07 Feb 2021
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This weeks links

February 7, 2021

Cryptomedia, NFTs, and the Next Internet
Related: Niftygateway, MakersPlace

The new reading stack

Same Energy

Google has a VPN service

Spy museum in NYC auctioning off their cold war KGB relics 

FieldKit is Open Environmental Sensing for Everyone

Explainable AI – What Is It And Why Do We Need It?

Agora, the technology provider behind hit audio app Clubhouse, says it does not store user data (trust them on this)

Musicians sing the blues as Covid and Brexit devastate sector

How the United States Lost to Hackers
(ed note excellent example of -imperfect becomes the feature – with glitch art above the fold)
(ed note 2- I warned congress about national infrastructure threats in the late 90s’s its in
congressional record.  Instead the took the dollars to persecute kids vs enemy nation states)

Tom Petty’s It took a long time to get back here   ;  Bruce Springsteen’s  The Middle

 

 

07 Feb 2021
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In the papers Vol. 5 2021

February 7, 2021

A Survey on Understanding, Visualizations, and Explanation of Deep Neural Networks

Speech Recognition by Simply Fine-tuning BERT

Models, Pixels, and Rewards: Evaluating Design Trade-offs in Visual Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

Image Restoration by Solving IVP

Deep Online Fused Video Stabilization

Deep Paper Gestalt

Video Transformer Network

Designing an Encoder for StyleGAN Image Manipulation

Black Feminist Musings on Algorithmic Oppression

30 Jan 2021
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In the papers Vol. 4 2021

January 30, 2021

Architectural Complexity Measures of Recurrent Neural Networks

VOGUE: Try-On by StyleGAN Interpolation Optimization

ZeRO-Offload: Democratizing Billion-Scale Model Training

Applications of Deep Neural Networks

A Mathematical Theory of Attention

Muppet: Massive Multi-task Representations with Pre-Finetuning

PyGlove: Symbolic Programming for Automated Machine Learning

Bottleneck Transformers for Visual Recognition

LowKey: Leveraging Adversarial Attacks to Protect Social Media Users from Facial Recognition

A New Screening Method for COVID-19 based on Ocular Feature Recognition by Machine Learning Tools

 

30 Jan 2021
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Surf Report

January 30, 2021

Weekend reading / viewing

Essay: The meme economy Or, a personal journey through 21st-century capitalism.

Read: The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship

Panel: “We lose so much more than data. We lose the freedom to be human.”
– Tim Cook at Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference this week
A path to empowering user choice and boosting user trust in advertising

Search:  Three-dimensional search engine Physna wants to be the Google of the physical world

Deck: Six emerging technologies trends changing our world  [PwC]

Report: Schibsted Future Report 2021

The Great Unbundling [Benedict Evans]

 

Technology

 

Omega Mart: Grand Opening with Deepfaked Willie Nelson

Collection of Deep Learning implementations with side-by-side notes

Curated CS papers from last week.

Researchers found programmers spend 58% of their time on comprehension.

 

Arts

An Art Revolution, Made With Scissors and Glue  NYT (Can never get enough collage)

Art Institute of Chicago’s open-access initiatives impressive – Public Access to Our Public Presence: Sharing Our API

Yuri Pattison the engine Gallery 1

 

In the newspapers

Artificial Intelligence Will Define Google’s Future. For Now, It’s a Management Challenge.  WSJ

Personal liberty is another, unsung victim of the pandemic FT

Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins: ‘We’re on the precipice of the misinformation age’  [Lunch w/ FT]

 

Random Links

My 90s TV

Excellent example of a vision and mission statement  or words in the right order.

Muscle wiki is a simple and useful reference to build and stretch your mortal coil

Facebook oversightboard.com website

Visualized: A Global Risk Assessment of 2021 And Beyond

Yuima Nakazato’s SS21 Couture Collection  “ATLAS”

15 Jan 2021
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In the papers Vol 2. 2021

January 15, 2021

Focal Frequency Loss for Generative Models

Evolving Reinforcement Learning Algorithms

Technology Readiness Levels for Machine Learning Systems

RepVGG: Making VGG-style ConvNets Great Again

Soft-DTW: a Differentiable Loss Function for Time-Series

GAN-Control: Explicitly Controllable GANs

Robustness Gym: Unifying the NLP Evaluation Landscape

PandaNet : Anchor-Based Single-Shot Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation

VOGUE: Try-On by StyleGAN Interpolation Optimization

Characterising Bias in Compressed Models

Trankit: A Light-Weight Transformer-based Toolkit for Multilingual Natural Language Processing

09 Jan 2021
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In the papers Vol 1. 2021

January 9, 2021

A roundup of papers of note from the last few weeks.

Taming Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis

A Survey on Neural Network Interpretability

A Modern Introduction to Online Learning

GAN-Control: Explicitly Controllable GANs

FcaNet: Frequency Channel Attention Networks

Learning from others’ mistakes: Avoiding dataset biases without modeling them

BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding

Soft-DTW: a Differentiable Loss Function for Time-Series

BART: Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training for Natural Language Generation, Translation, and Comprehension

A Survey on Visual Transformer

03 Jan 2021
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News, information + resources

January 3, 2021

Perfect media server A wiki format information repository detailing all you need to know to build a free, open and modular media server that will last for many, many years.

Liverpool Biennial launched the programme for the 11th Edition happening in spring 2021, running from 20 March – 6 June, with previews held on 18 and 19 March.

Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2021   [WSJ] New ways to work, exercise, see the doctor, watch movies and sanitize every surface in sight will continue to proliferate. So will monthly subscription fees

FAQ: Security Advisory Solar Winds This is what the documentation for warfare looks like in 2021

Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus; discussion and examples.

Arthur Jafa’s Radical Alienation(newyorker.com) The filmmaker left an art world he found too white; years later, he made a triumphant return with “Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death.”

NeuralMagicEye: Learning to See and Understand the Scene Behind an Autostereogram An autostereogram is a single-image stereogram, designed to create the visual illusion of a 3D scene from a 2D image. More info  redd.it/korh47

 

02 Nov 2019
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Vulnerable Groups

November 2, 2019

There is a law fo surveillance economics that the the less money you have the greater amount of your personal data is taken.

Refugees at the boarder start with their biometrics being taken, The Capitol One data breach made public this week was for people applying for credit. There was no one rich in that database only financially vulnerable individuals.

The more you are at risk the greater chance you will end up in a database in a state nation. We have seen examples (Facebook India) of how a group of people on a list can end up in the ends of their oppressor or enemy.

Seeing the US government back up on positions from Hai wei wai to Tinder today is just disappointing.