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Physicists Create ‘the Smallest, Crummiest Wormhole You Can Imagine’
Scientists used a quantum computer to explore the ultimate escape route from a black hole.
An Introduction to SMOTE - KDnuggets
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Category Theory for Programmers: The Preface | Bartosz Milewski's Program
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How to Find Open Ports and Close Them in Linux
Troubleshooting networks? Here's how to find the open ports and close those open ports in the Linux command line.
Finding Rundo (Again): US White Supremacist Facing Criminal Charges Located
A far-right extremist wanted to advertise his clothing brand. Instead he’s given us an unintended lesson on the power of open source research methods.
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Master the command line, in one page.
YOLOv7: A deep dive into the current state-of-the-art for object detection
Everything you need to know to use YOLOv7 in custom training scripts
6 Reinforcement Learning Algorithms Explained
Introduction to reinforcement learning terminologies, basics, and concepts (model-free, model-based, online, offline RL)
How to Get the UUID of a Disk Partition in Linux
UUID is a property of disk partitions used to uniquely identify them. Here are various ways to get the UUID of a disk partition in the Linux command line.
The Enduring Metal Genius of Metallica
On the road with the band in its forty-first year.
13 Tips for using PyTest
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How SPF, DKIM, DMARC Drive Email Delivery, Security
There's no shortage of crooks looking to impersonate an authentic email sender. These three authentication tools prevent that from happening while improving deliverability.
How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle
It began as a visionary notion—that patients could die with dignity at home. Now it’s a twenty-two-billion-dollar industry plagued by exploitation.
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In this tutorial we'll create a Javascript compiler from scratch. We'll learn about the basic building blocks of compilers and deeply understand every single line of code we write.
Why and How to Use Demographics in UX
Well-designed questions related to age, gender, race, income and other demographic characteristics help UX researchers screen participants, recruit a diverse participant pool, and segment data. These questions are sensitive and should put research participants at ease.
Three Pillars of User Delight
Delight can be experienced at the visceral, behavioral, and reflective levels. A great design achieves all three of these levels and is best evaluated with specific research methods.
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A Brief Introduction to Rails Initializers: Why, What, and How
You can use Rails initializers to configure your application or external gems. In this post, we'll learn how they work.
How Great Leaders Communicate
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How to Choose the Best Machine Learning Technique: Comparison Table
Deepnote - Data science notebook for teams
Explore data with Python & SQL, work together with your team, and share insights that lead to action — all in one place with Deepnote.
11 Less Used but Important Plots for Data Science
Some Unique Data Visualization Techniques for Getting High-Level Insight into the Data
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Opportunities and Challenges for Carbon Nanotube Transistors
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How Los Bros Hernandez Stayed Punk for 40 Years with their Comic-Book Saga, "Love and Rockets"
They were part of the ‘80s revolution with "The Dark Knight Returns," but without the big payday.
Why Do We Love the Music We Love?
Susan Rogers, acclaimed record producer and expert in music cognition, talks about her new book, This Is What It Sounds Like .
Why is China’s underground music scene so weird?
A look at the history of how absurdity has been used to swerve censors in Soviet Russia and beyond. And asking why is China’s underground music scene so weird?
The Man Behind Mastodon Built It for This Moment
People fleeing Twitter have turned to Eugen Rochko’s alternative. He says social networks can support healthy debate—without any one person in control.
Disney didn't invent Cinderella. Her story is at least 2,000 years old.
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate…
What do countries talk about at the UN General Debate — Topic modelings using LDA.
The intuition behind LDA and its limitations, along with python implementation using Gensim.
The Beautiful, Brutal World of Bonsai
An American undergoes a gruelling apprenticeship to a Japanese master.
The Secret To Talking To Someone Who Always Gets Defensive
Talking to someone who gets defensive can be frustrating. So, what can you do? Here's how to sidestep someone's personal fortifications.
‘China’s hottest woman’: the driving force behind crunchy chilli sensation Lao Gan Ma
Tao Huabi rose from humble origins in south-western China to create a beloved condiment that can now be found in fridges around the world
Pakistan's lost city of 40,000 people
In the dusty plains of present-day Sindh in southern Pakistan lie the remains of one of the world's most impressive ancient cities that most people have never heard of.
The $65 Million Art Heist That Put ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ to Shame
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A billionaire playboy’s alleged murder is at the center of the world’s most confounding heist job.
Data Indexing, Replication, and Sharding: Basic Concepts
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Twenty Questions
Let’s play a game. I’m thinking of a number from 1 to 100. You guess, and I tell you whether my number is higher or lower.
5 Linguistics Courses for NLP Practitioners
This collection of 5 courses is intended to help NLP practitioners or hopefuls acquire some of their lacking linguistics knowledge.
When should we be surprised that an invention took “so long”?
The question is only interesting if it took an abnormally long time. Here’s my model for this
What is social engineering? Definition, types, attack techniques
The top ways bad actors use social engineering to launch cyberattacks — and how to stop them to strengthen your organization's cybersecurity.
A "psychological vaccine": Why prebunking is the best way to fight misinformation
By exposing people to small doses of misinformation and encouraging them to develop resistance strategies, "prebunking" can fight fake news.
How a five-star prospect from Georgia ended up homeless, ineligible and 2,000 miles away
Junior defensive lineman T.A. Cunningham has turned to the courts after his cross-country move to pursue NIL opportunities went awry.
Want your customers to RTFM? Try building a better user manual
For a cost-effective way to reduce expenses, boost retention and drive new revenues, bring your outdated user manuals into the digital era.
3-statement Modeling for Valuations and Projections | Toptal
When valuing a company, investing in a three-statement financial model pays off.
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Top 10 Open-Source DevOps Tools That You Should Know
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On-Chip Power Distribution Modeling Becomes Essential Below 7nm
Why and when it's needed, and what tools and technologies are required.
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