Dark Angel: Good
In the afternoon I finished Dark Angel, a Letty Davenport novel book 2, by John Sandford. I liked the story, maybe a bit more than the previous book which was also good.
Bare Metal Vi, boot into Vi without an OS!
This guide shows you how to run
Viwithout an operating system, bare metal. This is a follow up on my article from 2014 where I made a custom linux distro that would Boot to Vim, VIM as PID 1. This time we go further, we boot intoViwithout an operating system. This is made possible by Cosmopolitan, a libc that outputs a POSIX-approved polyglot format that runs natively on Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + NetBSD + BIOS with the best possible performance and the tiniest footprint imaginable.
Source: Bare Metal Vi, boot into Vi without an OS!, an article by Remy van Elst.
Understanding LSTM Networks
Long Short Term Memory networks – usually just called “LSTMs” – are a special kind of RNN, capable of learning long-term dependencies. They were introduced by Hochreiter & Schmidhuber (1997), and were refined and popularized by many people in following work.1 They work tremendously well on a large variety of problems, and are now widely used.
Source: Understanding LSTM Networks, an article by Christopher Olah.
On Recursion, Continuations and Trampolines
How is tail recursion different from regular recursion? What do continuations have to do with this, what is CPS, and how do trampolines help? This article provides an introduction, with code samples in Python and Clojure.
Source: On Recursion, Continuations and Trampolines, an article by Eli Bendersky.
All That Remains
A killer is stalking young lovers. Taking their lives . . . and leaving just one tantalising clue . . .
When the bodies of young courting couples start turning up in remote woodlands areas, Dr Kay Scarpetta's task as Chief Medical Examiner is made more difficult by the effects of the elements. Eight times she must write that the cause of death is undetermined.
But when the latest girl goes missing turns out to be the daughter of one of the most powerful women in America, Kay finds herself prey to political pressure and press harassment. As she starts to investigate, she finds that vital evidence is being withheld from her - or even faked. And all the time a cunning, sadistic killer is still at large . . .
In the evening I started in All That Remains, Scarpetta 3, by Patricia Cornwell.