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My Tensorflow Project Isn't Saving the World

Among all the hype around the latest and greatest technologies, there is so much publicity devoted toward how they are being used in grand schemes to cure cancer, reduce energy waste, conserve water, solve poverty, and so forth.  While all these things are wonderful to humanity, there has to be someone left in the background who helps all the do-gooders unwind when it's time to take a break! The TL/DR Version: Get To the Point! Use clever arguments when loading up your Docker container so you don't have to shut it down and restart it when you want to mount external directories from the host filesystem or expose the port for the Tensorboard server.  There is also nvidia-docker available if you want to use your CUDA cores. sudo nvidia-docker run -it -p 6006:6006 -v ~/Pictures/video-game-training/:/video-game-training gcr.io/tensorflow/tensorflow:latest-devel-gpu bash Use the  --output_user_root  option in your Bazel builds so you can save it to that external directory o

Pre-Google I/O Entertainment: Old Electronics Stores and Computer Resellers!

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The opportunity Google gave me to attend Google I/O, their annual conference, two weeks ago required me to travel to the Bay Area in California in order to attend in person.  Also known as Silicon Valley, it is an area steeped in computer history, featuring (of course) the Computer History Museum, not to mention large offices or global headquarters for many current and long-gone tech behemoths, plus all the tiny startups making millions off various Internet and mobile technologies.  As someone who has been using computers their entire life (well over 25 years now), I am enthusiastic about the way forward but do not want to forget about the winding, bumpy way that has gotten us to this point. As I seek to bolster my collection of retro-tech, it is fascinating to pontificate on what all these devices would have cost brand new.  There's no way my family could have afforded but one or two these things back in the day, but as technology marches on and leaves so much of itself in the d