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Various links I find interesting. Mostly hardcore tech :) // by @oleksandr_now. See @notatky for the personal stuff

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Docker is buggy [article+discussion]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12364123

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[Lua]
http://leafo.net/guides/parsing-expression-grammars.html

An introduction to Parsing Expression Grammars with LPeg

What is a PEG What is LPeg Installing LPeg Some simple grammars String equality Combining patterns Parsing numbers A calculator expression parser Closing What is a PEG A PEG, or Parsing Expression Grammar, is a way of describing a language (or patter...

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Language necessarily contains human biases, and so will machines trained on language corpora
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/randomwalker/language-necessarily-contains-human-biases-and-so-will-machines-trained-on-language-corpora/

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+paper http://randomwalker.info/publications/language-bias.pdf

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[R language]
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1111093/Discrete-Event-Simulation-using-R-Hospital-Capacit

Discrete Event Simulation using R: Hospital Capacity Planning.

Simulation Model to plan the capacity of an oncology Hospital with limited number of beds. The R script is run on R Studio or called from PHP.

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https://github.com/paarthneekhara/text-to-image

GitHub - paarthneekhara/text-to-image: Text to image synthesis using thought vectors

Text to image synthesis using thought vectors. Contribute to paarthneekhara/text-to-image development by creating an account on GitHub.

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[Lisp OS]
https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/issues/42 (see the whole repo, too)

Is there a "Why"? · Issue #42 · froggey/Mezzano

The README.md does not seem to cover why this was made... any interesting blog post it can link to, or excerpt of whatever caused you to start making this?

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Using Circular Programs for Higher-Order Syntax [Emil Axelsson, Koen Claessen 2013]
http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~emax/documents/axelsson2013using.pdf

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If only I had something like this when learning *nix!
http://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=for%20user%20in%20%24%28cut%20-f1%20-d%3A%20/etc/passwd%29%3B%20do%20crontab%20-u%20%24user%20-l%202%3E/dev/null%3B%20done

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[User Experience] Principles of Calm Technology
http://www.calmtech.com/

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http://culurciello.github.io/tech/2016/06/04/nets.html

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https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/exploring-spacenet-dataset-using-digits/

Parallel Forall

Exploring the SpaceNet Dataset Using DIGITS

In this post we demonstrate how DIGITS can be used to train two different types of convolutional neural network for detecting buildings in the SpaceNet 3-band imagery.

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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/ironfleet-proving-practical-distributed-systems-correct/

Microsoft Research

IronFleet: Proving Practical Distributed Systems Correct - Microsoft Research

Distributed systems are notorious for harboring subtle bugs. Verification can, in principle, eliminate these bugs a priori, but verification has historically been difficult to apply at full-program scale, much less distributed-system scale. We describe a…

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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/dafny-a-language-and-program-verifier-for-functional-correctness/

Microsoft Research

Dafny: A Language and Program Verifier for Functional Correctness - Microsoft Research

Dafny is a programming language with built-in specification constructs. The Dafny static program verifier can be used to verify the functional correctness of programs. The Dafny programming language is designed to support the static verification of programs.…

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http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03000
Neural Network Generation of Regular Expressions from Natural Language with Minimal Domain Knowledge

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https://github.com/bitfunnel/nativejit/
x64 C++ JIT library

GitHub - BitFunnel/NativeJIT: A C++ expression -> x64 JIT

A C++ expression -> x64 JIT. Contribute to BitFunnel/NativeJIT development by creating an account on GitHub.

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http://www.wired.com/insights/2014/03/reverse-network-effects-todays-social-networks-can-fail-grow-larger/

Reverse Network Effects: Why Today’s Social Networks Can Fail As They Grow Larger

Network effects are the holy grail for Internet startups looking for venture-scale returns. On a platform with network effects, the value to a user increases as more users use it. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Skype, WhatsApp and many others benefit…

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http://pencil.evolus.vn/Next.html
surprisingly good UI mockup and prototyping tool, also FOSS

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-rebuts-chomsky-s-theory-of-language-learning/
finally

Scientific American

Evidence Rebuts Chomsky's Theory of Language Learning

Much of Noam Chomsky’s revolution in linguistics—including its account of the way we learn languages—is being overturned

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Surprisingly, a patch of PTFE tape is as good as a state-of-the-art white balance calibration passport. Doubles as a diffuse white point reference, too!
https://photographylife.com/diy-reliable-and-cheap-universal-white-balance-reference-device

Photography Life

DIY: Reliable and Cheap Universal White Balance Reference Device

DIY projects are always popular, so we’ve decided to throw another one into the mix. This particular little idea comes from a problem that many photographers have – where do you get a good, small, white/gray surface to use for white balancing your RAW shots…

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