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'One Night In Miami' Is a Rare Glimpse at the Humanity of Our Heroes

The Amazon Prime original is a colorful dramatization of the night Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown celebrated Muhammad Ali's historic 1964 win in a segregated hotel.

How to be a genius

I travelled the world and trawled the archive to unearth the hidden lessons from history’s most brilliant people

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Text your photos and we'll mail glossy, frameable 4x6 prints to your loved ones.

Google eyes privacy-friendly substitute to cookies - Axios

Tests show advertisers can expect at least 95% of conversions per dollar spent on ads, compared to cookie-based advertising, Google said.

Survival Metrics Are a Powerful Product Tool. Here’s How They Work.

Product teams often know that a project needs to change direction, but they don’t have a way to make that change safely and quickly. Survival metrics empower them to do just that.

When Every Employee Is a Risk Manager

Risk management needs to be part of the daily lives of all employees up, down, and across an organization. Here’s how the Swiss electricity network achieves that.

The High Price of Mistrust

When we can’t trust each other, nothing works. As we participate in our communities less and less, we find it harder to feel other people are trustworthy. But if we can bring back a sense of trust in the people around us, the rewards are incredible.

Hacker News

I’ve spent a lot of time recently thinking about different proof-of-work mechanisms. When I say proof-of-work, I’m not talking about consensus algorithms like the ones that some crypto currencies use. I’m talking about social networks.

How to Talk to People You Disagree With

Bridge the divide with thoughtful conversation techniques, next-level listening, and a dip into the science of changing minds.

New Transistor Structures At 3nm/2nm

Gate-all-around FETs will replace finFETs, but the transition will be costly and difficult.

10 fabulous free apps for working with audio, video, and images

Whether you just need to crop a photo or are ready to edit an ambitious video, you can get the job done without paying a dime.

There’s an “Inverse Piano” in Your Head

A Kavli Prize–winning scientist details the magic of transforming vibrations into sound in the inner ear.

Hacker News

Feeling stressed, irritable, or moody? Doing something productive with your hands might be just the thing that your brain and body need.

Make Boring Plans. You’re probably familiar with the… | by Camille Fournier

You’re probably familiar with the concept of Choose Boring Technology. If you’re not, I’ll wait for you to read the excellent blog post by…

How to build a music recommender system.

Using Spotify’s data to generate music recommendations.

A concept in psychology is helping AI to better navigate our world | MIT Te

The concept: When we look at a chair, regardless of its shape and color, we know that we can sit on it. When a fish is in water, regardless of its location, it knows that it can swim. This is known as the theory of affordance, a term coined by psychologist James J. Gibson. It…

Top 7 Data Structures You Should Really Know for Your Next Job Interview

Master these data structures to land in your next data science job

How to make a beeswarm plot | RAWGraphs

What I Believe Most · Collaborative Fund

Ten things that guide almost everything I think about in business and investing…

8 Examples to Query a NoSQL Database

A practical guide with MongoDB

Setup Ruby on Rails 6 App with MongoDB under 5 Minutes — Aarvy | by Aarvy |

In this article, I will be discussing how to quickly setup a NoSQL database MongoDB with your brand new Rails 6 app. I am using Ubuntu…

The enduring allure of conspiracies

Conspiracy theories seem to meet psychological needs and can be almost impossible to eradicate. One remedy: Keep them from taking root in the first place.

The Gap Between Reputation and Personal Brand

Reputation is old. Personal brands are new. It is useful to know that they are not the same thing.

C’est Si Bon: Eartha Kitt’s Transformative Life

Kitt’s 1989 autobiography, “Confessions of a Sex Kitten,” tracks an icon’s incredible journey from abused child to outspoken star.

Creating a Ruby DSL: A Metaprogramming Tutorial | Toptal

Leverage metaprogramming for better Ruby with this DSL tutorial.

Palantir’s God’s-Eye View of Afghanistan

The company’s software can sift through enormous amounts of data, and those metrics can be used to make life-or-death decisions.

How to be lucky | Psyche Guides

Most of us think that luck just happens (or doesn’t) but everyone can learn to look for the unexpected and find serendipity

This ‘hillbilly madman’ is country music royalty. So why haven’t you heard

The hard life and overlooked brilliance of Zane Campbell.

How Fast Is Ruby 3 on Rails? - FastRuby.io | Rails Upgrade Service

An article by Noah Gibbs about Ruby 3's performance for a Rails application. Ruby 3.0.0-preview1 was a tiny bit slower than 2.7. The release 3.0 is...

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6 NLP Techniques Every Data Scientist Should Know

Towards more efficient natural language processing

17 Free Design Tools for 2021

We update our rundown of free design tools every year. This 2022 installment includes apps for web design, logos, fonts, color palettes, photo and video resources, and much more.

7 Crowdfunding Platforms You Can Use To Boost Your Ideas

Advice, insight, profiles and guides for established and aspiring entrepreneurs worldwide. Home of Entrepreneur magazine.

WTF is a SPAC?

In a SPAC IPO, a shell company goes public with a pledge to investors that it will eventually become a traditional company via acquisition.

Hacker News

During quarantine I designed and built my own CNC router from scratch. This is everything you need to know if you want to do the same.

10 Rules For Writing Thought-Provoking Articles

Over the past five years, I’ve written nearly 400 articles and reached millions of readers. Here's my process for writing articles.

Intel Problems

Intel is in much more danger than its profits suggest; the problems are a long time in the making, and the solution is to split up the company.

Neil Peart: Rush Drummer's Bold Life and Brave Final Years - Rolling Stone

For the first time since the passing of Rush's drum god, Neil Peart, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson speak about his legacy.

Hacker News

When good ideas make bad business

China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival GitHub – Rest of Wor

With GitHub in the crosshairs of Chinese censors, Beijing is backing Gitee as its official hub, an open-source institution tailored for a closed internet.

The difference between note-taking and note-making

Note-taking is fast, uses the original author's language, and feels easier. Note-making is slower, more involved, and uses your own language.

WHERE IS BUM FARTO

In Sept. 9, 1975, William Osterhoudt, a local school principal, looked out at an implausible scene unfolding at the pink house belonging to his neighbor on United Street. Key West Fire Chief Joseph…

What Do Wall Street Leaders Think Is the Next Big Risk?

We asked three executives who’ve spent their careers on the cutting edge of the financial industry what they see coming in 5 to 10 years. Here are their answers.

SVM Classifier and RBF Kernel — How to Make Better Models in Python

A complete explanation of the inner workings of Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernel

Mars. Is. WEIRD.

Dark sprays of material at the south pole of Mars are due to eruptions of CO2 and dust

Lose the earbuds. Ditch the phone. How to get the most out of your music

While homebound during quarantine, making a few budget-friendly tweaks to your listening setup can add depth and dimension to the experience.

America’s Independent Bowling Alleys Might Not Make It Through the Pandemic

Alongside restaurants and bars, recreational spaces like bowling alleys are also feeling the pressures of indefinite COVID-19 closures

Robotic Process Automation with JupyterLab

Introducing a new Jupyter kernel for Robot Framework

How to Create PDF Reports with Python — The Essential Guide

Create PDF reports with beautiful visualizations in 10 minutes or less.