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Friday Nite Videos | Jan 19, 2018

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Composite of the five videos So Stupid It's Not Funny: Trump's Crackdown on Legal Immigration. Johnny Cash Sings "Man In Black" for the First Time. The Case for Potential Trump Money Laundering. How Machines Learn. Not A President, Not Yet A Dictator.

How Machines Learn

 
How do all the algorithms around us learn to do their jobs?

Friday Nite Videos | September 1, 2017

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IRS Criminal Unit Aiding Mueller Investigation. Stevie Ray Vaughan and BB King | Texas Flood. Myths and Facts About Superintelligent AI. Nurse Dragged From Hospital By Police. Sheriff Joe Arpaio: The Daily Show.

The World's Oldest Computer is Still Revealing its Secrets

Sarah Kaplan Washington Post
In this very small volume of messed-up corroded metal you have packed in there enough knowledge to fill several books telling us about ancient technology, ancient science and the way these interacted with the broader culture of the time.

Open Source Software Went Nuclear This Year

Cade Metz Wired
Even the most powerful tech companies and entrepreneurs are freely sharing the code underlying their latest technologies. They recognize this will accelerate not only the progress of technology as a whole, but their own progress as well. It’s altruism with self-interest. And it’s how the tech world now works.
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