed: Google employees are demanding greater transparency from their employer and confronting management with their ethical concerns about a project named Dragonfly, a controversial censored search app for the Chinese market. Employees are circulating a list of demands for the company in a letter obtained by BuzzFeed News (posted in full, below), calling for an ethics review struct

Friday, August 17, 21:55 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Ryan Gallagher, writing this week: Google co-founder Sergey Brin is the owner of what is reportedly one of the world’s fastest motor yachts. The luxurious 240-foot boat (pictured below) is worth $80 million and has nine cabins and space for 18 guests and 16 crew. It has an open-air cinema, a bar, and a jacuzzi on the sundeck, which can be converted into a dance floor. But that is all less interesting to me than the boat’s name: Dragonfly. As I

Friday, August 17, 21:46 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Ryan Gallagher, reporting earlier this month for The Intercept: Documents seen by The Intercept, marked “Google confidential,” say that Google’s Chinese search app will automatically identify and filter websites blocked by the Great Firewall. When a person carries out a search, banned websites will be removed from the first page of results, and a disclaimer will be displayed stating that “some results may have been removed due to statutory requirements.” Examples cited in th

Friday, August 17, 21:14 UTC @ Daring Fireball

I don’t expect to see this one played at Twitter’s next press event. ★

Friday, August 17, 21:06 UTC @ Y Combinator

At Y Combinator, founders decide when they want to announce that they’re part of the program. Meet 14 of the companies who have announced that they’re part of the YC Summer 2018 batch.

Friday, August 17, 20:11 UTC @ joe cieplinski

Me, back in April 2016: “Get rid of Time Travel. It’s a gimmick, and I activate it accidentally more often than not.” Today, on AppleInsider:  RIP Time Travel - A seldom-used Apple Watch feature set to disappear with watchOS 5  Far

Friday, August 17, 19:55 UTC @ TED Blog

Healthcare is at a turning point. Big data, evolving consumer preferences and shifting cost structures are just a few of the many complex factors shaping the opportunities and challenges that will define the future. How can we all become forces for positive change and progress? For the first time, TED partnered with Optum, a health […]

Friday, August 17, 19:35 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

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Friday, August 17, 17:26 UTC @ TED Blog

We’ve been on break but the TED community definitely hasn’t — here are some highlights from the past few weeks. Black Panther’s Shuri stars in her own comic. Writer Nnedi Okorafor will team up with visual artist Leonardo Romero to bring Marvel’s newest Black Panther comic series to life. Shuri will follow Wakandan princess and […

Friday, August 17, 17:25 UTC @ tecosystems

The interesting thing about interviewing analyst candidates for RedMonk is that you literally have no idea where the conversations will take you. As a firm that intentionally casts a wide net, our applicants come from a wide range of backgrounds and bring very different experiences to the table. From former CIA operatives to current CTOs,

Friday, August 17, 17:25 UTC @ tecosystems

The interesting thing about interviewing analyst candidates for RedMonk is that you literally have no idea where the conversations will take you. As a firm that intentionally casts a wide net, our applicants come from a wide range of backgrounds and bring very different experiences to the table. From former CIA operatives to current CTOs,

Friday, August 17, 17:20 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

La física de los neutrinos permite buscar posibles desviaciones de la simetría de Lorentz (relatividad especial de Einstein) en extensiones del modelo estándar. El experimento EXO-200 las buscó en la desintegración nuclear beta doble [LCMF, 29 Ene 2016]. Ahora […]

Friday, August 17, 15:35 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Dr Sherry Walling, Founder, Zenfounder We had a great conversation yesterday with clinical psychologist Sherry Walling. Sherry’s been working with Entrepreneurs for over 10 years – you may have heard her talk at BoS USA last year. We discussed a whole bunch of really interesting topics including: What are the signs that I might be setting […] The post Looking After Yo

Friday, August 17, 15:31 UTC @ Daring Fireball

UpHabit is about relationship management made simple. They’re a mobile-only personal CRM made just for you. You can set regular reminders, remember the little things and keep in touch with the people you care about most. They’d love you to sign up for their iOS beta starting August 21st (with the App Store release planned for October 2018). When out of beta, UpHabit will be a subscription app with a free tier, and of course the beta is completely free. Your data is private. They care deeply ab

Friday, August 17, 14:09 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

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Friday, August 17, 13:49 UTC @ John D. Cook

It’s been known for some time that carbon can form structures with positive curvature (fullerenes) and structures with zero curvature (graphene). Recently researches discovered a form of carbon with negative curvature (schwartzites). News story here. More curvature posts: Squircles Curvature of an egg Curvature and automatic differentiation

Friday, August 17, 13:31 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

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Friday, August 17, 13:29 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

Happy Friday from the Apache community! Let's delve into what's happened over the past week: ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Next Board Meeting: 19 September. Board calendar and minutes http://... ApacheCon™ –the ASF's official global conference series, now in its 20th y

Friday, August 17, 13:02 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

El fraude científico se castiga con la retracción de los artículos publicados. Los editores de las revistas solicitan una investigación, que incluye la opinión del sospechoso, sus colegas y su institución. ¿Qué pasa cuando todos callan porque ya ha […] Leer más

Friday, August 17, 02:30 UTC @ Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP

A great choice Cropped from 2016 KTH grant news source Johan Håstad is the winner of the 2018 Donald E. Knuth Prize. We were going to keep you in suspense, but one of our “blog invariants” is to lead with the name(s) of those who are featured. He is very well deserving. And he has […]

Friday, August 17, 00:57 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

(Warning, this is just more about the topic of the last posting, which for most people will be a good reason to stop reading now. On the other hand, if you’re obsessed with the controversy over string theory, you might … Continue reading →

Thursday, August 16, 19:29 UTC @ Daring Fireball

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Thursday, August 16, 18:05 UTC @ TED Blog

Tiq Milan and Kim Katrin Milan brought warmth and light to the TEDWomen stage in 2016, sharing their vision of queer love and possibility. As a Black trans activist, writer and media maker, Tiq Milan expands the cultural imaginary on what it is to live beyond the margins. It’s an interesting time to be Tiq; he’s […]

Thursday, August 16, 17:38 UTC @ Computational Complexity

(Johan Hastad won the Knuth Prize! The below post was written before I knew that but has a mild connection to it. See here for more info on the Hastad winning it, or see Lance's tweet, or see Boaz's blog post here. There will prob be other blogs about it as well. ADDED LATER: Lipton and Regan have a post on this

Thursday, August 16, 16:51 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Speaking of Penn and Teller, there’s a fantastic episode of This American Life on which Teller — the half of the duo who usually doesn’t speak — explains how he created one of his signature routines. Well worth listening to. ★

Thursday, August 16, 16:00 UTC @ Quanta Magazine

A unique neurological “functional fingerprint” allows scientists to explore the influence of genetics, environment and aging on brain connectivity.

Thursday, August 16, 09:59 UTC @ Hacker Noon - Medium

Thursday, August 16, 09:38 UTC @ The Realmac Blog

Hot on the heels of the initial RapidWeaver 8 launch, we have the rather lovely 8.0.1 release of everybody's favourite web design app on the Mac. This new version fixes up a bunch of minor issues that snuck through our beta testing process. Check in-app for updates or

Thursday, August 16, 09:15 UTC @ Y Combinator

Jessica Brillhart is the founder of Vrai Pictures. They’re an independent immersive content studio. Before founding Vrai, Jessica was the Principal Filmmaker for VR at Google.

Thursday, August 16, 09:15 UTC @ Hacker Noon - Medium

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Wednesday, August 15, 21:36 UTC @ Daring Fireball

The New York Times: Federal securities regulators have served Tesla with a subpoena, according to a person familiar with the investigation, increasing pressure on the electric car company as it deals with the fallout from several recent actions by its chief executive, Elon Musk. The subpoena, from the Securities and Exchange Commission, comes days after regulators began inquiring about an Aug. 7 Twitter post by Mr. Musk, in which he said he was considering converting Tesla to a

Wednesday, August 15, 21:05 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Let’s try something new with the DF weekly sponsorship. Instead of just the RSS feed, I’m going to include the display ad on the DF website with the sponsorship. Still just one sponsor for the week, but now it includes the RSS feed, the weekly thank-you post from yours truly, and the exclusive display ad in the left column of every page on the site. This current week remains open (let’s make a deal), next week is open, and most of September is open. If you’ve got a

Wednesday, August 15, 20:56 UTC @ Daring Fireball

They even ripped off the default wallpaper. Do “designers” at Motorola even list the job on their resumes or do they work in anonymous shame? ★

Wednesday, August 15, 20:12 UTC @ Hacker Noon - Medium

Wednesday, August 15, 19:30 UTC @ John D. Cook

Descriptions of cryptography algorithms often start with something like “Let p be a large prime” or maybe more specifically “Let p be a 256 bit prime.” How hard is it to find large prime numbers? Let’s look at the question in base b, so we can address binary and base 10 at the same time. The prime number […]

Wednesday, August 15, 17:57 UTC @ joe cieplinski

I’ve been talking myself out of building this app for three years. That’s how long I’ve been logging my caffeine intake with my iPhone and wishing there were a better way to do it. Over the years, I’ve tried just about all the caffeine apps. Most

Wednesday, August 15, 16:29 UTC @ Quanta Magazine

Evolutionary stories like the grandmother hypothesis are easy to construct from mathematical models, but how well do they reflect reality?

Wednesday, August 15, 16:01 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Wednesday, August 15, 15:27 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

We have seen significant recent progress in pattern analysis and machine intelligence applied to images, audio and video signals, and natural language text, but not as much applied to another artifact produced by people: computer program source code. In a paper to be presented at the FEED Workshop at KDD 2018 (read more about the […] The post AI for Code Encourages Collaborative, Open Scientific Discovery appear

Wednesday, August 15, 15:26 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

The workshop Fragile Earth: Theory Guided Data Science to Enhance Scientific Discovery (FEED 2018) will take place August 20, as part of the Knowledge Discovery and Data mining conference (KDD 2018) in London. The FEED 2018 co-chairs and -organizers all welcome you to join us! FEED 2018 will bring together the research, industry, and policy […] The post FEED 2018: Applying Data Analytics to Earth and Environmental

Wednesday, August 15, 15:24 UTC @ Azimuth

Jade Master and I have just finished a paper on open Petri nets: • John Baez and Jade Master, Open Petri nets. Abstract. The reachability semantics for Petri nets can be studied using open Petri nets. For us an ‘open’ Petri net is one with certain places designated as inputs and outputs via a cospan […]

Wednesday, August 15, 14:51 UTC @ gilded : rust

I strongly suggest using something like Swift's libsytax for representing syntax trees if the end goal here is to create better tooling. I have an implementation in Rust, which probably could be extracted into a crate if there's inter

Wednesday, August 15, 14:00 UTC @ John D. Cook

Schnorr groups, named after Claus Schnorr, are multiplicative subgroups of a finite field. They are designed for cryptographic application, namely as a setting for hard discrete logarithm problems. The application of Schnorr groups to Schnorr signatures was patented, but the patent ran out in 2008. There has been a proposal to include Schnorr signatures in Bitcoin, […]

Wednesday, August 15, 09:34 UTC @ Hacker Noon - Medium

Wednesday, August 15, 09:09 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Remember, ‘It Was Never a Dress’? It’s one of the most memorable Lightning Talks we have had a Business of Software Conference over the years. Packed with humor, thought provoking ideas and with a powerful message, Tania Katan inspired us to look at something from a different direction. Tania is coming back… Tania has made […] The post Remember, ‘It Was Never a Dress’?

Wednesday, August 15, 02:45 UTC @ Y Combinator

I am delighted to announce that Qi Lu is joining YC to launch and run YC China. We are excited for Qi to come onboard as the Founding CEO of YC China and to build a long-term local organization that will combine the best of Silicon Valley and China and create a lot of innovation.

Tuesday, August 14, 21:26 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Interesting story by Kif Leswing for Business Insider, regarding a private meeting Apple held with indie developers in New York last year: The new way Apple wanted to promote: Instead of users paying for apps once, they’d pay on a regular basis, putting money into developer coffers on a regular schedule. Apple would still get a 30% cut of the subscription’s cost, but if a customer continued to subscribe after a year, Apple’s cut would go down to 15%. At the me

Tuesday, August 14, 20:23 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Penn Jillette, in a terrific interview with David Marchese for Vulture: Q: But why is the audience willing to get emotionally engaged even after you’ve explicitly said the trick is done with thread? A: It’s because there’s a secret that I would like to take credit for uncovering: The audience is smart. That’s all. Our goal when we started was “Let’s do a magic show for people smarter than us.” No other magicians have ever said that sentence. I hated the w

Tuesday, August 14, 16:21 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Victoria James, writing for Bon Appétit: My introduction to pay to play occurred after I’d just published a book on rosé. I was approached by one of the top three rosé brands. They were looking to partner with me and Piora, the since-closed Michelin-starred restaurant where I was the wine director. A few emails were sent before the in-person shakedown. At the tiny restaurant

Tuesday, August 14, 16:18 UTC @ Indie Stack

In the latest Mojave public beta, I noticed a foreboding warning in the console when I build and run FastScripts, my macOS scripting utility: FastScripts [...] is calling TIS/TSM in non-main thread environment, ERROR : This is NOT allowed. Please call TIS/TSM in main thread!!! Ruh-roh, that doesn’t sound good. Particularly with the emphasis of … Continue reading Let it Rip

Tuesday, August 14, 15:45 UTC @ Y Combinator

We're hosting office hours at Hack the North at the University of Waterloo on Friday, September 14, 2018.

