Google increases server life to six years, will save billions of dollars

While Meta ups to five years

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Bonhoeffer's "theory of stupidity" posits that we have more to fear from stupidity than evil. The latter is easier to defeat than the former.

AI Spits Out Exact Copies of Training Images, Real People, Logos, Researche

The regurgitation of training data exposes image diffusion models to a number of privacy and copyright risks.

Vectors of Action

Thinking about your actions as vectors instead of scalars is a helpful mental model to manage your goals. Considering your vectors of action can help you objectively assess your progress, your impact, and your well-being.

The Dirt on Pig-Pen | Elif Batuman

Pig-Pen was dirty — visibly so... That’s who and how he was. And yet — what was that dirtiness? Was it essential or incidental? How did it work?

Passkeys: What They Are and Why You Need Them ASAP

Passkeys might be what finally puts an end to passwords for good. Here's how they work, where you can use them, and why they keep your accounts safe.

Linear Algebra: LU Decomposition, with Python

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This SR-71 Blackbird Cockpit Tour Is The Most Fascinating Thing You’ll See All Week

Veteran SR-71 pilot gives a highly detailed tour of both cockpits and shares incredible recollections from his time flying the legendary jet.

There are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there are atoms

Think of your last card game – euchre, poker, Go Fish, whatever it was. Would you believe every time you gave the whole deck a proper shuffle, you were holding a sequence of cards which had never

Correlation — When Pearson’s r Is Not Enough

Comparison of various correlation methodologies

The Burden of Proof: Why People Should Support Their Claims – Effectiviolog

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No great stagnation in home espresso

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Empathy’s new tool uses AI to generate obituaries, and it’s not half bad

Startup Empathy has launched a new tool that uses AI to generate obituaries. It might sound callous, but the results aren't terrible, surprisingly.

Data Visualization

A practical introduction.

AMD is 'Undershipping' Chips To Keep CPU, GPU Prices Elevated

Researchers Tap Origami as Basis for Reconfigurable Antenna Design

Aimed at improving sensing and imaging systems, Princeton University researchers have developed a reconfigurable antenna based on origami.

skops: a new library to improve scikit-learn in production

There are various challenges in MLOps and model sharing, including, security and reproducibility. To tackle these for scikit-learn models, we've developed a new open-source library: skops. In this article, I will walk you through how it works and how to use it with an end-to-end…

The First Family of Human Cannonballing

David and Jeannie Smith gave up their day jobs for a life of daredevil stunts —with six children in tow. Five decades, thousands of cannon shots and multiple Guinness World Records later, this stupendous family business is still defying gravity and all

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5 Node.js Tools to Learn in 2023

Check out 5 Node.js tools that can help boost your productivity in 2023.

Find All Symbolic Links in Linux

Looking for all the soft links on your Linux system? Here are a couple of methods to find symbolic links.

The Life-Changing Magic of a Urologist

Here are three issues you may want to address with a professional.

Symbols lost from our alphabet over time

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7 Open-Source Log Management Tools that you may consider in 2023

Effective log management is a fundamental aspect of maintaining and troubleshooting today's complex...

How to create a product roadmap using the PriX method

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Dialect detective: Chinese woman helps find hundreds of missing people nati

Hundreds of mainland Chinese families have been reunited with missing relatives thanks to the help of a Chinese woman who has taught herself more than 10 of the country’s myriad of dialects.

Web Scraping With Puppeteer for Total Noobs

Web scraping is something I never thought I'd do. I'm primarily a UI developer, although my career...

Build Your Own Redis with C/C++ | Build Your Own Redis with C/C++

Build Your Own Redis with C/C++ | Learn network programming and data structures

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Kimurai is a modern web scraping framework written in Ruby which works out of box with Headless Chromium/Firefox, PhantomJS, or simple HTTP requests and allows to scrape and interact with JavaScrip...

An alternate ending to the tragedy of the commons

I recently read Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons and have been evangelizing it so enthusiastically that I figured I’d do a quick…

The Power of the Stora Rör Swimming Association and Other Local Institution

Economist Elinor Ostrom believed in the power of economics to “bring out the best in humans.” The way to do it, she thought, was to help them build community.

Netstat Command Examples in Linux

Netstat is one of the most common networking commands in Linux. Learn some useful examples of netstat in this tutorial.

PageRank Algorithm for Graph Databases

What is PageRank algorithm? How can it be used in various graph database use cases? How to use it in Memgraph? If these questions are keeping you up at night, here is a blog post that will finally put your mind at ease.

Comparing Different Automatic Image Augmentation Methods in PyTorch

Data augmentation is a key tool in reducing overfitting, whether it's for images or text. This article compares three Auto Image Data Augmentation techniques...

Web Scraping with Ruby | ScrapingBee

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Scientists Captured a 9 Billion-Year-Old Radio Signal From Deep Space

The record-breaking signal could be the key to unlocking many cosmic mysteries.

This Maine home can stay 70 degrees without a furnace, even when it's freezing outside

With extra insulation and lots of sun, a passive house in the town of Hope is able to maintain an indoor temperature of around 70 degrees without the use of a furnace.

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The Mystery of the Dune Font

Putting a name to the typeface that defined the visual identity of the science fiction series and its author, Frank Herbert

From Death Cab to the Grateful Dead, an Artist Reimagines the Classic Rock Poster

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Welcome to the Shoppy Shop

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Not every Phillips head fastener is a Phillips head fastener. If you don't know about Japanese Industrial Standard, now you'll know.

Text-to-4D dynamic scene generation

Find it here, via Ryan Watkins. Further improvement is required, but the pace of current breakthroughs is remarkable.

The Benjamin Franklin Effect: Build Rapport by Asking for Favors

The five-minute fix: how to improve your fitness, strength and posture at super-quick speed

In the time it takes to make a cup of tea, you can build your core muscles, increase hip flexibility and stave off the effects of sitting at your desk all day

The Alchian-Allen Effect

How it explains cheap luxuries, strong pricing power, and good careers.

Most criminal cryptocurrency is funneled through just 5 exchanges

The crypto money-laundering market is tighter than at any time in the past decade, and the few big players are moving a “shocking” amount of currency.

How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need? - Edu News | NASA/JPL Edu

While world record holders may have memorized more than 70,000 digits of pi, a JPL engineer explains why you really only need a tiny fraction of that for most calculations – even at NASA.

Investigating Lossless Transmission Line Phase Constant and Infinite Bandwi

Learn how to derive the wave equations for a lossless transmission line and look at its infinite bandwidth and phase constant.