Darkleaks is a Trustless provably fair information marketplace which sounds interesting, until you remember that this is all theoretical in the face of constant opsec mistakes by the true believers.
Month: February 2015
Global risks
This report has created the first list of global risks with impacts that for all practical purposes can be called infinite. It is also the first structured overview of key events related to such challenges and has tried to provide initial rough quantifications for the probabilities of these impacts
Let’s build a modern Hadoop
This is interesting, as a timestamp of what’s generally possible now.
If you’ve been around the big data block, you’ve probably felt the pain of Hadoop, but we all still use it because we tell ourselves, “that’s just the way infrastructure software is.” However, in the past 10 years, infrastructure tools ranging from NoSQL databases, to distributed deployment, to cloud computing have all advanced by orders of magnitude. Why have large-scale data analytics tools lagged behind? What makes projects like Redis, Docker and CoreOS feel modern and awesome while Hadoop feels ancient?
Monkey Face recognition
A neural network that simulates the way monkeys recognize faces produces many of the idiosyncratic behaviors found in humans
More evidence that these capabilities evolved before the split, to support social behaviors.
Censorship Theme Song
China has just released a tremendous rousing tribute to its clean, clear and incorruptible internet. The song is performed by the Cyberspace Administration of China choral group. Called Cyberspace Spirit, the tune features a large mixed choir and 4 solo singers who regale an audience while informing them that they are also keeping a close eye on everything they view and type. “Keeping faithful watch under this sky, the Sun and the Moon,” they sing. “Creating, embracing everyday clarity and brightness; Like a beam of incorruptible sunlight, touching our hearts.” The chorus exclaims: “Internet power! The web is where glorious dreams are; Internet power! From the distant cosmos to the home we long for.”
Image sentiment analysis
Once trained, a computer can be used to determine what sentiments* a given image is likely to elicit. This information could be useful for things as diverse as measuring economic indicators and predicting elections.
Double bind
Could we stop the anti-vaxxers if we said measles contains gluten?
NYSea
includes rowboaten, alphabet soup, middrown and lower flood tide.
DEKA Arm System
useful for that climber who had to cut off his own arm.
Uber Seize
UberSeize is truly disruptive.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 