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Co-founder and CTO at Whirlscape, makers of Dango, the neural-net powered emoji & GIF assistant (http://getdango.com) and the Minuum keyboard (http://minuum.com)

xavier@whirlscape.com @wxswxs

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/wxswxs; my proof: https://keybase.io/wxswxs/sigs/fhibuu3BrSc7k3fLOwDrKBHC1A5GGzzsoPACnipuWJ4 ]

  1. Facebook is opening an AI office in Montreal (venturebeat.com)
    1 points 0
  2. Distributions of words across narrative time in 27,266 novels (litlab.stanford.edu)
    1 points 0
  3. Emoji and Deep Learning (getdango.com)
    168 points 54
  4. Whistled Language (en.wikipedia.org)
    3 points 1
  5. Legal characters in Swift 1.2 Operators (gist.github.com)
    2 points 1
  6. Binvis.io: visual analysis of binary files (binvis.io)
    9 points 1
  7. Why are deep neural networks hard to train? (neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com)
    83 points 13
  8. The University of Florida Sparse Matrix Collection (cise.ufl.edu)
    59 points 11
  9. A Bitcoin mine went up in flames, affecting the entire network (qz.com)
    67 points 20
  10. Minuum Demos Non-Annoying Text Entry On An Android Wear Watch (techcrunch.com)
    3 points 1
  11. Turing test for dogs (existentialcomics.com)
    4 points 2
  12. Model Your Users: Algorithms Behind the Minuum Keyboard (minuum.com)
    207 points 92
  13. Iso (Click & Drag) (wxs.ca)
    1 points 0
  14. Why Is a Patent Troll in Luxembourg Suing U.S. Public Transit Agencies? (theatlanticcities.com)
    2 points 0
  15. In depth review of the Lytro Light Field Camera (dpreview.com)
    32 points 15
  16. Map of race, poverty and education in the Bay Area (radicalcartography.net)
    3 points 0
  17. Stanford Unsupervised Feature Learning Tutorial (deeplearning.stanford.edu)
    2 points 0
  18. Wikimedia NYC accepting Bitcoin donations (nyc.wikimedia.org)
    1 points 1
  19. Chrome's "Most Visited" as procrastination trigger

    Thought I'd share a small productivity tip: DO NOT leave Chrome's new tab page on "Most Visited". Even when I'm working effectively, dozens of times a day as I open new tabs Chrome tempts me to check HN by displaying a…

    1 points 0
  20. Google Maps now WebGL accelerated (google-latlong.blogspot.com)
    3 points 2
  21. Probabilistic electoral methods [pdf] (cs.toronto.edu)
    2 points 0