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Lots in the news about cracking iPhones. Here’s some net net advice Let us all hope that iOS 10 not only signs updates with their key but also encrypts with the user passcode.  For the current iPhone the easy thing to do is to use TouchID and then bump up…

Wow what a difference two years make. We are now in free fall for tvs and HDR is coming as well. There is also a convergence happening as tvs get full operating systems and arm chips So here is a quick review of what to get depending on needs. Hat…

Never had so much fun learning about a new topic or building a computer but at last I have a reason to want a $5k desktop! arriving in two days! Of course since then it’s pretty clear that instead of the i7 we should Xeon e5-1650 v3. It’s the same…

Most of notes now go to slack. It’s so convenient to post there as I do most things in my phablet these days. 

Wow this is a cool application. it uses a web browser on the Mac and then you use a QR code to connect it to an Android device. This gives the local IP address of the Mac to the phone and somehow the browser application can facilitate the transfer

Living With the iPad Pro – Extratextuals https://apple.news/AJOMlfeCiMaGVF0hmAVERtw has great app list for productivity on iOS. 

Well finally back to running a Raspberry Pi stack. Got the new Hypriot Cluster Lab which is in it’s first incarnation. it is much easier than the manual docker swarm setup up, but a little less clear how to do thing. It uses Consul for managing the cluster (rather than…

Well there are so many options these days but here are some good ones: directpay.irs.gov. This is a free site that let’s you pay with your checking account for free. The only trick is that you have to do it before the deadline. You need 3-5 days beforehand. pay1040.com. This…

OK, this might seem like an oxymoron, but if you are doing machine learning you kind of want to do it when mobile or in poor connectivity areas yet also want something that doesn’t weight 7 pounds. I tried the MSI gaming notebook, but at 17 inches and 6 pounds…

Here are the big ones as covered in a survey article: Tensorflow. The newest one from Google. The biggest issue seems to be how this scales as Tensorflow is a single machine solution now. Google Brain is the a closed source scaled system. Torch. A great chance to learn lua…