our new kickstarter came this week - el dorado.

superficially i thought it looked like catan, but other than the existence of resources it doesn’t play like catan at all.

enjoying it!

Bill Dally - Scaling of Machine Learning - ScaledML 2018

excellent dive into deep learning hardware, GPUs (obviously), lower precision weights, trained quantization of weights, pruning of neurons and weights...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3QKvUPg_AI

researching the history of artificial intelligence via magazines and newspapers... side tracked by the old hardware in the advertisements...

the kaggle crew need to run a competition to identify and remove blog spam: http://blog.kaggle.com/2012/11/01/deep-learning-how-i-did-it-merck-1st-place-interview/

when i think about autonomous vehicles i always hear red barchetta playing in the distance...

http://norvig.com/cacm-hybrid.html

"Google's Hybrid Approach to Research" - Spector, Norvig, Petrov

finally getting around to reading "Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning". you'd assume, given how I spent my youth, it would have happened earlier...

i just love these interactive overviews/presentations of recent research

https://distill.pub/2018/building-blocks/

plan for today: stir pot, organize resulting chaos, hack hack hack, nap, write, study... (kidding about the nap)

`stack build` is pronounced "stack set your laptop on fire"