vieiro.net

Wednesday, July 18, 19:36 UTC @ Daring Fireball

From a 90-minute podcast interview: Zuckerberg: Let me give you an example of where we would take it down. In Myanmar or Sri Lanka, where there’s a history of sectarian violence, similar to the tradition in the U.S. where you can’t go into a movie theater and yell “Fire!” because that creates an imminent harm. The principles that we have on what we remove from the service are: If it’s going to result in real harm, real physical

Wednesday, July 18, 19:10 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Nick Statt, writing for The Verge: The undercover journalist detailed his findings in a new documentary titled Inside Facebook: Secrets of the Social Network, that just aired on the UK’s Channel 4. The investigation outlines questionable practices on behalf of CPL Resources, a third-party content moderator firm based in Dublin, Ireland that Facebook has work

Wednesday, July 18, 19:01 UTC @ Daring Fireball

European Commission press release: The European Commission has fined Google €4.34 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules. Since 2011, Google has imposed illegal restrictions on Android device manufacturers and mobile network operators to cement its dominant position in general internet search. That’s the largest fine in EU antitrust history. In particular, Google: has required manufacturers to pre-install the Google Se

Wednesday, July 18, 18:24 UTC @ Hacker Noon - Medium

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, 16:26 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Among other gadgetry, it sports revolving number plates, retractable machine guns, and even a working ejector seat. ★

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, 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, 15:54 UTC @ Hacker Noon - Medium

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, 15:49 UTC @ Hacker Noon - Medium

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, 15:00 UTC @ Quanta Magazine

Sau Lan Wu spent decades working to establish the Standard Model of particle physics. Now she’s searching for what lies beyond it.

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, 14:01 UTC @ Hacker Noon - Medium

Wednesday, July 18, 13:59 UTC @ Y Combinator

We’re hosting Startup School again this year. Startup School is a free, 10-week, online course. It’s designed for any startup founder who would like to get help through the earliest, most difficult challenges of starting a company. The course will begin on August 27, 2018 and applications are now open at StartupSchool.org.

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

Wednesday, July 18, 10:09 UTC @ Hacker Noon - Medium

Wednesday, July 18, 08:55 UTC @ Hacker Noon - Medium

Wednesday, July 18, 08:29 UTC @ Hacker Noon - Medium

Wednesday, July 18, 06:01 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

Article URL: http://... URL: https://... 329# Comments: 119

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

Calculating the correlation in a sliding window is a common method of statistical evaluation of the interconnect between two sets of data. And although the calculation of a single correlation coefficient is not resource-intensive and algorithmically complex, sequential computation in a large number of windows on large data sets can take quite a long time. In this case, each value in the data, falling into different windows, will be processed many times, increasing the complexity of the algorithm and the

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

The $\ell_2$ tracking problem is the task of obtaining a streaming algorithm that, given access to a stream of items $a_1,a_2,a_3,\ldots$ from a universe $[n]$, outputs at each time $t$ an estimate to the $\ell_2$ norm of the frequency vector $f^{(t)}\in \mathbb{R}^n$ (where $f^{(t)}_i$ is the number of occurrences of item $i$ in the stream up to time $t$). The previous work [Braverman-Chestnut-Ivkin-Nelson-Wang-Woodruff, FOCS 2017] gave an streaming algorithm with (the optimal) space using $O(\epsilon^{

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.CC updates on arXiv.org

The logic MMSNP is a restricted fragment of existential second-order logic which allows to express many interesting queries in graph theory and finite model theory. The logic was introduced by Feder and Vardi who showed that every MMSNP sentence is computationally equivalent to a finite-domain constraint satisfaction problem (CSP); the involved probabilistic reductions were derandomized by Kun using explicit constructions of expander structures. We present a new proof of the reduction to finite-domain CS

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

We study two basic problems regarding edit error, i.e. document exchange and error correcting codes for edit errors (insdel codes). For message length $n$ and edit error upper bound $k$, it is known that in both problems the optimal sketch size or the optimal number of redundant bits is $\Theta(k \log \frac{n}{k})$. However, known constructions are far from achieving these bounds. We significantly improve previous results on both problems. For document exchange, we give an efficient deterministic

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.CG updates on arXiv.org

Tensegrity structures are frameworks in a stable self-equilibrated prestress state that have been applied in various fields in science and engineering. Research into tensegrity structures has resulted in reliable techniques for their form finding and analysis. However, most techniques address topology and form separately. This paper presents a bio-inspired approach for the combined topology identification and form finding of planar tensegrity structures. Tensegrity structures are generated using tensegri

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.CC updates on arXiv.org

In this paper we consider the \textsc{$p$-Norm Hamming Centroid} problem which asks to determine whether some given binary strings have a centroid with a bound on the $p$\nobreakdash-norm of its Hamming distances to the strings. Specifically, given a set of strings $S$ and a real $k$, we consider the problem of determining whether there exists a string $s^*$ with $\big(\sum_{s \in S}d^p(s^*,s)\big)^{1/p} \leq k$, where $d(,)$ denotes the Hamming distance metric. This problem has important applications in

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

We show that decompositions of certain polynomials as sums of powers of linear forms yield faster algorithms for some algebraic problems. Such a decomposition is known as a Waring decomposition. Our results are: 1. We give a black-box algorithm for computing the sum of the coefficients of the degree-k multilinear monomials in a polynomial over a field of characteristic zero. Our algorithm runs in time $O^*(n^{k/2})$ and space $poly(n)$. This solves an open problem of Koutis and Williams [1].

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

We introduce a method for sparsifying distributed algorithms and exhibit how it leads to improvements that go past known barriers in two algorithmic settings of large-scale graph processing: Massively Parallel Computation (MPC), and Local Computation Algorithms (LCA). - MPC with Strongly Sublinear Memory: Recently, there has been growing interest in obtaining MPC algorithms that are faster than their classic $O(\log n)$-round parallel counterparts for problems such as MIS, Maximal Matching, 2-App

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.CC updates on arXiv.org

We show that any DNNF circuit that expresses the set of linear orders over a set of $n$ candidates must be of size $2^{\Omega(n)}$.

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

We propose a new succinct representation of labeled trees which represents a tree T using |T|H_k(T) number of bits (plus some smaller order terms), where |T|H_k(T) denotes the k-th order (tree label) entropy, as defined by Ferragina at al. 2005. Our representation employs a new, simple method of partitioning the tree, which preserves both tree shape and node degrees. Previously, the only representation that used |T|H_k(T) bits was based on XBWT, a transformation that linearizes tree labels into a single

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

We study a new LLL-like framework for rejection sampling, which naturally generalizes the variable-framework for the Lov\'asz local lemma (LLL) and the LLL-based Partial Rejection Sampling of Guo, Jerrum and Liu [STOC'17]. In this new framework, the occurrence of a bad event is biased by the current evaluation of variables, rather than being determined by them as in the standard setting of LLL. Such generalization allows us to model rejection samplings with soft filters. We give a generic algorithm, call

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.CC updates on arXiv.org

In this paper, we study polynomial norms, i.e. norms that are the $d^{\text{th}}$ root of a degree-$d$ homogeneous polynomial $f$. We first show that a necessary and sufficient condition for $f^{1/d}$ to be a norm is for $f$ to be strictly convex, or equivalently, convex and positive definite. Though not all norms come from $d^{\text{th}}$ roots of polynomials, we prove that any norm can be approximated arbitrarily well by a polynomial norm. We then investigate the computational problem of testing whethe

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.CC updates on arXiv.org

We prove lower bounds on complexity measures, such as the approximate degree of a Boolean function and the approximate rank of a Boolean matrix, using quantum arguments. We prove these lower bounds using a quantum query algorithm for the combinatorial group testing problem. We show that for any function f, the approximate degree of computing the OR of n copies of f is Omega(sqrt{n}) times the approximate degree of f, which is optimal. No such general result was known prior to our work, and even t

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.CG updates on arXiv.org

We describe and analyze an algorithm for computing the homology (Betti numbers and torsion coefficients) of closed semialgebraic sets given by Boolean formulas without negations over lax polynomial inequalities. The algorithm works in weak exponential time. This means that outside a subset of data having exponentially small measure, the cost of the algorithm is single exponential in the size of the data. All previous algorithms solving this problem have doubly exponential complexity (and this is

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.CG updates on arXiv.org

We prove that $n$ plane algebraic curves determine $O(n^{(k+2)/(k+1)})$ points of $k$-th order tangency. This generalizes an earlier result of Ellenberg, Solymosi, and Zahl on the number of (first order) tangencies determined by $n$ plane algebraic curves.

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

In this paper, we study the query complexity of parameterized decision and optimization versions of {\sc Hitting-Set}, {\sc Vertex Cover}, {\sc Packing} , \match{} and {\sc Max-Cut}. The main focus is the query complexity of {\sc Hitting Set}. In doing so, we use an oracle known as \bis{} introduced by Beame et al.~\cite{BeameHRRS18} and its generalizations to hypergraphs. The query models considered are the \gpis{} and \gpise{} oracles : (i) the \gpis{} oracle takes as input $d$ pairwise disjoin

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

The complexity of {\sc Colouring} is fully understood for $H$-free graphs, but there are still major complexity gaps if two induced subgraphs $H_1$ and $H_2$ are forbidden. Let $H_1$ be the $s$-vertex cycle $C_s$ and $H_2$ be the $t$-vertex path $P_t$. We show that {\sc Colouring} is polynomial-time solvable for $s=4$ and $t\leq 6$, strengthening several known results. Our main approach is to initiate a study into the boundedness of the clique-width of atoms (graphs with no clique cutset) of a hereditary

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.CG updates on arXiv.org

How many copies of a parallelepiped are needed to ensure that for every point in the parallelepiped a copy of each other point exists, such that the distance between them equals the distance of the pair of points when the opposite sites of the parallelepiped are identified? This question is answered in Euclidean space by constructing the smallest domain that fulfills the above condition. We also describe how to obtain all primitive cells of a lattice (i.e., closures of fundamental domains) that realise t

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.CG updates on arXiv.org

In this paper, we prove that in the abstract Tile Assembly Model (aTAM), an accretion-based model which only allows for a single tile to attach to a growing assembly at each step, there are no tile assembly systems capable of self-assembling the discrete self-similar fractals known as the "H" and "U" fractals. We then show that in a related model which allows for hierarchical self-assembly, the 2-Handed Assembly Model (2HAM), there does exist a tile assembly systems which self-assembles the "U" fractal a

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

A quasi-Gray code of dimension $n$ and length $\ell$ over an alphabet $\Sigma$ is a sequence of distinct words $w_1,w_2,\dots,w_\ell$ from $\Sigma^n$ such that any two consecutive words differ in at most $c$ coordinates, for some fixed constant $c>0$. In this paper we are interested in the read and write complexity of quasi-Gray codes in the bit-probe model, where we measure the number of symbols read and written in order to transform any word $w_i$ into its successor $w_{i+1}$. We present con

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

It is a longstanding open problem to construct an explicit 1-factorization of the bipartite Kneser graph $H(n,k)$, which contains as vertices all $k$-element and $(n-k)$-element subsets of $[n]:=\{1,\ldots,n\}$ and an edge between any two vertices when one is a subset of the other. We revisit two classic constructions for the case $n=2k+1$ and give a new construction for another case. More specifically, we first revisit the case $n=2k+1$, in which there are two well-known 1-factorizations called

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

We present tight space lower bounds for static personalized PageRank (PPR) labeling schemes. In a labeling scheme, each vertex is assigned a \emph{label vector}; To answer a query between two vertices, only the labels of the two vertices may be accessed. We show that for any personalized PageRank labeling schemes which can approximately recover PPR values that are at least $\delta$, the total labeling size must be at least $\tilde{\Omega}(n / \sqrt{\delta})$ on sparse Erd\"{o}s-R\'enyi random graphs with

