A polyglot's guide to multiple dispatch - Eli Bendersky's website
A polyglot's guide to multiple dispatch April 19, 2016 at 05:02 Tags C & C++ , Multiple dispatch This is the first article in a series dedicated to multiple dispatch - an advanced abstraction technique available to programmers out-of-the-box in some languages, and implementable in others. This first…
Hasnain says:
This is an awesome read on programming languages, dynamic/static typing and dispatching
Posted on 2016-04-20T06:30:24+0000
What convolutional neural networks look at when they see nudity – Clarifai Blog | Artificial...
Last week at Clarifai we formally announced our Not Safe for Work (NSFW) adult content recognition model. This week, one of our data scientists will walk you through a technical exploration of how he taught computers to see naked people. Warning & Disclaimer: This post contains visualizations of nud…
Hasnain says:
A pretty cool analysis on how to understand a neural network
Posted on 2016-04-20T06:17:27+0000
Intel to Cut 12,000 Jobs, Forecast Misses Amid PC Blight
Intel Corp. will eliminate 12,000 jobs, or 11 percent of its workforce, embarking on the deepest cutbacks in a decade to gird for a fifth year of declines in the personal-computer market.
The secret rules of the internet
The murky history of moderation, and how it’s shaping the future of free speech.
Hasnain says:
An absolutely essential read on content moderation and how large companies are effectively playing the role of the gate keeper here. Too many quotes, it's hard to cherry pick a single one. Really long but every word is worth it.
"While public debates rage about government censorship and free speech on college campuses, customer content management constitutes the quiet transnational transfer of free-speech decisions to the private, corporately managed corners of the internet where people weigh competing values in hidden and proprietary ways. Moderation, explains Microsoft researcher Kate Crawford, is "a profoundly human decision-making process about what constitutes appropriate speech in the public domain.""
Posted on 2016-04-19T06:10:44+0000
Quit my full time corporate job. Built an iOS game. It became #1 in the App Store. Here are...
## TL;DR Made a little over $700k selling a premium mobile game with no IAP or Ads as a one man shop. It _is_ possible to create sustainable...
Hasnain says:
A great post from the guy who made A Dark Room and other games on making money and the nitty gritty of writing indie games for a living
Posted on 2016-04-19T05:38:22+0000
Shrink your Go binaries with this one weird trick
Ok, I lied, there's no weird trick. However, you can easily reduce a Go binary size by more than 6 times with some flags and common tools. Note: I don't actually believe a 30MB static binary is a problem in this day and age, and I would not trade (build
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Posted on 2016-04-19T05:36:33+0000
For Female Astronomers, Sexual Harassment Is a Constant Nightmare | Broadly
Earlier this year, famous Berkeley astronomer Geoff Marcy was found to have sexually harassed his students over a period of a decade.
Stephen's Sausage Roll review
One of the best puzzle games in years is a total sausage fest. In a good way.
College Student Is Removed From Flight After Speaking Arabic on Plane
Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, a senior at the University of California, Berkeley, was taken off a flight after he called an uncle in Baghdad and a passenger overheard him.
Hasnain says:
Sigh -- now I have to worry about calling my grandma when boarding a flight, in case someone mistakes Urdu for Arabic
Posted on 2016-04-17T22:15:19+0000
Smoking dead scorpions is KP's latest dangerous addiction
Experts say scorpion venom is more harmful than any drug— addicts start living in a constant state of delusion.