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Found in translation: Building a language translator from scratch with deep learning

Building an English-French language translator neural network from scratch with deep learning.

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Why Self-Taught Artificial Intelligence Has Trouble With the Real World | Quanta Magazine

The latest artificial intelligence systems start from zero knowledge of a game and grow to world-beating in a matter of hours. But researchers are struggling to

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The Invasion of the German Board Games

Their peaceful premises and intricate rule systems are changing the way Americans play—and helping shape an industry in the process.

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Turning brain signals into useful information

Once data have been extracted from the brain, how can they be employed to best effect?

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This is how Netflix's top-secret recommendation system works

Netflix splits viewers up into more than two thousands taste groups. Which one you’re in dictates the recommendations you get

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Taxing robots: SF supervisor wants California to talk about it

This week, Jane Kim launched a crowdfunding effort to nudge the state to study the issue of what will happen to human workers in the age of automation.

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Why Amazon Has No Profits (And Why It Works)

(I also did a podcast with Ben Horowitz discussing these themes: see here) Amazon has a tendency to polarize people. On one hand, there is the ruthless, relentless, ferociously efficient company that’s building the Sears Roebuck of the 21st Century. But on the other, there is the fact that

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The end of the internet startup

We haven't had a major new technology company in more than 10 years.

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If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it

In the early 1960s, Richard Feynman gave a series of undergraduate lectures that were collected into a book called the Feynman L

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A blockchain explanation your parents could understand

It's happening in an increasingly frequent manner: "Jamie, explain this blockchain stuff to me. I've read a bunch of articles and I'm no wiser." The

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With latency as low as 25ms, SpaceX to launch broadband satellites in 2019

Satellites will function like a mesh network and deliver gigabit speeds.

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Very good job about categorization and description with clarity

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Build a super fast deep learning machine for under $1,000

The adventures in deep learning and cheap hardware continue!

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How to build a robot that “sees” with $100 and TensorFlow

Adventures in deep learning, cheap hardware, and object recognition.

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What’s Next in Computing? - Chris Dixon - Pocket

The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of handwringing lately about where we are in the financial cycle. Financial markets get a lot of attention. They tend to fluctuate unpredictably and sometimes wildly.

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Netflix Is Killing It—Big Time—After Pouring Cash Into Original Shows

Netflix is killing it. And its strategy is actually shockingly simple: spend aggressively, dominate, and make it way too difficult to compete.

Content is king

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Inside NFV Performance Techniques – NFV Hardware Acceleration

With the combination of new NFV hardware acceleration techniques and SDN is driving a new era of networking.