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

In the classic Integer Programming (IP) problem, the objective is to decide whether, for a given $m \times n$ matrix $A$ and an $m$-vector $b=(b_1,\dots, b_m)$, there is a non-negative integer $n$-vector $x$ such that $Ax=b$. Solving (IP) is an important step in numerous algorithms and it is important to obtain an understanding of the precise complexity of this problem as a function of natural parameters of the input. The classic pseudo-polynomial time algorithm of Papadimitriou [J. ACM 1981] for

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

In this paper we provide new quantum algorithms with polynomial speed-up for a range of problems for which no such results were known, or we improve previous algorithms. First, we consider the approximation of the frequency moments $F_k$ of order $k \geq 3$ in the multi-pass streaming model with updates (turnstile model). We design a $P$-pass quantum streaming algorithm with space memory $M$ satisfying a tradeoff of $P^2 M = \tilde{O}(n^{1-2/k})$, whereas the best classical algorithm requires $P M = \The

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.CC updates on arXiv.org

The classical lemma of Ore-DeMillo-Lipton-Schwartz-Zippel states that any nonzero polynomial $f(x_1,\ldots, x_n)$ of degree at most $s$ will evaluate to a nonzero value at some point on a grid $S^n \subseteq \mathbb{F}^n$ with $|S| > s$. Thus, there is a deterministic polynomial identity test (PIT) for all degree-$s$ size-$s$ algebraic circuits in $n$ variables that runs in time $\mathrm{poly}(s) \cdot (s+1)^n$. In a surprising recent result, Agrawal, Ghosh and Saxena (STOC 2018) showed any determinis

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

We investigate distribution testing with access to non-adaptive conditional samples. In the conditional sampling model, the algorithm is given the following access to a distribution: it submits a query set $S$ to an oracle, which returns a sample from the distribution conditioned on being from $S$. In the non-adaptive setting, all query sets must be specified in advance of viewing the outcomes. Our main result is the first polylogarithmic-query algorithm for equivalence testing, deciding whether

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

We study the optimal design problems where the goal is to choose a set of linear measurements to obtain the most accurate estimate of an unknown vector in $d$ dimensions. We study the $A$-optimal design variant where the objective is to minimize the average variance of the error in the maximum likelihood estimate of the vector being measured. The problem also finds applications in sensor placement in wireless networks, sparse least squares regression, feature selection for $k$-means clustering, and matri

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.CG updates on arXiv.org

We introduce cilantro, an open-source C++ library for geometric and general-purpose point cloud data processing. The library provides functionality that covers low-level point cloud operations, spatial reasoning, various methods for point cloud segmentation and generic data clustering, flexible algorithms for robust or local geometric alignment, model fitting, as well as powerful visualization tools. To accommodate all kinds of workflows, cilantro is almost fully templated, and most of its generic algori

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

We introduce a new problem in the domain of mobile robots, which we term dispersion. In this problem, $n$ robots are placed in an $n$ node graph arbitrarily and must coordinate with each other to reach a final configuration such that exactly one robot is at each node. We study this problem through the lenses of minimizing the memory required by each robot and of minimizing the number of rounds required to achieve dispersion. Dispersion is of interest due to its relationship to the problems of sca

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

In this note, we show that the zero field Ising partition function has no complex zeros in the interaction parameter (known as Fisher zeros) in a complex neighborhood of the correlation decay regime.

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.CG updates on arXiv.org

This paper proposes a new method which builds a simplex based approximation of a $d-1$-dimensional manifold $M$ separating a $d$-dimensional compact set into two parts, and an efficient algorithm classifying points according to this approximation. In a first variant, the approximation is made of simplices that are defined in the cubes of a regular grid covering the compact set, from boundary points that approximate the intersection between $M$ and the edges of the cubes. All the simplices defined in a cu

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

A number of recent works have studied algorithms for entrywise $\ell_p$-low rank approximation, namely algorithms which given an $n \times d$ matrix $A$ (with $n \geq d$), output a rank-$k$ matrix $B$ minimizing $\|A-B\|_p^p=\sum_{i,j} |A_{i,j} - B_{i,j}|^p$. We show the following: On the algorithmic side, for $p \in (0,2)$, we give the first $n^{\text{poly}(k/\epsilon)}$ time $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithm. For $p = 0$, there are various problem formulations, a common one being the binar

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

Markov chain methods are remarkably successful in computational physics, machine learning, and combinatorial optimization. The cost of such methods often reduces to the mixing time, i.e. \ the time required to reach the steady state of the Markov chain, which scales as $\delta^{-1}$, the inverse of the spectral gap. It has long been conjectured that quantum computers offer nearly generic quadratic improvements for mixing problems. However, except in special cases, quantum algorithms achieve a run-time of

Wednesday, July 18, 01:30 UTC @ cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

The \emph{vitality} of an arc/node of a graph with respect to the maximum flow between two fixed nodes $s$ and $t$ is defined as the reduction of the maximum flow caused by the removal of that arc/node. In this paper we address the issue of determining the vitality of arcs and/or nodes for the maximum flow problem over various classes of graphs. First of all we show how to compute the vitality of all arcs in a general undirected graph by solving only $2(n-1)$ max flow instances. In $st$-planar graphs (di

Wednesday, July 18, 01:17 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

Article URL: https://... URL: https://... 378# Comments: 364

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. It's a lot cleaner on the new Reddit, click here to go to new Reddit just for this post. Following the actix-web incident (which is

Tuesday, July 17, 21:27 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

Article URL: http://... URL: https://... 268# Comments: 187

Tuesday, July 17, 21:02 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Tracy Jan, reporting earlier this month for The Washington Post: Shoppers can purchase Amazon.com merchandise displaying symbols of white supremacy, such as a swastika necklace, a baby onesie with a burning cross, and a child’s backpack featuring a neo-Nazi meme, all in contradiction of the retail giant’s policy against selling products that promote hatred, according to a new report from two watchdog groups.

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, 20:45 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Salvador Rodriguez, reporting last week for Reuters: Uber Technologies Inc’s Chief People Officer Liane Hornsey resigned in an email to staff on Tuesday, following an investigation into how she handled allegations of racial discrimination at the ride-hailing firm. […] They alleged Hornsey had used discriminatory language and made derogatory comments about Uber Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion Bernard Coleman, and had denigrated and threatened former Uber executive

Tuesday, July 17, 20:10 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Steve Jobs, in a 2010 conversation with Rupert Murdoch, in which Jobs told Murdoch he was “blowing it with Fox News”: “The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive, and you’ve cast your lot with the destructive people. Fox has become an incredibly destructive force in our society. You can be better, and this is going to be your legacy if you’re not careful.” I thought this was interesting in light of

Tuesday, July 17, 19:41 UTC @ Daring Fireball

I was a huge fan of sub-pixel anti-aliasing back in the day (and in fact still have it enabled on 10.13), but it matters far more on non-retina displays than retina ones. I think it’s proper for Apple to focus on retina displays — and iOS has never supported sub-pixel anti-aliasing, which I can only guess factored into this decision with the introduction of UIKit apps running on MacOS — but they’re still selling the non-retina MacBook Air. I won’t issue a f

Tuesday, July 17, 19:38 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

Article URL: https://... URL: https://... 289# Comments: 130

Tuesday, July 17, 19:30 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Michael Tsai: I’ve been told this is overdue, but I’d like to ask you to help support this site financially. This is optional. I’m not creating a paywall, and I don’t want you to feel guilty if you aren’t able to help. But if you enjoy what I’m doing here, please consider joining via Patreon. To be clear, I see this site as a labor of love. I’m not interested in making it more commercial or in giving up software develop

Tuesday, July 17, 19:22 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Sam Lionhart, writing for iFixit: Here’s an inflammatory take for you: Apple’s new quieter keyboard is actually a silent scheme to fix their keyboard reliability issues. We’re in the middle of tearing down the newest MacBook Pro, but we’re too excited to hold this particular bit of news back: Apple has cocooned their butterfly switches in a thin, silicone barrier. I think it’s a stretch to call this a “cover-up” or “inflammat

Tuesday, July 17, 18:58 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Rob Verger, writing for Popular Science: Pull a USB flash drive out of your Mac without first clicking to eject it, and you’ll get a stern, shameful warning: “Disk Not Ejected Properly.” But do you really need to eject a thumb drive the right way? Probably not. Just wait for it to finish copying your data, give it a few seconds, then yank. To be on the cautious side, be more conservative with external hard drives, especially the old ones that actually spin.

Tuesday, July 17, 18:00 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

Article URL: https://... URL: https://... 313# Comments: 127

Tuesday, July 17, 17:59 UTC @ Daring Fireball

NBC News: An app promoting a conspiracy theory featuring Hillary Clinton and a child sex ring lingered at the top of Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store for months, with both tech giants receiving a cut of the revenue in the process. The app, called “QDrops,” sends alerts about a conspiracy theory called Qanon, an offshoot of the “pizzagate” fiction that claimed Clinton was running a child sex trafficking ring out of the basement of a Washington pizza shop tha

Tuesday, July 17, 17:40 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

Article URL: https://... URL: https://... 532# Comments: 362

Tuesday, July 17, 17:04 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

Article URL: https://... URL: https://... 263# Comments: 273

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, 16:43 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

Article URL: https://... URL: https://... 335# Comments: 105

Tuesday, July 17, 16:25 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

Article URL: https://... URL: https://... 304# Comments: 166

Tuesday, July 17, 16:00 UTC @ Y Combinator

In an excerpt from the High Growth Handbook, Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, discusses common mistakes the CEO may make as a company grows.

Tuesday, July 17, 16:00 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

Article URL: https://... URL: https://... 294# Comments: 135

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, 14:30 UTC @ Quanta Magazine

Some species have the equivalent of many more than two sexes, but most do not. A new model suggests the reason depends on how often they mate.

Tuesday, July 17, 11:59 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

Article URL: https://... URL: https://... 623# Comments: 90

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

Tuesday, July 17, 08:54 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

Article URL: https://... URL: https://... 271# Comments: 174

Tuesday, July 17, 06:49 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

Article URL: https://... URL: https://... 418# Comments: 330

Tuesday, July 17, 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, July 17, 02:49 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

Article URL: http://... URL: https://... 446# Comments: 44

Tuesday, July 17, 00:01 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

Article URL: https://... URL: https://... 280# Comments: 156

Monday, July 16, 22:21 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Apple Newsroom: More than 70 new emoji characters are coming to iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac later this year in a free software update. The new emoji designs, created based on approved characters in Unicode 11.0, include even more hair options to better represent people with red hair, gray hair and curly hair, a new emoji for bald people, and new smiley faces that bring more expression to Messages with a cold face, party face, pleading face and a face with hearts.

Monday, July 16, 21:57 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Josh Marshall, writing at TPM: There is no reasonable explanation for the simple facts we see other than that Russia has some kind of hold over President Trump. I know that sounds wild and I have a very hard time sometimes quite believing it myself. But it’s so overwhelmingly obvious that we need to get real with ourselves and recognize what is happening. I don’t know what the specific details are. I don’t know whether Russia has some compromising information on the Presi

Monday, July 16, 21:49 UTC @ Daring Fireball

TPM: During his Fox Business Network show Monday, host Neil Cavuto called President Donald Trump’s failure to denounce Russian President Vladimir Putin for the Russian interference in the 2016 election “disgusting,” saying that the presser “set us back a lot.” “That made it disgusting. That made his performance disgusting,” Cavuto said of Trump’s refusal to even criticize the Russian President. “Only way I feel. Not a right or left thing to me. It is wrong.”

Monday, July 16, 21:32 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Hillary Clinton’s remarks during a 2016 debate on Donald Trump being a “puppet” of Vladimir Putin have proven depressingly spot-on. Everything she said in this clip has come to pass. ★

Monday, July 16, 21:10 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Jonathan Swan and Mike Allen, reporting for Axios: Over the course of the press conference, Trump: Sided with Russia over his own law enforcement. Turned a question on Russian election interference into a rambling dialogue on Hillary Clinton’s email server and his electoral college votes. And stood by, nodding, while Putin repeatedly lied about election interference.

