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Why we remember more by reading – especially print – than from audio or video
People tend to think of digital media as entertainment, so they devote less mental effort than when they’re reading a printed book.
How TikTok Chooses Which Songs Go Viral
When Megan Thee Stallion took off her bright orange mask and walked onstage to accept her Grammy on March 14, she fought back tears and thanked God, her mother, and her managers for helping her become the first female rapper to win the award for best new artist in two decades.
12 Jupyter Notebook Extensions That Will Make Your Life Easier
Essential extensions that will boost your productivity in Jupyter Notebook.
Aspect Ratios: All You Need to Know
Learn all about aspect ratios in UX/UI design, including how they affect images, videos, and responsive layouts across devices.
Keep On Connecting: 5 Connectors That Changed The World - Outfunnel
Connecting things physically, mechanically or digitally can have profound effects. Here’s a list of 5 connectors that changed the world.
Email explained from first principles
Modern email is a patchwork of protocols and extensions. Here is one article to understand them all.
Video Compression Basics
The one where writing books is not really a good idea - The Novelleist
Could the creator economy provide a better one?
Etymology Blog - THE ETYMOLOGY NERD
The verb decide has deadly interesting origins. Though it came through Middle English deciden , Old French decider , and Latin decidere , you can tell that there's the prefix de- , kind...
The economics of movie product placements
Today’s films are brimming with products from big-name brands. How exactly do these partnerships work? And is the payoff worth it?
The Case Against the Eagles
Fifty years after their first release, the country-rock titans led by Don Henley and the late Glenn Frey still loom large in American music. Their hits still get play and their sound is a precursor to modern Nashville. But has this biggest of bands aged well? A panel of experts…
The Psychology behind Data Visualization Techniques
A short excursion into the world of human visual information processing
Theoretical Understandings of Product Embedding for E-commerce Machine Lear
Projects
Find out about all of the projects of Meta Open Source.
Tome Raiders: Solving the Great Book Heist
When nearly $3.5M of rare books were stolen in an audacious heist at Feltham in 2017, police wondered, what’s the story?
Two Assholes Lost in the Woods: An Oral History of ‘Pine Barrens’
Twenty years after it aired, David Chase and Co. look back on one of the wildest, boldest, funniest episodes of ‘The Sopranos’ ever made
Love and Loss on the Great Plains
The day the fire came to the Franklin Ranch.
Artificial Intelligence Develops an Ear for Birdsong - Scientific American
Machine-learning algorithms can quickly process thousands of hours of natural soundscapes
13 eCommerce Site Search Strategies to Boost Revenue from Existing Visitors
Let's be clear about something right at the start: If you're not optimizing your site search to convert more visitors into buyers, you're missing out on
Game theory as an engine for large-scale data analysis | DeepMind
Modern AI systems approach tasks like recognising objects in images and predicting the 3D structure of proteins as a diligent student would prepare for an exam. By training on many example...
How Pixar Uses Hyper-Colors to Hack Your Brain
The animation studio’s artists are masters at tweaking light and color to trigger deep emotional responses. Coming soon: effects you’ll only see inside your head.
‘I’d Never Been Involved in Anything as Secret as This’
The plan to kill Osama bin Laden—from the spycraft to the assault to its bizarre political backdrop—as told by the people in the room.
Singular value decomposition - Wikipedia
In linear algebra, the singular value decomposition (SVD) is a factorization of a real or complex matrix into a rotation, followed by a rescaling followed by another rotation. It generalizes the eigendecomposition of a square normal matrix with an orthonormal eigenbasis to any…
Top 5 Python libraries for Computer vision
Computer vision is the field of computer science that focuses on replicating parts of the complexity...
Advanced YAML Syntax Cheatsheet
YAML (YAML Ain’t Markup Language) is a data serialization language used to create key-value pair conf...
My Favorite One Liners | Muhammad
Commandline one liners that makes your workflow more productive
GLMs Part I: A Rigorous Mathematical Formulation | by Andrew Rothman | Apr,
Intuition for Unifying Theory of GLMs with Derivations in Canonical and Non-Canonical Forms
GLMs Part II: Newton-Raphson, Fisher Scoring, & Iteratively Reweighted Leas
Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) play a critical role in fields including Statistics, Data Science, Machine Learning, and other computational sciences. In Part I of this Series, we provided a…
The 5 Feature Selection Algorithms every Data Scientist should know
Bonus: What makes a good footballer great?
Prophet | Forecasting at scale.
Prophet is a forecasting procedure implemented in R and Python. It is fast and provides completely automated forecasts that can be tuned by hand by data scientists and analysts.
Make Beautiful Spatial Visualizations with Plotly and Mapbox
I recently wrote a post about visualizing weather data from NOAA. We walked through processing the data and making some basic interactive maps with Plotly. In this article I want to use the same data…
11 Dimensionality reduction techniques you should know in 2021
Reduce the size of your dataset while keeping as much of the variation as possible
The miracle of the commons
Far from being profoundly destructive, we humans have deep capacities for sharing resources with generosity and foresight
Datasets should behave like git repositories | by Simon Lousky | Towards Da
Create, maintain, and contribute to a long-living dataset that will update itself automatically across projects.
Streamlit 101: An in-depth introduction | by Shail Deliwala | Towards Data
Deep dive into Streamlit with Airbnb data
Deploy an app — Streamlit 0.81.1 documentation
How to start with streamlit web framework.
Sometimes you make a data science , machine learning or computer vision projects but suddenly you stu...
What is Dask and How Does it Work?
This article will first address what makes Dask special and then explain in more detail how Dask works. So: what makes Dask special? Python has a rich ecosystem of data science libraries including…
A Hitchhiker's Guide to SQLite with Python
To explore SQLite along with Python, which is a user-friendly and no-nonsense language, we are going...
Kolmogorov Complexity: Extensions and Applications
The curious case of Simpson’s Paradox
In 1996, Appleton, French, and Vanderpump conducted an experiment to study the effect of smoking on a sample of people. The study was conducted over twenty years and included 1314 English women…
The art of solving problems with Monte Carlo simulations | Gabriel Carvalho
Using the power of randomness to answer scientific questions.
Two awesome card hover effects you never seen before.
1 I suggest you to view demo in full new window. Click on top right most button to vi...
What the sound of your name says about you - BBC Future
The way your name or a word rolls off the tongue can have some surprising effects on the judgements we make.
Persuading the Body to Regenerate Its Limbs
Deer can regrow their antlers, and humans can replace their liver. What else might be possible?
Beginner guide to Variational Autoencoders (VAE) with PyTorch Lightning (Part 2)
This blog post is part of a mini-series that talks about the different aspects of building a PyTorch Deep Learning project using Variational Autoencoders. In Part 1, we looked at the variational…
Hopfield Networks is All You Need | hopfield-layers
Blog post
Principal Component Analysis explained visually
The Story of One Whale Who Tried to Bridge the Linguistic Divide Between An
While captive in a Navy program, a beluga whale named Noc began to mimic human speech. What was behind his attempt to talk to us?