A foolproof way to shrink deep learning models

2020-04-30 Kim Martineau They showed that a deep neural network could perform with only one-tenth the number of connections if the right subnetwork was found early in training.   Train the model, prune its weakest connections, retrain the model at…

Spiking Neural Networks

2020-02-17 Martijn van Wezel The SNNs bio-inspired neural networks are different from conventional neural networks due that the conventional neural networks communicate with numbers. Instead, SNNs communicate through spikes. … Having multiple spikes in a short period can stimulate the…

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy

2008-10 Paul Graham … investors tend to be less willing to invest in bad times. They shouldn’t be. Everyone knows you’re supposed to buy when times are bad and sell when times are good.

15 extra minutes

2020-02-10 Miguel Ferreira The only way you can get people to do anything is by giving them what they want. How David Bowie charmed journalists.

Sonic’s very fast redesign

2020-02-24 Mike Seymour When the redesign [of the Sonic the Hedgehog movie] was commissioned, Artist Tyson Hesse, who had worked on previous Sonic the Hedgehog media, was brought on to lead the redesign. “But a lot of the work that…