Monday, July 16, 20:49 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Brad Sams, writing at, uh, “Thurrott”: As of last year, Microsoft planned to ship Andromeda in late 2018 but as recently as a couple weeks ago, the company put the plans on ice. Mary Jo wrote last week that the bits needed for Andromeda would not make it into RS5 and she is absolutely correct in her assessment but there is more to the story. While some assumed that this me

Monday, July 16, 19:33 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

Article URL: https://... URL: https://... 289# Comments: 142

Monday, July 16, 19:28 UTC @ Hacker News: Newest

Article URL: https://... URL: https://... 279# Comments: 48 hnrss is a labor of love, but if the project has made your job or hobby project easier and you want to show some gratitude,

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, 16:10 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Ryan Singer, Product Strategy, Basecamp Jason Fried (CEO, Basecamp) gave a fascinating talk at BoS Conference 2016 about how the people at Basecamp work. As well as making Basecamp, their project management solution, the team at Basecamp are committed to changing the way people work, to help alleviate troublesome work environments and to considering the role software […] The post

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, 15:38 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Lightning Talk applications for BoS Conference USA 2018 are now open. Lightning Talks are tricky little beasts. You have 7.5 minutes and 15 slides, which advance automatically every 30 seconds. Can you communicate your point clearly, use your slides effectively, and leave the audience inspired and enlightened? If you conquer the challenge, you join the Pantheon of […] The post Apply

Monday, July 16, 15:15 UTC @ Quanta Magazine

What’s easy for a computer to do, and what’s almost impossible? Those questions form the core of computational complexity. We present a map of the landscape.

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, 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

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 […]

Sunday, July 15, 11:25 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

Todo lo que puede calcular un ordenador cuántico se puede calcular mediante un ordenador (clásico), basta simularlo. Se acaba de publicar un problema con oráculo que se puede resolver de forma eficiente en un ordenador cuántico, está en la […] Leer más

Saturday, July 14, 14:17 UTC @ Complex Projective 4-Space

Important note: whenever log is mentioned in this particular post, it is referring to the ceiling of the base-2 (binary) logarithm. (Elsewhere on cp4space, when there isn’t this disclaimer, it refers to the base-e (natural) logarithm.) For reasons that shall soon become … Continue reading →

Saturday, July 14, 11:04 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

Un bólido fue observado desde los cielos de Málaga el pasado lunes 9 de julio sobre las 12:20 de la mañana; otro se observó el mismo día pero madrugada, sobre las 05:15 y otro más el lunes 2 de […] Leer más

Saturday, July 14, 10:22 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

Samuel C. C. Ting (Premio Nobel de Física en 1976) es el investigador principal del experimento AMS (Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer) que está instalado en la ISS (International Space Station) y desde mayo de 2011 está observando rayos cósmicos de diferente […] Leer más

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, 18:54 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

La observación multimensajero es el sueño de todo físico de neutrinos. Se logró con la supernova SN 1987A (y con nuestro Sol). El detector de neutrinos IceCube observó 13 ± 5 neutrinos entre septiembre de 2014 y marzo de […] Leer más

Friday, July 13, 16:25 UTC @ Daring Fireball

I love it when an honest, accurate, non-sensationalized headline is enough to make you laugh. ★

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, 15:00 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Gray Langur’s Kingdom of the Clouds Tour is a once-in-a-lifetime, all-inclusive, 2-week exploration of one of the world’s least accessible, yet astonishingly forward-thinking countries. Bhutan is the the only place where “Gross National Happiness” is more important than Gross National Product, and tourism is regulated with care. On October 16, 2018, Gray Langur Tours will return to this fascinating Himalayan Kingdom for

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

https://...

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, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Mete Atamel, Developer Advocate I use my Google Home all the time to check the weather before leaving home, set up alarms, listen to music, but I never considered writing an app for it. What does it take to write an app for the Google Home assistant? And can we make it smarter by leveraging Google Cloud? Those were the questions that my colleague

Thursday, July 12, 14:59 UTC @ Quanta Magazine

High-energy neutrinos have been traced back to a flaring supermassive black hole known as a blazar. The long-sought link opens the door to an entirely new way to study the universe.

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, 13:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Ed Anuff, Director of Product and Strategy, Apigee Whether it's delivering new experiences through mobile apps, building a platform to power a partner ecosystem, or modernizing IT systems, virtually every modern business uses APIs (application programming interfaces). Google Cloud’s Apigee API platform helps enterprises adapt by giving them control and visibility into the APIs that connect app

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 […]

Thursday, July 12, 00:17 UTC @ Daring Fireball

I’ve long been suspicious that the reason Magic Leap is so secretive about their actual technology is that it’s nowhere close to what they promised in their concept videos. This seems to confirm it. I’ll go out on a limb and predict that this puff piece from Wired back in December — “It’s Time to Take Magic Le

Wednesday, July 11, 23:59 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Oleg Afonin, writing for the ElcomSoft blog: What we discovered is that iOS will reset the USB Restrictive Mode countdown timer even if one connects the iPhone to an untrusted USB accessory, one that has never been paired to the iPhone before (well, in fact the accessories do not require pairing at all). In other words, once the police officer seizes an iPhone, he or she would need to immediately connect that iPhone to a compatible USB accessory to prevent USB Restricted Mode

Wednesday, July 11, 23:51 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Michael Steeber, writing for 9to5Mac: Few contemporary innovations have changed how we live our lives and interact with the world around us more than iPhone apps. The creators of the first 500 available at launch had the unique opportunity of shaping the design direction and interaction methods of the millions of apps created since. To celebrate the App Store’s 10th anniversary, let’s study the visual evolution of 10 original App Store apps. Another gre

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, 17:18 UTC @ Daring Fireball

There have been a slew of retrospectives marking the 10-year anniversary of the App Store, but Apple’s own is the most interesting I’ve seen. ★

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, 14:19 UTC @ Quanta Magazine

Water-bearing minerals reveal that Earth’s mantle could hold more water than all its oceans. Researchers now ask: Where did it all come from?

Wednesday, July 11, 14:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Brett Hesterberg, Product Manager and Alexis Guajardo, Senior Software Engineer When was the last time you verified a database backup? If that question causes you to break into a cold sweat, rest assured you’re not alone. Verifying backups should be a common practice, but it often isn’t. This can be an issue if there’s a disaster or—as is more likely at most companies—if someone makes a mistake when deploying database changes.

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, 09:15 UTC @ Y Combinator

Recorded live at our Female Founders Conference in New York, an AMA with Kat Manalac, Kirsty Nathoo, Adora Cheung, Holly Liu, Jessica Livingston, and Carolynn Levy.

Wednesday, July 11, 09:01 UTC @ Y Combinator

Recorded live at our Female Founders Conference in New York, Kat Mañalac sits down with The Muse cofounders Kathryn Minshew and Alex Cavoulacos.

Wednesday, July 11, 09:01 UTC @ Y Combinator

Recorded live at our Female Founders Conference in New York, Jessica Livingston shares lessons learned while starting and operating YC.

Wednesday, July 11, 09:00 UTC @ Y Combinator

Recorded live at our Female Founders Conference in New York, Mariya Nurislamova shares the story of building Scentbird.

Wednesday, July 11, 09:00 UTC @ Y Combinator

Recorded live at our Female Founders Conference in New York, Adora Cheung discusses essential startup advice with Reham Fagiri, Tiffani Ashley Bell, and Alana Branston.

Wednesday, July 11, 09:00 UTC @ Y Combinator

Recorded live at our Female Founders Conference in New York, Reshma Shetty shares the story of building Gingko Bioworks.

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

Inlining is a powerful and common optimization technique u

Wednesday, July 11, 00:33 UTC @ John D. Cook

An earlier post included code for multiplying quaternions, octonions, and sedenions. The code was a little clunky, so I refactor it here. def conj(x): xstar = -x xstar[0] *= -1 return xstar def CayleyDickson(x, y): n = len(x) if n == 1: return x*y m = n // 2 a, b = x[:m], x[m:] c, […]

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, 21:57 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Juli Clover, writing for MacRumors: In April 2018, Zhang took family leave from Apple following the birth of his child, and during that time, he visited China. Shortly after, he told his supervisor at Apple he was leaving the company and moving to China to work for XMotors, a Chinese startup that also focuses on autonomous vehicle technology. […] A review of recorded footage at Apple indicated Zhang had visited the campus on the evening of Saturday, April 28, entering bot

Tuesday, July 10, 21:49 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Matthew Panzarino, writing at TechCrunch: Apple is creating a new AI/ML team that brings together its Core ML and Siri teams under one leader in John Giannandrea. Apple confirmed this morning that the combined Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning team, which houses Siri, will be led by the recent hire, who came to Apple this year after an eight-year stint at Google, where he led the Machine Intelligence, Research and Search teams. Before that he founded Metaweb Technolo

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, 15:21 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Jonathan Geller, writing at BGR: Apple acquires an average of 15 to 20 companies a year, according to CEO Tim Cook. Of that number, we only hear about a couple, as most of these acquisitions or aqcui-hires are not consumer-facing, nor disclosed. However, we have exclusively learned that Apple is planning an interesting partnership and a potential acquisition of AgileBits, maker of the popular password manager 1Password. According to our source, after many months of pla

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

Tuesday, July 10, 14:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Théo Chamley, Solutions Architect Kubernetes Engine is a great place to run your workloads at scale. But before being able to use Kubernetes, you need to containerize your applications. You can run most applications in a Docker container without too much hassle. However, effectively running those containers in production and streamlining the build process is another story. There are

Tuesday, July 10, 10:48 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Workshops take place on the 3rd day of BoS USA. After 2.5 days of being bombarded by ideas, it’s time to step back and take stock. Optional, informal, interactive and fun, BoS workshops will help you prioritize and focus in order to maximize the value of your investment in attending Business of Software Conference. Workshops are […] The post Announcing 4 Workshops for BoS USA 2018 a

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, 08:53 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

Muchos divulgadores celebraron en junio de 2016 que la revista británica Homeopathy de Elsevier perdiera su índice de impacto (journal mpact factor, o JIF) en el JCR 2015. La razón no fue que publicara pseudomedicina, que en el Web […] Leer más

Tuesday, July 10, 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, July 10, 01:21 UTC @ John D. Cook

Quaternion multiplication is associative but not commutative. An earlier post looked at the average size of the commutator xy – yx as a measure of how far quaternion multiplication is from being commutative. This post looks at an analogous question for octonions. Octonion mulitplication is neither commutative nor associative. So in this post we look at the […]

Tuesday, July 10, 01:01 UTC @ John D. Cook

The previous post discussed octonions. This post will implement octonion multiplication in Python, and then sedenion multiplication. Cayley-Dickson construction There’s a way to bootstrap quaternion multiplication into octonion multiplication, so we’ll reuse the quaternion multiplication code from an earlier post. It’s called the Cayley-Dickson construction. For more on this construction , see John Baez’s treatise […]

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, 21:48 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Chris Welch, writing for The Verge: Apple today released iOS 11.4.1, and while most of us are already looking ahead to all the new stuff coming in iOS 12, this small update contains an important new security feature: USB Restricted Mode. Apple has added protections against the USB devices being used by law enforcement and private companies that connect over Lightning to crack an iPhone’s passcode and evade Apple’s usual encryption safeguards. Great news and an

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, 17:30 UTC @ Y Combinator

The hardest conversation I have to have with a founder is when they’ve spent their 1-2 million dollar angel round but haven’t found product market fit. Unfortunately, I have to ask them a very unforgiving question: why does your company deserve more money?

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, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Phillip Coletti, Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform With every new feature we introduce to Google Cloud Billing, we strive to provide your business with greater flexibility, control, and clarity so that you can better align your strategic priorities with your cloud usage. In order to do so, it’s important to be able to answer key questions about your cloud costs, such as:

Monday, July 09, 15:41 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Sapna Maheshwari, writing for The New York Times: Once enabled, Samba TV can track nearly everything that appears on the TV on a second-by-second basis, essentially reading pixels to identify network shows and ads, as well as programs on Netflix and HBO and even video games played on the TV. Samba TV has even offered advertisers the ability to base their targeting on whether people watch conservative or liberal media outlets and which party’s presidential debate they watched.

