Letting neural networks be weird • GPT-2: It learned on the Internet
28 minutes ago
a few paraffin-y dice (sleep about half of the weight, use the 1 ounce plus 2 pounds extra when handling these onto a hot baking sheet)
ai
ml
openai
28 minutes ago
BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Farming Today This Week: City Farms
2 days ago
Windmill Hill City Farm on farming today #bristol
bristol
2 days ago
Our destiny is in the hands of Rees-Mogg’s unfinished robot sidekick | Marina Hyde | Opinion | The Guardian
RT @MarinaHyde: My bit on Steve Baker and the rest of the Brexit allstars
2 days ago
Twitter
RT @lindydonna: To prove a point:
Please RT if you don't have a CS degree and you have a job in tech.
2 days ago
Please RT if you don't have a CS degree and you have a job in tech.
Stephen Collins on social media - cartoon | Life and style | The Guardian
RT @stephen_collins: TECH BOSS WILL SAVE US
2 days ago
Hundreds of Bristol schoolchildren 'strike' over climate change
2 days ago
A parent of one protester – who was only three – highlighted how the moment was almost bittersweet: “It’s very hard to explain to a three-year-old. She thinks that the people inside this building, the government, are going to be directly changed by this, and I really hope she’s right.”
climate
extinctionrebellion
2 days ago
gobi manchurian recipe, how to make gobi manchurian recipe
3 days ago
Not tried it yet but Tiff says its great
cauliflower
recipe
via:tiff
3 days ago
What If Our Machines Had Emotions? - BBC R&D
...all part of my colleague Emma's project on emotional machines:
4 days ago
Twitter
...and an introduction to the use of servos to create more natural movements in robotics...
4 days ago
Twitter
Utterly riveting and mind-expanding two days with David McGoran from @RustySquidLtd giving some of @BBCRD a crash c…
4 days ago
All the Bad Things About Uber and Lyft In One Simple List – Streetsblog USA
6 days ago
A survey of 944 Uber and Lyft riders by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council in Boston last year, found that 42 percent of riders would have taken transit if the services hadn’t been available. Another 12 percent (like those U.C.L.A students and their 11,000 on-campus taxi rides per week) said they would have biked or walked their journey. Another 5 percent would have just avoided the trip altogether.
Only about 17 percent — less than one in five — said they would have made the journey in a private car otherwise. (The remainder said they would have used a traditional taxi.
uber
twats
Only about 17 percent — less than one in five — said they would have made the journey in a private car otherwise. (The remainder said they would have used a traditional taxi.
6 days ago
BlueSky GNSS Firewall | Microsemi
6 days ago
The new BlueSkyTM GNSS Firewall protects already deployed GPS systems by providing a cost-effective overlay solution installed between existing GNSS antennas and GPS systems. Similar to a network firewall, the BlueSky GNSS Firewall protects systems inside the firewall from untrusted sky-based signals outside the firewall.
gps
6 days ago
Letting neural networks be weird • More candy hearts by neural network
6 days ago
I’m seeing worrying signs of a bear-based feedback loop that might lead to 100% bear content after a few more iterations of this.
ml
ai
6 days ago
Mars One is dead
6 days ago
Mars One was split into two ventures, the non-profit Mars One Foundation and the for-profit Mars One Ventures. The Swiss-based Ventures AG was declared bankrupt by a Basel court on January 15th and was, at the time, valued at almost $100 million. Mars One Ventures PLC, the UK-registered branch, is listed as a dormant company with less than £20,000 in its accounts.
sigh
mars
idiots
6 days ago
Tim O'Reilly's argument against Reid Hoffman's "Blitzscaling" — Quartz
6 days ago
A strong case can be made that blitzscaling isn’t really a recipe for success but rather survivorship bias masquerading as a strategy.
...
Despite his earlier reservations about the legality of the model, Uber out-executed its smaller rivals, in part by ignoring regulation while they attempted to change the rules, and became the market leader.
...
the market has almost entirely turned into a betting machine. Not only that, it’s a machine for betting on a horse race in which it’s possible to cash your winning ticket long before the race has actually finished.
finance
business
startup
siliconvalley
...
Despite his earlier reservations about the legality of the model, Uber out-executed its smaller rivals, in part by ignoring regulation while they attempted to change the rules, and became the market leader.
...
the market has almost entirely turned into a betting machine. Not only that, it’s a machine for betting on a horse race in which it’s possible to cash your winning ticket long before the race has actually finished.
6 days ago
Let There Be Light Switches — R / D
7 days ago
The light switch when jetlagged is vorhanden — suddenly present-at-hand, “oppressively obvious” —where usually its everyday resilience means it is zuhanden, simply ready-at-hand, normalised, routine.
perception
mystery
lightswitches
7 days ago
Why You Should Work Less and Spend More Time on Hobbies
7 days ago
But by spending time on music, I boost some of my most important workplace skills.
sigh
creativity
business
7 days ago
'Police forced me to spit out Mini Cheddars they thought were heroin' - Liverpool Echo
9 days ago
"He was saying, 'what's in your mouth, what's in your mouth', and I was struggling to say 'Mini Cheddars, Mini Cheddars' through the mouthful.
sigh
minicheddars
police
9 days ago
Twitter
RT @BBCRD: A new way to listen to podcasts? Try our trial which adds images, data and more context to radio and audio, showing…
10 days ago
Exploiting the Math.expm1 typing bug in V8 | 0x41414141 in ?? ()
10 days ago
"optimistic by default"
security
js
javascript
10 days ago
Why Temple Quarter redevelopment will cost more than expected
11 days ago
He added: “Most Bristolians will probably be thinking ‘let’s get that roundabout and section finished now’.”
mm
bristol
11 days ago
Twitter
RT @helenpidd: YEY. Stockport’s @Hatworksmuseum has given me its blessing for a project to put a hat on its magnificent chimney in…
12 days ago
Start Up No.997: the workforce split, MPs’ Twitter mistake, Apple’s tax payback, Fortnite’s big show, and more | The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say
12 days ago
The Onion team works by making up headlines, and then writing the stories for it. They also keep a list of headlines that don’t quite make the cut. My favourite of those is “Man knifed with spork”.
onion
spork
12 days ago
Chris Grayling banned from Calais after Brexit row with port's chairman
13 days ago
The chairman of the port of Calais has told Chris Grayling not to darken his shore again, as he accused the Transport Secretary of showing "disrespect" by planning to divert sea traffic from the French town in a 'no deal' Brexit scenario.
brexit
13 days ago
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