Tuesday, August 14, 15:18 UTC @ Quanta Magazine

Evolution may have coopted an ancient metabolic mechanism to set social insects on the path toward one of the most puzzling behaviors found in nature.

Tuesday, August 14, 13:45 UTC @ Computational Complexity

After the Oxford Workshop I enjoyed a two-week family vacation in Spain, where there was no rain in the plain, just very hot up to 106℉. The old Spanish cities knew how to optimize for shade and breeze, more than I can say for Oxford.

Tuesday, August 14, 12:00 UTC @ John D. Cook

Bitcoin uses the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) based on elliptic curve cryptography. The particular elliptic curve is known as secp256k1, which is the curve y² = x³ + 7 over a finite field to be described shortly. Addition on elliptic curves in the plane is defined geometrically in terms of where lines intercept […]

Tuesday, August 14, 10:37 UTC @ The Realmac Blog

After more than a year in development, I'm excited to say that RapidWeaver 8 is finally here, and it's packed with new features and countless refinements.

Tuesday, August 14, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD Security Advisories

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Tuesday, August 14, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD Security Advisories

Tuesday, August 14, 04:00 UTC @ This Week in Rust

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a systems language pursuing the trifecta: safety, concurrency, and speed. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tweet us at @ThisWeekInRust or send us a pull request. Want to get involved?

Monday, August 13, 23:44 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

In recent weeks string theory has been again getting a lot of press attention, because of claims that new progress is being made in the study of the relation of string theory and the real world, via the study of … Continue reading →

Monday, August 13, 22:35 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Samsung is sticking with round faces — you certainly can’t call these ripoffs of Apple Watch. But I think that’s a mistake for a digital watch. At 42 and 46mm, both sizes are much larger (and heavier) than Apple Watches. Because Apple measures its watches vertically, they sound closer in size than they actually are. A 42mm Apple Watch is 36mm wide, and a 38mm Apple Watch is just 33mm wide. Apple remains t

Monday, August 13, 21:09 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Linette Lopez, writing for Business Insider: Elon Musk has written a blog post explaining why he said last week on Twitter that he might take Tesla private at $420 a share. “Funding secured,” he declared in the tweet. But after reading Musk’s new post, the only conclusion to be drawn is that funding was, in fact, not secured. And that could spell serious trouble for Musk.

Monday, August 13, 20:29 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Juli Clover, reporting for MacRumors: In release notes for both macOS Mojave and iOS 12, Apple says the feature has been removed from the initial releases of macOS Mojave and iOS 12 and “will ship in a future software update later this fall.” With the release of iOS 11, Apple also ended up delaying several features that were initially announced as part of the update until later in the year, including Apple Pay Cash, AirPlay 2, and Messages in iCloud, three significa

Monday, August 13, 18:56 UTC @ Daring Fireball

From Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: “But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the b

Monday, August 13, 18:19 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Interesting story from Fargo, North Dakota: “Vomit fraud” is a growing problem in many parts of the country. The Miami Herald reported this summer that multiple Uber passengers are filing lawsuits after drivers falsely charged passengers, claiming they had to clean up vomit, urine, blood and other bodily fluids. The Marquarts also discovered the police treat the fraud as a civil matter instead of a criminal one because of the way the ride services write user agreeme

Monday, August 13, 17:33 UTC @ Ole Begemann

I wrote a handy little snippet for creating a UIAlertController with a single text field to request an input from the user. Its main feature, beside a slightly nicer API: you can pass in a validation rule that continuously checks if the input is valid as the user enters text. The OK button will only be enabled once the input passes validation. Here’s a demo that uses the .nonEmpty validation

Monday, August 13, 17:15 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Ryan Nakashima, reporting for the Associated Press: Storing your minute-by-minute travels carries privacy risks and has been used by police to determine the location of suspects — such as a warrant that police in Raleigh, North Carolina, served on Google last year to find devices near a murder scene. So the company will let you “pause” a setting called Location History. Google says that will prevent the company from remembering where you’ve been.

Monday, August 13, 16:57 UTC @ Planet Lisp

(Don't get too excited by the "success" in the title of this post.) A brief SBCL RISC-V update this time, as there have been no train journeys since the last blog post. Most of what has been achieved is trivial definitions and rearrangements. We've defined some more of the MOVE Virtual Ope

Monday, August 13, 15:22 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

The annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Knowledge Discovery and Data mining conference (KDD 2018) takes place August 19–23, 2018, in London, UK. The interdisciplinary conference brings together researchers and practitioners from data science, data mining, knowledge discovery, large-scale data analytics, and big data with two tracks: Research Track and Applied Data Science Track. IBM […] The post Adva

Monday, August 13, 14:38 UTC @ TED Blog

TEDWomen co-host Pat Mitchell writes: Once again this summer, I had the privilege of moderating sessions during the Spotlight Health Aspen Institute Ideas Festival. There were some surprises in a session titled “Breakthroughs and Challenges in Women’s Health” with importance for all women, and I want to share some of that information with you. With two esteemed [̷

Monday, August 13, 14:27 UTC @ Quanta Magazine

The nearest neighbor problem asks where a new point fits into an existing data set. A few researchers set out to prove that there was no universal way to solve it. Instead, they found such a way.

Monday, August 13, 09:25 UTC @ Backreaction

Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality Hardcover  By Anil Ananthaswamy Dutton (August 7, 2018) The first time I saw the double-slit experiment, I thought it was a trick, an elaborate construction with mirrors, cooked up by malicious physics teachers. But no, it was not, as I was soon to learn. A laser beam pointed at a plate with two

Monday, August 13, 09:25 UTC @ Backreaction

Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality Hardcover  By Anil Ananthaswamy Dutton (August 7, 2018) The first time I saw the double-slit experiment, I thought it was a trick, an elaborate construction with mirrors, cooked up by malicious physics teachers. But no, it was not, as I was soon to learn. A laser beam pointed at a plate with two

Monday, August 13, 08:23 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Ryan Singer, Product Strategy, Basecamp Many thanks to everyone who joined us for our Hangout with Ryan Singer last Thursday. A thoroughly interesting conversation was had – I always come away from conversations with people from Basecamp with my head buzzing with ideas. If you didn’t get a chance to see it live, you can […] The post Hangout Replay with Ryan Singer appeared first on

Monday, August 13, 07:00 UTC @ NSHipster

When you make a Genius Bar reservation at an Apple Store, you’re instructed to show up at a particular time of day and check in with the concierge. After directing you to pull up a stool, the concierge adds you to the queue and makes a note about how to identify you. According to anonymous reports from former retail employees, there are strict guidelines about how customers can be described. Nothing about their physi

Sunday, August 12, 16:19 UTC @ gilded : rust

TL;DR: I wrote a library to generate macro_rules!()-syntax-diagrams as SVGs directly from code. Demo here, code here. At work, I have implemented some network-parsing code using nom. While I'm very glad about the result, reading nom's macro-heavy documentation gave me a

Saturday, August 11, 19:23 UTC @ John D. Cook

Currying is a simple but useful idea. (It’s named after logician Haskell Curry [1] and has noting to do with spicy cuisine.) If you have a function of two variables, you can think of it as a function of one variable that returns a function of one variable. So starting with a function f(x, y), […]

Saturday, August 11, 01:00 UTC @ Azimuth

  I’ll be speaking at a conference celebrating the centenary of Emmy Noether’s work connecting symmetries and conservation laws: • The Philosophy and Physics of Noether’s Theorems, 5-6 October 2018, Fischer Hall, 1-4 Suffolk Street, London, UK. Organized by Bryan W. Roberts (LSE) and Nicholas Teh (Notre Dame). They write: 2018 brings with it the […]

Friday, August 10, 19:05 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Joanna Stern, writing for The Wall Street Journal: The Lightwear glasses make digital objects sometimes look so real that they play tricks on your mind. I certainly didn’t think the flying robot I placed in the corner was genuine, yet the steam coming out of his jets looked like it was from a tea kettle. During one demo, I picked up an actual chess piece just to confirm it wasn’t another illusion. What makes Magic Leap’s objects so believable is how they fit into our worl

Friday, August 10, 18:29 UTC @ Gorilla Logic

Much like a pod of whales or a pack of wolves, did you know that a group of gorillas is called a band? In this blog series, we’re going to introduce you to members of our band – engineers, technical recruiters, PMs, designers, and more who make up the most important asset in Gorilla Logic…our […] The post Member of the Band – Gabriela Oropeza Back End Developer

Friday, August 10, 17:00 UTC @ Y Combinator

Our 3rd Female Founders Conference (FFC) of 2018 is on September 15 in Silicon Valley. This year, for the 5th anniversary of the conference, we decided to host three conferences throughout the U.S., and our final stop will be at YC's office in Mountain View.

Friday, August 10, 16:31 UTC @ tecosystems

They’re a month overdue, and from the volume of inbound questions about when the language rankings would drop, it’s been noticed. As always, these are a continuation of the work originally performed by Drew Conway and John Myles White late in 2010. While the means of collection has changed, the basic process remains the same:

Friday, August 10, 16:31 UTC @ tecosystems

They’re a month overdue, and from the volume of inbound questions about when the language rankings would drop, it’s been noticed. As always, these are a continuation of the work originally performed by Drew Conway and John Myles White late in 2010. While the means of collection has changed, the basic process remains the same:

Friday, August 10, 16:29 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Some inside baseball on Reuters seemingly using my sources without attribution or credit.

Friday, August 10, 14:42 UTC @ John D. Cook

There’s no perfectly satisfying way to map the globe on to a flat surface. Every projection has its advantages and disadvantages. The Mercator projection, for example, is much maligned for the way it distorts area, but it has the property that lines of constant bearing correspond to straight lines on the map. Obviously this is […]

Friday, August 10, 13:42 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

Another lovely week draws to a close. Here's what the Apache community has been up to: Success at Apache –a monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". - The Apache Legal Shield - A Pragmatic View, by Bertrand Delacrétaz https://... ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Next Boar

Friday, August 10, 13:18 UTC @ gilded : rust

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Friday, August 10, 12:15 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

He participado en el episodio 175 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox, iTunes], titulado “Sonda Solar Parker; Materia Oscura: Polémica Científica y Luz Intracumular”, 09 Ago 2018. “La tertulia semanal ha repasado las últimas noticias de la […]

Friday, August 10, 12:10 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

El canibalismo galáctico, la interacción entre galaxias enanas y galaxias, expulsa muchas estrellas hacia el medio intergaláctico. La formación jerárquica de los cúmulos galácticos por interacción entre galaxias de diferentes escalas da lugar a gran número de estrellas en […]

Friday, August 10, 11:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Yesterday we announced a new release of the Adversarial Robustness Toolbox, an open-source software library to support researchers and developers in defending neural networks against adversarial attacks. The new release provides a method for defending against poisoning and “backdoor” attacks in machine learning models. We announced the release at Black Hat USA, the world’s leading […] The post

Friday, August 10, 03:13 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Here’s some interesting hiring news I’ve heard through the little birdie grapevine: Doug Field — who left Tesla in May after overseeing Model 3 production — is back at Apple, working in Bob Mansfield’s project Titan group.

Friday, August 10, 02:47 UTC @ Daring Fireball

John Paczkowski, writing for BuzzFeed: On Apple’s podcast platform, Infowars was presented with an easily reviewed episode list — a concrete thing that could be used to support a determination that its content was/wasn’t in violation of the company’s policies. The Infowars app is different. It streams video broadcasts, which means they are ephemeral in the app and on Apple’s platform. That the same episodes are readily available on the Infowars site doesn’t matter. In

Friday, August 10, 00:56 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Kara Swisher, in her new column at The New York Times: I am down with Mr. Dorsey on the part about different viewpoints being expressed in a civil and even moderately testy way. There’s some value, after all, in force-reading all those opinions on whether a Colorado baker should make gay people cake or not. But the loosey-goosey way that he and Twitter’s rolling series of leaders have run the platform over the years (you can read all about that in Nick Bilton’s telenovela of a b

Thursday, August 09, 22:47 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Joe Otterson, reporting for Variety: Apple has given a straight-to-series order to a half-hour scripted comedy from Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day, Variety has learned. The series is set in a video game development studio, with McElhenney also attached to star in addition to writing and executive producing alongside Day. The series marks the duo’s first collaboration as writers since “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” McElhenney co-created “It’s Always Sunny” wi

Thursday, August 09, 21:08 UTC @ Ole Begemann

Following up on last week’s article on migrating an Objective-C class to Swift using extensions, I’d like to discuss an alternative approach: adding a Swift subclass to the Objective-C class you want to convert, as suggested by Jérôme Alves (thanks!): […] But another great solut

Thursday, August 09, 18:20 UTC @ Gorilla Logic

Innovation is rapidly shifting to the cloud, with many vendors employing a cloud-first approach to product design and solution offerings. Gorilla Logic has honed its expertise in leading cloud technologies from both AWS and Microsoft Azure. Recently we became a Microsoft Partner – achieving Silver status in their Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Partner Network.   […] The post Gorill

Thursday, August 09, 14:52 UTC @ The Realmac Blog

After more than a year in development, I'm pleased to say that RapidWeaver 8 for Mac will ship next week on, Tuesday, 14th August 2018. I think RapidWeaver 8 is going to be a must-have upgrade, the whole team has worked so hard to integrate as many requests from users

Thursday, August 09, 14:36 UTC @ Quanta Magazine

A controversial new paper argues that universes with dark energy profiles like ours do not exist in the “landscape” of universes allowed by string theory.

