Spiking Neural Networks
2021-12-13 Anil Ananthaswamy
Category Technology
Training Computer Vision Models on Random Noise Instead of Real Images
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…
Curves and Surfaces
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.
Not Your Reflection? (Blender VFX Tutorial)
In this Blender VFX Tutorial, we will make the reflection in the mirror, act differently then the real person. Discovered from
GoPower Plus gives low Hz
I recently bought a GoPower Plus from Walmart. I plugged a Kill A Watt into it and a floor lamp into the Kill A Watt. It said it’s getting 10Hz instead of the standard 60Hz. That’s strange, but it powered…
Illegal Content and the Blockchain
2021-03-17 Bruce Schneier Security researchers have recently discovered a botnet with a novel defense against takedowns. Normally, authorities can disable a botnet by taking over its command-and-control server. With nowhere to go for instructions, the botnet is rendered useless. But…
Things You Should Never Do, Part I
2000-04-06 Joel Spolsky Netscape … [made] the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a…
FireEye Hacked
2020-12-09 Bruce Schneier FireEye [a cybersecurity company] was hacked by — they believe — “a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities”
U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal
2020-09-02 Raphael Satter (Reuters) – Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful – and that the U.S.…
Memristor Breakthrough: First Single Device To Act Like a Neuron
2020-09-01 Samuel K. Moore It combines resistance, capacitance, and what’s called a Mott memristor all in the same device. Memristors are devices that hold a memory, in the form of resistance, of the current that has flowed through them. Mott…