Music: joni void is (👍 Berthe), FKL is good deep electropop, Annie Hart is sensual.

News news news newwwwwwwssssss:

• [fr/qc] Le temps des bouffons - Pierre Falardeau, 1993.
• [fr] Devos : Où courent ils, ça vieillit pas. Merci mâââman.
• Scott Alexander - Book review: Legal systems very different from ours, and Highlights from the book.
• [fr] Stéphane Ménia : Le néolibéralisme, perversion de l’économie mainstream.
• [fr] Les 400 culs : Pourquoi les autorités ont détruit les pissotières.
• COMICS, frendz:
  • jake likes onions: Pop! F*cking brilliant.
  • xkcds #1915: Nightmare email feature and #1917: How to make friends.
  • SMBC: Dear Lord, why did you make humans flawed?
• Tech:
  • Adrian Colyer / Morning Paper - Opening the black box of deep neural networks via information: Part I, Part II, Arxiv & PDF (4MB).
    EDIT 2017-11-24: Part III: On the information bottleneck theory of deep learning.
  • Andrej Karpathy - Software 2.0: "Software 2.0 [neural networks] is not going to replace 1.0 (indeed, a large amount of 1.0 infrastructure is needed for training and inference to “compile” 2.0 code), but it is going to take over increasingly large portions of what Software 1.0 is responsible for today". Via Exponential 140. Check in particular section "Benefits of Software 2.0":

    • Computationally homogeneous (matrix multiplication and ReLU all the way)
    • Simple to bake into silicon
    • Constant running time
    • Constant memory use (no dynamically allocated memory)
    • Highly portable (because it's just matrices math)
    • Agile (i.e. trivially adjustable performance/quality tradeoff)
    • Modules can meld into an optimal whole
    • Easy to pick up (not nuclear physics where you need a PhD to do anything useful)
    • Better than you

  • Schneier on the Equifax breach (video). If you haven't read anything about the breach, read this thing. Outline:

    1. The Equifax breach was a serious security breach that puts millions of Americans at risk.
    2. Equifax was solely at fault.
    3. There are thousands of data brokers with similarly intimate information, similarly at risk.
    4. These data brokers deliberately hide their actions, and make it difficult for consumers to learn about or control their data.
    5. The existing regulatory structure is inadequate.
    6. The market cannot fix this because we are not the customers of data brokers.
    7. We need effective regulation of data brokers.
    8. Resist complaints from the industry that this is "too hard."
    9. This has foreign trade implications.
    10. This has national security implications.
    11. We need to do something about it.

• 💩😷⚠ Donaldese:
  • "It’s 2017, and the government is being run by a toilet. We have no choice: Cards Against Humanity is going to save America."