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…
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…
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…
2012-06-10 Ulrich Sourisseau Enlightening animations of how phonographs play back stereo sound. Discovered from
2022-07-26 liam_on_linux because Microsoft was threatening to sue all the Linux vendors shipping Windows 95-like desktops
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.
How Jonah Wallerstein wrote the networking code for his multiplayer game KungFu Kickball, eventually using Server Authoritative Lockstep.
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2021-12-09 Martin Anderson Researchers from MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have experimented with using random noise images in computer vision datasets to train computer vision models , and have found that instead of producing garbage, the method…
2021-11-02 Bartosz Ciechanowski Learn about Bézier curves, splines, non-uniform rational B‑splines (NURBS), and subdivision surfaces by playing with them in your browser.