November 2017 Archive
1921.
The Humble Book Bundle: Java by O’Reilly (humblebundle.com)
1922.
Plague Reached Europe by Stone Age (bbc.com)
1923.
The academic, economic and societal impacts of Open Access (2016) (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1924.
A Net Before the Web, Part 5: The Pony (filfre.net)
1925.
An overview of gradient descent optimization algorithms (ruder.io)
1926.
Seattle once again nation’s fastest-growing big city; population exceeds 700,000 (seattletimes.com)
1927.
A Simple Fix for Our Massive Inequality Problem (nytimes.com)
1928.
Ray Kurzweil thinks we could start living forever by 2029 (businessinsider.com)
1929.
Bitcoin Approaches $10,000 a piece (bbc.co.uk)
1930.
Google’s fired engineer: James Damore’s claim against search giant revealed (siliconbeat.com)
1931.
Watsi uses crowdfunding to provide healthcare, but are patients better off? (brightthemag.com)
1932.
Ask HN: Why is Bitcoin's value rising so fast?
1933.
“I’m a nuclear armageddon survivor: Ask me anything” (2015) (arstechnica.com)
1934.
Argentina says abnormal noise heard after submarine's last contact as hopes fade (telegraph.co.uk)
1935.
Russian ads, now publicly released, show sophistication of influence campaign (washingtonpost.com)
1936.
Sheep learn to recognise celebrity faces from different angles (newscientist.com)
1937.
Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) (nytimes.com)
1938.
New developer YouTube Series: “Build Out” (developers.googleblog.com)
1939.
A General Neural Network Hardware Architecture on FPGA [pdf] (arxiv.org)
1940.
Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is failing' (theguardian.com)
1941.
FCC received 444,938 comments from Russian email addresses (bloomberg.com)
1942.
Our NIPS 2017 “Learning to Run” Approach (medium.com)
1943.
The Bear Case for Crypto, Part II: The Great Bank Run (prestonbyrne.com)
1944.
Ask HN: What age do you expect to be able to retire?
1945.
iRobot is testing software to make sense of all the rooms in a house (spectrum.ieee.org)
1946.
Why I’m leaving Silicon Valley (medium.com)
1947.
On Thomas Hobbes and Leviathan (amp.theguardian.com)
1948.
Qwant: A European search engine that respects privacy (about.qwant.com)
1949.
France’s Prometheus reusable engine becomes ESA project, gets funding boost (spacenews.com)
1950.
CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (shkspr.mobi)