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Since last year, I’ve become a bit of an arborist throw line evangelist. Arborist throw lines have made my wire antenna deployments so quick and easy compared with using monofilament fishing line or more complicated systems.
Since purchasing this arborist throw line last year, I’ve never looked back. The throw line never gets caught in tree branches, it’s reusable hundreds of times, and with it I can easily snag branches 50’+ above the ground to hang my wire antennas.
MIT How to Speak, IAP 2018
Instructor: Patrick Winston
View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/how_to_speak
Patrick Winston's How to Speak talk has been an MIT tradition for over 40 years. Offered every January, the talk is intended to improve your speaking ability in critical situations by teaching you a few heuristic rules.
00:16 - Introduction
03:11 - Rules of Engagement
04:15 - How to Start
05:38 - Four Sample Heuristics
10:17 - The Tools: Time and Place
13:24 - The Tools: Boards, Props, and Slides
36:30 - Informing: Promise, Inspiration, How To Think
41:30 - Persuading: Oral Exams, Job Talks, Getting Famous
53:06 - How to Stop: Final Slide, Final Words
56:35 - Final Words: Joke, Thank You, Examples
Explore Joe Grand’s life journey as a hardware hacker. Known as Kingpin, his curiosity has been manipulating electronic devices since the 1980s. Learn more about his hacker lifestyle and get a glimpse inside Joe’s mind as he explains how hacking, technology and engineering fuels his passion.
Paul Mason joined us in London to talk about his book PostCapitalism: A Guide to our Future. Recorded in December 2015, London.
Both Chomsky, King, and every other voice for justice and human rights would agree that the people need to act instead of relying on movement leaders. Whatever actions one can take—whether it’s engaging in informed debate with family, friends, or coworkers, writing letters, making donations to activists and organizations, documenting injustice, or taking to the streets in protest or acts of civil disobedience—makes a difference. These are the small individual actions that, when practiced diligently and coordinated together in the thousands, make every powerful social movement possible.
How conflicts work, how to attack the OODA loop, TAZ concept, TAZ examples, container TAZ, and long-term vision.
Keynote for the GUUG FFG 2015, Stuttgart (Video: FrosCON, deutsche Sprache)
In the last two weeks, Peter Zaitsev published a 4-part series on measuring Linux performance on this blog.
His writings cover the 4 main areas where you can spot performance problems on any Linux machine, with practical tips on how to draw the right conclusions. Here are the individual pieces:
Measuring Linux Performance: CPU
Measuring Linux Performance: Disk
Measuring Linux Performance: Memory
Measuring Linux Performance: Network
I found these gave a good overall summary of the things to be on the look-out for whenever you’re troubleshooting slow applications or slow servers.
So you just got your first longboard or cruiser board, now what!? Landyachtz team rider Alex Hannigan gives you all the tips he wishes he had when he started skateboarding. You’ll learn about foot placement, how to push, footbrake, turn, carve and whether you are goofy or regular! We’ll also give you some helpful tips like what to look for when picking a spot to skate. Comment below to let us know what other trick tips you’d like Alex to teach you.
Vault '20 - Crimson: A New Ceph OSD for the Age of Persistent Memory and Fast NVMe Storage - YouTube
The Crimson project is an effort to build a replacement ceph-osd daemon well suited to the new reality of low latency, high throughput persistent memory and NVMe technologies. Built on the seastar C++ framework, crimson-osd aims to be able to fully exploit these devices by minimizing latency, cpu overhead, and cross-core communication. This talk will discuss the design, current status, and future direction of the crimson project.
When radiation from the sun causes a global disaster on Earth, survivors on an overnight flight from Brussels race from city to city trying to stay ahead of the sun's rays by remaining in the cover of night.
Wie wird sich die politische Landschaft nach der Corona-Krise verändern? Werden die Folgen der Wirtschaftskrise möglicherweise dazu führen, dass Menschen empfänglicher werden für Populismus jeder Art, etwa von rechts? Was hilft dagegen?
Bei der Diskussion über Gegenstrategien geht es meist darum, ob und wie man mit den Funktionären bestimmter Parteien und ihren Wählern reden soll, meint der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler Gustav Horn. Er sagt jedoch, das reiche nicht. Es seien tiefergehende gesellschaftliche Probleme, die angesprochen werden müssten.
Seine These: Jahrzehnte neoliberaler Politik und das Versagen der sozialdemokratischen Parteien haben den Boden für den Rechtspopulismus bereitet. Im Buch stellt er dar, wie ein Politikwechsel in seinen Augen aussehen muss, der die Demokratie stärkt und unser Land in eine soziale und ökologische Zukunft führt.