Thursday, August 09, 08:52 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

La vida media del barión omega encantado (cuyos quarks de valencia son ssc) es de 69 ± 12 fs (femtosegundos) según el Particle Data Group 2018. El detector LHCb del LHC en el CERN ha medido un valor de […] Leer más

Thursday, August 09, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD News Flash

Wednesday, August 08, 22:00 UTC @ News - Apple Developer

You can now watch all the session videos from this year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference with Japanese and Simplified Chinese subtitles.View WWDC18 videos

Wednesday, August 08, 19:48 UTC @ x.ai

By slotting Amy + Andrew into email templates, you can automate even more of your scheduling workflow. The post Using Gmail’s Canned Responses with Amy + Andrew appeared first on x.ai.

Wednesday, August 08, 19:16 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Dylan Byers, in his Pacific newsletter: • Amid mounting public pressure to address Jones’ hate speech, Apple’s Tim Cook and Eddy Cue met over the weekend and decided to pull five of Jones’ podcasts from their platform, sources familiar with the matter told me. • Cook and Cue decided to let Jones’ InfoWars app remain available in the app store because they felt it did not run afoul of their policy. […] • Zuckerberg only moved to remove

Wednesday, August 08, 18:46 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Logitech: Logitech is changing the way you charge your iPhone with today’s introduction of the Logitech Powered Wireless Charging Stand. Designed in collaboration with Apple, Powered is a wireless charging stand for iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X that makes it easy to charge and use your iPhone at the same time. […] Powered delivers up to 7.5W charging for iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and X only and up to 5W charging for all other Qi-enabled devices. 

Wednesday, August 08, 16:04 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Jessi Hempel, writing for Wired: In retrospect, Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz realizes that all the hype was a big mistake. “I think we were arrogant,” he says. You don’t fucking say. The problem, we figured out, was the fit. Each set of goggles comes with five nose pieces and the ability to add prescription lenses. Magic Leap’s experience is so closely linked to a person’s physiology, these goggles will need to fit perfectly to work. T

Wednesday, August 08, 03:37 UTC @ Computational Complexity

On June 29, 2018, a workshop was held, in conjunction with STOC 2018, to celebrate the accomplishments of Vijay Vazirani on the occasion of his 60th birthday, organized by his PhD students, Aranyak Mehta, Naveen Garg and Samir Khuller. The workshop was called "TCS: Looking into the Future" and true to the title, it was prec

Tuesday, August 07, 19:17 UTC @ John D. Cook

The original butterfly effect The butterfly effect is the semi-serious claim that a butterfly flapping its wings can cause a tornado half way around the world. It’s a poetic way of saying that some systems show sensitive dependence on initial conditions, that the slightest change now can make an enormous difference later. Often this comes up […]

Tuesday, August 07, 17:54 UTC @ Y Combinator

At Y Combinator, founders decide when they want to announce that they’re part of the program. Meet 15 of the companies who have announced that they’re part of the YC Summer 2018 batch.

Tuesday, August 07, 17:36 UTC @ Planet Lisp

In our first post, I summarized the work of a few evenings of heat and a few hours on a train, being basically the boilerplate (parenthesis-infested boilerplate, but boilerplate nonetheless) necessary to get an SBCL cross-compiler built. At that point, it was possible to start running make-host-2.sh, attempting to use the cross-compiler to build the Lis

Tuesday, August 07, 17:00 UTC @ Y Combinator

Two weeks ago we announced Startup School 2018. Our free, online course will kick off in just three weeks, on August 28th. We also let founders know that 100 of the companies that complete the course will receive $10,000 in equity-free funding from YC. This year’s course will feature revamped software and all new material which will be added to the extraordinary library of startup content YC has collected over the past two years of Startup School and the many years of working with and writing about start

Tuesday, August 07, 16:55 UTC @ Y Combinator

Geoff Ralston and Adora Cheung are both partners at YC. This episode is about Startup School. It’s a free, online course we’re offering that starts on August 28th. Anyone can sign up for the course at StartupSchool.org.

Tuesday, August 07, 16:50 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

What’s a quantum circuit? A quantum circuit can be a tricky thing. Quantum computing promises to be faster than classical computing in some, but not all computational problems. Whether quantum computers can be faster than classical computers depends on the nature of the problem being solved. When speedups are possible, the magnitude of the speedup […] The post Under

Tuesday, August 07, 13:48 UTC @ ACM Queue - All Queue Content

Since you both are working on the same code base, you also have ample opportunity for leadership by showing this person how you code. You must do this carefully or the junior programmer will think you're pulling rank, but, with a bit of gentle show and tell, you can get your Padawan to see what you're driving at. This human interaction is often difficult for those of us who prefer to spend our days with seemingly logical machines. Mentorship is the ultimate test of leadership and compassion, and I really ho

Tuesday, August 07, 12:00 UTC @ John D. Cook

In The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper explains an extension of the game Rock, Paper, Scissors by introducing two more possibilities, Lizard, and Spock. Sam Kass and Karen Bryla invented the game before it became widely known via the television show. The diagram below summarizes the rules: Alternative rules Imagine yourself in the position of Sam […]

Tuesday, August 07, 09:51 UTC @ Backreaction

“Is it possible that our ‘elementary’ particles are actually large scale aggregations of a different set of something much smaller? Then, from a mathematical point of view, there could be an infinite sequence of smaller (and larger) building blocks and universes.”                                                                       ~Peter Letts Dear Peter, I love the idea that there is a

Tuesday, August 07, 09:51 UTC @ Backreaction

“Is it possible that our ‘elementary’ particles are actually large scale aggregations of a different set of something much smaller? Then, from a mathematical point of view, there could be an infinite sequence of smaller (and larger) building blocks and universes.”                                                                       ~Peter Letts Dear Peter, I love the idea that there is a

Tuesday, August 07, 04:00 UTC @ This Week in Rust

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a systems language pursuing the trifecta: safety, concurrency, and speed. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tweet us at @ThisWeekInRust or send us a pull request. Want to get involved?

Tuesday, August 07, 00:21 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

by Bertrand Delacretaz I became active in the ASF in 2001 via Gianugo Rabellino -- he was the one who started the discussions with Apache Fop about me donating the jfor XLS-FO to RTF converter that I had developed earlier. It was already too late to uninvent RTF which is a terrible format, but I digress. I am currently a member of the Board of Directors of the ASF and have been doing a lot of thinking (and presentations) about what makes the ASF tick in terms of collabor

Tuesday, August 07, 00:00 UTC @ Planet Lisp

8 months after the original announcement, we finally open-sourced Quickref. The complete source code is available here. I gave a lightning talk at ELS 2018, in which I claimed I would release the code

Monday, August 06, 21:35 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

Back now from vacation. On the global warming front, I can report that Northern Norway has gotten rather warm, Svalbard is still pretty cold. While I was away the big mathematics news was from the ICM. As everyone expected, one … Continue reading →

Monday, August 06, 20:43 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Don’t you hate it when your users ask you what’s going on with your broken web app — but you had no idea? Yeah, we hate that too… which is why we built Honeybadger, a web app health monitoring tool built for you and your team. We combine three types of monitoring into one platform. With Honeybadger: Your users will thank you when you fix application errors before they can complain. You’ll always be the first to know about other application issues, f

Monday, August 06, 20:42 UTC @ Daring Fireball

John Paczkowski, reporting for BuzzFeed: Apple moved first, striking the entire library for five of Infowars’ six podcasts from its iTunes and Podcasts apps. Among the podcasts, which were removed from Apple’s iTunes directory, are the show War Room and the popular Alex Jones Show podcast, which is hosted daily by the prominent conspiracy theorist. After that, platforms that have come under far more scrutiny for hosting Jones and his content — Facebook and You

Monday, August 06, 17:25 UTC @ Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP

A few twists on Turing’s proof of undecidability of predicate calculus By permission of Rich Longmore, artist, blog source Alan Turing presaged Stephen Cook’s proof of -completeness of Turing reduced the halting problem for his machines to the decision problem of the first-order predicate calculus, thus showing (alongside Alonzo Church) that the latter is undecidable. […]

Monday, August 06, 16:04 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Monday, August 06, 15:42 UTC @ Use Your Loaf

I think my favourite addition to Swift 4.2 might be having the compiler automatically generate an allCases collection for enums. How Many Cases In My Enum? It is often useful to know how many cases an enum has or to be able to iterate over all possible cases. Before Swift 4.2 you either needed to use a meta-programming tool like Sourcery or manually maintain the collection:

Monday, August 06, 14:36 UTC @ The Realmac Blog

RapidWeaver has always given you the power to create an SEO-friendly website. However, RapidWeaver 8 introduces a whole host of excellent new SEO features that can help your website rank higher in Google. In this post, I’ll cover all the new SEO features that have been added to RapidWeaver

Monday, August 06, 13:21 UTC @ John D. Cook

Given two objects A and B, Hom(A, B) is simply the set of functions between A and B. From this humble start, things get more interesting quickly. Hom sets To make the above definition precise, we need to say what kinds of objects and what kinds of functions we’re talking about. That is, we specify […]

Monday, August 06, 10:45 UTC @ Gorilla Logic

Augmented reality (AR) and machine learning are the hottest technologies on the market right now, so what we are going to build this time is a face recognition app that identifies people in our office and shows basic information when the app identifies someone who has been registered. In this first post, we are going […] The post How to Build a Face Recogniti

Monday, August 06, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD Security Advisories

Monday, August 06, 07:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

Ten years, three months and 30 days ago, we wrote our first post on this blog, and now, we’re writing our last at this particular web address. Today, it’s with great excitement that we present to you the Google Cloud blog, your home for all the latest GCP product news, how-to’s, perspectives and customer stories that you

Monday, August 06, 07:00 UTC @ NSHipster

One of my favorite activities, when I travel, is to listen to people as they pass and try to guess what language they’re speaking. I’d like to think that I’ve gotten pretty good at it over the years (though I rarely get to know if I guessed right). If I’m lucky, I’ll recognize a word or phrase as a cognate of a language I’m familiar with, and narrow things down from there. Otherwise, I try to build up a phonetic in

Saturday, August 04, 16:45 UTC @ Daring Fireball

My thanks to Jamf for once again sponsoring the DF RSS feed. Jamf Now is an easy-to-use software solution to help organizations set up, manage, and protect their Apple devices. Whether you are looking for a way to organize your digital inventory, deploy device settings, or secure your company data, Jamf Now is the easiest way to manage your iPad, iPhone, and Mac devices. No IT required. Daring Fireball readers can create an account and manage three devices for free — forever. Each add

Friday, August 03, 20:38 UTC @ John D. Cook

How do you operate a data-driven application before you have any data? This is known as the cold start problem. We faced this problem all the time when I designed clinical trials at MD Anderson Cancer Center. We uses Bayesian methods to design adaptive clinical trial designs, such as clinical trials for determining chemotherapy dose […]

Friday, August 03, 17:36 UTC @ Gorilla Logic

In July of 2018, I had the great opportunity to participate as a representative of Costa Rica at the Cybersecurity Summer Bootcamp in Leon, Spain. This is an activity made by  The Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute, S.A. (INCIBE) with the Organization of American States (OAS), as a training program specializing in cybersecurity for people who […] The post Cybersecurity Summer Bootcamp 2018 a

Friday, August 03, 17:25 UTC @ joe cieplinski

If you make an app and want people to buy it, you have to link to the App Store so your customers can get it. If you write reviews of apps, you need to post links to the apps, because your readers will think you’re nuts if you don’

Friday, August 03, 16:22 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

Welcome, August! We hope you have had a great week. Let's take a peek at what the Apache community has been up to: ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Next Board Meeting: 15 August. Board calendar and minutes http://... ApacheCon™ –the ASF's official glob

Friday, August 03, 15:43 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Adam Engst, writing at TidBITS: In the end, I’m disappointed in Apple. Not surprised, since Apple has never acknowledged that the media plays a vital role in the broader Apple ecosystem, but disappointed that a company that puts so much effort into bringing joy to users can simultaneously behave so callously to some of its greatest supporters.

