Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations
2023-05-01 Vadim Kravcenko But it is important to capture how long something could take if things go poorly.
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Neural Networks, Manifolds, and Topology
Visualizations of low dimension artificial neural networks transforming the input into a representation that can be separated by a line with the different classes of data on each side. Neural Networks, Manifolds, and Topology 2014-04-06 Christopher Olah
Password advice
There have been news stories about how the Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of the Interior found weak passwords in the Department of Interior’s Active Directory accounts: Passwords Are Terrible (Surprising No One) A fifth of passwords used by…
Geoffrey Hinton’s Forward-Forward Algorithm Charts a New Path for Neural Networks
2022-12-08 by Synced there is increasing interest in whether the biological brain follows backpropagation or, as Hinton asks, whether it has some other way of getting the gradients needed to adjust the weights on its connections. In this regard, Hinton…
A Thought on the Lovelace Test
The Lovelace test demands of a computing machine that it not only produce an artifact that is by conventional standards amazing, but it leaves everyone looking at it stupefied as to how it does what it does: including in this…
How to pack a stereo signal in one record groove
2012-06-10 Ulrich Sourisseau Enlightening animations of how phonographs play back stereo sound. Discovered from
Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened
2022-07-26 liam_on_linux because Microsoft was threatening to sue all the Linux vendors shipping Windows 95-like desktops
How to Fold a Julia Fractal – A tale of numbers that like to turn
2022-07-23 Steven Wittens See how complex numbers are used to make the Julia fractal with interactive animations of it rotating on top of itself step by step.
Online Multiplayer the Hard Way
How Jonah Wallerstein wrote the networking code for his multiplayer game KungFu Kickball, eventually using Server Authoritative Lockstep.
Spiking Neural Networks
2021-12-13 Anil Ananthaswamy