Ich schätze ja sowohl Tilo Jung als auch Fefe ungemein. Umso mehr war ich dann doch verwundert, dass beide in einem ansonsten auch sehr interessanten Interview am Rande des letzten CCC in Leipzig das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen derart unkritisch betrachteten. Fefe rang sich sogar zu der Aussage durch, das Grundeinkommen sei doch eigentlich ein „No-Brainer“. Nun beschäftigen wir von den NachDenkSeiten uns ja schon länger kritisch mit dem Thema und wissen, dass dies keineswegs der Fall ist und auch prominente Ökonomen wie Heiner Flassbeck oder der Politikwissenschaftler und Armutsforscher Christoph Butterwegge lehnen ein Grundeinkommen kategorisch ab. Thilo und Fefe sind ja auch keine Einzelfälle. Immer wieder trifft man auf jüngere, meist technikaffine Menschen, die ähnlich denken und das Grundeinkommen als alternativlos betrachten. Vielleicht ist es Zeit, die Debatte kritisch neu zu beleben? Denn ein „No-Brainer“ ist das Grundeinkommen ganz sicher nicht. Von Jens Berger
Das Thema Grundeinkommen polarisiert nun bereits seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt die deutsche Öffentlichkeit. Da ist es kaum verwunderlich, dass wir zu unserem Beitrag „Das Grundeinkommen ist kein `No-Brainer´“ zahlreiche Leserzuschriften bekamen. Es macht jedoch keinen Sinn, all diese Mails zu veröffentlichen, da sie oft sehr lang sind und die Argumente sich in großen Teilen gleichen. Daher habe ich mir zwei repräsentative kritische Mails herausgesucht und gleich im Text selbst auf die Leserbriefe geantwortet. Als kleinen Anhang gibt es dann noch zwei Zuschriften von Lesern, die sich für die gewonnenen Informationen bedanken. Von Jens Berger.
In 2013 I wrote a Gstreamer plug-in that used a recurrent neural network (RNN) to generate video in imitation of a program it was watching. Pretty soon the same RNN library was being used in another Gstreamer plug-in to classify speech on the radio according to language, and to detect birds by listening for their calls (the language classification is quite accurate and runs at 1500 faster than real time on an old laptop, which is at least a data-point for those wondering about spying capabilities). The RNN has also been used to generate text and code, and to classify text by language and author at a fine-grained level. I will show how the RNN is trained, and how it might be adapted for other forms of time-series data.
I will demonstrate the various plug-ins and text utilities and, for excitement, execute RNN-generated code on the fly. Also I'll explain what a recurrent neural network is and how it relates to a plain (or "deep") neural network.
Everyday objects are becoming smarter. In ten years’ time, every piece of clothing you own, every piece of jewellery you wear, and every thing you carry with you will be measuring, weighing and calculating your life. In ten years, the world — your world — will be full of sensors.
The problem? The things are becoming smarter, but they’re also becoming selfish. Your lightbulbs aren’t talking to your media centre, your media centre isn’t talking to your blinds, and nobody is talking to the thermostat. Instead of talking to each other, everything is talking to you—you’ve ended up as a mechanical turk inside someone else’s software.
That situation can’t continue, we need to fix the Internet of Things. As our computing continues its diffusion out into the environment we need our things to work together. The things have to become not just smarter, but more co-operative, they need to become anticipatory rather than reactive.
Right now we have not so much an Internet of Things, but a series of Islands of Things. I present open source protocols and architectures that will help solve this trouble with the Internet of Things.
Highly performant and scalable techniques such as RCU have been quite successful in read-mostly situations. However, there do come times when updates are necessary. It would be convenient if there was some general update-side counterpart to RCU, but sadly there is not yet any such thing. Nevertheless, there are a number of specialized update-side techniques whose performance and scalability rival that of RCU. This talk will discuss several of them and provide an outlook into the future of low-overhead scalable updates.
One technique is the solution to the Issaquah Challenge, which was put forward at the C++ standards committee meeting in early 2014 at Issaquah, WA, USA. This challenge requires a performant and scalable technique to atomically move elements back and forth between a pair of search trees, but without using transactional memory. This talk will give an overview of a solution to a more general problem, that of atomically moving groups of elements among a group of several different types of linked data structures, while still permitting lockless searches before, during, and after this atomic move.
Electro-hypersensitivity is a rare condition where persons finds themselves acutely intolerant to electromagnetic fields including cell phone signals and WiFi. It has driven four women deep into the French Alps in search for remote underground shelters. Now struggling to survive on the fringes of society, their lives teeter between a primitive existence in nature and post-apocalyptic science-fiction. Because of their extreme condition, their way of life has never been photographed. Until now. ZONE BLANCHE is a film without electricity.
Willkommen in QualityLand, in einer nicht allzu fernen Zukunft: Alles läuft rund - Arbeit, Freizeit und Beziehungen sind von Algorithmen optimiert.
Trotzdem beschleicht den Maschinenverschrotter Peter Arbeitsloser immer mehr das Gefühl, dass mit seinem Leben etwas nicht stimmt. Wenn das System wirklich so perfekt ist, warum gibt es dann Drohnen, die an Flugangst leiden, oder Kampfroboter mit posttraumatischer Belastungsstörung? Warum werden die Maschinen immer menschlicher, aber die Menschen immer maschineller? Marc-Uwe Kling hat die Verheißungen und das Unbehagen der digitalen Gegenwart zu einer verblüffenden Zukunftssatire verdichtet, die lange nachwirkt. Visionär, hintergründig – und so komisch wie die Känguru-Trilogie.