(book): Drawing and Painting Fantasy Landscapes and Cityscapes https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1003942.Drawing_and_Painting_Fantasy_Landscapes_and_Cityscapes

I love calligraphy, but it's an art, and not a prerequisite for learning.
http://nautil.us/issue/40/learning/cursive-handwriting-and-other-education-myths

Youdkowsky on the bitter experience that did not made it into published papers, probably worth a quick look
https://www.quora.com/What-deep-learning-ideas-have-you-tried-that-didnt-work?srid=OPEi&share=7716dbce

Julia 0.5 is out. TLDR: Great features, impressive changes, still totally unusable (because you have to rewrite all your code with every version and compiler is still buggy)
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/release-0.5/NEWS.md

Semi-supervised deep learning how to play DOOM
https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05521

Label-Free Supervision of Neural Networks with Physics and Domain Knowledge
http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05566

Neural Network Architectures cheat sheet
http://www.datasciencecentral.com/m/blogpost?id=6448529%3ABlogPost%3A470286

DIY private jet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sfZJPEZP4E

3D interstellar dust map
http://argonaut.skymaps.info/

Generative and Discriminative Voxel Modeling with Convolutional Neural Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.04236

Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Generative Adversarial Network
http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04802

LES: Loyc Expression Syntax #extensible_languages
http://loyc.net/les/

[RU] Intro to format-preserving encryption
https://habrahabr.ru/company/virgilsecurity/blog/311200/

NIPS2016: Generating Videos with Scene Dynamics
looks so psychedelic %)
http://web.mit.edu/vondrick/tinyvideo/

Cross-language exploratory IDE, notebook-style (for data scientists and more)
http://beakernotebook.com/index

Using this tool, you can freeze a running application (or part of it) and checkpoint it as a collection of files on disk. You can then use the files to restore the application and run it exactly as it was during the time of freeze. With this feature, application live migration, snapshots, remote debugging, and many other things are possible.
http://criu.org/Main_Page

Disclosure of the nine-year-old vulnerability came the same week that Google researcher Kees Cook published research showing that the average lifetime of a Linux bug is five years.

"The systems using a Linux kernel are right now running with security flaws," Cook wrote. "Those flaws are just not known to the developers yet, but they’re likely known to attackers."
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/10/most-serious-linux-privilege-escalation-bug-ever-is-under-active-exploit/#p3