2016-04-25
Against Blacklists - Andrea Shepard
System Overload - James Surowiecki
"This is the heart of our problem: infrastructure policy has become a matter of lurching from crisis to crisis, solving problems after the fact rather than preventing them from happening."
"Today, the Metro is in such a state that fixing it may require shutting whole lines for months at a time. It's yet again an example for the nation, but now it's an example of how underinvestment and political dysfunction have left America with infrastructure that's failing and often downright dangerous."
"As the economist Larry Summers has pointed out, once you adjust for depreciation, the U.S. makes no net investment in public infrastructure."
A Protocol for Dying - Pieter Hintjens
"In time it became the basis, and then the goal of my work: to go to strange places and meet new people."
"I am so grateful not to have died suddenly. I'm so grateful I won't lose my mind."
What convolutional neural networks look at when they see nudity - Ryan Compton
"However, since deep learning researchers don't specify exactly how the network should behave on a given input, a new problem arises: How can one understand what the convolutional networks are activating on?"
"This highlights a fundamental difference between training rule-based classifiers and modern A.I. research. Rather than redesigning features by hand, we redesign our training data until the discovered features are improved."
Introduction to Scala Macros - Sturm Mabie
Implementers, Solvers, and Finders - Randall Koutnik
"How could this be? A group of people, granted the ability to do what they love for great pay & perks, all wanting to move on?"
"If we're to escape this situation where fantastic fanatic programmers can't see themselves programming in three years, we need to couple our words to real world meaning."