Friday, August 03, 15:38 UTC @ Daring Fireball

The Verge editorial team, on the bullshit alt-right campaign against newly-hired NYT editorial board member Sarah Jeong: Online trolls and harassers want us, The Times, and other newsrooms to waste our time by debating their malicious agenda. They take tweets and other statements out of context because they want to disrupt us and harm individual reporters. The strategy is to divide and conquer by forcing newsrooms to disavow their colleagues one at a time. This is not a good-faith con

Friday, August 03, 14:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

The month of July saw our Google Cloud Next ‘18 conference come and go, and there was plenty of exciting news, updates and demos to share from the show. Here’s a look at some of the most-read blog posts from July. What caught your attention this month: Creating the open cloud One of the most-read posts this month covered the lau

Friday, August 03, 13:55 UTC @ Planet Lisp

I'm on a train! (Disclaimer: I'm not on a train any more.) What better thing to do, during the hot, hot July days, thank something semi-mechanical involving very little brain power? With student-facing work briefly calming down (we've just about weathered the storm of appeals and complaints following the publication of exam results), and the all-too-brief Summer holidays approaching, I caught myself thinking that it wasn't fair that Doug and his team should have

Friday, August 03, 12:54 UTC @ John D. Cook

Today’s exponential sum looks like three octagons, slightly rotated with respect to each other. I thought that the graph was tracing out one octagon, then another, then another. But that’s not what it’s doing at all. You can see for yourself by going to the exponential sum page and clicking the animate link. The curve […]

Friday, August 03, 11:12 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

He participado en el episodio 174 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox, iTunes], titulado “Sagitarius A*; Medallas Fields; Escutoides; Exovida y Rayos UVA; Marte”, 02 Ago 2018. “La tertulia semanal ha repasado las últimas noticias de la […]

Friday, August 03, 10:05 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

El canto de las cigarras es un sonido que nos acompaña (chicharras) muchas noches en verano. ¿Cómo se produce? ¿Por qué? Enrique Viguera (profesor titular de genética de la Universidad de Málaga y coordinador de Encuentros con la Ciencia) […]

Friday, August 03, 09:48 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

Uno de los experimentos clásicos en física aplicada es enfriar una bebida usando hielo y sal. El proceso es mucho más rápido que usar el frigorífico o el congelador. El tercer programa de Ciencia de Verano en Hoy por […] Leer más

Friday, August 03, 09:15 UTC @ Y Combinator

Michael Seibel is a Partner and the CEO of YC. He cofounded Justin.tv, which was in the Winter 2007 batch and Socialcam, which was in the Winter 2012 batch. For this episode we took questions from the internet.

Friday, August 03, 09:06 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

En 2005 Yves Couder descubrió que el movimiento de pequeñas gotas milimétricas oscilando sobre la superficie vibrante de un líquido se describe mediante la teoría de la onda piloto de De Broglie–Bohm. Un conjunto de muchas gotas se comporta […] Leer m�

Thursday, August 02, 22:05 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Jack Nicas has a good piece in The Times looking back at the last 20 years of Apple history, in light of today’s news. A few landmarks: 1996: Apple’s market cap sunk as low as $3 billion before the NeXT reunification. 2007: Apple was worth $73 billion when Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone. 2011: Apple was worth $346 billion when Tim Cook took the helm as CEO. Apple closed today with a market cap of $1.002 trillion. That “.002” looks ins

Thursday, August 02, 19:00 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Nikhil Sonnad, writing for Quartz: Facebook didn’t intend for any of this to happen. It just wanted to connect people. But there is a thread running from Perkins’ death to religious violence in Myanmar and the company’s half-assed attempts at combating fake news. Facebook really is evil. Not on purpose. In the banal kind of way. Underlying all of Facebook’s screw-ups is a bumbling obliviousness to real humans. The company’s singular focus on “connecting people” ha

Thursday, August 02, 18:17 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Stephen Hackett on Apple’s decision to remove apps from their affiliate program: Another angle here to consider is money. Payments made to people linking to apps with affiliate links comes out of Apple’s share of revenue generated by app sales and in-app purchases. How much money it costs them is unknown, but the idea that the reasons behind this move could be financial in nature feels pretty gross. Apple is a for-profit company, and it may have a real bottom-line reason to cl

Thursday, August 02, 13:47 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Scaling To A Billion and Beyond – Zack Urlocker, COO, Duo Security In 2016, Zack Urlocker spoke at BoS USA about scaling to a $ billion and beyond. He had done it before at ZenDesk (COO), MySQL (VP Product) and more and was then COO of Duo Security. Today Cisco announced they had bought the Michigan […] The post Cisco buys Duo Security for $2.35bn appeared first on

Thursday, August 02, 13:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

According to the US Center for Disease Control, the number of worldwide cases of poliomyelitis has decreased from 350,000 in 1988 to 407 in 20131. While the decline has been steady, polio has still not been eradicated. To try and help solve the problem, biologists and mathematicians from IBM, UCSF, Stanford University, and the University […] The post Exploring New Research to Combat Disease-Causing Viruses

Thursday, August 02, 11:27 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Rahul Vohra has some great advice about raising money. He spoke to us in this interview just after his company, Rapportive, was acquired by LinkedIn in 2012. It’s still valid today. Rahul studied Computer Science at Cambridge University before moving to San Francisco to build Rapportive. I caught up with him on a visit back […] The post Rahul Vohr

Thursday, August 02, 11:01 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

Como todo el mundo esperaba, el matemático alemán Peter Scholze (30 años) ha recibido la Medalla Fields 2018 en el ICM de Río de Janeiro por su trabajo revolucionario en geometría aritmética. También estaba en muchas quinielas el italiano […] Leer más

Thursday, August 02, 09:48 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Dr Sherry Walling, Founder, ZenFounder Dr Sherry Walling is a licensed clinical psychologist with a PhD in Psychology and MA in Psychology & Theology. She has been working with entrepreneurs for over 10 years – ever since her husband launched his first startup. At BoS USA 2017, Sherry gave an important talk about how to avoid […] The post How To Stay At The Top

Thursday, August 02, 08:38 UTC @ The Realmac Blog

RapidWeaver 8 will bring a whole host of fantastic new features to your favourite web design app. In this post, I wanted to cover the updates we’ve made to the theme styling engine. The additions we’ve made to the theme styling engine will enable you to customise your

Thursday, August 02, 07:11 UTC @ APIDesign - Blogs

Fighting with deadlocks is hard in normal code. In case of APIs it is even harder. Yet, the advice is simple Never hold a lock when calling a foreign code. See the typical example rewritten to be deadlock-free in th

Thursday, August 02, 00:45 UTC @ Daring Fireball

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Wednesday, August 01, 23:54 UTC @ Daring Fireball

I love it when an entire story fits in the headline. ★

Wednesday, August 01, 23:47 UTC @ Daring Fireball

This piece by Nick Heer is magnificent, every word of it. ★

Wednesday, August 01, 20:50 UTC @ Computational Complexity

There are three questions I ask in my Formal Lang Theory class that even the very best students get wrong. Two I knew were trick quesions, the other I was surprised by 1) If w is a string then SUBSEQ(w) is all strings you can form by replacing some symbols in w with empty string. SUBSEQ(L) is defined in the obv way. I ask the following in class (not on an exam). TRUE or FALSE and WHY and we'll discuss If L is regular then SUBSEQ(L) is regular If L is context free

Wednesday, August 01, 18:57 UTC @ Gorilla Logic

As a company grows, more and more information is generated. This information comprises HR policies, administrative and technical processes, company benefits and IT know-how. As the resources within the company increase, the need to place them in an easily-accessible repository becomes critical.   In response to this issue, a few of us at Gorilla Labs […] The post Wins

Wednesday, August 01, 17:37 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Jason Snell: Now, iPhone unit sales are still down from the days of the iPhone 6. What’s changed is that the average selling price of an iPhone is up — way up. That’s mostly thanks to the iPhone X, which has a record-breaking price tag that hasn’t seemed to matter one whit in terms of consumer acceptance. (And for those who don’t want to spend $1000 on an iPhone X, apparently the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus hits the spot.) Here’s some claim ch

Wednesday, August 01, 16:29 UTC @ Y Combinator

In this piece, my goal is to suggest the mathematical background necessary to build products or conduct academic research in machine learning. These suggestions are derived from conversations with machine learning engineers, researchers, and educators, as well as my own experiences in both machine learning research and industry roles.

Wednesday, August 01, 15:40 UTC @ John D. Cook

Today’s the first day of a new month, which means the exponential sum of the day will be simpler than usual. The exponential sum of the day plots the partial sums of where m, d, and y are the month, day, and (two-digit) year. The n/d term is simply n, and integer, when d = 1 and so it has no effect […]

Wednesday, August 01, 15:26 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Wednesday, August 01, 15:07 UTC @ ACM Queue - All Queue Content

Over one-fourth of Googlers use internal, data-center-hosted virtual desktops. This on-premises offering sits in the corporate network and allows users to develop code, access internal resources, and use GUI tools remotely from anywhere in the world. Among its most notable features, a virtual desktop instance can be sized according to the task at hand, has persistent user storage, and can be moved between corporate data centers to follow traveling Googlers. Until recently, our virtual desktops were hosted o

Wednesday, August 01, 14:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By James O’Keeffe, Senior Site Reliability Engineer To support our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers, we run a complex global network that depends on multiple providers and a lot of hardware. Google network engineering uses a diverse set of vendor equipment to route user traffic from an internet service provider to one of our serving front ends inside a GCP data center. This equipment is proprietary

Wednesday, August 01, 13:03 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

As part of the collection of IBM Research papers at ACL 2018, we were delighted to receive the Best Paper Award at the Machine Reading for Question Answering workshop for our paper A Systematic Classification of Knowledge, Reasoning, and Context within the ARC Dataset (by Michael Boratko, Harshit Padigela, Divyendra Mikkilineni, Pritish Yuvraj, Rajarshi Das, […] The post Understanding the Difficul

Wednesday, August 01, 11:01 UTC @ Backreaction

I promised my daughters I would write a song in German, so here we go:   “Trostpreis” means “consolation prize”. This song was inspired by the kids’ announcement that we have a new rule for pachisi: Adults always lose. I think this conveys a deep truthiness about life in general.  After I complained the last time that the most frequent question I get about my music videos is “where do you

Wednesday, August 01, 11:01 UTC @ Backreaction

I promised my daughters I would write a song in German, so here we go:   “Trostpreis” means “consolation prize”. This song was inspired by the kids’ announcement that we have a new rule for pachisi: Adults always lose. I think this conveys a deep truthiness about life in general.  After I complained the last time that the most frequent question I get about my music videos is “where do you

Tuesday, July 31, 21:55 UTC @ Ole Begemann

I’m currently working on a fairly large iOS app with a long history. We try to write new code in Swift, but about 75–80 % of the code base is still Objective-C. We don’t rewrite existing code in Swift just for the sake of it, but only if a subsystem is due for a major overhaul anyway. The exception to the rule: when a particular subsystem reaches a tipping point — say, 60 % of it is written in Swift — it can make sense to transition the rest as well in order to minimize pains caused by mixi

Tuesday, July 31, 21:45 UTC @ composition.al

Recently on Twitter, Justine Sherry pointed out (in response to hearing about a student afraid to minor in art because they thought it would hurt their applications to computer science Ph.D. programs later) that she’s actually more likely to hire prospective students into her lab at CMU if they have a minor in something

Tuesday, July 31, 21:31 UTC @ Gorilla Logic

What’s on your whiteboard?? A lot of great ideas that could potentially transform your company, right? Yet budget constraints and recruiting issues often mean those great ideas fall further down your list. Aligning with a nearshore Agile development partner can give you the talent and expertise needed to deliver on your company’s strategic goals – […] The post

Tuesday, July 31, 20:47 UTC @ The Realmac Blog

RapidWeaver 8 is shaping up very nicely, I've even heard that it should be launching within the next few weeks (exact date to be confirmed soon). So to whet your appetite further, I thought I’d share a preview of the five new themes shipping in RapidWeaver 8. New Theme

Tuesday, July 31, 18:16 UTC @ bit-player

On my walk to the Berkeley campus this morning I brushed my fingers through the leaves of an aromatic shrub, and then inhaled the familiar fragrance. I do this every day, and every day the first word that stands up … Continue reading →

Tuesday, July 31, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Dan Ciruli, Product Manager Today, Google Cloud is proud to announce, together with our collaborators, that the Istio open-source project has reached the 1.0 milestone. This is a key step toward delivering the

Tuesday, July 31, 15:05 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Today my IBM team and my colleagues at the UCSF Gartner lab reported in Nature Methods an innovative approach to generating datasets from non-experts and using them for training in machine learning. Our approach is designed to enable AI systems to learn just as well from non-experts as they do from expert-generated training data. We […] The post Teaching AI to Learn from Non-Experts appeared first o

Tuesday, July 31, 14:28 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Tuesday, July 31, 14:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Etan Shaul, Software Engineer Great news for IntelliJ users: You can now use Google Cloud services and APIs right from JetBrains’ integrated development environment (IDE). With the Cloud Tools for IntelliJ plugin, you can now discover APIs, consume them, and test against them locally, all without leaving your IDE. Th

Tuesday, July 31, 12:50 UTC @ John D. Cook

Here’s how to construct what John Horton Conway calls his “subprime fib” sequence. Seed the sequence with any two positive integers. Then at each step, sum the last two elements of the sequence. If the result is prime, append it to the sequence. Otherwise divide it by its smallest prime factor and append that. If […]

Tuesday, July 31, 10:12 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Chris Savage, Co-Founder & CEO, Wistia At the time of writing, Wistia have turned down the offer to sell the company and have instead taken on $17m of debt – seemingly a strange move. Why? Because Wistia are in it for the long run – they want to run their business their way. Last year at […] The post Growing & Scaling Without The Hassle Of Hustle | Chris Sav

Tuesday, July 31, 04:00 UTC @ This Week in Rust

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a systems language pursuing the trifecta: safety, concurrency, and speed. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tweet us at @ThisWeekInRust or send us a pull request. Want to get involved?

