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Why dash cams should be more widespread

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness_memory#Encoding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinformation_effect#Basic_methods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_conformity#In_and_out_of_lab_settings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness_identification#Causes_of_eyewitness_error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness_testimony#Reliability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashcam Lessons to learn from dashcams: live traffic accidents (not for the faint of heart) birds surfing vehicles (funny)

The Computer Language Benchmarks Game

= The Computer Language Benchmarks Game The Computer Language Benchmarks Game is a free software project for comparing how a given subset of simple algorithms can be implemented in various popular programming languages. The project consists of: * A set of very simple algorithmic problems * Various implementations to the above problems in various programming languages * A set of unit tests to verify that the submitted implementations solve the problem statement * A framework for running and timing the implementations * A website to facilitate the interactive comparison of the results = Supported languages Due to resource constraints, only a small subset of common programming languages are supported, up to the discretion of the game's operator. https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/ * Ada * C * Chapel * Clojure * C# * C++ * Dart * Erlang * F# * Fortran * Go * Hack * Haskell * Java * JavaScript * Lisp * Lua * OCaml * Pascal * Perl * PHP * Python ...

Build a chatbot using deep learning

I always look forward to making natural language processing more intelligent without hardwired rules. I also like the condensed style of the video. Build a Chatbot - ML for Hackers #6 video by Sirajology http://www.wildml.com/2016/04/deep-learning-for-chatbots-part-1-introduction/

Bit errors still not a myth

I had this post in draft for a long time now, however it is evergreen. Just consider the recent exploits  focused on RAM leakage. Although, do note that ECC by itself can't give 100% protection against row hammer, so it is only loosely related. An excellent empirical work has been published in 2009 regarding DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large Scale Field Study . " About a third of machines and over 8% of DIMMs in our fleet saw at least one correctable error per year. " - analysis by  James Hamilton " Besides error rates much higher than expected - which is plenty bad - the study found that error rates were motherboard, not DIMM type or vendor, dependent. This means that some popular mobos have poor EMI hygiene. " - analysis by ZDnet Note that such an event plainly translates to faults on non-ECC machines. So despite the fact that human error is much more probable, it is not unlikely at all that you encounter bit errors in everyday life. Consider the foll...

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