Monday, July 09, 15:38 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Jean-Louis Gassée: Just as old Cultures can no longer “see” their origins, Intel pushed under its consciousness the true source of the x86’s superiority: The margins it commanded through the Windows monopoly. Better manufacturing technology became Intel’s “conscious” explanation, but the truth was that in the PC era, non-Windows microprocessors simply couldn’t compete and had to settle for lower prices. The worst part of the Culture dictate is that Intel believed its ow

Monday, July 09, 15:37 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Looking forward to more stories like this once iOS 12 is out of beta. ★

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, 14:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Appu Goundan and Qingyang Chen Containers are bringing Java developers closer than ever to a "write once, run anywhere" workflow, but containerizing a Java application is no simple task: You have to write a Dockerfile, run a Docker daemon as root, wait for builds to complete, and finally push the image to a remote registry. Not all Java developers are container experts; what happened to just building a JAR? To address this challenge, we're exci

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, 09:27 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

Hace 6 años que se anunció el bosón de Higgs. El 58% de los Higgs que se producen en el LHC se desintegra en el canal H → bb̅, una pareja bottom-antibottom (pareja quark-antiquark de tipo bottom). Hasta 2008 […] Leer más

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 bo

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 ar

Sunday, July 08, 20:20 UTC @ John D. Cook

A group is a set with a binary operation that closed associative, has an identity, and has inverses. This post will look at each of these properties and what happens if you modify or remove it. Magmas Closed means that applying the binary operation to any two elements of the set yields another elements of […]

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, 12:09 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

“Soy matemática. Y me gusta. [Pero] ¿por qué matemática? [Las] matemáticas son un juego, un juego maravilloso y poderoso: son lo que tienen que ser. Son el lenguaje que describe nuestro mundo, son una forma de razonar con lógica […] Leer más

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

Note to those who tried to sign up but couldn't get passed the broken captcha: we removed it, so please try again. Email me directly to activate the account, once you've created it and got the automatic email.

Saturday, July 07, 22:41 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Steve Ditko, the reclusive co-creator of Spider-Man and Dr. Strange, died yesterday at 90. This documentary from around 10 years ago for the BBC by Jonathan Ross is a terrific look at his life and work. ★

Saturday, July 07, 19:47 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Timothy Martin, reporting for The Wall Street Journal: Sales of the company’s latest flagship device, the Galaxy S9, have been weak, as consumers keep their phones longer and remain unimpressed with the newest options. Lee Seung-woo, a Seoul-based analyst at Eugene Investment and Securities, expects Samsung will ship about 31 million Galaxy S9 devices in 2018. That would mark a dramatic decline from just two years ago, when the Galaxy S7 became Samsung’s best-selling phone

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 […]

Saturday, July 07, 17:20 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

He participado en la primera hora del episodio 170 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox, iTunes], titulado “Encélado; Salyut 7; Cosmología, Cuerpo Negro y CMB; Galaxia sin Materia Oscura; Magnetismo Primordial”, 05 Jul 2018. “La tertulia semanal […]

Saturday, July 07, 17:20 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Craig Timberg and Elizabeth Dwoskin, reporting for The Washington Post: Twitter has sharply escalated its battle against fake and suspicious accounts, suspending more than 1 million a day in recent months, a major shift to lessen the flow of disinformation on the platform, according to data obtained by The Washington Post. The rate of account suspensions, which Twitter confirmed to The Post, has more than doubled since October, when the company revealed under congressional pres

Saturday, July 07, 12:39 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

Junto a Enrique Viguera (profesor titular de genética de la Universidad de Málaga y coordinador de Encuentros con la Ciencia) participo en Ciencia de Verano en Cadena SER Málaga (102.4 FM), que se emitirá este verano (julio y agosto), […] Leer más

Saturday, July 07, 12:08 UTC @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

He participado en el programa ‘Mundo Digital’ de Canal Málaga Radio (97.4 FM) con Javier Atencia y Laura Di Benigno. Este programa divulgativo sobre ciencia y tecnología se emite los miércoles de 19:15 a 20:00 horas, o de 12:10 […] Leer más

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

Hello Friday and welcome, July! Here we go --the Apache Community has been productive over the past week with: Support Apache –thank you in advance for helping offset the ASF's day-to-day operating expenses! Every dollar counts. - Corporate matching gifts can double your individual contribution to the ASF. Add the ASF to your corporate matching gift program today http://...

Friday, July 06, 17:18 UTC @ Y Combinator

At Y Combinator, founders decide when they want to announce that they’re part of the program. Meet 5 of the companies who have announced that they’re part of…

Friday, July 06, 16:09 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

Google Cloud Next ‘18 will be a developer’s paradise, with bootcamps, hands-on labs, and yes, breakout sessions—more than 60 dedicated to app dev in some form or another. And that’s before we get to the Spotlight sessions explaining new product launches! We polled developer advocates and product managers from across Google Cloud, and here are their picks for the sessions you can’t afford to miss. 1. From Zero to Production: Buil

Friday, July 06, 14:33 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Vince Darley is the VP Growth at Deliveroo. Yesterday we sat down with Vince to discuss how to use data to drive business growth, and how it can help product teams to produce better results. If you work with data, Vince’s pedigree as the previous Chief Data Scientist at King Games (makers of destroyer-of-time, Candy Crush Saga) […] The post Making Use of Big Data | Hangout

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

Friday, July 06, 14:11 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Yoav Stoler, reporting for Israeli news site CTech: Intel will not provide Wi-Fi and Bluetooth components for Apple’s 2020 mobile devices, according to internal company communications reviewed by Calcalist, and people familiar with the matter. Apple has notified Intel it would not use a mobile communication component developed by the chipmaker in its next-generation mobile device, Intel executives said. Further development of the component internally called “Sunny Peak” has been

Friday, July 06, 14:05 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Rick Wilson, writing at The Daily Beast: Donald Trump is unequivocal proof that A’s hire B’s and B’s hire C’s, and Trump hires people without the judgment, qualifications, ethical foundations, and moral stature to run an underground bum-fighting operation. Scott Pruitt’s obvious money problems should have screamed out in any background check, to say nothing of a Senate confirmation hearing. Pruitt is a man, like so many of Trump’s claque of low-rent hoodlums, bus-st

Friday, July 06, 12:00 UTC @ Azimuth

There’s a new conference series, whose acronym is pronounced “psycho”. It’s part of the new trend toward the study of “compositionality” in many branches of thought, often but not always using category theory: • First Symposium on Compositional Structures (SYCO1), School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, 20-21 September, 2018. Organized by Ross Duncan, Chris […]

Thursday, July 05, 20:01 UTC @ John D. Cook

Given two quaternions x and y, the product xy might equal the product yx, but in general the two results are different. How different are xy and yx on average? That is, if you selected quaternions x and y at random, how big would you expect the difference xy – yx to be? Since this difference would increase proportionately if you increased the length of x […]

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, 17:02 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Alexis Madrigal on the history of the disposable drinking straw. Fascinating — seriously. ★

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, 10:30 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Business of Software Conference USA 2018 is now less than 3 months away. And as such, we’ve got 5 new speakers to tell you about. Some familiar names and some new ones to the stage. Bob ‘JTBD’ Moesta, Bethany Pagels-Minor, Shawn Anderson, Shane Corellian, and Peldi Guilizzoni will be speaking in Boston. Here’s why. Name: Bob Moesta Position: CEO, The Re-Wired Group Talk […] 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, 07:40 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Natalie Nagele, Co-Founder & CEO, Wildbit Why are you running a business? That’s the question Natalie poses in this inspiring talk from BoS USA 2017. Natalie talks about the importance of putting your team first, and how to make sure you’re pursuing your own goals, and not just feeding ‘The Beast’. Video, Slides, & Transcript below Join […] The post

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, 18:20 UTC @ Azimuth

I want to figure out how to use toric geometry in chemistry. This is a good intro to toric geometry: • William Fulton, Introduction to Toric Varieties, Princeton U. Press, 1993. and this is a great explanation of how it shows up in chemistry: • Mercedes Perez Millan, Alicia Dickenstein, Anne Shiu and Carsten Conradi, […]

Tuesday, July 03, 16:03 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Last year, Netflix blogged about a great internal tool called Stethoscope which helped their security team communicate the key settings they expect their employees to manage instead of relying on intrusive enforcement. They coined this concept, “User Focused Security”. We recently released Kolide Cloud which enables you to roll out this User Focused Security strategy and effectively communicate your

Tuesday, July 03, 15:01 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, 14:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Dan Montgomery, Engineering Program Manager and Gustavo Sacomoto, Software Engineer While corporate devices are the key to employee productivity, they can also be the weak link when it comes to application and data security. Today we are introducing Endpoint Verification, giving admins an overview of the security posture of their laptop and desktop devices. Having that inventory of what computers employees are using provides valuable information which the e

Tuesday, July 03, 13:51 UTC @ Hacker Noon - Medium

Tuesday, July 03, 12:00 UTC @ Azimuth

joint post with Jonathan Lorand, Blake Pollard, and Maru Sarazola To wrap up this series, let’s look at an even more elaborate cycle of reactions featuring emergent conservation laws: the citric acid cycle. Here’s a picture of it from Stryer’s textbook Biochemistry: I’ll warn you right now that we won’t draw any grand conclusions from […]

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, 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, 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, 18:28 UTC @ Daring Fireball

NBC News: President Donald Trump’s most recent financial disclosure reveals that in 2017 the first lady earned at least $100,000 from Getty Images for the use of any of a series of 187 photos of the first family shot between 2010 and 2016 by Belgian photographer Regine Mahaux. It’s not unheard of for celebrities to earn royalties from photos of themselves, but it’s very unusual for the wife of a currently serving elected official. More problematic for the many

Monday, July 02, 16:18 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Eric Slivka, writing for MacRumors: Recent rumors and CAD renderings have suggested Apple may be planning to include an 18-watt USB-C charger and a Lightning to USB cable in the box with its iOS devices later this year, allowing for faster charging without requiring users to purchase separate charging accessories at additional cost. Moving to a single 18-watt adapter for iPhones and iPads makes a lot of sense. Wired charging for the fastest charge, inductive charg

Monday, July 02, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

In June, we had a lot to discuss about getting the most out of the cloud for your business, from speeding up web traffic to running fully managed apps easily. Here’s a quick look at some of the highlights from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) news this month. What caught your attention this month Some of the most-read stories this month reflected new technology developments or integrations that will be useful for developers and eng

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, 14:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Craig Box, Cloud Native Advocacy Lead, Google Congratulations to everyone involved in the recent Kubernetes 1.11 release. Now that the core has been stabilized, we here at Google have been focusing our upstream work on increasing Kubernetes’ plugability, i.e., moving more pieces out into other repositories. As the project has matured, adding a plugin

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, 12:00 UTC @ Azimuth

joint post with Jonathan Lorand, Blake Pollard, and Maru Sarazola Last time we examined ATP hydrolysis as a simple example of coupling through emergent conservation laws, but the phenomenon is more general. A slightly more complicated example is the urea cycle. The first metabolic cycle to be discovered, it is used by land-dwelling vertebrates to […]

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

Sunday, July 01, 13:38 UTC @ John D. Cook

Today’s exponential sum is appropriate for a hot July day. Each day the exponential sum page shows a different exponential sum with the month, day, and year in the denominators of an exponential sum. The graphs are formed by plotting the partial sums and connecting the dots. For example, today’s sum, is based on the […]

Saturday, June 30, 21:20 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

A panel discussion at the Strings 2018 conference ended by addressing audience questions, and this seemed to me to give some insight into where string theory is now. I noticed that the Youtube video comes with an auto-generated transcript, so … Continue reading →

Saturday, June 30, 14:00 UTC @ John D. Cook

Suppose you have an odd prime p and an integer a, with a not a multiple of p. Does a have a square root mod p? That is, does there exist an integer x such that x² is congruent to a mod p? Half the time the answer is yes, and half the time it’s no. (We will remove the restriction that p is prime near […]

Saturday, June 30, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD News Flash

