Surprising shared word etymologies - Daniel de Haas

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Online Etymology Dictionary | Origin, history and meaning of English words

The online etymology dictionary (etymonline) is the internet's go-to source for quick and reliable accounts of the origin and history of English words, phrases, and idioms. It is professional enough to satisfy academic standards, but accessible enough to be used by anyone.

AMD 3D Stacks SRAM Bumplessly

AMD recently unveiled 3D V-Cache, their first 3D-stacked technology-based product. Leapfrogging contemporary 3D bonding technologies, AMD jumped directly into advanced packaging with direct bonding and an order of magnitude higher wire density.

The Number That Becomes More Amazing the More You Study It

It’s even more astonishing than Dan Brown and Pepsi thought.

What Makes Quantum Computing So Hard to Explain?

To understand what quantum computers can do — and what they can’t — avoid falling for overly simple explanations.

Information Theory: A Gentle Introduction

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The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve

The accelerating effort to understand the mathematics of quantum field theory will have profound consequences for both math and physics.

The Elephant Ethogram

Introduces the elephant ethogram: A Library of African Elephant Behavior

The First 'Google Translate' For Elephants Debuts

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: Elephants possess an incredibly rich repertoire of communication techniques, including hundreds of calls and gestures that convey specific meanings and can change depending on the context. Different elephant…

How to Save an Ancient Language Before It Disappears Forever

For decades, Taiwan’s minority Hakka people were banned from teaching their native language. Now an unlikely coalition of aging academics and millennial radio DJs are doing all they can to keep it alive.

The Mother of All ‘Abandoned’ Airports (2015)

West Berlin's lifeline during the Soviet Blockade, Tempelhof Airport has since become the city’s biggest park. Berliners will fight to keep it that way.

7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy by Hamilton Helmer – The Rab

Summary Helmer sets out to create a simple, but not simplistic, strategy compass. His 7 powers include: scale economics, switching costs, cornered resource, counter positioning, branding, network effects, and process. Key Takeaways Strategy: the study of the fundamental…

GitHub - hashicorp/terraform: Terraform enables you to safely and predictab

Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared ...

Details & Summary tags: HTML's best kept secret

and tags are among of the most useful tags that HTML gives us. I'm...

Behavioral Scientist’s Summer Book List 2021 - By Antonia Violante & Heather Graci Behavioral Scientist

Summer isn’t the same without a good reading list. Here are our behavioral science picks for summer 2021.

This 11-course package can help you run a liquid smooth DevOps project thro

This AWS DevOps Engineer Certification Bundle contains 11 Courses on AWS Database, Cloud Automation, Lambda, & More! Become a DevOps engineer.

Intel: AMD Threat Is Finished (NASDAQ:INTC)

Although competition from Arm is increasing, AMD remains Intel’s biggest competitor, as concerns of losing market share weigh on Intel’s valuation.

The 6 Common Open-Source Licenses and What They Mean

Open-source software is one of the most influential initiatives ever made in the history of computer science and programming. The phrase “open source” means something that’s open for people to use…

The elephant vanishes: how a circus family went on the run

The long read: Dumba has spent her life performing in circuses around Europe, but in recent years animal rights activists have been campaigning to rescue her. When it looked like they might succeed, Dumba and her owners disappeared

A Lucid, Literary Illustration of the Complex, Beautiful Work of Memory

In “A Sense of Self,” the psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane flashes narrative skill in exploring the science and mystery of memory.

Python Factories for Scalable, Reusable, and Elegant Code

In a real-life factory, the production of identical or similar objects is not done individually but rather streamlined in assembly lines. Similarly, the factory design pattern allows you to create…

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How Political Parties Can Win Converts

Political parties rarely run ads to try to win over long-term loyalists. New research suggests it’s actually possible—and worthwhile.

How to Start Cooking: Tips from the Pros

Skip cooking school and learn how to thrive in the kitchen from the experts themselves.

How to Build a Better Dinner - The New York Times

To be a faster, more creative cook, take a cue from restaurant chefs, J. Kenji López-Alt suggests, and rely on culinary building blocks.

The Availability Bias: How to Overcome a Common Cognitive Distortion

We tend to judge the likelihood and significance of things based on how easily they come to mind. The more “available” a piece of information is to us, the more important it seems. The result is that we give greater weight to information we learned recently because a news…

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Why You Should Switch to Bayesian A/B Testing

Statistics & Business can share the same Language

ngrok - secure introspectable tunnels to localhost

ngrok is a secure ingress platform that enables developers to add global server load balancing, reverse proxy, firewall, API gateway and Kubernetes Ingress to applications and APIs.

The Four Core Concepts of webpack

webpack is a famous static module bundler. Module bundlers are used to bundle Javascript modules into...

At Grocery Stores, It's Hard Work Picking Your Online Order - The New York

The technology needed to fulfill orders is costly for stores, and the workers who pick items off the shelves often feel the pressure of being tracked.

How 'One Hundred and One Dalmatians' Saved Disney

Sixty years ago, the company modernized animation when it used Xerox technology on the classic film

Anthropologists and the business of sense-making at work

The long read: For decades, anthropologists have been telling us that it’s often the informal, unplanned interactions and rituals that matter most in any work environment. So how much are we missing by giving them up?

Wu Dao 2.0: A Monster of 1.75 Trillion Parameters | by Alberto Romero | Med

BAAI conference presented Wu Dao 2.0. The most powerful AI to date.

Hacker lexicon: What is a supply chain attack?

From NotPetya to SolarWinds, it’s a problem that’s not going away any time soon.

Big Book of R has over 200 books! | R-bloggers

Way back in August 2020, I launched Big Book of R, a collection of free (and some paid) R programming books organised by categories like Geospatial, Statistics, Packages and many more. What started off as a 100 book collection has now grown to over 200 :D! Anyway, I felt was ……

3 Must-Know SQL Functions For Efficient Data Analysis

SQL is a programming language used by relational database management systems. It provides numerous functions and methods that operate on the data stored in relational databases. SQL is not just a…

4 Testimonial Page Examples for UX/UI Design

In these testimonial page examples, you’ll see how UX designers help clients provide social proof for their products and services.

Want a killer product? Become more opinionated | by Adil Aijaz | Jun, 2021

I laugh at this tweet every time I remember it:

What is freight forwarding?

This piece dives into freight forwarding and how your business can benefit from it.

Learn R through examples

This is a draft of a book for learning data analysis with the R language. This book emphasizes hands activities. Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Dunning-Kruger meets fake news | Ars Technica

People who overrate their media savviness share more misleading material.

The blind woman who switched personalities and could suddenly see | The Sta

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Suzanne O’Sullivan’s excellent book reveals that medicine remains as much an art as a science

How to repeat a character 'n' times in Bash - nixCraft

In this post, I try to explore various ways to repeat a character and string in Bash 'n' times that must run on macOS/FreeBSD and Linux.

An Old Effort To Stop The Smallpox Virus Has Lessons For COVID-19 Today : S

In 1721, London was in the grips of a deadly smallpox epidemic. One woman learned how to stop it, but her solution sowed political division.

Meet the Appalachian Apple Hunter Who Rescued 1,000 'Lost' Varieties

Tom Brown's retirement hobby is a godsend for chefs, conservationists, and cider.

Ho Chi Bear and the Ravens

Dubbed the Ravens, misfit American pilots in Vietnam learned they could fly, fight, and drink as they pleased in a CIA-sponsored secret war. Just one catch: They answered to General Vang Pao.

Narratively | Substack

Discover extraordinary true stories celebrating the diversity of humanity. Click to read Narratively, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.