• A post by a very applied mathematician working in industry.
• k-Sparse Autoencoders are a cool alternative to denoising and dropout.
• Ken Shirriff describes the numerical software tricks used by Sinclair to created the first single chip calculator.  (really cool !!)
• A Beautiful Live Wind Map of the world.
• Scott Aaronson on Philosophy, Physics, and Computer Science
• Phase Transitions in Machine Learning, P vs NP
• Historical Price of a gigabyte of RAM
• Creativity is declining in the USA.  (See also the Newsweek article and Slate.)
• Trees do some amazing physics to move water to the top. (Video)
• Business insider put together 25 insiteful charts full of good financial news for the USA
• The HyTAQ Robot combines the easy travel planning (obstacle avoidance) of a quadricopter with the efficient travel of a robotic car.  (Video)
• NASA’s von Neumann Machines.
• Stanford professors Rajaraman, Leskovec, Ullman wrote enjoyable free online book “Mining of Massive Datasets”
• Check out Hacker News for data scientists.

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