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The Sim-To-Real Gap
While watching babies and kittens learn by doing is cute, you don’t want a soon-to-be autonomous car cruising your neighborhood to pick up traffic rules.
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The Better Deep Learning Gets, the More Vulnerable It Is to Adversarial Attacks
These are not your ordinary run of the mill cyber security threats. Adversarial attacks don’t rely on exploiting bugs.
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Now You See Me, Now You Don’t : Adversarial Patching Brings Serious Trust Issues to Machine Learning
A brief seven years after Gibson’s far fetched futurism, science fiction has become a reality. Does that mean we’re screwed?
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The Trend Towards Open Core : Evolving Strategies for Open Source Monetisation
2018 was the watershed year for the open core model, where you create value through hosted services and closed source add-ons.
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The Best of Both Worlds : How to Build a Company While Sticking to Open Source
The professor’s privilege and means that researchers can do what they want with whatever they create. Which if you’re in software usually just means you publish your code on GitHub and move on to the next research project.
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Ise Ise Baby : Coherent Ising Machines and the New Frontier of Non-Von Neumann Computing
The approach is one of the most promising candidates among “non-Von Neumann” computer architectures.
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At the Crossroads of Intellectual Property and Software Engineering
The ins- and outs of open hardware; the power and perils of building your products on top of FOSS-stacks; the dos and don’ts with design patenting, and so much more.
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Culture Encoded : Ellen Ullman’s Life in the Machine
Close to the Machine : Technophilia and its discontents by Ellen Ullman chronicles the dawn of the Internet from the point of view of a freelance programmer. I loved it intensely.