Chris Brockett
Dissident. NLP data janitor. Tsundoku expert. Transient epiphanies. Language, computation and cognition. Personal account: opinions are not my employer's.
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Opinion: I used to work in US intelligence. This is the biggest threat to America today
Donald Trump and his coterie of criminals have done more in two years to weaken the United States than the Soviet Union was able to achieve in decades
Notorious Moments in Modern History when Dictators Sent their own Citizens 'Back'
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Trump's crowds have started chanting 'Send her back!' referring to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a Somali-American who came as a refugee when a child and was naturalized. The idea that some citizens are less loyal or less...
Photos: 'Extremely rare' Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds in Portland
The photos, taken in Portland's Creston neighborhood, were posted to Facebook by Brian Schmit. They show a pattern of clouds in the sky that look like waves.
How Trump could lose by 5 million votes and still win in 2020
Analysis: The nation's two most populous states, California and Texas, are at the heart of Democrats' geography problem.
PhD Fellowship
The Microsoft PhD Fellowship Program is a two-year fellowship for PhD students enrolled in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Mathematics.
Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning | Stanford Online
The field of natural language processing (NLP) is one of the most important and useful application areas of artificial intelligence. NLP is undergoing rapid evolution as new methods and toolsets converge with an ever-expanding availability of data....
Microsoft hologram speaking Japanese
Microsoft is using its Mixed Reality studios and neural TTS engines to create a hologram of a person speaking in another language. The voice will sound just ...
Locally Run ISPs Offer the Fastest Broadband in America
Six out of the 10 fastest ISPs are either community-run or public/private partnerships.
ENIAC Programmers
Programming the ENIAC
Chris Brockett
@mark_riedl @ICatGT How long does it take to install 100 K electrodes anyway? It sounds like wiring up ENIAC
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Nick on the Rocks
Nick Zentner leads viewers on armchair adventures through Washington’s diverse landscapes--from massive lava flows and the planet’s biggest Ice Age waterfall, to wandering mountains and a flank of Mt Rainer that traveled to Tacoma.
Racism Comes Out of the Closet
The dog whistle days are apparently over.
BlackHC/mnist_by_zip
Compression algorithms (like the well-known zip file compression) can be used for machine learning purposes, specifically for classifying hand-written digits (MNIST) - BlackHC/mnist_by_zip
BREAKING: Scientists Have Detected An Enormous Void Beneath Antarctica
Antarctica is not in a good place. In the space of only decades, the continent has lost trillions of tonnes of ice at alarming ra...
The business case for high speed rail
High speed trains in Tokyo (Image credit: Flickr/tokyoform) In 2017, WSDOT published a feasibility study of high-speed rail (HSR) in the Vancouver-Seattle-Portland corridor. It estimated a $25-42 b…
FACT CHECK: Did a 1912 Newspaper Article Predict Global Warming?
A newspaper clipping from 1912 that anticipates the global warming potential of burning coal is authentic and consistent with the history of climate science.
A Mallard Duckling Is Thriving—and Maybe Diving—Under the Care of Loon Parents
Scientists discovered the surprising bird family on a Midwestern lake, and so far, all parties seem to be getting along swimmingly.