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https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncom.2012.00094/full
An emerging consensus for open evaluation: 18 visions for the future of scientific publishing
An emerging consensus for open evaluation: 18 visions for the future of scientific publishing
I just finished the book Grokking Algorithms last night.
https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-algorithms
I think it is a well-written book for people who is not from a CS background. The book has a lot of examples showing how the algorithms work step by step. To me, the most interesting chapter is dynamic programming.
I had a lot of fun reading this. Highly recommended if you are interested in algorithms!
https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-algorithms
I think it is a well-written book for people who is not from a CS background. The book has a lot of examples showing how the algorithms work step by step. To me, the most interesting chapter is dynamic programming.
I had a lot of fun reading this. Highly recommended if you are interested in algorithms!
Manning Publications
Grokking Algorithms
Grokking Algorithms</i> is a fully illustrated, friendly guide that teaches you how to apply common algorithms to the practical problems you face every day as a programmer. You'll start with sorting and searching and, as you build up your skills in thinking…
Wow what is gonna happen to microsoft
https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1326932991566700549
> Guido van Rossum
> @gvanrossum
> I decided that retirement was boring and have joined the Developer Division at Microsoft. To do what? Too many options to say! But it’ll make using Python better for sure (and not just on Windows :-). There’s lots of open source here. Watch this space.
https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1326932991566700549
> Guido van Rossum
> @gvanrossum
> I decided that retirement was boring and have joined the Developer Division at Microsoft. To do what? Too many options to say! But it’ll make using Python better for sure (and not just on Windows :-). There’s lots of open source here. Watch this space.
X (formerly Twitter)
Guido van Rossum (@gvanrossum) on X
I decided that retirement was boring and have joined the Developer Division at Microsoft. To do what? Too many options to say! But it’ll make using Python better for sure (and not just on Windows :-). There’s lots of open source here. Watch this space.
https://thegradient.pub/how-can-we-improve-peer-review-in-nlp/
> (Anderson, 2009) argues that research paper merit is Zipf-distributed: many papers are clear rejects, while a few are clear accepts. In between those two extremes, decisions are very difficult, and any differences between the best rejected and the worst accepted paper are tiny, even given the best possible set of reviewers.
(And the following is quite discriminating towards non english speaking researchers.)
> Work not-on-English: English is the "default" language to study (Bender, 2019), and work on other languages is easily accused of being "niche" and non-generalizable - even though English only workis equally non-generalizable.
> (Anderson, 2009) argues that research paper merit is Zipf-distributed: many papers are clear rejects, while a few are clear accepts. In between those two extremes, decisions are very difficult, and any differences between the best rejected and the worst accepted paper are tiny, even given the best possible set of reviewers.
(And the following is quite discriminating towards non english speaking researchers.)
> Work not-on-English: English is the "default" language to study (Bender, 2019), and work on other languages is easily accused of being "niche" and non-generalizable - even though English only workis equally non-generalizable.
The Gradient
How Can We Improve Peer Review in NLP?
With so much AI research, and so many poor reviews for this research, how can the community work to improve things?
Going from Bad to Worse: From Internet Voting to Blockchain Voting
> This article examines the suggestions that “voting over the Internet” or “voting on the blockchain”would increase election security, and finds such claims to be wanting and misleading. While currentelection systems are far from perfect, Internet- and blockchain-based voting would greatly increase therisk of undetectable, nation-scale election failures
https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/PSNR20.pdf
> This article examines the suggestions that “voting over the Internet” or “voting on the blockchain”would increase election security, and finds such claims to be wanting and misleading. While currentelection systems are far from perfect, Internet- and blockchain-based voting would greatly increase therisk of undetectable, nation-scale election failures
https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/PSNR20.pdf
Does Apple really log every app you run? A technical look
https://blog.jacopo.io/en/post/apple-ocsp/
> TL;DR
> - No, macOS does not send Apple a hash of your apps each time you run them.
> You should be aware that macOS might transmit some opaque information about the developer certificate of the apps you run. This information is sent out in clear text on your network.
> - You shouldn’t probably block ocsp.apple.com with Little Snitch or in your hosts file.
https://blog.jacopo.io/en/post/apple-ocsp/
> TL;DR
> - No, macOS does not send Apple a hash of your apps each time you run them.
> You should be aware that macOS might transmit some opaque information about the developer certificate of the apps you run. This information is sent out in clear text on your network.
> - You shouldn’t probably block ocsp.apple.com with Little Snitch or in your hosts file.
