Linkstream

So true.
https://erikbern.com/amp/2017/08/29/the-software-engineering-rule-of-3.html

look ma, we've found NSA-authored parts in your Intel CPU!
http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html

real-name policy = censorship.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/27/china-doubles-down-on-real-name-registration-laws-forbidding-anonymous-online-posts/

maybe at least after this post virtualbox authors will finally give up on trying to protect virtual machines from host... but chances are tiny...
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/08/bypassing-virtualbox-process-hardening.html

proper user experience is still a must, even if you really have the most exciting technology. also, hilarious read
https://shitcoin.com/storj-not-a-dropbox-killer-1a9f27983d70

smarter? faster? in general, no. in specific situation - yes. in a different situation - of course not.
http://theconversation.com/mayweather-will-beat-mcgregor-neuroscience-predicts-82790

Big Mac Index + Waffle House Index
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/if-waffle-house-is-closed-its-time-to-panic/

Is that really a final epistle?..
http://www.marclaidlaw.com/epistle-3/

TLDR: Modeling and simulation is a must for any kind of serious AI/autonomous system development
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/inside-waymos-secret-testing-and-simulation-facilities/537648/?single_page=true

Growing a protocol
Practical notes on evolution of formally verified systems. Making them, well, more practical :)
https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotcloud17/program/presentation/ramasubramanian

The referenced paper A Machine Learning Approach for Filtering Monte Carlo Noise is also interesting.
http://cvc.ucsb.edu/graphics/Papers/SIGGRAPH2015_LBF/

Spatiotemporal Variance-Guided Filtering:
Real-Time Reconstruction for Path-Traced Global Illumination

This is huge. Literally blows every other rendering flow out of the water.
Raytraced real-time CG just became feasible for games, VR and other real-time media. Movie production becomes a lot faster, and probably cheaper, too.
http://cg.ivd.kit.edu/svgf.php

Not only machines confuse completely different objects. Humans too!
(lots of examples in other tweets, the link preview is not even the best one)
https://mobile.twitter.com/teenybiscuit/status/707727863571582978

"Don't roll your own crypto". Well, don't roll your own crypto hardware as well. I was wondering why Trezor is that cheap %)
https://medium.com/@Zero404Cool/trezor-security-glitches-reveal-your-private-keys-761eeab03ff8

A Solution of the P versus NP Problem
'nuff said.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.03486.pdf

Even given that I firmly believe in the human brains' adaptability and cognitive capacities, I must admit I didn't expect it is possible for a regular person to see the world just as the bats do, via echolocation, with normal human ears.
Mind-blowing.

And you don't need to be blind to do this, either:
> ten sighted subjects were taught basic navigation skills within a few days (Wikipedia)

https://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kish_how_i_use_sonar_to_navigate_the_world/transcript

hmm, this one is unexpected, but given a second thought... mixing uncorrelated features just slightly biases them into normal distribution, keeping other properties intact, hence no wonder it works
Small Statistical Models by Random Feature Mixing '08
http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~mdredze/publications/mobile_nlp_feature_mixing.pdf