Monday, July 30, 21:59 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Paul Kafasis: An idiotic idea doesn’t deserve branding this good. I would buy this on a t-shirt in a heartbeat. ★

Monday, July 30, 20:09 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Rado Slavov, writing for PhoneArena: Instead, Samsung decided to focus on the negative marketing and go after its rival. What’s happening is Samsung is trying to play a finite game here — its objective is to win the battle of this smartphone generation, which comes at the expense of its own brand strength and integrity. Such unprovoked aggressive behavior is never typical of the winning side; it’s most often exhibited by the losing team, which, realizing that the fin

Monday, July 30, 17:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Jay Judkowitz, Sr. Product Manager If you’re responsible for application performance and availability, you know how hard it can be to see it through the eyes of your customers and end users. We think that’s really going to change with last week’s introduction of Stackdriver Service Monitoring, a new tool for monitoring how your customers perceive your applications, and that then

Monday, July 30, 14:50 UTC @ Business of Software USA

I apologize to David Meerman Scott for my unforgivable outburst on Twitter on Friday evening. I thought I had deleted the tweet soon afterwards and did not have access to Internet over the weekend so had not  realized it was still online until Monday am. It should not have been sent and does not reflect […] The post David Meerman Scott: An Apology appeared first on

Monday, July 30, 13:57 UTC @ Backreaction

[Image: Dreamstime.com] 1. Entropy doesn’t measure disorder, it measures likelihood. Really the idea that entropy measures disorder is totally not helpful. Suppose I make a dough and I break an egg and dump it on the flour. I add sugar and butter and mix it until the dough is smooth. Which state is more orderly, the broken egg on flour with butter over it, or the final dough? I’d go for

Monday, July 30, 13:57 UTC @ Backreaction

[Image: Dreamstime.com] 1. Entropy doesn’t measure disorder, it measures likelihood. Really the idea that entropy measures disorder is totally not helpful. Suppose I make a dough and I break an egg and dump it on the flour. I add sugar and butter and mix it until the dough is smooth. Which state is more orderly, the broken egg on flour with butter over it, or the final dough? I’d go for

Monday, July 30, 12:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Search the two million mobile games on the app store, and you won’t find another quite like Hello Quantum. Sure, it’s a simple puzzle game that can be enjoyed casually by anyone age five and up. But it’s also a gateway to — and interactive tutorial on — using an actual quantum computer. Players can […] The post Hello Quantum: The Making of a Seriously Fun Quantum Game appeared first on

Monday, July 30, 12:00 UTC @ John D. Cook

Symmetric Gaussian matrices The previous post looked at the distribution of eigenvalues for very general random matrices. In this post we will look at the eigenvalues of matrices with more structure. Fill an n by n matrix A with values drawn from a standard normal distribution and let M be the average of A and its transpose, i.e. M = ½(A […]

Monday, July 30, 10:47 UTC @ Planet Lisp

This short essay describes some challenges I leave to the next maintainers of ASDF, the Common Lisp build system, related to the "magic" involved in bootstrapping ASDF. If you dare to read further, grab a chair and your favorite headache-fighting brewage. ASDF is a build system for Common Lisp. In the spirit of the original Lisp DEFSYSTEM, it compiles and loads software (mostly but not exclusively Common Lisp code) in the same image as it's running. Indeed, old time Lisp machines and Li

Monday, July 30, 07:00 UTC @ NSHipster

“Never” is a proposition that an event doesn’t occur at any time in the past or future. It’s logical impossibility with a time axis; nothingness stretching out in all directions, forever. …which is why it’s especially worrisome to encounter this comment in code:

Sunday, July 29, 06:36 UTC @ APIDesign - Blogs

Ten years ago, on July 29, 2008, the Practical API Design book was published. Isn't that a date to remember and celebrate? Yeah, it certainly deserves at least a little note. Many things has changed over the last ten years... The language that I used for most of the examples,

Saturday, July 28, 22:42 UTC @ Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP

Made-to-order statements that are not so simple Harvey Friedman is a long-standing friend who is a world expert on proofs and the power of various logics. This part of mathematics is tightly connected to complexity theory. This first mention of his work on this blog was a problem about the rationals that says nothing of […]

Saturday, July 28, 20:46 UTC @ Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog

(via HN) A nice collection of quotes on notation as a tool of thought. Mostly not programming related, which actually makes them more interesting, offering a richer diversity of examples. We used to have quite a few discussions of notation in the early days (at least in part because I never accepted the prevailing dogma that syntax is not that interesting or important), which i

Saturday, July 28, 14:23 UTC @ Martin Fowler

Tryffan, Wales (2017)

Friday, July 27, 21:35 UTC @ x.ai

Our AI Interaction Designer Diane Kim explores the crucial differences between chatbots and conversational agents. The post How Amy + Andrew differ from chatbots appeared first on x.ai.

Friday, July 27, 21:31 UTC @ Ole Begemann

This article is for you if: You work on an app that is still (partly or fully) written in Objective-C. You use Justin Spahr-Summer’s libextobjc library, specifically the @keypath macro for compile-time checking of key paths. When you build your a

Friday, July 27, 20:25 UTC @ tecosystems

Based on the company’s capital investments prior, it’s certainly not fair to date Google’s level of commitment to its cloud platform to Diane Greene’s hiring via acquisition in November of 2015. But that is just what many in the industry do. That event is viewed as an unofficial but unmistakable milestone in the evolution of

Friday, July 27, 20:25 UTC @ tecosystems

Based on the company’s capital investments prior, it’s certainly not fair to date Google’s level of commitment to its cloud platform to Diane Greene’s hiring via acquisition in November of 2015. But that is just what many in the industry do. That event is viewed as an unofficial but unmistakable milestone in the evolution of

Friday, July 27, 16:18 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

Farewell, July! Let's check out the Apache community's activities from the past week: ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Next Board Meeting: 15 August. Board calendar and minutes http://... ApacheCon™ –the ASF's official global conference series. Join us! - 24-27 Septem

Friday, July 27, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Jay Judkowitz, Sr. Product Manager Like all good IT organizations, you religiously measure the performance and availability of your services and applications. But if those apps run in the cloud, critical components are often delivered by a third party or the cloud provider. In the case of a service disruption or degraded performance, how do you know what the problem is—your code, the network, or the provider? And, if the problem is with the service provid

Friday, July 27, 14:13 UTC @ Indie Stack

Particularly as a developer coming from an Objective C background, it’s common to head into an override implementation in a subclass thinking of a property as a function. For this reason, I find myself commonly starting to implement a property override by typing something like “override func canBecome” when I want to override UIView’s “canBecomeFirstResponder”. … Continue reading

Friday, July 27, 14:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

My team at IBM Research has created a unique tool, called IBM Research Scenario Planning Advisor, that can use AI planning to support risk management activities in areas like security and finance. IBM Research Scenario Planning Advisor is a decision support system that allows domain experts to generate diverse alternative scenarios of the future and […] The post AI-Based Scenario Planning for Risk Manag

Friday, July 27, 13:11 UTC @ Journal of Computational Geometry

We study drawings of planar graphs where every inner face has a prescribed area. A plane graph is 'area-universal' if for every area assignment on the inner faces, there exists a straight-line drawing realizing the assigned areas. The only non-area-universal graph known so far is the octahedron graph. We give a simple counting argument that allows to prove non-area-universality for a large class of triangulations, namely Eulerian triangulations. Adding some geometric arguments, the concept  allo

Friday, July 27, 13:06 UTC @ John D. Cook

Suppose you create a large matrix M by filling its components with random values. If M has size n by n, then we require the probability distribution for each entry to have mean 0 and variance 1/n. Then the Girko-Ginibri circular law says that the eigenvalues of M are approximately uniformly distributed in the unit disk in the complex plane. […]

Friday, July 27, 11:30 UTC @ TED Blog

TED.com is about to go quiet for two weeks. No new TED Talks will be posted on the website until Monday, August 13, 2018, while most of the TED staff takes our annual two-week summer holiday. Yes, we all, or almost all, go on holiday at the same time. (No, we don’t all go to the same place.) We’ve been […]

Friday, July 27, 09:20 UTC @ Computational Complexity

Oxford, England is in the middle of a heat wave and it handles high temperatures about as well as Atlanta handles snow. But that can't stop the complexity and a wonderful workshop this past week. It's my first trip to Oxford since I came five years ago to celebrate the opening of the Andrew Wiles building, a building that hosted this weeks' workshop a

Friday, July 27, 09:00 UTC @ News - Apple Developer

You can now create campaigns for apps on the App Store in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, and South Korea. Search Ads is an efficient and easy way to help people discover your app at the top of relevant search results on the App Store.Learn more about Search Ads

Thursday, July 26, 19:42 UTC @ Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog

Safe Dynamic Memory Management in Ada and SPARK by Maroua Maalej, Tucker Taft, Yannick Moy: Handling memory in a correct and efficient way is a step toward safer, less complex, and higher performing software-intensive systems. However, languages used for critical software development such as Ada, which supports formal verification with its SPARK subset, face challenges regarding any use of p

Thursday, July 26, 16:36 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Thursday, July 26, 16:28 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Melody Meckfessel, Vice President, Engineering, Google Cloud Software development has come a long way from the days of “it compiles, ship it!” Today’s software teams need to deliver more business value faster than ever—in an environment where the pace of change is accelerating. And while change can mean faster hardware, better security, and more features, it can also come at a cost: new vulnerabilities are discovered every day and seemingly innocuo

Thursday, July 26, 16:28 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Melody Meckfessel, Vice President, Engineering, Google Cloud Today, Google Cloud and GitHub are delivering a new integrated experience that connects GitHub with Google’s Cloud Build, our new CI/CD platform. Together, we will provide fast, frictionless, and convenient Continuous Integration (CI) for any repository on GitHub, integrat

Thursday, July 26, 16:15 UTC @ Sean Carroll

For anyone who hasn’t been following along on other social media, the big news is that I’ve started a podcast, called Mindscape. It’s still young, but early returns are promising! I won’t be posting each new episode here; the podcast … Continue reading →

Thursday, July 26, 15:00 UTC @ News - Apple Developer

It’s never been easier to design apps for Mac and Apple Watch. The Human Interface Guidelines now include a full set of essential AppKit UI elements for designing Mac apps in Sketch or Photoshop, as well as dozens of new UI elements for watchOS apps, watch face templates for designing complications, a color guide, and new text styles.Learn more

Thursday, July 26, 14:28 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Natalie Nagele, CEO/Co-Founder, Wildbit Yesterday we sat down to chat with Wildbit’s Natalie Nagele about some of the interesting ways her company runs. Now a year into their 32-hour work week experiment, Natalie talked about how it’s worked in practice and why she’s planning this for life. We also discussed how their semi-remote team works, how she and co-founder […] The post

Thursday, July 26, 13:18 UTC @ ACM Queue - All Queue Content

More information is accessible today than at any other time in human history. From a software perspective, however, the vast majority of this data is unusable, as it is locked away in unstructured formats such as text, PDFs, web pages, images, and other hard-to-parse formats. The goal of knowledge base construction is to extract structured information automatically from this "dark data," so that it can be used in downstream applications for search, question-answering, link prediction, visualization, modelin

Wednesday, July 25, 22:06 UTC @ John D. Cook

Here are the most popular posts on my site according to the number of points given on Hacker News. The most important skill in software development (742) Four hours of concentration (329) Why programmers are not paid in proportion to productivity (278) Golden powers are nearly integers (277) Why isn’t everything normally distributed? (250) Kalman […]

Wednesday, July 25, 21:13 UTC @ Gorilla Logic

Our Gorillas know that successful Agile software development is based on building incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles i.e., Plan – Do – Check – Adjust. This pattern allows us to better align and manage development cycles to provide clients with a more efficient, transparent process. As our client projects have grown in scale and […] The post

Wednesday, July 25, 19:01 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Online services like Facebook, Twitter, PayPal, LinkedIn, The Weather Company (an IBM business) and IBM Watson – despite their obvious differences – all share one characteristic: application programming interfaces (API). APIs make data and capabilities available to third-party applications. For application developers, web APIs offer tremendous opportunities to integrate vast amounts of data, like social […] The post

Wednesday, July 25, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Brad Calder, VP of engineering, GCP When choosing a cloud to host your applications, you want a portfolio of database options—SQL, NoSQL, relational, non-relational, scale up/down, scale in/out, you name it—so you can use the right tool for the job. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offers a full complement of managed database services to address a variety of workload needs, and of course, you can run yo

Wednesday, July 25, 15:59 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Paul Nash, Group Product Manager, Google Compute Engine The promise and benefit of the cloud has always been flexibility, low cost, and pay-per-use. With Google Compute Engine, custom machine types let you create VM instances of any size and shape, and we automatically apply committed use and sustained use discounts to reduce your costs. Today, we are taking the concept of pay-for-use in Compute Engine even further with resource-based pricing.