Saturday, June 30, 06:35 UTC @ composition.al

Here’s an anonymized question sent to me by a blog reader: I’m a rising junior at [university], majoring in computer science and math. I have recently made up my mind about going to grad school for PL and am trying to get as much experience as possible right now. I will be attending [PL-related summer school] in two weeks. I will also be TA’ing [university]’s Programming Languages course and working with a professor on a PL-related research project next t

Friday, June 29, 20:17 UTC @ tecosystems

When it was first released in August of 2006, Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud – shortened to EC2 – was the definition of a minimum viable product. Which naturally led many of the vendors that EC2 would compete with and eventually dominate to dismiss it as little more than a toy. It wasn’t just the lack

Friday, June 29, 20:17 UTC @ tecosystems

When it was first released in August of 2006, Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud – shortened to EC2 – was the definition of a minimum viable product. Which naturally led many of the vendors that EC2 would compete with and eventually dominate to dismiss it as little more than a toy. It wasn’t just the lack

Friday, June 29, 16:37 UTC @ TED Blog

As usual, the TED community is hard at work — here are some highlights: A new drug-delivering nanoparticle. Paula Hammond, the head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT, is part of a research team that has developed a new nanoparticle designed to treat a kind of brain tumor called glioblastoma multiforme. The nanoparticles […]

Friday, June 29, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Dane Zeke Liergaard A while back, a group of us Google Cloud Platform Developer Programs Engineers teamed up with gaming fans in Firebase Engineering to work on an interesting project. We all love games, gamers, and game developers, and we wanted to support those developers with solutions that accomplish common tasks so they can focus more on wh

Friday, June 29, 13:35 UTC @ NSBlog

Debugging a complex problem is tough, and it can be especially difficult when it's not obvious which chunk of code is responsible. It's common to attempt to produce a reduced test case in order to narrow it down. It's tedious to do this manually, but it's also the sort of thing computers are really good at. C-Reduce is a program which automatically takes programs and pares them down to produce a reduced test case. Let's take a look at how to use it.

Friday, June 29, 10:52 UTC @ Journal of Computational Geometry

Let $P$ be a planar set of $n$ sites in general position. For $k \in \{1, \dots, n-1\}$, the Voronoi diagram of order $k$ for $P$ is obtained by subdividing the plane into cells such that points in the same cell have the same set of nearest $k$ neighbors in $P$. The (nearest site) Voronoi diagram (NVD) and the farthest site Voronoi diagram (FVD) are the particular cases of $k=1$ and $k=n-1$, respectively. For any given $K \in \{1, \dots, n-1\}$, the family of all higher-order Voronoi diagrams of order $k

Friday, June 29, 10:51 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

IBM Research has recently announced the winners of the 2018 Great Minds student internships. The Great Minds competition is open to students from central and eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, who can apply to win a 3- to 6-month practicum at our labs in Zurich, Nairobi or Johannesburg. Let’s meet the class of […] The post Great Minds 2018: Meet the New Generation appeared first on

Thursday, June 28, 23:19 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

Let's wrap up June with a look at the Apache Community's activities over the past week: Support Apache –help offset the ASF's day-to-day operating expenses. Every dollar counts. - Corporate matching gifts can double your individual contribution to the ASF. Add the ASF to your corporate matching gift program today: every dollar counts. http://...

Thursday, June 28, 22:31 UTC @ Computational Complexity

On Wednesday, STOC had a great complexity session and the best complexity paper of the conference, Cody Murray and Ryan Williams extending Ryan’s celebrated result separating NEXP from ACC0. Cody and Ryan show there are problems in quasipolynomial time (2poly log(n)) that do

Thursday, June 28, 17:25 UTC @ John D. Cook

The relationship between programming and computer science is hard to describe. Purists will say that computer science has nothing to do with programming, but that goes too far. Computer science is about more than programming, but it’s is all motivated by getting computers to do things. With few exceptions. students major in computer science in […]

Thursday, June 28, 15:12 UTC @ John D. Cook

A while back I wrote about how planets are evenly spaced on a log scale. I made a bunch of plots, based on our solar system and the extrasolar systems with the most planets, and said noted that they’re all roughly straight lines. Here’s the plot for our solar system, including dwarf planets, with distance […]

Thursday, June 28, 13:00 UTC @ Backreaction

Naturalness is an old idea; it dates back at least to the 16th century and captures the intuition that a useful explanation shouldn’t rely on improbable coincidences. Typical examples for such coincidences, often referred to as “conspiracies,” are two seemingly independent parameters that almost cancel each other, or an extremely small yet nonzero number. Physicists believe that theories which

Thursday, June 28, 13:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Adrian Hilton, Alec Warner and Alex Bramley In previous CRE Life Lessons blog posts, the Google Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team has spent a lot of time talking about service level objectives (SLOs), whic

Thursday, June 28, 13:00 UTC @ Backreaction

Naturalness is an old idea; it dates back at least to the 16th century and captures the intuition that a useful explanation shouldn’t rely on improbable coincidences. Typical examples for such coincidences, often referred to as “conspiracies,” are two seemingly independent parameters that almost cancel each other, or an extremely small yet nonzero number. Physicists believe that theories which

Thursday, June 28, 12:59 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Adrian Hilton, Alec Warner and Alex Bramley In part one of this CRE Life Lessons post, we talked about the error budget for a service and the information it tells you about how close your service is to breaching its reliability targets--the se

Thursday, June 28, 08:33 UTC @ Business of Software USA

An unavoidable reality of working in SaaS is this: you’ve got data coming out of your ears. So. Much. Data. But how do you make the numbers and metrics work for you? How do you distinguish between the data that will 10x your business and the data that will lead you astray? How do you […] The post Making Use Of Big Data | Free Hangout with Vince Darley

Thursday, June 28, 06:45 UTC @ Journal of Computational Geometry

In this paper, we study the problem of computing Euclidean geodesic centers of a polygonal domain $P$ with a total of $n$ vertices. We discover many interesting observations. We give a necessary condition for a point being a geodesic center. We show that there is at most one geodesic center among all points of $P$ that have topologically-equivalent shortest path maps. This implies that the total number of geodesic centers is bounded by the combinatorial size of the shortest path map equivalence decom

Wednesday, June 27, 19:45 UTC @ Daring Fireball

Google’s breakthrough isn’t how smart Duplex is, but how human-like it sounds.

Wednesday, June 27, 19:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Recent advances in deep learning and exponential growth in the use of machine learning across application domains have made AI acceleration critically important. IBM Research has been building a pipeline of AI hardware accelerators to meet this need. At the 2018 VLSI Circuits Symposium, we presented a multi-TeraOPS accelerator core building block that can be […] The post Unlocking the P

Wednesday, June 27, 16:53 UTC @ tecosystems

For years, I waited for hardware manufacturers to produce the perfect laptop. Lightweight, powerful and battery life enough that I could stop thinking about the battery life. Sustained by rumors of the next great battery technology, which as it turns out is perpetually two years out, I delayed and delayed necessary upgrades. Haunted by the

Wednesday, June 27, 16:53 UTC @ tecosystems

For years, I waited for hardware manufacturers to produce the perfect laptop. Lightweight, powerful and battery life enough that I could stop thinking about the battery life. Sustained by rumors of the next great battery technology, which as it turns out is perpetually two years out, I delayed and delayed necessary upgrades. Haunted by the

Wednesday, June 27, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Melody Meckfessel and Eric Brewer, Vice Presidents, Google Cloud; Miles Ward, Director of Solution Architecture, Google Cloud; and Sarah Novotny, Open Source Strategy Lead, Google Cloud Open clouds matter more now than ever. While most companies today use a single public cloud provider in addition to their on-premises environment, research shows that most companies will likely adopt multiple public and private clouds in the coming years. In fact, according

Wednesday, June 27, 15:30 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Kent Smith, Cloud Customer Engineer; Kavitha Gopalakrishnan, Technology Partnerships

Wednesday, June 27, 15:04 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

New Scientist today has a feature article headlined How to think about… The multiverse The idea of an infinite multitude of universes is forced on us by physics. It starts off quoting Sean Carroll: “One of the most common misconceptions … Continue reading →

Wednesday, June 27, 12:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

On a rainy Saturday, a group of “future innovators” arrived at IBM Research-China. The 40 young students, selected from a pool of nearly 200 applicants, spent the day interacting with and exploring some of IBM Research’s advanced AI technologies. We’ve been advancing cutting-edge technologies at our China lab for more than two decades. This event, […] The post When Future Scientists Enco

Wednesday, June 27, 09:45 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Society is paying more attention than ever to the question of bias in artificial intelligence systems, and particularly those used to recognize and analyze images of faces. At IBM, we are taking the following actions to ensure facial recognition technology is built and trained responsibly: 1) One of the biggest issues causing bias in the area of […] The post IBM to release world’s largest annotation

Wednesday, June 27, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD News Flash

FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 11.2. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

Tuesday, June 26, 22:31 UTC @ Computational Complexity

This week I'm in Los Angeles attending the 50th Symposium on the Theory of Computing. Most attendees weren't even born before the first STOC. Many of them weren't even born when I went to my first STOC in 1986 in Berkeley. Most of the festivities come later but let me mention the best paper winners, both of whose titles give the theorem. A Constant-Factor Approximation Algorithm for the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem by Ola Svensson, Jakub T

Tuesday, June 26, 20:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

The Decision Science, AI and Natural Language Processing team at IBM Research-Ireland recently presented a conference paper called “Decision Conversations Decoded” at the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT). The team also presented a demo of our virtual assistant prototype, which analyses collaborative decision […] The post

Tuesday, June 26, 16:18 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Tuesday, June 26, 16:01 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Tad Hunt, Product Manager; Chris Talbott, Product Marketing As we celebrate the upcoming Los Angeles region for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in one of the creative centers of the world, we’re really excited about helping you bring your creative visions to life. At Google, we w

Tuesday, June 26, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Ben Chong, Product Manager; Chris Talbott, Product Marketing As we celebrate the upcoming Los Angeles Google Cloud Platform (GCP) region in one of the creative centers of the world, we are excited to share news about a product that can help you get your data there as fast as po

Tuesday, June 26, 13:36 UTC @ John D. Cook

Objectives and constraints are symmetrical in a mathematical sense but are asymmetrical in a psychological sense. By taking dual formulations, you can reverse the mathematical role of objectives and constraints, but in application objectives are more obvious than constraints. In the question “What is the minimum value of x² over the interval [1, 5]?” the […]

Tuesday, June 26, 13:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

At 11:45 p.m. on June 8 in the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, the Golden State Warriors finished a sweep of the Cleveland Cavaliers with a 108-85 blowout win. As one of the most dominant players in the NBA, the Warriors’ Kevin Durant was named the 2018 NBA Finals MVP, his second time earning […] The post IBM Research and Tencent Delight Basketball Fans with AI-Based Highlight Reel appeared f

Tuesday, June 26, 12:11 UTC @ TED Blog

The TED Fellows program is turning ten years old next year, and we are looking for our most ambitious class yet. We select people from every discipline and every country to be Fellows, and we give them support to scale their dreams and scale their impact. Apply to be a TED Fellow by August 26. […]

Tuesday, June 26, 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, June 26, 00:00 UTC @ objc.io

During a large refactoring, we often work for a long time without being able to compile and run our code. In last week’s Swift Talk, we factored out a child view controller from a very large view controller, and we tried to avoid this danger by using computed properties and deprecation warnings. Let’s look at an example. The view controller we were working on —

Monday, June 25, 18:00 UTC @ Sean Carroll

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders went to have dinner at a local restaurant the other day. The owner, who is adamantly opposed to the policies of the Trump administration, politely asked her to leave, and she did. Now (who … Continue reading →

Monday, June 25, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Adam Massey, Director, Strategic Technology Partners A popular enterprise use case for Google Cloud is electronic design automation (EDA)—designing electronic systems such as integrated circuits and printed circuit boards. EDA workloads, like simulations and field solvers, can be incredibly computationally intensive. They may require a few thousand CPUs, sometimes even a few hundred thousand CPUs, but only for the duration of the run. Instead of building

Monday, June 25, 14:00 UTC @ Use Your Loaf

If you are upgrading to Xcode 10 and migrating to Swift 4.2 you are likely to see a number of errors because Swift 4.2 has obsoleted and renamed constants and types. It is not as bad as the great renaming of Swift 3 but there is still some maintenance and busy work to do to get back to a clean build. Xcode Migration Open an Xcode 9 project in Xcode 10 and it will warn you that a conversion to Swift 4.2 is available:

Monday, June 25, 01:21 UTC @ Planet Lisp

I’ve been thinking about stream processing again, and came back to an old pick-two-of-three conjecture of mine: for stream processing without dynamic allocation, “arbitrary outputs per input, multiple consumers, multiple producers: choose two.” The question is interesting because stream processing in constant space is a subset of L (or

Monday, June 25, 00:00 UTC @ The Syndicate

In our previous posts, we described the example Corporate Directory app that we built using the SAP Cloud Platform for iOS SDK; how we started the project in SAP’s Cloud Portal, and how we used the SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS Assistant to generate an Xcode project. In this post we will describe how we customized the iOS project to meet our design standards and requirements.

