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This is San Francisco now. Fueled by so much one-upmanship and relentless competitiveness and insecurity. It’s a social world designed, literally, by people who came up playing Dungeons and Dragons, who relish intensely complex systems and arcane rules. The trick to enjoying yourself in San Francisco is not to have very much at stake. Engineers…
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todaysdocument: “Private First Class Lawrence Bartlett, Niagara Falls, New York, examines the four fallen lions which once adorned the top of the Siegestor, built by King Ludwig I, in 1844-1852 in tribute to the Bavarian Army. Munich, Germany, June 13, 1945. Army.” From the series: Cultural Institutions and Artwork in Europe and other War Areas (Photo…
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futurescope: TED-RNN – Machine generated TED-Talks Hilarious #ComputationalComedy coding project by Samim. He fed a Recurrent Neural Network with all existing TED Talk Transcripts (1904 speeches or 22.4MB of text which amounts to 4038409 words) and now the model outputs machine generated TED Talks. You can watch three speeches – from Jürgen TEDhuber, Ada LoveTED…
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Basic parts of our infrastructure are vulnerable to hacking
stoweboyd: Concerns about cybersecurity are rising, but most people think about hackers stealing credit card data from corporate databases, while it may be just as critical to worry about services we take for granted, like the electric grid or air traffic control. The Internet of Things (IoT) is bringing a new awareness of security vulnerabilities…