The Unlikely Success of Fish Sticks | Hakai Magazine

From unappetizing “fishbricks” to cultural darlings, the 1950s convenience food has enjoyed a winning streak—no less so than during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the Tales Told by Sewage, Public Health and Privacy Collide

Sewage epidemiology has been embraced in other countries for decades, but not in the U.S. Will Covid change that?

Five Numpy Functions You Should Understand

How to stack your array horizontally and vertically, find unique values, split your array and some more tips to use Numpy effectively.

What Really IS a Matrix Determinant?

The geometric intuition behind determinants could change how you think about them.

More Data Drives Focus On IC Energy Efficiency

Decisions that affect how, when, and where data gets processed.

Why Lichess will always be free. | Blog • lichess.org

How to Use SQL RANK and DENSE_RANK Functions

If you’ve been practicing your SQL religiously, like I suggested in Top Skills to Ace Every SQL Interview Question, then you’ve probably…

A Primer on the EM Algorithm

Christian Zuniga, PhD

Use Google like a pro - Marko Denic - Web Developer

Googling is one of the most important skills for every developer. Let me show you how to get better at Googling.

Apple's M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model

Apple is positioning its M1 quite differently from any CPU Intel or AMD has released. The long-term impact on the PC market could be significant.

Mexican Street Tacos

Mexican Street Tacos - Easy, quick, authentic carne asada street tacos you can now make right at home! Top with onion, cilantro + fresh lime juice! SO GOOD!

How to make tonpeiyaki cabbage and pork omelette

The much-easier cousin of okonomiyaki, stir-fried pork and spring cabbage are sandwiched between an omelette for a light, quick meal.

The girl in the Kent State photo and the lifelong burden of being a national symbol

In 1970, an image of a dead protester at Kent State became iconic. But what happened to the 14-year-old kneeling next to him?

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Best Practices

What is Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)? The site reliability engineering (SRE) conce...

This Basketball Season Is Missing One Thing: Prince

Five years after his death, let's remember one of the most unique talents ever to be drawn to the game

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LAMBDA: The ultimate Excel worksheet function - Microsoft Research

Microsoft Excel the programming language is evolving. With the recent release of LAMBDA, users can now define new functions in the program’s formula language. Learn about the capability & its role in the transformation of spreadsheet formulas.

The Cold War Over Hacking McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines

Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald’s notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out.

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Millions suffered through terror and upheaval in the turbulent years following the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. One of them was a baby elephant from India — A new story from India to the world, each week on FiftyTwo.in

Heirloom-Quality Lighting, Hardware & More | Rejuvenation

Rejuvenation was founded in 1977 in Portland, Oregon as an architectural salvage, lighting, and hardware restoration shop. Today, we're the premier provider of customizable lighting, cabinet hardware, furniture, and more - timeless designs for all areas of your home and for…

A guide to body language, from former FBI Special Agent Joe Navarro

Non-verbal communication is just as important as the words people say, and these subtle cues can reveal if someone is lying.

The guards caring for Chernobyl's abandoned dogs - BBC Future

The descendants of pets abandoned by those fleeing the Chernobyl disaster are now striking up a curious relationship with humans charged with guarding the contaminated area.

Tardigrades: Nature's Great Survivors

The microscopic animals can withstand extreme conditions that would kill humans, and may one day help in the development of Covid vaccines. How do they do it?

When and how to use power transform in machine learning

Let’s see this powerful tool of data pre-processing

Time Series Forecasting with PyCaret Regression Module

PyCaret is an alternate low-code library that can be used to replace hundreds of lines of code with few lines only. See how to use PyCaret's Regression Module for Time Series Forecasting.

How to think like a detective | Psyche Guides

The best detectives seem to have almost supernatural insight, but their cognitive toolkit is one that anybody can use

The 101 Greatest Endings in Movies History

Good finales offer catharsis. The best deny us closure altogether.

Ode: How to tell a great story | Seth's Blog

Chris Fralic reminded me of this piece I wrote for Ode. Great stories succeed because they are able to capture the imagination of large or important audiences. A great story is true. Not necessaril…

Groundbreaking Effort Launched To Decode Whale Language

In what may be the largest interspecies communication effort in history, scientists plan to use machine learning to try to decode what Sperm whales say to one another. National Geographic reports: [Sperm whales "speak" in clicks, which they make in rhythmic series called codas…

Declinism: how rosy retrospection impacts decision-making

“It was better before,” says your friend. “Ha, those were the days,” your reply with a sigh. Declinism is the belief that societies tend towards decline, often linked with rosy retrospection—our tendency to view the past more favourably and the future more negatively. It may…

This 5-Move, No-Gym Workout Got Matt Damon Fighting Fit in His Forties

Hollywood PT Jason Walsh reveals the back-to-basics workout that healed Jason Bourne's battered body

The Glossary of Happiness

Could understanding other cultures’ concepts of joy and well-being help us reshape our own?

How to Make Fresh Homemade Pasta

No matter your age, skill level, or kitchen set-up, you (yes, you) can make fresh pasta at home. Here’s how.

Announcing Livebook - Dashbit Blog

Livebook is a web application for writing interactive and collaborative code notebooks

Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python

A basic introduction to Western music theory using the Python programming language to derive scales, chords, and modes in every key.

10 Awesome CSS Resources

A list of few CSS resource that help me design the CSS code better. I will give you a brief intro to...

Zero-Shot Learning: Can you classify an object without seeing it before?

Data Science, Machine Learning, AI & Analytics

These 7 phrases can help you sound more powerful at work - Fast Company

Sometimes, it really is what you say that makes a difference.

Find the Right Words to Inspire Your Team

It’s important to understand that when you, as a leader, communicate with your team, using weaker words weakens your message and blunts your ability to inspire people. It’s not enough to just throw thoughts out there and hope for the best. You need to actively recommend ideas…

Hosted Site Search Engine for Websites | Elastic

Elasticsearch is your ticket to a better website search. Learn how fast, relevant search improves customer experience and website performance.

How Did a Self-Taught Linguist Come to Own an Indigenous Language?

The Penobscot language was spoken by almost no one when Frank Siebert set about trying to preserve it. The people of Indian Island are still reckoning with his legacy.

15 Years of Spotify: How the Streaming Giant Has Changed and Reinvented the Music Industry

As Spotify turns 15 this month, we look at 15 ways the streaming giant has changed, reinvented and reshaped music and the music business.

This is How to Repair a Toxic Work Culture

Feeling safe is the magic ingredient to a healthy work environment. In this article Nir discusses novel research on how to eliminate toxic work culture.

Use Python to Design Automation Tools for Excel Users

Design of Excel Automation Tools for Sales Analytics ready to be used by your colleagues without any prior knowledge of Python

newline-sandbox/d3-user-interactions

A D3 project showing a barchart that allows user interactions

Using Gaussian Mixture Models to Transform User-Item Embedding and Generate Better User Clusters

Improve clustering of user-item embedding by using GMM to generate new and tighter features

Extract Tables from PDF file in a single line of Python Code

How to extract and convert tables from PDFs into Pandas Dataframe using Camelot

A 23-Year-Old Coder Kept QAnon and the Far Right Online When No One Else Would

Nick Lim provides tech support to the U.S. networks of White nationalists and conspiracy theorists banned by the likes of Amazon.

9 Distance Measures in Data Science

The advantages and pitfalls of common distance measures

3 Python Tricks That Will Ease Your Life

Explained with examples