Saturday, June 23, 13:23 UTC @ John D. Cook

In the previous post I said that the Jacobi functions are like trig functions. That’s true if you look along the real axis. If you look at the rest of the complex plane you’ll see how they can be very different. The sine function is periodic along the real axis, but it grows exponentially along […]

Saturday, June 23, 13:16 UTC @ Backreaction

Particle physics. Artist’s impression. Professor Ben Allanach is a particle physicist at Cambridge University. He just wrote an advertisement for my book that appeared on Aeon some days ago under the title “Going Nowhere Fast”. I’m kidding of course, Allanach’s essay has no relation to my book. At least not that I know of. But it’s not a coincidence he writes about the very problems that I

Saturday, June 23, 13:16 UTC @ Backreaction

Particle physics. Artist’s impression. Professor Ben Allanach is a particle physicist at Cambridge University. He just wrote an advertisement for my book that appeared on Aeon some days ago under the title “Going Nowhere Fast”. I’m kidding of course, Allanach’s essay has no relation to my book. At least not that I know of. But it’s not a coincidence he writes about the very problems that I

Friday, June 22, 21:59 UTC @ Ole Begemann

Possibly the most controversial new feature in Swift 4.2 is dynamic member lookup, introduced by Swift Evolution proposal SE-0195. @dynamicMemberLookup is a new attribute that can be applied to a class, struct, enum, or protocol declaration.

Friday, June 22, 18:12 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 – Carrie Borzillo Lead Live Ops Producer

Friday, June 22, 17:31 UTC @ Computational Complexity

I've been meaning to post on THE MUFFIN PROBLEM for at least a year. Its a project I've been working on for two years, but every time I wanted to post on it I thought. I'm in the middle of a new result. I'll wait until I get it! However, I was sort of forced to finally post on it since Ken Regan (with my blessing) posted on it. In fact its better this way- you can goto his post for the math and I get to just tell you other stuff. The problem was fi

Friday, June 22, 16:51 UTC @ John D. Cook

Jacobi’s elliptic functions are sorta like trig functions. His functions sn and cn have names that reminiscent of sine and cosine for good reason. These functions come up in applications such as the nonlinear pendulum (i.e. when θ is too large to assume θ is a good enough approximation to sin θ) and in conformal […]

Friday, June 22, 16:00 UTC @ Google Cloud Platform Blog

By Sirui Sun, Product Manager In Google Cloud Platform, customer data stored at rest is always encrypted by default using multiple layers of encryption technology. We also offer a continuum of encryption key management options to help meet the security requirements of your organization. Did you know there is now beta functionality you can use to

Friday, June 22, 09:31 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Friday, June 22, 04:23 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

We're ending the week with the following activities from the Apache community: Support Apache –help offset the ASF's day-to-day operating expenses. Every dollar counts. - Increase your support of the ASF with a corporate matching gift http://... ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Fo

Friday, June 22, 02:29 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

I’ve been thinking about what to write about this essay by Ben Allanach, which gives his take on the current state of HEP theory. Allanach is a specialist on the phenomenology of SUSY models, but here he announces that he’s … Continue reading →

Thursday, June 21, 18:57 UTC @ Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP

A novel cake-cutting puzzle reveals curiosities about numbers Alan Frank introduced the “Muffins Problem” nine years ago. Erich Friedman and Veit Elser found some early general results. Now Bill Gasarch along with John Dickerson of the University of Maryland have led a team of undergraduates and high-schoolers (Guangqi Cui, Naveen Durvasula, Erik Metz, Jacob Prinz, […]

Thursday, June 21, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD Security Advisories

Thursday, June 21, 01:19 UTC @ John D. Cook

The complex numbers make a field out of pairs of real numbers. The quaternions almost make a field out of four-tuples of numbers, though multiplication is not commutatative. Technically, quaternions form a division algebra. Frobenius’s theorem says only real vector spaces that can be made into division algebras are the real numbers, complex numbers, and […]

Tuesday, June 19, 22:19 UTC @ TED Blog

Updated June 20, 2018: An independently organized TEDx event recently posted, and subsequently removed, a talk from the TEDx YouTube channel that the event organizer titled: “Why our perception of pedophilia has to change.” In the TEDx talk, a speaker described pedophilia as a condition some people are born with, and suggested that if we recognize […]

Tuesday, June 19, 20:52 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Tuesday, June 19, 16:03 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Our Brain-Inspired Computing group at IBM Research-Almaden will be presenting at the 2018 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2018) our most recent paper titled “A Low Power, High Throughput, Fully Event-Based Stereo System.” The paper describes an end-to-end stereo vision system that uses exclusively spiking neural network computation and can run […] The post Stereo Vi

Tuesday, June 19, 14:58 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

The July 1 issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomy Society includes an article evaluating the standard multiverse prediction of the cosmological constant, with result: The predicted (median) value is 50–60 times larger than the observed value. The … Continue reading →

Tuesday, June 19, 14:50 UTC @ John D. Cook

Here are three things about dominoes, two easy and one more advanced. Counting First, how many pieces are there in a set of dominoes? A domino corresponds to an unordered pair of numbers from 0 to n. The most popular form has n = 6, but there are variations with other values of n. You can show that […]

Tuesday, June 19, 11:45 UTC @ Quality Coding

Every WWDC, I hope for improvements to unit testing — but have learned to expect disappointment. So at WWDC 2018, I was surprised to have my low expectations thwarted! Xcode 10 brings changes that will improve my test-centric workflow. For several years, Apple’s changes for test support have underwhelmed me. They focused on: Xcode Bots […]

Tuesday, June 19, 09:49 UTC @ Backreaction

Ben Carson, trying tomake sense of the multiverse. The idea that we live in a multiverse – an infinite collection of universes from which ours is merely one – is interesting but unscientific. It postulates the existence of entities that are unnecessary to describe what we observe. All those other universes are inaccessible to experiment. Science, therefore, cannot say anything about their

Tuesday, June 19, 09:49 UTC @ Backreaction

Ben Carson, trying tomake sense of the multiverse. The idea that we live in a multiverse – an infinite collection of universes from which ours is merely one – is interesting but unscientific. It postulates the existence of entities that are unnecessary to describe what we observe. All those other universes are inaccessible to experiment. Science, therefore, cannot say anything about their

Tuesday, June 19, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD News Flash

On June 19, 1993 the name FreeBSD was officially agreed on and has been used ever since. Find out more about how to celebrate this important day with us.

Tuesday, June 19, 02:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Today, an artificial intelligence (AI) system engaged in the first ever live, public debates with humans. At an event held at IBM’s Watson West site in San Francisco, a champion debater and IBM’s AI system, Project Debater, began by preparing arguments for and against the statement: “We should subsidize space exploration.” Both sides then delivered […] The post AI Learns the Art of Debate appeared firs

Tuesday, June 19, 00:00 UTC @ objc.io

Our current Swift Talk series looks at different techniques to refactor a large view controller, using an example from the open source Wikipedia iOS app. In the first three episodes, we extract pure functions,

Monday, June 18, 20:37 UTC @ TED Blog

We all have a story to tell. And in my work as curator of the TEDWomen conference, I’ve had the pleasure of providing a platform to some of the best stories and storytellers out there. Beyond their TED Talk, of course, many TEDWomen speakers are also accomplished authors — and if you liked them on the […]

Monday, June 18, 20:35 UTC @ Lua: news

The second work version of Lua 5.4 has been released for testing.

Monday, June 18, 02:31 UTC @ Computational Complexity

Sunday, June 17, 03:11 UTC @ x.ai

If you’ve ever been curious what I might look like accepting an award, please indulge in the epicness of my victory pose below. Sure, I got a little excited, and perhaps I had one too many Red Bulls to counteract the jet lag, but you gotta lean into your wins as an entrepreneur! However, Amy… The post x.ai wins CogX best AI product award appeared first on x.ai.

Saturday, June 16, 13:55 UTC @ John D. Cook

I asked two questions on twitter yesterday. The previous post summarized the results for a question about books that I asked from my personal Twitter account. This post will summarize the results of a question I asked from @AnalysisFact. If a genie offered to give you a thorough understanding of one theorem, what theorem would […]

Saturday, June 16, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD News Flash

The third RC build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

Saturday, June 16, 03:03 UTC @ John D. Cook

I asked on Twitter today for books that people would like to have read, but don’t want to put in the time and effort to read. What’s a book you would like to have read but don’t want to read? — John D. Cook (@JohnDCook) June 15, 2018 Here are the responses I got, organized […]

Friday, June 15, 21:00 UTC @ Planet Lisp

Since approximately forever, sbcl has advertised the possibility of tracing individual methods of a generic function by passing :methods t as an argument to trace. Until recently, tracing methods was only supported using the :encapsulate nil style of tracing, modifying the compiled code for funct

Friday, June 15, 16:15 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

Happy Friday! Let's review what the Apache community has worked on 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: 20 June. Board calendar and minutes http://... ApacheCon™ –the ASF's official global conference series. - 24-27 September: Registration

Friday, June 15, 15:52 UTC @ TED Blog

  The past few weeks have brimmed over with TED-related news. Below, some highlights. Exploring the ocean like never before. A school of ocean-loving TED speakers have teamed up to launch OceanX, an international initiative dedicated to discovering more of our oceans in an effort to “inspire a human connection to the sea.” The coalition […]

Friday, June 15, 14:05 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Deep learning engines can derive knowledge from vast stores of data but have an almost unquenchable appetite for compute power that limits their applications. Accelerator chips with lower power requirements and faster speeds are already in the making. One type, called analog accelerators, will reduce the movement of data during computation to deliver exponential gains […] The post Machin

Friday, June 15, 10:18 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Dupsy Abiola, Founder & CEO, Intern Avenue Dupsy shares five of the rules she lives by and tells the stories behind them. From finding the right advice for you, changing direction, through navigating the sometimes murky world of investors to how to pitch your business effectively to customers, partners, investors you’ll learn some great lessons […] The post Rules To Liv

Friday, June 15, 07:00 UTC @ Backreaction

I have a new paper on the arXiv, which came out of a collaboration with Tobias Mistele and Tom Price. We fed a neural network with data about the publication activity of physicists and tried to make a “fake” prediction, for which we used data from the years 1996 up to 2008 to predict the next ten years. Data come from the arXiv via the Open Archives Initiative. To train the network, we took a

Friday, June 15, 07:00 UTC @ Backreaction

I have a new paper on the arXiv, which came out of a collaboration with Tobias Mistele and Tom Price. We fed a neural network with data about the publication activity of physicists and tried to make a “fake” prediction, for which we used data from the years 1996 up to 2008 to predict the next ten years. Data come from the arXiv via the Open Archives Initiative. To train the network, we took a

Thursday, June 14, 19:44 UTC @ Computational Complexity

Thanks to Grigory Yaroslavtsev for taking over the Theory Jobs Spreadsheet. Details on Grigory's blog. Check out who is going where next year.