Wednesday, July 25, 15:40 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Supporter Profile: Logi Analytics We’re profiling the companies that are supporting BoS USA. Today, meet Logi Analytics who make building data  dashboards easy. Meet the team who will be in Boston… Delivering compelling applications with analytics at their core has never been more crucial—or more complex. For over 17 years, Logi has helped companies embed […] The post Supporter Pr

Wednesday, July 25, 13:16 UTC @ Computational Complexity

Teaching crypto for the first time next semester I am looking into lots of stuff I always meant to look into but now I have to. NOT a complaint- good to be forced to expand my horizons (within TCS). I"m also finding out that the web is great for easy and hard stuff but not so good for medium stuff. Here is what I want to know so I am reaching out to my readers. KNOWN: you want to generate a unif rand seq of 0's and 1's. The bits you can generate are Independent (yeah)

Wednesday, July 25, 13:07 UTC @ Martin Fowler

I've added a couple more memos to my thoughts on producing the second edition of Refactoring. Last week I shone a light on the hidden heroes whose technical reviews removed many a mistake from the book. Today I added some thoughts about

Wednesday, July 25, 13:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Online social media has become one of the most important ways to communicate and exchange ideas. Unfortunately, the discourse is often crippled by abusive language that can have damaging effects on social media users. For instance, a recent survey by YouGov.uk discovered that, among the information employers can find online about job candidates, aggressive or […] The post Fighting Offensive L

Tuesday, July 24, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President, Technical Infrastructure In the decade since cloud computing became mainstream, it’s captured the hearts and minds of developers and enterprises everywhere. But for most IT organizations, cloud is still but a glimmer of what it could be—or what it should be. Today, we’re excited to share our vision for Cloud Services Platform, a

Tuesday, July 24, 15:59 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Eyal Manor, Vice President, Engineering Every business wants to innovate—and deliver—great software, faster. In recent years, serverless computing has changed application development, bringing the focus on the application logic instead of infrastructure. With zero server management, auto-scaling to meet any traffic demands, and managed integrated security, developers can move faster, stay agile and focus on what matters most—building great application

Tuesday, July 24, 15:12 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Phase change memory (PCM) is an emerging non-volatile memory technology that could play a key role in future computing systems. In collaboration with RWTH Aachen University, my team and I at IBM Research-Zurich went in the opposite direction of the mainstream PCM research by using only one single chemical element—antimony (Sb)—instead of the typical material […] The post Keep it Simple: Towards Singl

Tuesday, July 24, 14:55 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Tuesday, July 24, 14:13 UTC @ John D. Cook

Names for extremely large numbers are kinda pointless. The purpose of a name is to communicate something, and if the meaning of the name is not widely known, the name doesn’t serve that purpose. It’s even counterproductive if two people have incompatible ideas what the word means. It’s much safer to simply use scientific notation […]

Tuesday, July 24, 04:00 UTC @ This Week in Rust

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a systems language pursuing the trifecta: safety, concurrency, and speed. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tweet us at @ThisWeekInRust or send us a pull request. Want to get involved?

Monday, July 23, 18:31 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Monday, July 23, 17:04 UTC @ ACM Queue - All Queue Content

Focus on factors that will increase your career capital and make you a more valuable hire in your next role, and the one after that, and the one after that. When you are looking at the options for your next role, there are smarter choices that you can make.

Monday, July 23, 16:34 UTC @ John D. Cook

Melissa O’Neill has a new post on generating random numbers from a given range. She gives the example of wanting to pick a card from a deck of 52 by first generating a 32-bit random integer, then taking the remainder when dividing by 52. There’s a slight bias because 232 is not a multiple of […]

Monday, July 23, 15:06 UTC @ TED Blog

The greatest ideas of our time will be sparked by a simple question: “What if?” What if we had truly inclusive workplaces? What if we removed the inefficiencies that stand in the way of eliminating world hunger? What if we could deliver quality health care in the home? What if we took back our privacy […]

Monday, July 23, 15:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Nan Boden, Senior Director, Global Technology Partnerships, Google Cloud, and Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Distinguished Engineer Our customers do extraordinary things with their data. But as their data grows, they face challenges like the cost of resources needed to handle and store it, and the general sizing limitations with low latency in-memory computing workloads. Our customers' use of in-memory workloads with SAP HANA for innovative data m

Monday, July 23, 14:07 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Controlling Prosthetic Limbs With Thought and AI Bionics is no longer the stuff of science fiction. For some amputees, the ability to carry out daily living activities depends on how efficiently and reliably they can bypass broken pathways between the brain and a prosthetic limb. Robust brain-machine interfaces can help restore mobility for these people. […] The post Bionics in Real Life appeared first

Monday, July 23, 12:04 UTC @ Backreaction

Hamster. Not to scale.Img src: Petopedia. It’s day 12,805 in the war between modified gravity and dark matter. That’s counting the days since the publication of Mordehai Milgrom’s 1983 paper. In this paper he proposed to alter Einstein’s theory of general relativity rather than conjecturing invisible stuff. Dark matter, to remind you, are hypothetical clouds of particles that hover around

Monday, July 23, 12:04 UTC @ Backreaction

Hamster. Not to scale.Img src: Petopedia. It’s day 12,805 in the war between modified gravity and dark matter. That’s counting the days since the publication of Mordehai Milgrom’s 1983 paper. In this paper he proposed to alter Einstein’s theory of general relativity rather than conjecturing invisible stuff. Dark matter, to remind you, are hypothetical clouds of particles that hover around

Monday, July 23, 08:05 UTC @ Use Your Loaf

The release of Swift 4.2 with Xcode 10 is getting close so it is time to look at the changes to the String API. These are my notes on what I changed when updating my Swift String Cheat Sheet for Xcode 10 and Swift 4.2 You can find the original and now updated guide and Xcode playground here: Swift String Cheat Sheet Xcode Strin

Monday, July 23, 07:00 UTC @ NSHipster

It’s no wonder why hipsters obsess over artisanal this and handcrafted that. Whether it’s a thick slice of avocado toast, a bottle of small batch (nondairy) golden milk, or a perfect cup of pour-over coffee — there’s no replacement for a human touch. In stark contrast, good passwords are the opposite of artisanal. Unless it’s the title of a hacker movie from the 90’s or the solution to an escape room puzzle, a password should be utt

Monday, July 23, 00:00 UTC @ Pedro Piñera

These days I’m attending Shopify’s RnD summit where different teams give talks and workshops about some areas of the company. In today’s talks, there was a topic that resonated with me: being obsessed with developers productivity. It made me think about a tool which I’ve been building for a few months, Tuist, and what led me to devote part of my free time to build it. The name of Tuist comes from merging build and test.

Saturday, July 21, 15:13 UTC @ John D. Cook

When mathematicians run out of symbols, they turn to other alphabets. Most math symbols are Latin or Greek letters, but occasionally you’ll run into Russian or Hebrew letters. Sometimes math uses a new font rather than a new alphabet, such as Fraktur. This is common in Lie groups when you want to associate related symbols to […]

Saturday, July 21, 06:45 UTC @ Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog

Yep, it on!

Friday, July 20, 21:39 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Neal Mueller, Product Lead Whether you’re moving data to or from Google Cloud, or are knee-deep plumbing your cloud network architecture, there’s a lot to learn at Google Cloud Next 2018 next week in San Francisco). Here’s our shortlist of the five must-see networking breakout sessions at the show, in chronological order from Wednesday to Thursday.

Friday, July 20, 20:19 UTC @ Lua: news

The Lua Workshop 2018 will be held in Kaunas, Lithuania, on Sep 6-7, cortesy of CUJO.

Friday, July 20, 18:49 UTC @ Gorilla Logic

Much like a pod of whales or a pack of wolves, did you know that a group of gorillas is called a band? In this blog series, we’re going to introduce you to members of our band – engineers, technical recruiters, PMs, designers, and more who make up the most important asset in Gorilla Logic…our […] The post Member of the Band – Victor Arias Full Stack Developer a

Friday, July 20, 17:46 UTC @ TED Blog

Every year, TED opens applications for its new group of TED Fellows. We get thousands of applications from all corners of the world, representing every field under the sun — marine mammal conservation, biomechatronics, Khmer dance, space archeology. How do we select just 20 people to become TED Fellows? It’s not an easy process. (Technically, our […]

Friday, July 20, 17:31 UTC @ John D. Cook

I don’t understand homotopy groups of spheres, and it’s OK if you don’t either. Nobody fully understands them. This post is really more about information compression than homotopy. That is, I’ll be looking at ways to summarize what is known without being overly concerned about what the results mean. The task: map two integers to […]

Friday, July 20, 16:57 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

Greetings, all. It's time to review the Apache community's activities from the past week: Support Apache –help offset the ASF's day-to-day operating expenses and keep Apache software for everyone. - Consider an individual contribution or corporate sponsorship or matching gift program. Every dollar counts. http://... ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs

Friday, July 20, 14:22 UTC @ Computational Complexity

Friday, July 20, 13:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

If we can protect videos, audio and photos with digital watermarking, why not AI models? This is the question my colleagues and I asked ourselves as we looked to develop a technique to assure developers that their hard work in building AI, such as deep learning models, can be protected. You may be thinking, “Protected […] The post Protecting the Intellectual Property of AI with Watermarking appeare

Thursday, July 19, 22:08 UTC @ John D. Cook

Which has more mobility on an empty chessboard: a rook, a king or a knight? On an ordinary 8 by 8 chessboard, a rook can move to any one of 14 squares, no matter where it starts. A knight and a king both have 8 possible moves from the middle of the board, fewer moves […]

Thursday, July 19, 20:41 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

About to head out on vacation tonight, back in a couple weeks. On the hot topics in fundamental physics, two items are: Concerning the “no dS string vacua” conjecture, a new preprint begins by explaining why the existence or non-existence … Continue reading →

Thursday, July 19, 18:38 UTC @ John D. Cook

I’ve written before about a knight’s random walk on an ordinary chess board. In this post I’d like to look at the generalization to three dimensions (or more). So what do we mean by 3D chess? For this post, we’ll have a three dimensional lattice of possible positions, of size 8 by 8 by 8. […]

Thursday, July 19, 17:15 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Paris Pittman, Kubernetes Community Manager, Google Today at the Open Source Awards at OSCON 2018, Kubernetes won the inaugural Most Impact Award, which recognizes a project that has had a ‘significant impact on how sof

Thursday, July 19, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Shan Kulandaivel, Product Manager, Google Compute Engine Many of our customers with hybrid cloud environments rely on VMware software on-premises. They want to simplify provisioning and enable end-user self service. At the same time, they also want to make sure they’re complying with IT policies and following IT best practices. As a result, many use VMware vRealize Automation, a platform for automated self-service provisioning and lifecycle management of

Thursday, July 19, 15:59 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Jay Judkowitz, Senior Product Manager and Mark Carter, Group Product Manager Next week at Google Cloud Next ‘18, you’ll be hearing about new ways to think about and ensure the availability of your applications. A big part of that is establishing and monitoring service-level metrics—something that our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team does day in and day out here at Google. Our SR

Thursday, July 19, 14:15 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Venkat Krishnamurthy, Vice President, Product, MapD Editor’s note: Today, we hear from our partner MapD, whose data a

Wednesday, July 18, 21:01 UTC @ Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP

Some musings on group theory Isaacs honorary conference source Martin Isaacs is a group theorist emeritus from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. I just picked up a copy of his 2008 book, Finite Group Theory. Simple title; great book. Today I want to make a few short comments about group theory. I always hated group […]

Wednesday, July 18, 17:40 UTC @ TED Blog

Monica Araya made a big prediction on the TED stage in 2016: Costa Rica, her home country, will be the first nation in the world to pursue 100% renewable energy. Fast forward to 2018, and they’re on their way. Costa Rica already generates over 99% of their electricity through renewable energy, and went 300 days […]

Wednesday, July 18, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Ben Treynor Sloss, VP 24x7 Recently, a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customer blogged about an incident in June, in which a project they were running on Google Cloud Platform was suspended. We really appreciated the candid feedback, in which our customer noted several aspects of our account management process which needed to be improved. We also appreciated our customer’s followup and recognition of the Google Cloud support team, “who have reached out and

Wednesday, July 18, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Hanan Youssef, Product Manager Today we are announcing the general availability of Google Compute Engine “ultramem” memory-optimized machine types. You can provision ultramem VMs with up to 160 vCPUs and nearly 4TB of memory--the most vCPUs you can provision on-demand in any public cloud. These ultramem machine types are great for running memory-intensive production workloads such as SAP HANA, while leveraging the performance and flexibility of

Wednesday, July 18, 15:50 UTC @ John D. Cook

NASA has fueled the development of lots of spinoff technologies: smoke detectors, memory foam, infrared ear thermometers, etc. NASA didn’t pursue these things directly, but they were a useful side effect. Something analogous happens in mathematics. While pursuing one goal, mathematicians spin off tools that are useful for other purposes. Algebraic topology might be the […]

Wednesday, July 18, 15:39 UTC @ Gorilla Logic

If you’re reading this article, it’s probably because you already know about or have heard of container orchestration. But if it’s the first time you’ve come across the term, the main point of this article is to show you how to implement amazing, container-based software architecture, so welcome.   When I started to use container […] The post Kubernetes Container Orchestration appeared

Wednesday, July 18, 14:23 UTC @ Journal of Computational Geometry

We consider the problem of designing space efficient solutions for representing  triangle meshes. Our main result is a new explicit data structure for compactly representing planar triangulations: if one is allowed to permute input vertices, then a triangulation with $n$ vertices requires at most $4n$ references ($5n$ references if vertex permutations are not allowed). Our solution combines existing techniques from mesh encoding with a novel use of maximal Schnyder woods. Our approach extends to higher gen

Wednesday, July 18, 14:11 UTC @ Journal of Computational Geometry

Topological drawings are natural representations of graphs in the plane, where vertices are represented by points, and edges by curves connecting the points. Topological drawings of complete graphs and of complete bipartite graphs have been studied extensively in the context of crossing number problems. We consider a natural class of simple topological drawings of {\em complete bipartite} graphs, in which we require that one side of the vertex set bipartition lies on the outer boundary of the drawing.

