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You can now download the source code that sparked the AI boom

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MARCH 24, 2025

On Thursday, Google and the Computer History Museum (CHM) jointly released the source code for AlexNet , the convolutional neural network (CNN) that many credit with transforming the AI field in 2012 by proving that "deep learning" could achieve things conventional AI techniques could not.

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Foundations of Computer Vision

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JUNE 15, 2025

Fortunately, the deep learning revolution in 2012 made the foundations of the field more solid, providing tools to build working implementations of many of the original ideas that were introduced in the field since it began. Pitman, 2012. [2] Cambridge University Press , 2012. [14] Springer, New York, 2012. and Isola, P.

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Common Lisp implementation of the Forth 2012 Standard

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OCTOBER 13, 2024

Common Lisp implementation of the Forth 2012 Standard - gmpalter/cl-forth

Boeing uses potatoes to test wi-fi (2012)

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JUNE 28, 2025

US aircraft manufacturer Boeing used unusual substitutes for passengers while testing its in-flight wi-fi system - potatoes.

The danger of delegating education to journalists (2012)

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JUNE 14, 2023

Anders Ericsson, Department of Psychology, Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida, October 28th, 2012 I have always viewed the APS Observer as a source for up-to-date summaries of advances in the wide research domains of the Association for…

How is AI Powering the Future of Sports?

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MAY 25, 2023

FIFA announced Goal-Line Technology (GLT) in FIFA World Cup 2012 Japan […] The post How is AI Powering the Future of Sports? We can not imagine a sports industry without artificial intelligence, especially today! We’ve got a league of examples to admit that. appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Classification without Training Data: Zero-shot Learning Approach

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Since 2012 after convolutional neural networks(CNN) were introduced, we moved away from handcrafted features to an end-to-end approach using deep neural networks. This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction Computer vision is a field of A.I. that deals with deriving meaningful information from images.

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The odd saga of CVE-2012-5639

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JANUARY 10, 2024

A new release for any project with a fix for a 12-year old CVE is going to stand out pretty obviously; a recent release has a fix of that nature, but the trail of CVE-2012-5639 is rather elusive. The Apache OpenOffice project made its 4.1.15

Seven signs of ethical collapse (2012)

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

How to spot moral meltdowns before it's too late.

Suffering-Oriented Programming (2012)

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APRIL 10, 2025

Someone asked me an interesting question the other day: "How did you justify taking such a hu.

Newsstands, 2012-2019

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JANUARY 28, 2025

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Quaternion Differentiation (2012)

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JUNE 28, 2024

I wanted to point someone to a short explanation of this today and noticed, with some surprise, that I couldn't find something concise within 5 minutes of googling. So it seems worth writing up. I'm assuming you know what quaternions are and what they're used for. First, though, it seems important to point one thing…

Rediscovering Literacy (2012)

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MAY 22, 2024

I’ve been experimenting lately with aphorisms. Pithy one-liners of the sort favored by writers like La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680). My goal was to turn a relatively big idea, the sort I would n…

Want to get ahead in AI as a woman? This new report has lots of advice

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Despite more people graduating university with a STEM-related degree in 2024 compared to 2012, the amount of women graduating with a STEM-related degree has declined by 8%. According to a new report by KPMG , women make up just over a third of the data and analytics (D&A) and artificial intelligence (AI) workforce.

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What Was Quartz?

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APRIL 7, 2025

On the business news organization's trajectory between 2012 and 2025.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Between 2009 and 2012, Apple iPhones and iPod Touches included a feature called “Send to YouTube” that allowed users to upload videos directly to YouTube from the Photos app.

Most common PIN codes (2012)

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MAY 14, 2024

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The Camorra Never Sleeps (2012)

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APRIL 11, 2024

One of the Neapolitan underworld’s most powerful bosses, Paolo Di Lauro was invisible to the Italian police for most of his career. But since his 2005 capture, William Langewiesche reports, some wonder if Di Lauro was the only man capable of controlling Naples’s meanest streets. Photographs by Massimo Vitali.

Valve New Employee Handbook (2012) [pdf]

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AUGUST 23, 2024

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Quake 3 Source Code Review: Network Model (2012)

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

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Close to 2,000 Environmental Activists Killed Over Last Decade

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Between 2012 and 2022, at least 1,910 people advocating for environmental protection were killed worldwide, a new report finds. Read more on E360 →

Gainax, known for 'Evangelion' anime production, goes bankrupt

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JUNE 10, 2024

Business conditions began to deteriorate around 2012, and the firm lost its anime production capabilities following an exodus of its creative staff.

I put a toaster in the dishwasher (2012)

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AUGUST 13, 2024

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The hierarchy of innovation (2012)

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AUGUST 25, 2023

“If you could choose only one of the following two inventions, indoor plumbing or the Internet, which would you choose?” ” -Robert J. Gordon Justin Fox is the latest pundit to ring the &#…

The Story of Microsleep (2012)

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JUNE 1, 2023

It is time for a more hands-on post again. This time I am even going to give you some actual source code to play with! The issue I want to discuss today, is the issue of multithreaded GUIs. For the project I am currently working on, there are two reasons why the GUI should be multithreaded:…

Kernighan's Lever (2012)

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

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Don't store your cucumbers in the fridge (2012)

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JUNE 17, 2024

Image courtesy of UC Davis. Photographer: Don EdwardsJust in time for cucumber season, some news that surprises me. Did you know that you should store cucumbers at room temperature?Credit Credit for my enlightenment goes to UC Davis.

