Isaac's Readings

End to end learning: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.04529.pdf

Very high quality text to speech, straight from English. http://research.googleblog.com/2017/12/tacotron-2-generating-human-like-speech.html

Dangers of Benchmarking: https://danluu.com/anon-benchmark/ Optical illusion: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2017/12/08/curvature-blindness-illusion/

AlphaZero Chess: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.01815.pdf Early PhD advice: http://www.pgbovine.net/early-stage-PhD-advice.htm Honey harvesting: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/07/honey-hunters-bees-climbing-nepal/ Getters and Setters are pointless: https://dev.to/scottshipp/avoid-getters-and-setters-whenever-possible-c8m Low Rank Tensor Approximation (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV7Te2klPgw Trace Reconstruction (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys11H5smSIM Compiler Bug Finding: http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~rountev.1/5343/pdf/pldi11.pdf