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Friday, August 26, 2016

Linear Regression





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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Saturday, August 20, 2016

Inmates Made Thousands Of Unsafe Helmets For U.S. Troops



After multiple investigations, the Department of Justice found that a company that employed prisoners to build U.S. military helmets produced thousands of defective products, putting combat soldiers at risk.

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US Army committed $6.5 trillion in accounting fraud in one year



In June, the Defense Department’s Inspector General released a report on the US Army's accounting, revealing that the Army had invented $6.5 trillion in "improper adjustments" ($2.8T in one quarter!) to make its books appear balanced though it could not account for where the funds had gone.

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Friday, August 19, 2016

Cracking passwords using Nvidia's latest GTX 1080 GPU (it's fast)



During the last few years, progress on the CPU performance front has seemingly stopped. Granted, last-generation CPUs are cool, silent and power-efficient. Anecdotal evidence: my new laptop, a brand new MacBook, is about as fast as the Dell ultrabook it replaced.

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Idiocracy Director Says It's 'Scary' How Accurate His Movie Has Become



These days Mike Judge is busy with his HBO show Silicon Valley, but back in 2006 he made a movie that would become an instant cult classic. Set in a dystopian future, Idiocracy is now a cultural touchstone for people who think the world just keeps getting dumber.

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