The boundary of neural network trainability is fractal
Abstract:Some fractals — for instance those associated with the Mandelbrot and quadratic Julia sets — are computed by iterating a function, and identifying the boundary between hyperparameters for which the resulting series diverges or remains bounded. Neural network training similarly involves iterating an update function (e.g. repeated steps of gradient descent), can result in convergent […]
The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
I used to be a big fan of Spotify. I was such a fan that I went to extraordinary lengths to get access to it while I lived in Tunisia, years before I was technically allowed to use it there. I liked the early desktop application; it felt like a better iTunes. Without the hassle […]
The EU Wants Its Own DNS Resolver That Can Block ‘Unlawful’ Traffic,TorrentFreak
The Domain Name System has been an essential component of the Internet since the mid-eighties. DNS resolvers make it possible to map a human-readable domain name to an IP-address, so a website or service can be easily located. Older people also call it the Internet’s phone book. Nowadays, there are several large DNS resolvers. Many […]
Biologists discover four new octopus species
Christian Thorsberg Daily Correspondent Roughly two miles deep in the Pacific Ocean, on a dark and rocky outcrop near Costa Rica nicknamed El Dorado Hill, scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute observed the miracle of life—pinkish octopus hatchlings emerging from their warm, potato-shaped eggs. These babies were the centerpiece of a two-part discovery announced earlier this […]
Bits Credit Card (YC S20) Is Hiring
Bits is a UK based Fintech startup backed by Y Combinator (the investor behind Stripe and Airbnb) that promotes financial inclusion. It currently does over $5 million in revenue a year, and is profitable, serving over 250,000 consumers in the US and UK. You will be joining a small engineering team (6-10 ppl) that are […]
“A Plea for Lean Software” by Prof. Niklaus Wirth
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Show HN: Searchbase – Plug-n-play semantic/fuzzy search for your data
Where Data Meets Discovery The Search API Redefining Data Interaction With Searchbase Cloud building your search experience is as easy as connecting your data source, building your query with our visual helper, and integrating it with your application by calling the query. Connect your data sourceBuild your QueryCall your query
Floats Are Weird
Floats are weird. Anyways, here’s a basic calculus exercise: $$lim_{x to 0} frac{e^x-1}{x} = 1$$ However, I won’t prove that limit here, because this is a post about floats being weird, not a post about calculus. Instead, let’s try to approximate this limit numerically using Python, because what’s the worst that could happen? Let’s write […]
The Namingless Programming Language
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Show HN: I built a vector database API on Cloudflare
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