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• Aug 26, 2016

  Linkblog: Warm Starting Bayesian Optimization (arxiv)

  Preprints from arxiv: Poloczek, Wang, Frazier: Warm Starting Bayesian Optimization.

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• Aug 25, 2016

  Linkblog: How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds

  Related to the previous post. How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds by Tristan Harris.

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• Aug 25, 2016

  Linkblog: Static site generators are harmful to the free software

  Something I found while DDG’ing for something totally different: A post from 2011, claming that Jekyll and other static site generators are, currently, harmful to the free, open source software movement..

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• Aug 25, 2016

  Linkblog: Two curious integrals

  H. Schmid: Two curious integrals and a graphic proof. Elem. Math. 69 (2014)., via Simo Kivelä’s math blog [in Finnish].

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• Aug 25, 2016

  Linkblog: Tsoha [in Finnish]

  Lecture notes for Tsoha (Database application Project / Tietokantasovellus) course at cs.helsinki.fi [FI].

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• Aug 21, 2016

  Linkblog: Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People (arxiv)

  More stuff I’ve been reading: Lake, Ullman, Tenenbaum, Gershman. Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People. 2016. arXiv:1604.00289v2.

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• Aug 21, 2016

  Linkblog: Rankings Versus Ratings (Gödel's Lost Letter)

  Stuff I read during this weekend: Gödel’s Lost Letter: Rankings Versus Ratings.

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• Aug 21, 2016

  Linkblog: What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

  D. Goldberg: What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic. ACM Computing Surveys 1991.

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• Aug 21, 2016

  Linkblog: Python + Excel

  Stuff I found out this week: There exists multiple Python libraries for reading / handling Excel sheets:

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• Aug 21, 2016

  Linkblog: Habits of Highly Mathematical People

  Habits of Highly Mathematical People. Jeremy Kun on why studying mathematics is useful, aside from the more obvious technical skills.

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