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Luscious visualization of a neural network as a large directed graph. It's a full layout of the ResNet-50 training graph, a neural network with ~3 million nodes, and ~10 million edges, using Gephi for the graph layout, to output a 25000x25000 pixel image. (mattfyles)

 

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• 96.4%: adversarial algorithm fools Google's image recognition; 70%+: GOOG and FB influence over internet traffic; 99%: bird reduction on farms using tuned laser guns; 52.45%: people playing my indie game have pirated it; 371,642: open-source projects depend on React; 6: words needed to ID you in email: 2x: node.js speed increase with Turbofan; 3: students who discovered 'Dieselgate'; 215KWh: energy consumed per bitcoin xaction, enough for a car to travel 1,000 miles; 33%: increase in Alphabet's quarterly profits; $1 billion: Amazon's ad business; 1 pixel: all it takes to fool our AI overlords; 61%: increase in Alibaba revenue; 1 minute: time it takes a 1964 acoustic coupler modem to load a Wikipedia page; $30,000: bitcoin lost for want of a PIN; 40%: increased learning speed using direct current stimulation; 1 million: IoT devices owned by Reaper; $52.6 billion: Apple quarterly revenue; 


• Quotable Quotes: 
  • @pasiphae_goals: #33: go’s compiler is extremely fast, giving you ample time to debug data races and deadlocks.
  • Tim O'Reilly: we can choose instead to lift each other up, to build an economy where people matter, not just profit. We can dream big dreams and solve big problems. Instead of using technology to replace people, we can use it to augment them so they can do things that were previously impossible.
  • André Staltz: These are no longer the same companies as 4 years ago. GOOG is not anymore an internet company, it’s the knowledge internet company. FB is not an internet company, it’s the social internet company. They used to attempt to compete, and this competition kept the internet market diverse. Today, however, they seem mostly satisfied with their orthogonal dominance of parts of the Web, and we are losing diversity of choices. Which leads us to another part of the internet: e-commerce and AMZN...In the Trinet, we will have even more vivid exchange of information between people, but we will sacrifice freedom. Many of us will wake up to the tragedy of this tradeoff only once it is reality.
  • @math_rachel: Data is not neutral. Data will always bear the marks of its history. 
  • Jeff Bar: p3.16xlarge is 2.37 billion times faster, so the poor little PC would be barely halfway through a calculation that would run for 1 second today
  • @krishnan: I criticized Google calling their App Engine Serverless during their cloud conference Here @ben11kehoe says the same
  • F5: The obvious lesson is that the state of IoT security is still incredibly poor, and we need to do a better job of threat modeling6 the Internet7 of8 Things9.
  • Jakub Kasztalski: I just downloaded one of the pirated copies of my game. They asked me to remove my ad-blocker to keep their site running. Oh the sweet irony
  • Dart: The car would start drifting to side of the road and not know how to recover. The reason for the car’s instability was that no data was collected on the side of the road. During the data collection the supervisor always drove along the center of the road; however, if the robot began to drift from the demonstrations, it would not know how to recover because it saw no examples.
  • Tim O'Reilly: The company wanted to know how to get more developers for its platform. David asked a key question: “Do any of them play with it after work, on their own time?” The answer was no. David told them that until they fixed that problem, reaching out to external developers was wasted effort.
  • @swardley: X: Why do you think Amazon is so dangerous? Don't you think they will slow down?
    Me: No, they'll get faster.
  • @whispersystems: Signal is back after a brief service interruption. We appreciate your patience as we added more capacity to resolve connection errors.
  • lwansbrough: What the hell is taking up all that RAM? Slack is using over 800MB of RAM on my computer right now, and it's completely idle. I've got a C# process on my computer right now handling thousands of messages per second and consuming 1/20th the RAM. If you rebuild Slack in Xamarin you'd probably drop your RAM consumption to under 50MB, just a guess. JS fiends are gonna tell me C# ain't JS, and I agree. TypeScript ain't JS either, and it's a hell of a lot closer to C# than it is JS.
  • @vgill: Large-scale distributed systems are less about cool algorithms and more about the relentless hunting down of 6-sigma bugs.
  • Lots more genius quotes that can make you look even smarter. If that interests you, click through for enlightenment.

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