The Low-Key Carter-Era Pleasures of “The Muppet Show”
On the original show, which is now streaming for the first time on Disney+, bits of fabric and glue and yarn become complexly real.
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SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases
The Great Cottonmouth-Catching Get-Rich-Quick Scheme of 1956
As a reptile-obsessed teen, I ran away to hunt lizards in the Everglades, then hatched a plan to milk venom from deadly snakes. It went even more comically wrong than you're thinking.
The John Patterson Kidnapping in Mexico - The Atlantic
In 1974, John Patterson was abducted by the People’s Liberation Army of Mexico—a group no one had heard of before. The kidnappers wanted $500,000, and insisted that Patterson’s wife deliver the ransom.
Out of thin air: the mystery of the man who fell from the sky | Air transpo
The long read: In 2019, the body of a man fell from a passenger plane into a garden in south London. Who was he?
Hiking the Mountain Trails Less Traveled in Colorado – Texas Monthly
The hills are alive with socially distant adventures.
Inside the Thrilling, Slightly Terrifying World of Austrian Hut-to-Hut Hiking
Up, up, and away!
How to create custom scikit-learn classification and regression models
Scikit learn is *the* go to package for standard machine learning models in Python. It not only provides most of the core algorithms that…
Useful List Of APO Transaction Codes
When Red Means “Go”: Color and Cultural Reactance in Risk Preferences
Color can affect judgment and decision making, and its effects may vary across cultures. Research reported in this article shows that cross-cultural color effects on risk preferences are influenced by personal associations of color-gain/loss. Our research finds a cultural…
DIY XGBoost library in less than 200 lines of python
XGBoost explained as well as gradient boosting method and HP tuning by building your own gradient boosting library for decision trees.
The Real Book - 99% Invisible
Since the mid-1970s, almost every jazz musician has owned a copy of the same book. It has a peach-colored cover, a chunky, 1970s-style logo, and a black plastic binding. It’s delightfully homemade-looking—like it was printed by a bunch of teenagers at a Kinkos. And inside is the…
Property Taxes by State in 2024
11 Times Faster Hyperparameter Tuning with HalvingGridSearch
Successive halving completely crushes GridSearch and RandomSearch
Embrace the Grind - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Sometimes, programming feels like magic: you chant some arcane incantation and a fleet of robots do your bidding. But sometimes, magic is mundane. If you’re willing to embrace the grind, you can pull off the impossible.
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The Unlikely Rise of the French Tacos
How an upstart fast food became essential dining in the home of haute cuisine.
Hacker News
At Channable we use Nix to build and deploy our services and to manage our development environments. This was not always the case: in the past we used a combination of ecosystem-specific tools and custom scripts to glue them together. Consolidating everything with Nix has helped…
Using PyTorch + NumPy? You're making a mistake.
A bug that plagues thousands of open-source ML projects.
The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Jerry Seinfeld — A Comedy Legend’s Systems, Routines, and Methods for Success (#485) - The Blog of Author…
Please enjoy this transcript of my interview with entertainment icon Jerry Seinfeld (@jerryseinfeld). Jerry’s comedy career took off after his first appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1981. Eight years later, he teamed up with fellow comedian Larry David to…
10 questions to ask in a job interview that will really expose a company's culture - Fast Company
Simple questions that can speak volumes about your prospective employer.
The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup
As grandiose as the title of this article might sound, I should clarify we’re talking about a low-stress, one-person company that I run from my flat here in Germany.
Neuroscience may have a part in why you're playing Taylor Swift's songs on
Taylor Swift literally has music down to a science
A Hedonist’s Guide to Dining in and Around Big Bend
For a food obsessive like me, Big Bend’s culinary scene rivals the nature.
How to Accelerate Signal Processing in Python
This post is the seventh installment of the series of articles on the RAPIDS ecosystem. The series explores and discusses various aspects of RAPIDS that allow its users solve ETL (Extract, Transform…
Wicked Fast Python With Itertools
A quick look at an easy way to make Python faster and more effective for machine-learning by using the itertools module.
Ruby 3.0.1 Released
Sapphire Rapids CPU Leak: Up to 56 Cores, 64GB of Onboard HBM2
Sapphire Rapids, Intel's next server architecture, looks like a large leap over the just-launched Ice Lake SP.
CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top
Rice University computer scientists have demonstrated artificial intelligence (AI) software that runs on commodity processors and trains deep neural networks 15 times faster than platforms based on graphics ...
Taxonomies: Connecting Users to Content
Taxonomies may be thought of as hierarchies of categories to group and organize information to be found when browsing, or as a structured set of terms used to tag content so that it can be retrieved efficiently and accurately. Sometimes the same taxonomy may serve both purposes…
Arabic NLP: Unique Challenges and Their Solutions
Pre-processing Arabic text for machine-learning using the camel-tools Python package
Yonder — OFLAND
Welcome to Ofland (formerly Yonder)! We've changed our name! New Name. Same Magic. More Adventure. Learn More here.
Authentic Hummus
This is the best hummus recipe (seriously.. the BEST!) based on authentic Lebanese method. If you want the smoothest, creamiest hummus this is it!
git stash - Store your uncommitted changes aside to work on it later
Introduction In this post, we'll be looking at the git stash command and its usage. We com...
Screw it, I’ll host it myself
It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Likewise, it’s all fun and games until someone loses access to their private and/or business data because they trusted it to someone else.
First Google-Sponsored MPW Shuttle Launched at SkyWater with 40 Open Source
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. and SAN JOSE, Calif. – April 6, 2021 – SkyWater Technology, the trusted technology realization partner, and Efabless, a crowdsourcing design platform for custom silicon, today announced the first tapeout in a series of Google-sponsored open source…
Deploying a basic Streamlit app to Heroku
This article demonstrates the deployment of a basic Streamlit app (that simulates the Central Limit Theorem) to Heroku.
Beginner’s Guide to XGBoost for Classification Problems
Utilize the hottest ML library for state-of-the-art performance in classification
FUD: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
Why it’s so hard for a hospital in Tanzania to fix broken incubators
Medical device companies have used a range of tactics that have made independent repairs harder, with devastating consequences.
Working Backwards - Commonplace - The Commoncog Blog
Working Backwards is the first book that explains how Amazon really works.
Research: How to Get Better at Killing Bad Projects
Most innovation managers know that few of their initiatives will succeed, so they keep multiple projects running at the same time and create processes for quickly separating winners from losers. One popular way to make decisions about what stays and what goes is the use of stage…
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Wikipedia
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients. Sacks chose the title of the book from the case study of one of his patients who has visual agnosia, a neurological…
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'I almost wet myself laughing': 50 funny podcasts to make you feel much better
Has your daily walk become an endless trudge to nowhere? These podcasts, chosen by comedians, podcasters, Guardian writers and readers, are guaranteed to bring a smile to your face
PostGIS – Spatial and Geographic Objects for PostgreSQL
The 7 A's of demand planning: A guide for CPG brands
Imagine a business that runs better. “Better” looks like Integrated Business Planning—a harmonious framework in which sales, finance, and supply chain operations combine long-term profit goals and short-term demand planning efforts for a balanced, unified trajectory.
Deploying a basic Streamlit app
This article demonstrates the deployment of a basic Streamlit app (that predicts the Iris’ species) to Streamlit Sharing.
Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part IVa: Dyed in the Wool
This post is also available in audio form, thanks to the efforts of our volunteer narrator. This is the first half of the fourth part of our four part (I, II, III, IVa, IVb) look at the production …