Wednesday, July 18, 13:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

Whatever your particular area of cloud interest, there will be a lot to learn at Google Cloud Next ‘18 (July 24-26 in San Francisco). When it comes to cloud storage and databases, you’ll find useful sessions that can help you better understand your options as you’re building the cloud infrastructure that will work best for your organization. Here, we’ve chosen five not-to-miss sessions, where you’ll learn tips on mi

Wednesday, July 18, 13:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Anil Dhawan, Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform Building, deploying and managing applications with Kubernetes comes with its own set of unique challenges. Today, we are excited to be the first major cloud provider to offer production-ready commercial Kubernetes apps right from our marketplace, bringing you simplified deployment, billing, and third-party licensing. Now you can find the solution you need in

Tuesday, July 17, 22:17 UTC @ gilded : rust

Edit: this is a rather long post that's not very readable on old Reddit's grey background. Click here to read it on Medium. Following the actix-web incident (which is

Tuesday, July 17, 21:00 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

[For those not up to speed on this story, see blog posts here and here from last December, as well as comments to those posts.] The last couple months I’ve heard reports from several people claiming that arithmetic geometers Peter … Continue reading →

Tuesday, July 17, 16:45 UTC @ Azimuth

The editors of this journal have an announcement: We are happy to announce the founding editorial board of Compositionality, featuring established researchers working across logic, computer science, physics, linguistics, coalgebra, and pure category theory (see the full list below). Our steering board considered many strong applications to our initial open call for editors, and it […]

Tuesday, July 17, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Deepti Srivastava, Product Manager, Cloud Spanner We launched Cloud Spanner to general availability last year, and many of you shared in our excitement: You explored it, started proof-of-concept trials, and deployed apps. Perhaps most importantly, you gave us feedback along the way. We heard you, and we got to work.

Tuesday, July 17, 14:33 UTC @ TED Blog

As the number of TED Talks on TED.com grows, we’ve created a new way to discover talks you’ll love: Tell us your favorite topics and areas of interest, and we’ll send you a customized email brimming with talks worth your personal attention. Here’s how it works: Visit ted.com/recommends and tell us the topics that fascinate you most, as well […]<

Tuesday, July 17, 11:40 UTC @ John D. Cook

If all you know about a person is that he or she is around 5′ 7″, it’s a toss-up whether this person is male or female. If you know someone is over 6′ tall, they’re probably male. If you hear they are over 7″ tall, they’re almost certainly male. This is a consequence of heights […]

Tuesday, July 17, 10:39 UTC @ ACM Queue - All Queue Content

Supervised machine-learning models boast remarkable predictive capabilities. But can you trust your model? Will it work in deployment? What else can it tell you about the world? Models should be not only good, but also interpretable, yet the task of interpretation appears underspecified. The academic literature has provided diverse and sometimes non-overlapping motivations for interpretability and has offered myriad techniques for rendering interpretable models. Despite this ambiguity, many authors proclaim

Monday, July 16, 16:55 UTC @ Computational Complexity

You just can't watch a movie these days without being inundated with trailers. First came Axl, a movie about a boys love for a military robotic dog. "It's only a robot," says his father. "It's an intelligent robot" replies the kid. Then comes the generic ET-like sto

Monday, July 16, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Kirill Tropin, Product Manager Hey, LA — the day has arrived! The Los Angeles Google Cloud Platform region is officially open for business. You can now store data and build highly available, performant applications in Southern California. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said it best: “Los Angeles is a global hub for fashion, music, entertainment, aerospace, and more—

Monday, July 16, 14:51 UTC @ John D. Cook

When I was in college, one of the professors seemed to lecture at a sort of quadratic pace, maybe even an exponential pace. He would proceed very slowly at the beginning of the semester, so slowly that you didn’t see how he could possibly cover the course material by the end. But his pace would […]

Monday, July 16, 14:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

At IBM Research AI, we built an AI-based solution to assist analysts in preparing reports. The paper describing this work recently won the best paper award at the “In-Use” Track of the 2018 Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC). Analysts are often tasked with preparing comprehensive and accurate reports on given topics or high-level questions, which […] The post Semantic Concept Discovery Ov

Monday, July 16, 12:03 UTC @ Backreaction

Time is money. It’s also short. And so we save time wherever we can, even when we describe our own research. All too often, one word must do: You are a cosmologist, or a particle physicist, or a string theorist. You work on condensed matter, or quantum optics, or plasma physics. Most departments of physics use such simple classifications. But our scientific interests cannot be so easily

Monday, July 16, 12:03 UTC @ Backreaction

Time is money. It’s also short. And so we save time wherever we can, even when we describe our own research. All too often, one word must do: You are a cosmologist, or a particle physicist, or a string theorist. You work on condensed matter, or quantum optics, or plasma physics. Most departments of physics use such simple classifications. But our scientific interests cannot be so easily

Monday, July 16, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD News Flash

Monday, July 16, 07:00 UTC @ NSHipster

“File a radar.” It’s a familiar refrain for those of us developing on Apple platforms. It’s what you hear when you complain about a wandering UIKit component. It’s the response you get when you share some hilariously outdated documentation. It’s that voice inside your head when you reopen Xcode for the twelfth time today. If you’ve ever been told to “file a Radar” and wondered what that meant, this week’s article has just t

Sunday, July 15, 21:19 UTC @ John D. Cook

A friend asked me a question the other day that came out of a graphics application. He needed to trace out an ellipse in such a way that the length of curve traced out each second was constant. For a circle, the problem is simple: (cos(t), sin(t)) will trace out a circle covering a constant […]

Saturday, July 14, 02:27 UTC @ John D. Cook

The Catalan numbers Cn are closely related to the central binomial coefficients I wrote about recently: In this post I’ll write C(n) rather than Cn because that will be easier to read later on. Catalan numbers come up in all kinds of applications. For example, the number of ways to parenthesize an expression with n terms is the nth Catalan […]

Friday, July 13, 22:18 UTC @ John D. Cook

The sum of the squares of consecutive Fibonacci numbers is another Fibonacci number. Specifically we have and so we have the following right triangle. The hypotenuse will always be irrational because the only Fibonacci numbers that are squares are 1 and 144, and 144 is the 12th Fibonacci number.

Friday, July 13, 21:17 UTC @ Azimuth

In my online course we’re reading the fourth chapter of Fong and Spivak’s book Seven Sketches. Chapter 4 is about collaborative design: building big projects from smaller parts. This is based on work by Andrea Censi: • Andrea Censi, A mathematical theory of co-design. The main mathematical content of this chapter is the theory of […]

Friday, July 13, 19:43 UTC @ Azimuth

In Random Points on a Sphere (Part 1), we learned an interesting fact. You can take the unit sphere in , randomly choose two points on it, and compute their distance. This gives a random variable, whose moments you can calculate. And now the interesting part: when n = 1, 2 or 4, and seemingly […]

Friday, July 13, 19:36 UTC @ TED Blog

As usual, the TED community is bursting with new projects and discoveries. Here are a few highlights. The power of representation. Writer and trans activist Tiq Milan, at left in the photo above, was interviewed for a new initiative by Netflix and GLAAD called “First Time I Saw Me.” Alongside Elliot Fletcher, Jamie Clayton, Jazz […]

Friday, July 13, 16:19 UTC @ x.ai

We’re making changes to the way Amy + Andrew work that will help your teams schedule together better than ever. If you’ve been with us for a while, you know we’re constantly updating their capabilities and improving your (and your guests’!) experience. The post Better Scheduling for You and Your Team appeared first on x.ai.

Friday, July 13, 14:25 UTC @ John D. Cook

It’s hard to find bounds on binomial coefficients that are both simple and accurate, but in 1990, E. T. H. Wang upper and lower bounds on the central coefficient that are both, valid for n at least 4. Here are a few numerical results to give an idea of the accuracy of the bounds on a […]

Friday, July 13, 14:13 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

Happy Friday, everyone. Let's review the Apache community's activities over the past week: Success at Apache –a monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". - The Apache Way for Executives by Alex Karasulu https://... Support Apache –helping offset the ASF's day-to-day operating expenses keeps Apache projects freely available for all. - From individual contributions

Friday, July 13, 14:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Be part of the research effort to create next-generation AI dialog systems by joining the 2018 Dialog State Tracking Challenge 7 (DSTC7) Track 1 – Sentence Selection that IBM Research AI and the University of Michigan are co-organizing. Automated dialog assistants today rely heavily on feature and rule-based approaches which are explicitly programmed by designers. […] The post Enter the Sentence S

Thursday, July 12, 19:54 UTC @ Daring Fireball

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Thursday, July 12, 17:15 UTC @ Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog

Guido van Rossum is "resigning" from being the Python BDFL: "I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL, and you all will be on your own." Apparently running a language can be tiring... It will be interesting to see what happens next.

Thursday, July 12, 14:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

The 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018) will be held July 15–20 in Melbourne, Australia. ACL received 1,544 submissions and accepted 384, for an overall acceptance rate of 24.9 percent. IBM Research AI will present multiple papers at ACL 2018 and is proud to be a Gold sponsor. Please plan […] The post Improving AI’s Language Skills at ACL 2018 appeared first on

Thursday, July 12, 12:00 UTC @ Azimuth

This is the tale of a mathematical adventure. Last time our hardy band of explorers discovered that if you randomly choose two points on the unit sphere in 1-, 2- or 4-dimensional space and look at the probability distribution of their distances, then the even moments of this probability distribution are always integers. I gave […]

Thursday, July 12, 11:03 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Thursday, July 12, 05:33 UTC @ Computational Complexity

A long long time ago a HS student, Justin Kruskal (Clyde's son) was working with me on upper bounds on some Poly VDW numbers (see here for a statement of PVDW). His school required that he have an application. Here is what he ended up doing: rather than argue that PVDW had an application he argued that Ramsey Theory itself had applications, and since this was part of Ramsey Theory it had an application. How many degree

Thursday, July 12, 02:02 UTC @ Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP

How hard is it to prove certain theorems? Maruti Ram Murty is a famous number theorist at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. He is a prolific author of books. His webpage has thumbnails of over a dozen. He has an Erdős number of 1 from two papers—very impressive. Today Ken and I want to talk […]

Wednesday, July 11, 17:24 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

A team from IBM Research-Zurich and the Universities of Basel and Zurich developed a new technique to fabricate microelectronic devices by electrically contacting molecules at two well-defined termini. The method allows molecular integration on conventional silicon chips and by standard fabrication methods as used in semiconductor industry. The technique is based on depositing a nanoparticle […] The post H

Wednesday, July 11, 15:34 UTC @ Planet Lisp

Hi everyone! There's a new Quicklisp update for July, and regular updates should resume on a monthly schedule. I'm using a new release system that involves Docker for easier build server setup and management. It took a while to get going but it should (eventually) make it easier for others to run things in an environment similar to mine. For example, it has all the required foreign libraries needed to compile and load everything in Quick

Wednesday, July 11, 14:54 UTC @ John D. Cook

The blog post that kicked off the recent series of posts looked at how far apart xy and yx are for quaternions. There I used the Euclidean distance, i.e. || xy – yx ||. This time I’ll look at the angle between xy and yx, and I’ll make some analogous graphs for octonions. For vectors x and y in three dimensions, the dot […]

Wednesday, July 11, 12:25 UTC @ Backreaction

That’s me. Photo by George Musser. Yes, I need a haircut. [Several people asked me for a transcript of my intro speech that I gave yesterday in Utrecht at the 19th UK and European conference on foundations of physics. So here it is.] Thank you very much for the invitation to this 19th UK and European conference on Foundations of physics. The topic of this conference combines everything that

Wednesday, July 11, 12:25 UTC @ Backreaction

That’s me. Photo by George Musser. Yes, I need a haircut. [Several people asked me for a transcript of my intro speech that I gave yesterday in Utrecht at the 19th UK and European conference on foundations of physics. So here it is.] Thank you very much for the invitation to this 19th UK and European conference on Foundations of physics. The topic of this conference combines everything that

Wednesday, July 11, 12:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

The 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2018) takes place July 13–19 in Stockholm, Sweden. IJCAI-ECAI is part of the Federated AI Meeting (FAIM), which also includes the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), the […] The post

Wednesday, July 11, 08:36 UTC @ Psychosomatic, Lobotomy, Saw

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Tuesday, July 10, 22:06 UTC @ Azimuth

John D. Cook, Greg Egan, Dan Piponi and I had a fun mathematical adventure on Twitter. It started when John Cook wrote a program to compute the probability distribution of distances where and were two randomly chosen unit quaternions: • John D. Cook, How far is xy from yx on average for quaternions?, 5 July […]

Tuesday, July 10, 21:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

A new approach to operating a building’s cooling system using machine learning techniques and Internet of Things (IoT) data can help to drive down energy consumption and costs, as the global demand for energy increases. The buildings sector is one of the largest energy-consuming entities, accounting for a staggering 40 percent of global energy consumption […] The post IoT and Machine Learning to Redu

Tuesday, July 10, 15:51 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

At the recent 2018 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, I presented a new algorithm for multi-face tracking, an essential component in understanding video. To understand visual sequences involving people, AI systems must be able to track multiple individuals across scenes, despite changing camera angles, lighting, and appearances. The new algorithm enables AI systems […] The post Multi-

Tuesday, July 10, 14:52 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Tuesday, July 10, 10:16 UTC @ Lua: news

Lua 5.3.5 has been released. It fixes all known bugs in Lua 5.3.4.

