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• MUSAiC – ERC-2019-COG No. 864189

• Forecasting podcasts | Rob J Hyndman

• pyloudnorm — Christian Steinmetz

• The Real Development was the Friends We Made Along the Way | Oliver W. Kim

• Audius

• lab-ml/nn: 🧠 Implementations/tutorials of deep learning papers with side-by-side notes; including transformers (original, xl, switch, feedback), optimizers(adam, radam, adabelief), gans(dcgan, cyclegan), reinforcement learning (ppo, dqn), capsnet, sketch-rnn, etc.

• labml.ai Neural Networks

• Nestup

• cutelabnyc/nested-tuplets: Fancy javascript for manipulating nested tuplets

• cheap audio streaming

  • Ottercast/OtterCastAudioV2: OtterCast is an open-source audio streaming device running Linux. Based on a Sochip S3 SoC, featuring a Webinterface, shairport-sync, snapcast, Spotify Connect and pulseaudio sink/source.
  • The Otter Family | OtterCast

• Super contributions optimiser - Moneysmart.gov.au

• ClearURLs/Addon: ClearURLs is an add-on based on the new WebExtensions technology and will automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy.

• Lei Line Eon | Iglooghost

• Robust egg offsetting – The sideways view

• MD4SG— mechanism design for social good

• Blackwell Approachability - Que-sais je?

• Krug, Carrillo, Dolezal: Social Munchausen Syndrome - The Atlantic

• real analysis - About the Fourier transform of the surface measure of the unit sphere - Mathematics Stack Exchange

• analysis - Metrizability of weak convergence by the bounded Lipschitz metric - Mathematics Stack Exchange

• Hugo SEO Markup

• JSON-LD for Hugo. JSON-LD is a lightweight Linked Data… | by Ronalds Vilcins | Medium

• Adding Structured Data to your Hugo site - DEV Community

• Schema.org - Schema.org

• Eigenvalue Inequalities for Hermitian Matrices – Nick Higham

• What Is a Companion Matrix? – Nick Higham

• Familiar Finance – Put A Number On It!

• What I’m Teaching my Son about Money

• The Autodiff Cookbook — JAX documentation

• An information maximization view on the \(\beta\)-VAE objective

• CLIP: Connecting Text and Images

• Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks/ Distill version of Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks

• Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life — with JAX » ¬

• nschloe/quadpy: Numerical integration (quadrature, cubature) in Python — library of quadrature points for useful regular geometric surfaces in a few dimensions

• https://cbergmeir.com/

• http://i.giwebb.com/

• Journal of Open Source Software: Vizumap: an R package for visualising uncertainty in spatial data - also Visualizing uncertainty in spatial data • Vizumap

• Going beyond least-squares – II : Self-concordant analysis for logistic regression – Machine Learning Research Blog

• GAN.STYLE

• An Inferential Perspective on Federated Learning

• Learning with Gradient Descent and Weakly Convex Losses

• Information-Theoretic Generalization Bounds for Stochastic Gradient Descent

• Bayesian Model of Planetary Motion: exploring ideas for a modeling workflow when dealing with ordinary differential equations and multimodality

• Linear Models from a Gaussian Process Point of View with Stheno and JAX · W.

• Income is a poor way to improve well-being

• Causal design patterns for data analysts | Emily Riederer

• [2010.11223] Meta-trained agents implement Bayes-optimal agents

• [1905.03030] Meta-learning of Sequential Strategies

• Journal of Negative Results

• Bayesian inference with INLA

• R-INLA Project

• Linear Models from a Gaussian Process Point of View with Stheno and JAX · Invenia Blog

• Gradio

• Overcoming Bias : The InDirect-Check Sweet Spot

• On “Geek” Versus “Nerd”

• The Pandemic Is Resetting Casual Friendships

• POSH: A Data-Aware Shell for Faster Distributed Text Processing – The New Stack

• RStudio: A Single Home for R and Python Data Science | RStudio Blog

• RStudio 1.4 Preview: New Features in RStudio Server Pro | RStudio Blog

• PyCharm Scientific & Data Science Tools

• CLion: A Cross-Platform IDE for C and C++ by JetBrains

• Solve the Rubik’s Cube Using Deep Learning

• How to Become the Best in the World at Something

• Alex Danco’s Michael Scott Theory of Social Class has a couple of insights in it, although … although how you are supposed to interpret them in the light of the fact that under the author’s own hypothesis he is maximally detached from reality? That is left as an exercise for the student. Let us call it ”an interesting perspective that is not actually a theory good try though”.

• Bravery Debates “I feel pretty okay about both being sort of a libertarian and writing an essay arguing against libertarianism, because the world generally isn’t libertarian enough but the sorts of people who read long online political essays generally are way more libertarian than can possibly be healthy.”

• Why a Universal Society Is Unattainable is a rebadged and refreshed version of the “societies need common enemies” trope.

• The Computational Geometry Algorithms Library

• WEIRDest People | Bayesian Investor Blog

• Yuling Yao, The likelihood principle in model check and model evaluation

• Jaan Altosaar: My friend radicalized. This made me rethink how I build AI

• Algorithms for Decision Making: Decision making, in the sense of reinforcement learning

• Development hell

• covert contracts

• Housing Hubris

• Chowdhury-DSP/ChowMatrix: Matrix delay effect

• Chowdhury DSP is creating audio software | Patreon

• “Understanding RL Vision”

• Very Deep VAEs Generalize Autoregressive Models and Can Outperform Them on Images, Child 2020

• Algorithmic Trap

• Introducing Simple Search

• Peregrine: A Pattern-Aware Graph Mining System

• On the origin of psychological research practices, with special regard to self-reported nostril width

• Generalised additive models (GAMs): an introduction – Environmental Computing

• How to debunk an electoral fraud claim

• Liquid Information Flow Control, a confidential computing DSL

• Can History Predict the Future?

• jupyterhub/repo2docker: Turn repositories into Jupyter-enabled Docker images

• Yet another backpropagation tutorial

• The Cauchy residue trick: spectral analysis made “easy”

• On the Generalization Ability of Online Strongly Convex Programming Algorithms

• Strategies for proving convergence in distribution

• Strategies for proving that an estimator is consistent

• The Scholar’s Stage: Honor, Dignity, and Victimhood: A Tour Through Three Centuries of American Political Culture

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.

xdotool

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.

WebPlotDigitizer.

Taiwan’s digital minister sounds interesting.

Anne Applebaum, Performative Authoritarianism.

Coping with cats.

COVID psychological first aid course.

China requires malware for people doing business there.

The Gumbel trick is ingenious for sampling from things that look like categorical distributions and simplices.

Global AI talent tracker

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.

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.

Parsing text tags into Boolean feature vectors for tensorflow

I would like to read the Kernelized Stein Discrepancy tutorial.

Vlad Alex (Merzmensch) 12 Colab Notebooks that matter StyleGAN, GPT-2, StyleTransfer, DeOldify, Magenta etc to try out.

I should lobby citation styles for URL support to prevent the entire project being quaintly mired in woodpulp. Here is where to do it.

Illustrations