Thursday, June 14, 14:46 UTC @ John D. Cook

Here are a couple of linear algebra identities that can be very useful, but aren’t that widely known, somewhere between common knowledge and arcane. Neither result assumes any matrix has low rank, but their most common application, at least in my experience, is in the context of something of low rank added to something of […]

Thursday, June 14, 13:39 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Seth Godin, Author The man needs no introduction, but here it is anyway. Seth Godin is the founder of Yoyodyne and Squidoo, and the author of seminal books such as ‘Purple Cow’, ‘Tribes’, and ‘Linchpin’. He’s been in the business for 33 years: at BoS USA 2017, he shared 7 important lessons he’s learned during that […] The post

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

Introducing the world’s smartest, most powerful supercomputer In 2014, the US Department of Energy (DoE) kicked off a multi-year collaboration between Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) called CORAL, the next major phase in the DoE’s scientific computing roadmap and path to exascale computing. They selected […] The post We’ve

Thursday, June 14, 00:00 UTC @ objc.io

When we want to quickly test the performance of some code, we paste the following function into our project: @discardableResult func measure<A>(name: String = "", _ block: () -> A) -> A { let startTime = CACurrentMediaTime() let result = block() let timeElapsed = CACurrentMediaTime() - startTime print("Time: \(name) - \(timeElapsed)") return result } The above helper measures the execution time of the function we pass in, and

Wednesday, June 13, 18:12 UTC @ John D. Cook

Here are two apparently unrelated things you may have seen before. The first is an observation going back to Euler that the polynomial produces a long sequence of primes. Namely, the values are prime for n = 1, 2, 3, …, 40. The second is that the number is extraordinarily close to an integer. This number […]

Wednesday, June 13, 15:15 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

QISKit ACQUA bridges classical, quantum computing Working with real quantum computers just got easier for experts in chemistry, artificial intelligence and optimization. Building on QISKit, our open source quantum information science kit for software development, we’ve released ACQUA – Algorithms and Circuits for QUantum Applications. This new open source software allows classical computer applications to […] The post

Wednesday, June 13, 14:22 UTC @ John D. Cook

There’s a proposal for California to split into three states. If that happens, what would happen to the US flag? The US flag has had 13 stripes from the beginning, representing the first 13 states. The number of stars has increased over time as the number of states has increased. Currently there are 50 stars, […]

Wednesday, June 13, 13:23 UTC @ Martin Fowler

We've got a cover design for the second edition of Refactoring. As with any book in my signature series, I needed to decide which bridge would feature in the photo. more…

Wednesday, June 13, 13:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Could tiny ink spots, the size of a pinhead, fight counterfeiting medical tests? We believe the answer is yes. This week at the Biosensors 2018 conference in Miami, I’m presenting a new research paper demonstrating how optical security codes, created by inkjet spotting patterns, can be used in combination with smartphones for authenticating medical tests. […] The post Ink Spots to Put

Wednesday, June 13, 01:00 UTC @ John D. Cook

The partition function p(n) counts the number of ways n unlabeled things can be partitioned into non-empty sets. (Contrast with Bell numbers that count partitions of labeled things.) There’s no simple expression for p(n), but Ramanujan discovered a fairly simple asymptotic approximation: How accurate is this approximation? Here’s a little Matheamtica code to see. p[n_] := PartitionsP[n] approx[n_] […]

Tuesday, June 12, 17:17 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Tuesday, June 12, 17:03 UTC @ John D. Cook

I like Perl’s pattern matching features more than Perl as a programming language. I’d like to take advantage of the former without having to go any deeper than necessary into the latter. The book Minimal Perl is useful in this regard. It has chapters on Perl as a better grep, a better awk, a better […]

Tuesday, June 12, 16:20 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Tuesday, June 12, 11:25 UTC @ John D. Cook

I just finished listening to the latest episode of Twenty Thousand Hertz, the story behind “Deep Note,” the THX logo sound. There are a couple mathematical details of the sound that I’d like to explore here: random number generation, and especially Pythagorean tuning. Random number generation First is that part of the construction of the […]

Tuesday, June 12, 06:11 UTC @ Backreaction

Today is the official publication date of my book “Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray.” There’s an interview with me in the current issue of “Der Spiegel” (in German) with a fancy photo, and an excerpt at Scientific American. In the book I don’t say much about myself or my own research. I felt that was both superfluous and not particularly interesting. However, a lot of people have

Tuesday, June 12, 06:11 UTC @ Backreaction

Today is the official publication date of my book “Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray.” There’s an interview with me in the current issue of “Der Spiegel” (in German) with a fancy photo, and an excerpt at Scientific American. In the book I don’t say much about myself or my own research. I felt that was both superfluous and not particularly interesting. However, a lot of people have

Tuesday, June 12, 01:02 UTC @ TED Blog

At the intersections where we meet and collaborate, we can pool our collective wisdom to seek solutions to the world’s greatest problems. But true change begs for more than incremental steps and passive reactions — we need to galvanize transformation to create our collective future. To celebrate the effort of bold thinkers building a better […

Monday, June 11, 11:58 UTC @ Backreaction

Here is the other video trailer for my book "Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray".  Since I have been asked repeatedly, let me emphasize again that the book is aimed at non-experts, or "the interested lay-reader" as they say. You do not need to bring any background knowledge in math or physics and, no, there are no equations in the book, just a few numbers. It's really about the

Monday, June 11, 11:58 UTC @ Backreaction

Here is the other video trailer for my book "Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray".  Since I have been asked repeatedly, let me emphasize again that the book is aimed at non-experts, or "the interested lay-reader" as they say. You do not need to bring any background knowledge in math or physics and, no, there are no equations in the book, just a few numbers. It's really about the

Monday, June 11, 09:38 UTC @ Use Your Loaf

It might have been a year with a focus on stability and performance but there are still lots of new videos to catch up on. Here are the sessions I found most interesting this year. Platforms State of The Union? The Platforms State of the Union is usually a good start for an overview of what’s changed this year across macOS, iOS, watchOS and tvOS. If you are only intereste

Monday, June 11, 04:45 UTC @ Computational Complexity

(This post overlaps a prior one here. The paper I am blogging about was also blogged about by Lipton here. The paper itself is on arxiv here. My slides for a talk I will be giving on this material are here)'

Sunday, June 10, 15:53 UTC @ gilded : rust

Before I explain this example I will explain one more syntax: 'a: 'b: 'a counts as a copy of 'b. 'a: 'b + 'c: 'a counts as a copy of 'b and as a copy of 'c. Non-lexical lifetimes allows the compiler to check each branch of code separately. There are 3 borrows in this code. Lets call the one on line 6 'x1_num, on line 13 'x2_num and on line

Saturday, June 09, 18:35 UTC @ Ole Begemann

New in Swift 4.2, the compiler can generate a collection of an enum’s cases, relieving you from the error-prone task of maintaining such a list yourself. The Swift Evolution proposal that introduced this feature is SE-0194. The CaseIterable protocol For

Saturday, June 09, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD News Flash

The second RC build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

Saturday, June 09, 07:01 UTC @ Backreaction

I’ve been told that one now does video trailers for books and so here’s me explaining what led me to write the book.

Saturday, June 09, 07:01 UTC @ Backreaction

I’ve been told that one now does video trailers for books and so here’s me explaining what led me to write the book.

Friday, June 08, 19:49 UTC @ Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP

A pretty neat paper about a pretty neat theorem [ GLL edited ] Mark Villarino, William Gasarch, and Kenneth Regan are terrific writers. Bill is a co-author of a famous blog located here. Ken is a co-author of another blog that we will not mention. Today I would like to talk about one of their […]

Friday, June 08, 19:10 UTC @ gilded : rust

submitted by /u/kvarkus [link] [comments]

Friday, June 08, 16:05 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

The week has skipped by, and the Apache community has been active with the following projects: Success at Apache –a monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". - The Chance to Influence the World by Weiwei Yang https://... ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Next Board Meeting: 20 June.

Friday, June 08, 12:23 UTC @ Signal v. Noise - Medium

Friday, June 08, 09:39 UTC @ Backreaction

Science Magazine had my book “Lost in Math” reviewed by Dr. Djuna Lize Croon, a postdoctoral associate at the Department of Physics at Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire, USA. Dr. Croon has worked on the very research topics that my book exposes as mathematical fantasies, such as “extra natural inflation” or “holographic composite Higgs models,” so choosing her to review my book is an

Friday, June 08, 09:39 UTC @ Backreaction

Science Magazine had my book “Lost in Math” reviewed by Dr. Djuna Lize Croon, a postdoctoral associate at the Department of Physics at Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire, USA. Dr. Croon has worked on the very research topics that my book exposes as mathematical fantasies, such as “extra natural inflation” or “holographic composite Higgs models,” so choosing her to review my book is an

Friday, June 08, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD News Flash

Portions of the FreeBSD cluster will be offline Saturday, June 9th for an extended maintenance window for electrical work. Services will be affected, most notably mailing list traffic and a portion of our web services.

Friday, June 08, 07:44 UTC @ Business of Software USA

Simon Johnson, UK General Manager, Freshworks Establishing a presence in new territories is inevitable for any software business that aims to be a global leader in its field but often companies underestimate the complexity of the process. It is rarely as simple as opening a sales office in a serviced office and letting the new […] The post Taking on a New Territory | S

Friday, June 08, 06:43 UTC @ Backreaction

It was June 4th, 2018, when Robbert Dijkgraaf, director of the world-renown Princeton Institute for Advanded Study, announced his breakthrough insight. After decades of investigating string theory, Dijkgraaf has concluded that there are no laws of physics. Guess that’s it, then, folks. Don’t forget to turn off the light when you close the lab door for the last time. Dijkgraaf knows what he is

Friday, June 08, 06:43 UTC @ Backreaction

It was June 4th, 2018, when Robbert Dijkgraaf, director of the world-renown Princeton Institute for Advanded Study, announced his breakthrough insight. After decades of investigating string theory, Dijkgraaf has concluded that there are no laws of physics. Guess that’s it, then, folks. Don’t forget to turn off the light when you close the lab door for the last time. Dijkgraaf knows what he is

Friday, June 08, 05:01 UTC @ TED Blog

Inspired by JD Schramm’s powerful TEDTalk on surviving a suicide attempt, this list of resources has been updated to help you widen your understanding of mental health, depression, suicide and suicide prevention. Whether you’re an attempt survivor, a concerned family member or friend, or struggling with suicidal thoughts yourself, this list offers helpful resources and hotlines

Thursday, June 07, 23:23 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

Sabine Hossenfelder’s new book Lost in Math should be starting to appear in bookstores around now. It’s very good and you should get a copy. I hope that the book will receive a lot of attention, but suspect that much … Continue reading →

Thursday, June 07, 18:42 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

Now back from a week away, mostly spent in Cambridge. Among the accumulated items of interest: Inference has a review of my book, Woit’s Way, by Andrew Jordan. I like the way it starts out: Quantum Theory, Groups and Representations … Continue reading →

Thursday, June 07, 16:59 UTC @ Ole Begemann

Working with random numbers in Swift used to be a bit of pain because there was no native random number API. Developers had to fall back on C APIs provided by the operating system, which are often easy to misuse. Moreover, the preferred random number API differs between platforms (e.g. arc4random vs. rand vs.

