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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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Excellent Engineering Won’t Keep You From Solving the Wrong Problem : How Story Mapping Helps You Stay Aligned with What Matters
Teams like this can follow the tenants of XP and agile to the letter, and still build the wrong product. Teams like this need tools on a whole different level.
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Know Your Sh*t : Why Real Knowledge Comes from Deep Immersion
I was once taught a powerful know-what-you’re-doing lesson.
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Gone in 60 Seconds : Finding Meaning in a Single Minute
What would you do if you had a house full of actors unable to get in front of an audience for an indefinite period of time?
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The Power of Persistence : Why Showing Up Matters More Than Knowing Where You’re Headed
I recently passed my 666th consecutive day of studying Japanese. It made me think of Satan.
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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 Patron Driven Value Proposition : What Business Can Learn From Libraries
Great ideas are often met with fierce resistance and then suddenly become the new norm seemingly over-night.
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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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Preparing For the Next War : Carlota Perez on Why the Future Won’t Look Like the Past
Reading Carlota Perez feels like looking at one of those images doctors use to diagnose colour blindness; where before there was just a jumble of dots, patterns emerge.
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Distributed Cognition
When you forget the details of some complicated concept and have to consult an external resource, that’s distributed cognition.
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What Doing Looks Like : Why We Struggle with Productivity and How to Fix It
I’d like to be a bit like Mrs. Whiting myself. She knows where she wants to go and she can turn that crystal clear vision into manageable chunks of action.
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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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My Cup of Tea : A Reflection on Craft
Every move the bar man man makes while preparing my tea is perfectly measured, it’s like watching a Tai-Chi master.
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Making Sense of the World : the Entangled Perspectives of Camilla Pang and Julia Ravanis
Two of the best science books I’ve come across in a good while: Explaining Humans by Camilla Pang, and Skönheten i Kaos by Julia Ravanis. Reading them back to back created an impression of perfect symmetry.