The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class

Alex Danco's Newsletter, Season 3, Episode 2

The underground economy of company reviews is well and truly alive. And tod

Companies spend thousands of dollars to buy fake reviews and get bad ones removed.

Can You Decode an Alien Message?

An artist, a programmer and a scientist have created a simulation of extraterrestrial communication to test Earthlings’ ability to understand it

A Beginner's Guide: Understanding CSS Animation

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What Happens When Private Equity Buys Your Doctor's Office?

A new study on the costs of private equity buyouts makes a case for ownership transparency across health care

Saraga Is the International Grocery Store of My Dreams

In a former Toys “R” Us, you can buy Nepali dumplings, get your eyebrows threaded, and pick up merguez sausages.

The Elusive, Maddening Mystery of the Bell Witch - Atlas Obscura

A classic ghost story has something to say about America—200 years ago, 100 years ago, and today.

What do <,< and < mean in Linux?

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Researchers use commercial quantum computer to identify molecular candidate

How a mobile-home park saved its community from a corporate buyout — High C

In southwest Colorado, a cooperative and a land trust partnered to preserve affordable housing.

From Portugal to Portland

Oregon decriminalized all drugs, and overdoses have surged.

XQ-58 Valkyrie Solves Air Combat ‘Challenge Problem’ While Under AI Control

Algorithms used in the XQ-58's AI brain were trained millions of times in simulated environments before being put to the test in reality.

‘I Didn’t Kill My Wife!’ — An Oral History of ‘The Fugitive’

"Three decades after the release of the landmark Hollywood thriller, the cast and crew ... reflect on the legacy of the instant classic that almost fell apart."

10 Cool CodePen Demos (July 2023)

A collection of 10 cool and exciting front-end demos shared on CodePen during July 2023

Mastering Monte Carlo: How To Simulate Your Way to Better Machine Learning

How a Scientist Playing Solitaire Forever Changed the Game of Statistics

Best CSS Animation on internet

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A Dylanesque Negotiating Strategy

One of the news industry’s longest-standing problems is that have failed to properly value the work they create. They should take a cue from the music industry.

Inside an Air Force Pararescue mission in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

An inside account of how Air Force pararescue jumped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean to reach an injured sailor.

A non-mathematical introduction to Kalman Filters for programmers

Read my manifesto on Code as an alternative to Mathematics. Code for this article can be found on this Colab Notebook should you choose to follow along. Why Kalman Filters? Kalman filters are ingenius. If you have never heard of them, then a very intuitive (and arguably…

LangChain 101: Build Your Own GPT-Powered Applications

LangChain is a Python library that helps you build GPT-powered applications in minutes. Get started with LangChain by building a simple question-answering app.

“Blurred Lines,” Harbinger of Doom

How Robin Thicke, Pharrell, and T.I.’s cursed megahit predicted everything bad about the past decade in pop culture

With the help of new archaeological approaches, our picture of young lives

With the help of new archaeological approaches, our picture of young lives in the Palaeolithic is now marvellously vivid

Cut out everything that’s not surprising | Derek Sivers

The Astonishing Transformation of Austin

My town, once celebrated for its laid-back weirdness, is now a turbocharged tech megalopolis being shaped by exiles from places like Silicon Valley.

bc Command in Linux

The bc command is used for precision calculation. You are more likely to use it for floating point operations in bash scripts.

Revolutionary culinary collective Ghetto Gastro is bringing its goods to Ta

Starting today, you can pick up Ghetto Gastro's new food goods at Target.

A High-Water Year for River Rafting

All that snow in the West? It’s water now, and it’s providing a banner season for white-water rafting. Here are five rivers to run this summer.

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Why does the quantum world behave in that strange, spooky way? Here’s our s

Why does the quantum world behave in that strange, spooky way? Here’s our simple, four-step explanation (no magic needed)

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Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

TSMC’s 3nm yield rate reportedly just 55% · TechNode

TSMC is struggling with its new 3nm process, with the semiconductor giant's yield rate reportedly far below the standard expected.

Building Value Objects in Rails with composed_of

Learn how to improve the interface of your existing Active Record Models with this underutilized API.

Tokenized Tokens

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

List: Marketing Mix Modeling | Curated by Abhijeet Talaulikar | Medium

8 stories · A guide to building an end-to-end marketing mix optimization solution for your organization.

The secret economics of the Birkin bag

On a flight from Paris to London in 1983 Jane Birkin, an Anglo-French chanteuse and actress, spilled the contents of her overstuffed straw...

Discovering Differential Equations with Physics-Informed Neural Networks an

A case study with step-by-step code implementation

LGBMClassifier: A Getting Started Guide

This tutorial explores the LightGBM library in Python to build a classification model using the LGBMClassifier class.

When ideas have sex

At TEDGlobal 2010, author Matt Ridley shows how, throughout history, the engine of human progress has been the meeting and mating of ideas to make new ideas. It's not important how clever individuals are, he says; what really matters is how smart the collective brain is.

What Makes the Allsup’s Burrito So Legendary?

It’s small-town Texas’s go-to convenience store snack. Texas Monthly’s taco editor finally gives it a go.

Raylan and Boyd's Final Meeting - Scene | Justified | FX

“We dug coal together.” Enough said. Stream on Hulu. Stream all episodes of #JustifiedFX on Hulu. Justified Season 6, Episode 13. Subscribe now for more Justified clips: http://bit.ly/SubscribeFX | Visit Official Site https://fx.tv/Justified Based on Elmore Leonard’s novella…

MPT-30B: Raising the bar for open-source foundation models

Latest blogs from the team at Mosaic Research

Stable Diffusion: Basic Intuition Behind Generative AI

This article provides a general overview of Stable Diffusion and focuses on building a basic understanding of how generative artificial intelligence works.

CLI tools hidden in the Python standard library

Seth Michael Larson pointed out that the Python gzip module can be used as a CLI tool like this:

Midjourney pricing plans and free alternatives to try

Navigating the maze of pricing plans for digital services can sometimes be a daunting task. Today, we are unveiling Midjourney

A Deep Dive Into LLaMA, Falcon, Llama 2 and Their Remarkable Fine-Tuned Ver

Exploring the Development of the 3 Leading Open LLMs and Their Chatbot Derivatives

Chain of Thought Prompting for LLMs

A practical and simple approach for “reasoning” with LLMs

Lemon Posset

This 5-ingredient lemon posset is just the dessert you need this summer. It’s light and creamy with the perfect melt-in-your-mouth texture! You won’t be able to stop after one bite.

AMD’s Radeon Instinct MI210: GCN Lives On

AMD, Nvidia, and Intel have all diverged their GPU architectures to separately optimize for compute and graphics.

Is Anthropic's Claude 2 model ready to take down GPT-4? We put them to the

Anthropic released Claude 2, a new iteration of its AI model, to take on ChatGPT and Google Bard...

Atomera Plans to Breathe New Life into Older Chip Manufacturing

Atom-thin layers of oxygen in a chip’s silicon can make devices speedier and more reliable