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connorgreenwellon More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest numbers in 50 years

Armies of administrators, shiny new amenities to attract more students (competing on quality of education is too difficult / more expensive). There's probably some good that it goes towards too, but its hard not to be cynical about it.

connorgreenwellon Where Theory Meets Chalk, Dust Flies

When I was still studying photography, my mentor was working on something similar: http://www.gregorytdavis.com/index.php/project/chalk-is-temp...

connorgreenwellon Using machine learning to predict the best distributors in the 2018 draft

Posted to r/NBA yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/8zanxy/oc_using_machin...

connorgreenwellon WHOIS blackout period likely starting in May

If this is true in Europe, I'm curious what the implications are w.r.t. GDPR.

connorgreenwellon Tensorflow 1.5.0

For most cases it should just be a drop in replacement. IIRC they promise not to break the API between point releases (except tf.contrib.* which may change or disappear entirely...)