One year of GDPR: What has changed or what hasn’t?

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MAY 29, 2019

The European Commission started in January 2012. How much were the fines collected in the first year of GDPR? What regulations have been enforced so far? Here is all you want to know about GDPR, after a year of its implementation. The post One year of GDPR: What has changed or what hasn’t? appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Six top Alzheimer's researchers accused of fraud

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OCTOBER 20, 2024

@moreisdifferent: List of high-level Alzheimer's researchers accused of credible fraud:ð§µ #1 - Marc Tessier-Lavigne Genentech pointed out problems in his 2009 Nature paper in 2012. After an expose by @tab_delete, he.â¦

The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X (2012)

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

NeXTSTEP technologies still fuel Macs, iPhones, and iPads 16 years later.

Null is not false, part one (2012)

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The way you typically represent a "missing" or "invalid" value in C# is to use the "null" value of the type. Every reference type has a "null" value; that is, the reference that does not actually refer to anything.

Singing synthesis as a new musical instrument (2012)

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Singing synthesis technology is changing musical situation in Japan recently. There are a lot of original compositions using singing synthesis softwares such as Vocaloid in a video site Niko Niko Douga or YouTube. Hit songs in the video sites are remastered and published as CDs from major record companies.

Configuration Complexity Clock (2012)

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APRIL 2, 2025

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Computer History Museum Releases Original AlexNet Code

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MARCH 27, 2025

Google and the Computer History Museum release AlexNets original 2012 source code on GitHub, offering a rare look at a pivotal moment in AI history.

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PCalc, an Origin Story (2012)

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JANUARY 7, 2025

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Remembering Jon Postel and the day he hijacked the internet (2012)

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DECEMBER 9, 2023

One January day in 1998, Jon Postel emailed eight of the 12 organizations that served as address books for the entire internet.

World3, the Public Beta (2012)

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DECEMBER 30, 2024

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A Simple and Transparent Machine Learning Approach Proves to Conquer the German Market

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Focussing on German-speaking countries since 2012, The post A Simple and Transparent Machine Learning Approach Proves to Conquer the German Market appeared first on Dataconomy. The market leader in the DACH region has a vision for its Machine Learning: it should be explainable to the boss, as well as to users.

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Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM

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JUNE 24, 2025

How I fixed the infamous Basilisk II Windows “Black Screen” bug in 2013 Apple’s long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found The gooey rubber that’s slowly ruining old hard drives The invalid 68030 instruction that accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to successfully boot up Easy repair of a defective NZXT (..)

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Whose bug is this anyway? (2012)

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JULY 16, 2024

At a certain point in every programmer’s career we each find a bug that seems impossible because the code is right, dammit! So it must be the operating system, the tools or the computer that’s causing the problem. Today’s story is about some of those bugs I’ve discovered in my career. This bug is […]

Computer built using swarms of soldier crabs (2012)

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JULY 1, 2023

Computer scientists at Kobe University in Japan have built a computer that draws inspiration from the swarming behavior of soldier crabs. The computer is based on theories from the early 1980s that studies how it could be possible to build a computer out of billiard balls. Proposed by Edward Fredkin and Tommaso Toffoli, the mechanical […]

Comparing floating-point numbers (2012)

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MAY 13, 2025

This post is a more carefully thought out and peer reviewed version of a floating-point comparison article I wrote many years ago. This one gives solid advice and some surprising observations about the tricky subject of comparing floating-point numbers. A compilable source file with license is available.

Mystery monk makes billions with 5-hour energy (2012)

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Ever heard of Manoj Bhargava? Probably not. He's a former monk who struck it rich with that ubiquitous red bottle: 5-Hour Energy. Read his improbable story.

Leak: PlayStation 6 to feature UDNA GPU and launch in 2027

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JANUARY 24, 2025

Additionally, rumors suggest Sony may be developing a new handheld console, potentially reviving the concept of portable PlayStations since the launch of the PlayStation Vita in 2012. Featured image credit: Kerem Glen/Ideogram

You can now download the source code that sparked the AI boom

Foundations of Computer Vision

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Most common PIN codes (2012)

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Close to 2,000 Environmental Activists Killed Over Last Decade

Gainax, known for 'Evangelion' anime production, goes bankrupt

I put a toaster in the dishwasher (2012)

The hierarchy of innovation (2012)

The Story of Microsleep (2012)

Kernighan's Lever (2012)

Don't store your cucumbers in the fridge (2012)

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Six top Alzheimer's researchers accused of fraud

The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X (2012)

Null is not false, part one (2012)

Singing synthesis as a new musical instrument (2012)

Configuration Complexity Clock (2012)

Computer History Museum Releases Original AlexNet Code

PCalc, an Origin Story (2012)

Remembering Jon Postel and the day he hijacked the internet (2012)

World3, the Public Beta (2012)

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Whose bug is this anyway? (2012)

Computer built using swarms of soldier crabs (2012)

Comparing floating-point numbers (2012)

Mystery monk makes billions with 5-hour energy (2012)

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