I did some investigation on the salary of tech employees working for Cologne city. It seems that the salary for IT employees are quite low. This may not be a fair representation of the whole Germany. But Cologne is one of the most digitized cities in Germany. So I would guess it should be a fair example.
For example, a data manager is among the salary group 11 (net from 2144EUR to 2993EUR)
This is the job description:
https://www.stadt-koeln.de/politik-und-verwaltung/ausbildung-karriere-bei-der-stadt/stellenangebote/datenmanagerin-beziehungsweise-datenmanager-mwd-im-amt-fuer-informationsverarbeitung
This is the salary calculation:
https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tvoed/vka?id=tvoed-vka-2020&g=E_11&s=1&f=&z=&zv=&r=&awz=&zulage=&kk=&kkz=&zkf=&stkl=
For example, a data manager is among the salary group 11 (net from 2144EUR to 2993EUR)
This is the job description:
https://www.stadt-koeln.de/politik-und-verwaltung/ausbildung-karriere-bei-der-stadt/stellenangebote/datenmanagerin-beziehungsweise-datenmanager-mwd-im-amt-fuer-informationsverarbeitung
This is the salary calculation:
https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tvoed/vka?id=tvoed-vka-2020&g=E_11&s=1&f=&z=&zv=&r=&awz=&zulage=&kk=&kkz=&zkf=&stkl=
www.stadt-koeln.de
Datenmanagerin beziehungsweise Datenmanager (m/w/d) im Amt für Informationsverarbeitung
Stellenangebot der Stadt Köln
Legendary Arecibo telescope will close forever — scientists are reeling
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03270-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03270-9
Nature
Legendary Arecibo telescope will close forever — scientists are reeling
New satellite image reveals the damage that shut down the facility, ending an era in astronomical observation.
Abandon Statistical Significance.pdf
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Abandon Statistical Significance.pdf
Sci-fi writers can surely borrow some of these
https://youtu.be/MIbFvK2S9g8
https://youtu.be/MIbFvK2S9g8
YouTube
Generating adversarial patches against YOLOv2
Supplementary material of our paper to be presented on the CVPR Workshop: CVCOPS (https://cvcops19.cispa.saarland/).
Simen Thys, Wiebe Van Ranst, and Toon Goedemé. "Fooling automated surveillance cameras: adversarial patches to attack person detection."…
Simen Thys, Wiebe Van Ranst, and Toon Goedemé. "Fooling automated surveillance cameras: adversarial patches to attack person detection."…
Guess what, 115.de, a website being used for government related services in Cologne, requires Adobe Flash to run some contents on the webpage. 😧
alicex2020/Chinese-Landscape-Painting-Dataset: Dataset used for WACV 2021 paper: "End-to-End Chinese Landscape Painting Creation Using Generative Adversarial Networks"
https://github.com/alicex2020/Chinese-Landscape-Painting-Dataset
https://github.com/alicex2020/Chinese-Landscape-Painting-Dataset
GitHub
GitHub - alicex2020/Chinese-Landscape-Painting-Dataset: Dataset used for WACV 2021 paper: "End-to-End Chinese Landscape Painting…
Dataset used for WACV 2021 paper: "End-to-End Chinese Landscape Painting Creation Using Generative Adversarial Networks" - GitHub - alicex2020/Chinese-Landscape-Painting-Dataset: ...
https://github.com/porn-vault/porn-vault
Manage your ever-growing porn collection. Using Vue & GraphQL
Manage your ever-growing porn collection. Using Vue & GraphQL
Cellular ageing: turning back the clock restores vision in mice
https://play.acast.com/s/nature/cellularageing-turningbacktheclockrestoresvisioninmice
https://play.acast.com/s/nature/cellularageing-turningbacktheclockrestoresvisioninmice
acast
Cellular ageing: turning back the clock restores vision in mice | Nature Podcast on Acast
A trio of genes may be key to making cells young again, and ultra precise measurement of a fundamental physics constant. In this episode: 00:47 Reversing ageing Researchers claim to have identified a method to revert cells in mice eyes back to a younger state.…
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/12/02/2015954117
Oh Hi, it's you, Mask. Or social distancing?
Oh Hi, it's you, Mask. Or social distancing?
PNAS
Face masks considerably reduce COVID-19 cases in Germany | PNAS
We use the synthetic control method to analyze the effect of face masks on the spread
of COVID-19 in Germany. Our identification approach exploits ...
of COVID-19 in Germany. Our identification approach exploits ...