Tuesday, July 10, 00:00 UTC @ objc.io

In the final episode of our Swift Talk series, Refactoring Large View Controllers, we factored out view code from the view controller into a custom view class. Aiming to simplify the view controller, we decided to focus on rearranging existing code. In the process of doing so it became apparent that the code we were moving could be improved, ma

Monday, July 09, 22:30 UTC @ News - Apple Developer

Take advantage of transcripts to quickly discover and share information presented in WWDC18 videos. You can search by keyword, see all instances where the keyword is mentioned in the video, go straight to the time it was mentioned, and even share a link to that specific time.See this year’s WWDC videos

Monday, July 09, 20:05 UTC @ Computational Complexity

I have done two surveys for SIGACT NEWS Complextiy Column (edited by Lane Hemaspaandra) on P vs NP and related topics. Lane has asked me to do a third. I annouced it in my open problems column here For those who don't read SIGACT news 1) You should! 2) Here is where to go to fill out the survey: here bill g. P.S. (do p

Monday, July 09, 16:19 UTC @ TED Blog

Their ideas are big — aimed at impacting millions of lives or creating sweeping global change. Three months after the first project leaders of The Audacious Project stood on the TED stage and shared their ambitious plans, things are already starting to happen. Below, enjoy the latest news. The drive to end trachoma When Sightsavers [R

Monday, July 09, 15:32 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

by Alex Karasulu I'm a long time member of the Apache Software Foundation and have been an executive officer of several corporations over the course of the past 20 years. I've co-founded several projects in the community and mentored several others. The "Apache Way" has benefited several aspects of my life, however I never imagined it would help make me a better executive. Even non-technical executives, in organizations totally outside of the rea

Monday, July 09, 14:25 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

IBM is reaching beyond digital technologies with a capacitor-based cross-point array for analog neural networks, exhibiting potential orders of magnitude improvements in deep learning computations. Analog computing architectures exploit the storage capability and physical attributes of certain memory devices not just to store information, but also to perform computations. This has the potential to greatly […] The post

Monday, July 09, 13:38 UTC @ ACM Queue - All Queue Content

GitOps lowers the bar for creating self-service versions of common IT processes, making it easier to meet the return in the ROI calculation. GitOps not only achieves this, but also encourages desired behaviors in IT systems: better testing, reduction of bus factor, reduced wait time, more infrastructure logic being handled programmatically with IaC, and directing time away from manual toil toward creating and maintaining automation.

Monday, July 09, 10:43 UTC @ Use Your Loaf

The defaults for creating a readable width table view have changed in iOS 12. If you create your layouts with Interface Builder you are not impacted. Create your table views in code though and you may need to make changes when building against the iOS 12 SDK. A Recap The readable content guide was introduced in iOS 9 as a way to keep lines of text at a comfortable reading width. It is useful when you have a table view cell showing multiple lines of text like this:

Monday, July 09, 10:01 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

World's largest Open Source foundation's 300+ freely-available, enterprise-grade Apache projects power some of the most visible and widely used applications in computing today. Wakefield, MA —9 July 2018— The Apache® Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today the availability of the annual report for its 2018 fiscal year, which ended

Monday, July 09, 07:00 UTC @ NSHipster

The term “boilerplate” goes back to the early days of print media. Small regional newspapers had column inches to fill, but typically lacked the writing staff to make this happen, so many of them turned to large print syndicates for a steady flow of content that could be added verbatim into the back pages of their dailies. These stories would often be provided on pre-set plates, which resembled the rolled sheets of steel used to make boilers, hence the name.

Monday, July 09, 00:00 UTC @ The Syndicate

In the first part of the iOS to Mac development series here on The Syndicate, we discussed the tools, macOS app anatomy, languages, and SDK differences between iOS and macOS. Reading through the documentation, you’ve probably noticed a lot of differences in the way macOS handles interfaces and view controllers, especially since macOS apps can handle multiple windows displayed at the same time. In this final conclusion of the artic

Sunday, July 08, 15:53 UTC @ Backreaction

I’ll be in Utrecht next week for the 19th UK and European Conference on Foundations of Physics. August 28th I’ll be in Santa Fe, September 6th in Oslo, September 22nd I’ll be in London for another installment of the HowTheLightGetsIn Festival. I have been educated that this festival derives its name from Leonard Cohen’s song “Anthem” which features the lines “Ring the bells that still can

Sunday, July 08, 15:53 UTC @ Backreaction

I’ll be in Utrecht next week for the 19th UK and European Conference on Foundations of Physics. August 28th I’ll be in Santa Fe, September 6th in Oslo, September 22nd I’ll be in London for another installment of the HowTheLightGetsIn Festival. I have been educated that this festival derives its name from Leonard Cohen’s song “Anthem” which features the lines “Ring the bells that still can

Sunday, July 08, 06:36 UTC @ Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog

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Saturday, July 07, 18:41 UTC @ Azimuth

In the final installment of the Applied Category Theory seminar, two students explain a category-theoretic approach to Bayesian networks and their generalizations. Check it out: • Pablo Andres-Martinez and Sophie Raynor, Beyond Classical Bayesian networks, The n-Category Café, 7 July 2018. Pablo Andres-Martinez is a postdoc at the University of Edinburgh, working in the cool-sounding […]

Friday, July 06, 22:02 UTC @ Planet Lisp

This post goes over some code that I pushed to github today. All the snippets below should be in the repo, which also includes C and Python code with the same structure. I recently resumed th

Friday, July 06, 17:38 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

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Friday, July 06, 14:30 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Consider the following. Our brain and all its magnificent capabilities is powered by less than 20 watts. Stop to think about that for a second. As I write this blog my laptop is using about 80 watts, yet at only a fourth of the power, our brain outperforms state-of-the-art supercomputers by several orders of magnitude […] The post Novel Synaptic Architecture for Brain Inspired Computing appeared fi

Thursday, July 05, 18:16 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

A random assortment of possibly interesting links: New videos from the IHES include new interviews, and talks from the recent Ofer Gabber conference. If you want to know more about prisms than what you can get from the video here, … Continue reading →

Thursday, July 05, 13:15 UTC @ Computational Complexity

Thursday, July 05, 11:15 UTC @ Backreaction

Almost forgot to mention I made it 3rd prize in the 2018 FQXi essay contest “What is fundamental?” The new essay continues my thoughts about whether free will is or isn’t compatible with what we know about the laws of nature. For many years I was convinced that the only way to make free will compatible with physics is to adopt a meaningless definition of free will. The current status is that I

Thursday, July 05, 11:15 UTC @ Backreaction

Almost forgot to mention I made it 3rd prize in the 2018 FQXi essay contest “What is fundamental?” The new essay continues my thoughts about whether free will is or isn’t compatible with what we know about the laws of nature. For many years I was convinced that the only way to make free will compatible with physics is to adopt a meaningless definition of free will. The current status is that I

Thursday, July 05, 10:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

IBM and Galp, a Portuguese energy group with a global footprint, have developed an AI-based advisor to enhance seismic interpretation in the oil and gas exploration area. This tool can facilitate creation of enhanced geological models, risk assessment of new prospects, and optimization of the placement of new oil wells. As global energy consumption increases […] The post AI and the Future of Oil appeared f

Wednesday, July 04, 20:41 UTC @ Dr. Randal S. Olson

If you’ve ever watched Major League Baseball, one of the feature points of the sport is the batting line-up that each team decides upon before each game. Traditional baseball logic tells us that speedy, reliable hitters like Trea Turner should…Read more ›

Wednesday, July 04, 14:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Researchers at the IBM-Illinois Center for Cognitive Computing Systems Research (C3SR) developed a winning solution in the 2018 DAC System Design Contest, announced last week at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in San Francisco. The contest, jointly sponsored by ACM SIGDA and DAC, challenged worldwide experts to design low-power embedded systems for Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. […] The post

Wednesday, July 04, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD News Flash

Active committers to the project have elected your tenth FreeBSD Core Team. For details, refer to the official announcement.

Wednesday, July 04, 03:09 UTC @ Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog

David Chisnall, "C Is Not a Low-level Language. Your computer is not a fast PDP-11.", ACM Queue, Volume 16, issue 2. "For a language to be "close to the metal," it must provide an abstract machine that maps easily to the abstractions exposed by the target platform. It's easy to argue that C was a low-level language for the PDP-11. ... it is possible to make C code run quickly but only by spending thousands o

Tuesday, July 03, 22:27 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Tuesday, July 03, 14:22 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

The Thirty-fifth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2018) takes place July 10-15 in Stockholm, Sweden. ICML is the leading international machine learning conference, and IBM Research AI is a Gold sponsor at ICML 2018 and will present the following papers at the conference. We invite you to stop by these sessions and our booth […] The post Advances in Machine Learning at ICML 2018 appeared first

Tuesday, July 03, 11:50 UTC @ ACM Queue - All Queue Content

Applications have had an interesting evolution as they have moved into the distributed and scalable world. Similarly, storage and its cousin databases have changed side by side with applications. Many times, the semantics, performance, and failure models of storage and applications do a subtle dance as they change in support of changing business requirements and environmental challenges. Adding scale to the mix has really stirred things up. This article looks at some of these issues and their impact on syst

Tuesday, July 03, 11:45 UTC @ Quality Coding

Have you ever seen a unit test pass in isolation, but fail when run in a suite? Or vice versa, pass in a suite, but fail when run in isolation? Besides the other improvements for test-centric workflows, Xcode 10 brings a rarity: a new XCTest feature for unit tests! Randomizing test order will help us […]

Tuesday, July 03, 01:27 UTC @ Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP

A workshop on quantum computing at UCSD Cropped from workshop poster Dorit Aharonov, David Gosset, and Thomas Vidick did standup for three-and-a-half days in La Jolla earlier this year. They are not listed among the many distinguished actors who have performed at the La Jolla Playhouse on the UCSD campus. Nor were they observed by […]

Tuesday, July 03, 00:00 UTC @ objc.io

In Episode 107 of our Swift Talk series on refactoring large view controllers, we move code from a view controller to a child view controller. The resulting child view controller deals with keyboard notifications. In this week’s tip, we’ll show how to factor out that code as well. In multiple places throughout the code base there are notification listeners for keyboard event

Monday, July 02, 21:28 UTC @ Computational Complexity

(The new SIGACT News chair wnated me to post a letter he send to all SIGACT members on my blog in case you are not in SIGACT. He thinks you should be. I think so to so next year he won't ask me to do this. Here is his letter: here) As many of you know there was a BREAKTHROUGH on the problem of the The Chromatic Number of The Plane. There have been fine blog posts on this by Gil Kalai

Monday, July 02, 15:00 UTC @ Planet Lisp

It all started with a raid on a long abandoned hosting service. Seen a mention of it in the news, leading to a vague recollection of using it for something. Email address associated with the account was long defunct, and the service itself changed ownership a few times in the past two decades. But incredibly, I could recall login credentials and they worked still. Amazingly, in a pile of abandoned HTML templates, obsolete software archives and Under Construction GIFs there was a source f

Monday, July 02, 13:30 UTC @ Gorilla Logic

Traditionally known as a tropical paradise, Gorilla Logic discovered that Costa Rica is also the ideal place to outsource software development after establishing a development center there in 2013.   The leadership team at Gorilla Logic had extensive experience outsourcing software development projects to countries like India and the Ukraine.  Outsourcing to the other side […] The post

Monday, July 02, 00:00 UTC @ The Syndicate

Machine learning, and its yet-to-be-realized more advanced form artificial intelligence (AI), promise to change our world in myriad ways. One example will be disseminating new medical information to physicians. We’ve all been in waiting rooms while doctors bounce from patient to patient doing their best to help everyone. Once the hands-on patient care is complete, they still need to take notes, do administrative tasks — and they also want to have a life. Oh, and they need to stay current on

Sunday, July 01, 22:02 UTC @ x.ai

A couple months ago, we overviewed how we calculate the tangible business ROI for our AI scheduling assistants. We still recommend ensuring any AI investment you make is grounded in providing empirical business value. However, that doesn’t mean all the rewards you’ll reap from such an investment are easily measured, or will occur in the… The post How to think about intangible ROI for x.ai appeared