Things that I think should be noted and filed in an orderly fashion but I have no time for. Content here will change incessantly; I would advise against linking to it.
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Algorithms for Decision Making: Decision making, in the sense of reinforcement learning
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Cloud Code for VS Code brings the power and convenience of IDEs to cloud-native Kubernetes and Cloud Run application development. Cloud Code works with Google's command-line container tools like
skaffoldandkubectlunder the hood, providing local, continuous feedback on your project as you build, edit, and run your applications locally or in the cloud. Where did this link come from? Unusually wide perspective for a deep learning course: mcallester.github.io/ttic-31230/Fall2020/.
metaseed/metaGo: MetaGo provides fast cursor movement/selection for keyboard focused users in vscode
Very Deep VAEs Generalize Autoregressive Models and Can Outperform Them on Images, Child 2020
Generalised additive models (GAMs): an introduction – Environmental Computing
Liquid Information Flow Control, a confidential computing DSL
jupyterhub/repo2docker: Turn repositories into Jupyter-enabled Docker images
Welcome to VizTracer’s documentation! — VizTracer 0.3.2 documentation
VizTracer is a low-overhead logging/debugging/profiling tool that can trace and visualize your python code to help you intuitively understand your code and figure out the time consuming part of your code.
VizTracer can display every function executed and the corresponding entry/exit time from the beginning of the program to the end, which is helpful for programmers to catch sporatic performance issues.
On the Generalization Ability of Online Strongly Convex Programming Algorithms
The Scholar's Stage: Honor, Dignity, and Victimhood: A Tour Through Three Centuries of American Political Culture David McLaughlin, The Hidden Dangers of the Great Index Fund Takeover.
William Buckner at the Human Systems and Behavior Lab based in the Department of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University has a blog on conflict in cross-cultural perspective and other fun stuff.
Thomas Lumley visualises data pooling simply and well.
This tool lets you simulate keyboard input and mouse activity, move and resize windows, etc. It does this using X11’s XTEST extension and other Xlib functions. Additionally, you can search for windows and move, resize, hide, and modify window properties like the title. If your window manager supports it, you can use xdotool to switch desktops, move windows between desktops, and change the number of desktops.
A Wayland substitute for xdotool seems to be ydotool.
The Catalogue of Bias:
To obtain the least biased information, researchers must acknowledge the potential presence of biases and take steps to avoid and minimise their effects. Equally, in assessing the results of studies, we must be aware of the different types of biases, their potential impact and how this affects interpretation and use of evidence in healthcare decision making.
Experiment guide maintains a list of refuted claims from observational studies
Joan Donovan, Research Director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, How Civil Society Can Combat Misinformation and Hate Speech Without Making It Worse
Android in a Box — Run Android applications on any GNU/Linux operating system.
Fake Martial Arts, A Disorientation
However, even fighters who enjoy making fun of fake martial arts in the “not useful for MMA” sense are still quick to admit that all martial arts are largely fake […]. Ramsey Dewey in particular enjoys demonstrating the fallacy of trying to fight off multiple opponents, or a single opponent with a knife, as opposed to employing wiser (but not useful for MMA!) strategies like diplomacy, going armed, making better life choices, and running the fuck away.…
I have been wondering if there are intellectual equivalents of fake martial arts. The highly ritualized and hierarchical culture of the legal courtroom is one example of how epistemic battles are rendered civilized, and in some ways less real. Yet one can’t deny that legal systems are having a genuine and ongoing encounter with reality, from top to bottom. They are embedded in reality. Their fakenesses serve realities on other levels.
Taiwan’s digital minister sounds interesting.
Anne Applebaum, Performative Authoritarianism.
COVID psychological first aid course.
plutoview is collaborative web-surfing.
China requires malware for people doing business there.
The Gumbel trick is ingenious for sampling from things that look like categorical distributions and simplices.
UTS has a podcast: 'The New Social Contract' is a podcast that examines how the relationship between universities, the state and the public might be reshaped as we live through this global pandemic.
Clearview’s Controversial Facial Recognition AI Automates Mass Surveillance.
calndr.link creates calendar links.
I built calndr.link after I had multiple clients request the exact same thing — a simple and easy way to generate calendar links, for adding to their website or in email newsletters.
There’s a few existing providers out there, but they’re extremely pricey for what they do — take some basic data (title/date/etc) and reformat it into a url for a calendar provider (be it google or apple).
Jan Turowski on Schrebergärten.
Meaningnesss, on wonder (highbrow Insane Clown Posse).
A collection of links advocating learning a new language.
Instant site publishing from a folder of files: Netlify drop.
Danny Dorling, Slowdown:The End of the Great Acceleration—and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives..
Philip Moriarty, Will Fermi and Dirac save us? Probably not.
A paper recently appeared on the arXiv with the ever-so-intriguing title of “Attacking Covid-19 with the Ising-model and the Fermi-Dirac Distribution Function”. […]I’m a big fan of the Ising model — not least because we have extensively used a variant to simulate pattern formation in nanoparticle assemblies for many* years […] Having now read the paper, it’s a little, um, underwhelming, given the rather overstated premise of the title. That’s not to say that it’s not worth reading as an example of how modelling and simulation strategies from condensed matter physics can be translated to social and epidemiological settings.
rufus is a boot drive maker which is free and open source and maintained and thus possibly less suspect than some competitors.
Terry Tao’s course in Modern real-variable harmonic analysis.
I keep meaning to bookmark entertaining contrarian Cory Clark.
Another free/libre Microsoft Office clone: FreeOffice. Looks less bloated than OpenOffice maybe?
Parsing text tags into Boolean feature vectors for tensorflow
I would like to read the Kernelized Stein Discrepancy tutorial.
China launches national blockchain.
bitcoin during financial crisis.
This guide to pruning multihead attention NN should probably go somewhere useful if i actually end up doing NLP like all the recruiters seem to want.
Vlad Alex (Merzmensch) 12 Colab Notebooks that matter StyleGAN, GPT-2, StyleTransfer, DeOldify, Magenta etc to try out.
Glitter nail polish for laptop security.
I should lobby citation styles for URL support to prevent the entire project being quaintly mired in woodpulp. Here is where to do it.
home internet stuff
SDEs in optimisation and learning
Francis Bach calls the continuous approximation to a discrete time optimization a gradient flow. Which of the other uses I know is this the same as?
Statistical Inference via Convex Optimization.
Conjugate functions illustrated.
Francis Bach on the use of geometric sums and a different take by Julyan Arbel.
Tutorial to approximating differentiable control problems. An extension of this is universal differential equations.
Ai for music fun pack
https://djtechtools.com/2020/07/14/best-ai-platforms-to-help-you-make-music/
https://www.patreon.com/loudlystudio
Open AI Jukebox is the latest hot generative music thing that I should be across. I would take a rather different approach to them to solve this problem, but they are the current benchmark.
Illustrations
Sarah Perry
