Dr. Nick Davis @argoneus@mastodon.social
Husband and father, Director of Data Science at eLynx Technologies, Computer Science PhD from @utulsa, #machinelearning, #datascience, #IoT
Joined Jul 2018
Great interview by Lex Fridman of Jeff Hawkins on Thousands Brains Theory of Intelligence https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=790&v=-EVqrDlAqYo
Dr. Nick Davis
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This takes me back. I miss the old 16-bit assembly days.
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Some thirty five years on, the original source-code for MS-DOS 1.25 and MS-DOS 2.0 is on Github, and there are already pull requests. 😂 https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/master/README.md
https://twitter.com/aallan/status/1045848641808797697
Dr. Nick Davis
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getting online in the eighties...
#80s #1980s #eighties #pipe #payphone #computer #modem #acousticcoupler #stockphoto
Dvorak or Colemak too mainstream? Try BEAKL (Balanced Effortless Advanced Keyboard Layout)
http://www.shenafu.com/code/keyboard/beakl/index.php
Our inner narrator gives us continuity and a sense of self – https://aeon.co/essays/our-inner-narrator-gives-us-continuity-and-a-sense-of-self via @aeonmag
The Best Sport for a Longer Life? Try Tennis https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/well/move/the-best-sport-for-a-longer-life-try-tennis.html
Really enjoyed this meme-filled Jupytercon talk, "I Don't Like Notebooks". It highlights some real challenges of data science in a notebook environment https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n2RlMdmv1p25Xy5thJUhkKGvjtV-dkAIsUXP-AL4ffI/preview?slide=id.g362da58057_0_1
"In our infinite ignorance we are all equal" https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/the-paradox-of-karl-popper/
Water ice confirmed on the moon's poles https://phys.org/news/2018-08-ice-moon-poles.amp
New evidence challenges everything you've been taught about the Stanford Prison Experiment https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/time-change-story
Excellent keynote talk by James Mickens at Usenix Security '18 https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentation/mickens
Some nice data exploration and visualizations on automation of truck driving jobs and possible alternatives https://pudding.cool/2018/08/retraining/
Beautifully written story of the author's family history and ties to San Francisco https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/06/private-dreams-and-public-ideals-in-san-francisco
4D Toys 4dtoys.com
Some great visualizations on land use in America https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/
Zoox, impressive self-driving startup https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-17/robot-taxi-startup-zoox-has-800-million-and-a-wild-pitch
Great article on the history of mp3 file sharing as it relates to decentralization -
Resistant protocols: How decentralization evolves – John Backus – Medium
https://medium.com/@jbackus/resistant-protocols-how-decentralization-evolves-2f9538832ada
Webamp, a reimplementation of Winamp in HTML5/JS https://webamp.org https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp Blast from the past!
Beautiful article on the poignancy of music https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/07/04/what-is-the-most-nostalgic-song-of-all-time/
Husband and father, Director of Data Science at eLynx Technologies, Computer Science PhD from @utulsa, #machinelearning, #datascience, #IoT
Joined Jul 2018
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