Thursday, June 07, 15:56 UTC @ x.ai

If you’re using our AI scheduling assistants Amy + Andrew in your workplace, but your coworkers aren’t, there’s a new way to help everyone schedule faster—sign up for Team or Enterprise edition! Even if (for some unfathomable reason) your coworkers don’t want to sign up for access to Amy themselves, as long as your organization… The post x.ai can now check coworker availability appeared first o

Wednesday, June 06, 23:40 UTC @ Computational Complexity

When teaching P vs NP the questions arises (and if not then I bring it up) what if you have algorithm in P that takes n^{100} time?. Or even n^{5} time which might be too long. I have given the following answers for years; however, I post this and will use your comments as a sanity check. In fact, I suspect I am wrong on some points. 1) IF SAT was in P then something very clever was done. Even if its n^{100} it was very clever. That cleverness will almost surely result in other be

Wednesday, June 06, 20:44 UTC @ Ole Begemann

I made an Xcode playground to showcase many of the new features coming in Swift 4.2, like I did last year for Swift 4.0. You can download it on GitHub. The easiest way to run the playground is to install the most recent beta version of Xcode 10 (which ships with Swift 4.2). You can also run it in Xcode 9.4, but

Wednesday, June 06, 20:08 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

I was sorry to learn today of the death on April 15th of H. Dieter Zeh, one of the major figures responsible for improving our understanding of the physics involved in the measurement problem and related interpretational issues in quantum … Continue reading →

Wednesday, June 06, 18:00 UTC @ News - Apple Developer

For app developers and their teams, iTunes Connect is now called App Store Connect. And with the new App Store Connect app, it’s even easier to manage your apps, view trends, respond to reviews, and reply to active Resolution Center issues, all on your iOS device. You can also receive push notifications for changes in your app status and new customer reviews.Learn more about App Store Connect

Wednesday, June 06, 17:43 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Software-equivalent accuracy achieved with analog memory for faster, lower power neural network training Imagine personalized Artificial Intelligence (AI), where your smartphone becomes more like an intelligent assistant – recognizing your voice even in a noisy room, understanding the context of different social situations or presenting only the information that’s truly relevant to you, plucked out […] The post

Wednesday, June 06, 17:29 UTC @ Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP

Workshop happening this week—anyone can view it live IAS Weyl bio source Hermann Weyl was one of the first members of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He made important contributions to many fields and even more contributions to groups. His work in group representation theory and polynomial invariant theory is being employed in […]

Wednesday, June 06, 14:30 UTC @ 250bpm-blogs

This article is a transcript of a lecture given at BorgesConf 2014 in Viterbo, Italy. Hi, everybody! Before getting to my topic I would like to thank Alvaro for organizing this awesome event. I think that he deserves three huzzas. So here we go: Huzza! Huzza! Huzza! I was also asked to mention that Medioera festival begins here in Viterbo in just few days. Those of you who are interested in digital culture may consider prolonging your stay h

Wednesday, June 06, 10:00 UTC @ Gorilla Logic

Tapping into their experience, tech smarts and gut instincts to deliver 5-star quality apps for our clients is what our Gorillas live for – that, and a really good soccer match! Passionate about the quality behind their applications, our Gorillas take QA testing very seriously. So, we’re excited to announce that Gorilla Logic has earned […] The post

Tuesday, June 05, 14:13 UTC @ ACM Queue - All Queue Content

This installment of Research for Practice features a curated selection from Gustavo Alonso, who provides an overview of recent developments utilizing FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) in datacenters. As Moore's Law has slowed and the computational overheads of datacenter workloads such as model serving and data processing have continued to rise, FPGAs offer an increasingly attractive point in the trade-off between power and performance. Gustavo's selections highlight early successes and practical deplo

Tuesday, June 05, 10:00 UTC @ Gorilla Logic

In this blog series, you will explore the rise of IoT and how Gorillas are adapting to the trend. In this post, I introduce IoT from an embedded software – or systems – perspective. In the next post, I will show how Gorillas have developed full-fledged serverless solutions using AWS. About two years ago I […] The post IoT Insights Part 1: A Story of Embedded S

Tuesday, June 05, 09:36 UTC @ Recent commits to luajit-2.0

Thanks to he32 and daurnimator.

Tuesday, June 05, 06:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

Dissolved Ocean Carbon (DOC) in the ocean is one of the largest pools of reduced carbon on Earth. It’s about 200 times larger than the living biosphere and comparable in size to the atmospheric CO2 reservoir.  Due to its complexity, less than 10 percent of dissolved organic carbon has been characterized.  It’s important to understand […] The post Ocean Carbon Imaged on the Atomic Scale

Tuesday, June 05, 02:56 UTC @ Not Even Wrong

At Quanta magazine, IAS director and string theorist Robbert Dijkgraaf has signed up to the multiverse mania bandwagon with an article announcing There are no laws of physics. There’s only the landscape. Dijkgraaf’s version of the string landscape ideology is: … Continue reading →

Tuesday, June 05, 00:00 UTC @ objc.io

In Swift Talk #103, Refactoring Large View Controllers (a public episode), we extract two pure functions out of an existing view controller. We chose to use the Wikipedia iOS app because it’s a large, well written, and open-source application. In the PlacesViewController, there is a method that computes whether or

Monday, June 04, 23:19 UTC @ tecosystems

In a move that Jason Fried expected but that Bryan Cantrill and everyone else until about a week ago) thought would happen when pigs flew (except that it turns out that Cantrill actually did predict this), Microsoft announced yesterday that it had acquired GitHub for $7.5B in an all stock transaction. Notably, the deal was

Monday, June 04, 23:19 UTC @ tecosystems

In a move that Jason Fried expected but that Bryan Cantrill and everyone else until about a week ago) thought would happen when pigs flew (except that it turns out that Cantrill actually did predict this), Microsoft announced yesterday that it had acquired GitHub for $7.5B in an all stock transaction. Notably, the deal was

Monday, June 04, 18:00 UTC @ News - Apple Developer

Download the Xcode 10 beta, which includes the SDKs for iOS 12, watchOS 5, tvOS 12, and macOS Mojave. With powerful advancements in Apple software and tools, you can build your most interactive, intelligent, and engaging experiences yet.Learn more

Monday, June 04, 18:00 UTC @ News - Apple Developer

The App Store Review Guidelines have been updated. We review all apps submitted to the App Store in an effort to determine whether they are reliable, perform as expected, and are free of offensive material. As you plan and develop your app, make sure to use these updated guidelines.Read the App Store Review Guidelines

Monday, June 04, 18:00 UTC @ News - Apple Developer

Siri can now intelligently pair users’ daily routines with your apps to suggest convenient shortcuts right when they’re needed. Use the Shortcuts API to help users quickly accomplish tasks related to your app, directly from the lock screen, in Spotlight, or from the Siri watch face.Learn more about Siri Shortcuts

Monday, June 04, 18:00 UTC @ News - Apple Developer

With Core ML 2, you can process models faster than ever, make them smaller, and much more. And now, you can easily build and train models using the new Create ML framework, with no machine learning expertise required.Learn more about machine learning

Monday, June 04, 18:00 UTC @ News - Apple Developer

iOS is the biggest AR platform in the world, and now you can create even more incredible experiences with ARKit 2. Multiple users can use their iOS device to simultaneously view AR experiences or play multiplayer games, as bystanders spectate. AR experiences can be saved and resumed at a later time in the same state. And you can incorporate real-world objects into your AR experiences, giving your users greater immersive opportunities.Learn more about ARKit 2

Monday, June 04, 18:00 UTC @ News - Apple Developer

The reimagined Mac App Store arrives with a new look and new editorial content that inspires and informs. Organized around the specific things customers love to do on Mac, along with insightful stories, curated collections, and videos, the Mac App Store on macOS Mojave beautifully showcases your apps and makes them even easier to find.Learn more about the Mac App Store

Monday, June 04, 14:41 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

The annual Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), a premier event in computer vision, took place June 18-22 in Salt Lake City. CVPR is a highly competitive conference and accepted fewer than 1,000 of 3,300 submissions in 2018. IBM Research AI  presented multiple technical papers and hosted two workshops at CVPR 2018. We […] The post Expanding AI’s Field of Computer Vision

Monday, June 04, 12:06 UTC @ The Realmac Blog

Hello Fellow Weavers, I know it's been a while since the last RapidWeaver 7 update, and there's a good reason for that… It's because we've been heads down working away on RapidWeaver 8, and oh boy is it shaping up to be a great release. As always it's taken us

Monday, June 04, 10:05 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

by Weiwei Yang I submitted my first patch to Apache Hadoop in 2015, a very simple bug fix with just a few lines of changes. However the feeling is still vivid to me when the patch was accepted, I felt great accomplishment. It was not about how big the change was, but rather because I knew even a small change would help a lot of people. This is the best thing I like about working in Open Source, the work I've done has the chance to influ

Monday, June 04, 09:00 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

Open Source Content Delivery Network used by Cisco, Comcast, Cox, Qwilt, and others serves 30+ petabytes of content each day. Wakefield, MA —4 June 2018— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache® Traffic Control™ as a To

Monday, June 04, 00:00 UTC @ The Syndicate

In our previous post, we described the example Corporate Directory app that we built using the SAP Cloud Platform for iOS SDK. Now let’s take a look at how we started the project in SAP’s Cloud Portal, and how we used the SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS Assistant to generate an Xcode project. Getting Started First we set up our SAP Cloud Platform account, and installed the

Sunday, June 03, 11:49 UTC @ Martin Fowler

Worm's Head, Swansea, Wales (2017)

Sunday, June 03, 10:15 UTC @ Backreaction

Lara. I had just returned from my trip to Dublin when the door rang and the UPS man dumped two big boxes on our doorstep. My husband has a habit of ordering books by the dozens, so my first thought was that this time he’d really outdone himself. Alas, the UPS guy pointed out, the boxes were addressed to me. I signed, feeling guilty for having forgotten I ordered something from Lebanon, that

Sunday, June 03, 10:15 UTC @ Backreaction

Lara. I had just returned from my trip to Dublin when the door rang and the UPS man dumped two big boxes on our doorstep. My husband has a habit of ordering books by the dozens, so my first thought was that this time he’d really outdone himself. Alas, the UPS guy pointed out, the boxes were addressed to me. I signed, feeling guilty for having forgotten I ordered something from Lebanon, that

Saturday, June 02, 08:00 UTC @ FreeBSD News Flash

The first RC build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

Friday, June 01, 21:10 UTC @ Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP

A possible source of interesting primes Study.com source Pierre de Fermat was fluent in six languages. Yes I thought we would talk about Fermat today. Something I did not know about him is: he was fluent in French, Latin, Greek, Italian, Spanish, and Occitan. I am impressed since I never could handle another language, though […]

Friday, June 01, 20:00 UTC @ x.ai

The Time Lords Manual is a series of 1-minute reads on how to become a master of your time. (You can read the Time Lords Manifesto here). Keeping track of how you fill your day is one of the easiest ways to identify and cut down on wasted time. This theory, which we call Ticker… The post Time Lord’s Manual: Ticker Tracking appeared first on x.ai.

Friday, June 01, 18:09 UTC @ Computational Complexity

The quantum complexity world is a rocking with the paper released yesterday by Ran Raz and Avishay Tal, Oracle Separation of BQP and PH, resolving a question open since quantum complexity got its start over two decades ago. Scott Aaronson's 2010 paper that sets some of the groundwork for the Raz-Tal result gives a nice overview of the question. All of you readers should be fam

Friday, June 01, 15:45 UTC @ The Apache Software Foundation Blog

Welcome, June! The Apache community is wrapping up the week with the following activities: ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Next Board Meeting: 20 June. Board calendar and minutes http://... ASF Sponsorship –individual donors and corporate sponsors who support the ASF. - The Apache

Friday, June 01, 12:50 UTC @ Planet Lisp

The computer on which I make Quicklisp builds stopped working a little while ago, and I haven't had time to dive in and work on it. As soon as it's fixed, I'll prepare and release a new dist. Sorry about the inconvenience!

Friday, June 01, 10:00 UTC @ IBM Blog Research

We announced in January four challenges and prizes to encourage people to take the quantum leap by taking advantage of the IBM Q Experience and the IBM QISKit development platform. One of those challenges, Teach Me QISKit, offered a $1,000 prize for the best interactive self-paced tutorial (based on Jupyter Notebooks) that explains a specific […] The post Teach Me QISKit: We have a winner! appeared f

Friday, June 01, 09:26 UTC @ Complex Projective 4-Space

David Davis has proposed two geopolitical ideas: For Northern Ireland to have dual EU/UK status; For there to be a 10-mile ‘trade buffer zone’ between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The second is more interesting from a mathematical … Continue reading →

Friday, June 01, 04:02 UTC @ APIDesign - Blogs

After few months the newest version of Bck2Brwsr VM is here. It contains: Fast emulation of long numbers based