Distribution and Demand

Distribution on the Internet is free; what matters is controlling demand. AT&T and Verizon didn’t understand the distinction.

NielsRogge/Transformers-Tutorials: This repository contains demos I made with the Transformers library by HuggingFace.

This repository contains demos I made with the Transformers library by HuggingFace. - NielsRogge/Transformers-Tutorials

App Store Arguments

There are all kinds of arguments to make about the App Store, and nearly all of them are good ones; that’s why the best solution can only come from Apple.

The Snitch - The Atavist Magazine

In Scott Kimball, the FBI thought it had found a high-value informant who could help solve big cases. What it got instead was lies, betrayal, and murder.

The World’s Northernmost Town Is Changing Dramatically

Climate change is bringing tourism and tension to Longyearbyen on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study)

Getting a good performance score from Google is hard for any website — but doing so for an online store is even harder. We achieved green scores — even several for mobile. Here is how we did it.

Why are we so uncharitable to those doing good deeds?

From veganism to fundraising, psychologists have found acts of altruism often attract mistrust and even anger

The Most Expensive Number in Engineering - An Engineering Self-Study

How to put a price on the limits of knowledge

Complete Guide to Data Augmentation for Computer Vision

Data Augmentation is one of the most important topics in Deep Computer Vision. When you train your neural network, you should do data augmentation like… ALWAYS. Otherwise, you are not using your…

How I organize my Rails apps - Code with Jason

Overview Influenced by the experiences I’ve had last over many years of building and maintaining Rails applications, combined with my experiences using other technologies, I’ve developed some ways of structuring Rails applications that have worked out pretty well for me. Some of…

React Tutorial

React Tutorial - This React tutorial is intended to assist you in learning the fundamentals to advance of ReactJS. Learn all about ReactJS from basics to advanced concepts like Component, State, Props, Router, Fragmentation, Redux, etc.

Supercharge Your Machine Learning Experiments with PyCaret and Gradio - KDnuggets

A step-by-step tutorial to develop and interact with machine learning pipelines rapidly.

The Havana Job

This is the previously classified story of a Hail Mary plan, a Dirty Dozen crew of lowlifes, and a woman who wouldn’t bow to authority as she fought to bring three captured CIA agents home from Cuba.

Top 4 Data Extraction Tools

Data extraction tools give you the boost you need for gathering information from a multitude of data sources. These four data extraction tools will help liberate you from manual data entry, understand complex documents, and simplify the data extraction process.

Sentiment Analysis — Comparing 3 Common Approaches: Naive Bayes, LSTM, and

Sentiment Analysis, or Opinion Mining, is a subfield of NLP (Natural Language Processing) that aims to extract attitudes, appraisals, opinions, and emotions from text. Inspired by the rapid migration…

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Make Pandas 3 Times Faster with PyPolars

Learn how to speed up your Pandas workflow using the PyPolars library.

One simple way to build someone’s confidence: Ask for their advice

When we want people to change, we typically tell them what to do. But what if we flipped the script and asked them for their wisdom instead? Behavioral scientist Katy Milkman PhD explains the power…

Is Gerrymandering About to Become More Difficult?

A new approach in the way the Census aggregates its data could make it more difficult to do extreme gerrymandering, says Moon Duchin.

numerical-linear-algebra/README.md at master · fastai/numerical-linear-alge

Free online textbook of Jupyter notebooks for fast.ai Computational Linear Algebra course - fastai/numerical-linear-algebra

What Robots Can—and Can’t—Do for the Old and Lonely

For elderly Americans, social isolation is especially perilous. Will machine companions fill the void?

Five Phrases That Make People Discount What You’re Saying

These common expressions can cause listeners to think twice.

America Loves Gas Station Snacks. Here Are Some of the Finest by Region

From Buc-ee’s Beaver Nuggets to 7-Eleven Spam musubi

The Death of Hahnemann Hospital

When a private-equity firm bought a Philadelphia institution, the most vulnerable patients bore the cost.

The American West's sagebrush sea is rapidly vanishing

Once considered a rangeland weed, this plant is the cornerstone of America’s desert ecosystems

Eternally five years away? No, batteries are improving under your nose

Under the hood, lithium-ion batteries have gotten better in the last decade.

Spaghetti With Fried Eggs Recipe

Here's a quick and delicious pasta dish to make when you have little time, and even less food in the house All you need is a box of spaghetti, four eggs, olive oil and garlic (Parmesan is a delicious, but optional, addition).

Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer | Hacker News

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Interpreting Scattertext: a seductive tool for plotting text

Scroll down to see how to interpret a plot created by a great tool for comparing two classes and their corpora.

Metric-Based (Ratings-based) Conjoint Analysis

In marketing analytics, conjoint analysis is a technique used to gain specific insights about consumers’ preferences. Often derived from consumer surveys, conjoint analysis can tell us, for instance…

Folk Festival a success, but students in short supply

The four kinds of documentation, and why you need to understand what they a

The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox | Andreessen Horowitz

The pressure the cloud puts on margins can start to outweigh the benefits you scale and growth slows. Understand how much market cap is being suppressed by the cloud to help inform the decision-making framework on managing infrastructure as companies scale.

The Truth about Lying - JSTOR Daily

You can’t spot a liar just by looking, but psychologists are zeroing in on methods that might actually work.

Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary and the soft, squishy science of language

A deep dive into xenolinguistics, pragmatics, the cooperative principle, and Noam Chomsky!

As Chips Shrink, Rowhammer Attacks Get Harder to Stop

A full fix for the “Half-Double” technique will require rethinking how memory semiconductors are designed.

How SoundScan Changed Everything We Knew About Popular Music

Thirty years ago, Billboard changed the way it tabulated its charts, turning the industry on its head and making room for genres once considered afterthoughts to explode in the national consciousness

The Joy of Writing a Recommendation

5 tips on putting together a recommendation to help a young adult

Inside Youth Baseball's Most Notorious Dad-On-Dad Rivalry

On the Long Island Inferno, two fathers, both with complicated pasts took it all too far. Neither man was ever the same.

Boxes, trucks and bikes

Should we still be talking about online and offline retail, or about trucks versus boxes versus bikes?

7 Ghost Stations of Paris Metro and How to Get Into Illegaly - Urbex Tour

Paris subways has long and interesting story. Illegal exploration of tunnels can show the power of the underground world of France.

Why do you feel lonely? Neuroscience is starting to find answers.

A neuroscientist’s hunt for loneliness could help us better understand the costs of social isolation.

Introduction to Object Detection Model Evaluation

Evaluating object detection models is not straightforward because each image can have many objects and each object can belong to different classes. This means that we need to measure if the model…

10 Must Read ML Blog Posts

A collection of high-impact machine learning blog posts.

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks

Musings of a Computer Scientist.

http://www.wildml.com/2015/11/understanding-convolutional-neural-networks-for-nlp/

Language Models

natural language processing, nlp, machine learning, computer science

https://ruder.io/optimizing-gradient-descent/

Understanding LSTM Networks -- colah's blog