The Last Two Northern White Rhinos On Earth - The New York Times
What will we lose when Najin and Fatu die?
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How Amazon’s Business Practices Harm American Consumers: Why Amazon Needs a
Why Amazon Needs a Competitor and Why Walmart Ain’t It
Lessons learned in incident management
Perspective | My two weeks with John le Carré: What I learned about writing, fame and grace when I showed him around Miami in 1991.
He wanted to learn about the Miami drug world and had been told I could help.
Intel Core i9-10850K Review: The Real Intel Flagship
Edit fstab to Auto-Mount Secondary Hard Drives on Linux
Did you know there's an easier way to mount your secondary hard drive on Linux? The process involves a few simple edits to the fstab file on your system.
Looks vs. Results: My ugly ad got 150% more clicks than a professional desi
Making things look nice can take a long time, either due to lack of resources or abundance of opinions. This could delay launches, frustrate people, and waste precious energy. Those are high costs for startups or companies hoping to move fast. Is it worth it? Long ago I got fed
Patterns — Gordon Brander
This is my bag of tricks — loose notes, design patterns, rules-of-thumb, tools, cheatsheets, gimmicks, leverage points, descriptions of systems, key questions, risks, and unknowns.
The “Sublime Text of X”
A product framework for explaining why Superhuman is the Sublime Text of Email.
Speculation Grows As AMD Files Patent for GPU Design
Long-time Slashdot reader UnknowingFool writes: AMD filed a patent on using chiplets for a GPU with hints on why it has waited this long to extend their CPU strategy to GPUs. The latency between chiplets poses more of a performance problem for GPUs, and AMD is attempting to…
How to Auto-Mount a Drive at Boot in Linux - Tuxinit
A simple tutorial on how to to auto mount your drive/partition in linux at boot. (2 methods for both terminal and GUI users)
Sandia National Laboratories: Z Pulsed Power Facility: How Does the Z Machi
Marx Bank Generator Marx Bank. Each Marx bank has sixty 2.6 μF capacitors (43 nF per Marx when erected) that are charged in parallel and discharged in series. When charged to 85 kV its output voltage is 5.1 MV, and stored energy is 20 MJ for all 36. (For a 90 kV charge it is 5.4…
How to Stop Endless Discussions with RFCs
When we find ourselves in endless debates where everyone defends their idea, we don't know how to handle the situation. We eventually find a way out, but what we need is an excellent system.
6 Cool Python Tricks You Should Know | by Soner Yıldırım | Jan, 2021 | Towa
Go beyond the usual
Bookshelf — Gordon Brander
Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement
A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus; discussion and…
The quest for quantum-proof encryption just made a leap forward
Quantum computers could make encryption a thing of the past, but 15 contenders are trying to prove they have what it takes to safeguard your data.
Papers with Code 2020 Review
Papers with Code indexes various machine learning artifacts — papers, code, results — to facilitate discovery and comparison. Using this…
Pocket - Anchor Boxes — The key to quality object detection
If you have ever had to tinker with anchor boxes, you were probably frustrated, confused and saying to yourself, “There must be another…
Anchor Boxes — The key to quality object detection
A recent article came out comparing public cloud providers’ face detection APIs. I was very surprised to see all of the detectors fail to…
Meet whale! ? The stupidly simple data discovery tool. | by Robert Yi | Dat
And why your data science team needs it.
Image Processing with Python — Blurring and Sharpening for Beginners
How do you apply convolution kernels to colored images?
The Owl's Right Eye - Unintended Consequences
Why China considers a covered eye to be dangerous. And why people still do it. From the winking owl to the Hong Kong protest eye patch.
A Practical Introduction To Dependency Injection
This article is the first part of an upcoming series that provides a practical introduction to Dependency Injection in a manner that immediately permits you to realize its many benefits without being hampered down by theory.
Sustainable Sources of Competitive Advantage · Collaborative Fund
This article originally appeared on Fortune.com.
Why Competitive Advantages Die · Collaborative Fund
A few factors I’ve seen pull winners off the podium…
Pylift: A Fast Python Package for Uplift Modeling – Wayfair
Uplift models seek to predict the incremental value attained in response to a treatment. For example, if we want to know the value of showing an advertisement to someone, typical response models will only tell us that a person is likely to purchase after being given an…
How to Automate Tasks on GitHub With Machine Learning for Fun and Profit |
A tutorial on how to build a GitHub App that predicts and applies issue labels using Tensorflow and public datasets.
The Top Affiliate Marketing Networks
Looking to grow your affiliate marketing site but aren't sure which affiliate network is right for you? Here's everything you need to know.
10 Stochastic Gradient Descent Optimisation Algorithms Cheat Sheet | by R
Stochastic gradient descent optimisation algorithms you should know for deep learning
chart-doctor/visual-vocabulary at master · ft-interactive/chart-doctor
Sample files to accompany the FT's Chart Doctor column - Financial-Times/chart-doctor
The Poke Paradox
Where culinary bliss meets environmental peril, and how to solve America’s poke problem.
Junction-to-Case Thermal Resistance in Thermal Design
Learn about an important thermal metric for designing the interface between an IC package and a heat sink.
Dan McKinley :: Choose Boring Technology
Designing with a Heat Sink for Junction-to-Case Thermal Resistance
Watch the thermal measurement, junction-to-case thermal resistance, in action as we use it to calculate the thermal considerations for a given system.
AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be Enabled By Xilinx T
Intel has been talking about on-processor FPGAs since 2014, but AMD's patent might actually result in one.
Quantum Teleportation Was Just Achieved With 90% Accuracy Over a 44km Dista
Wow.
TabFS
A browser extension that mounts your browser tabs as a filesystem on your computer.
Social Cooling - Big Data's unintended side effect
If data is the new oil, what's the new global warming? Social Cooling asks the question: is our faith in big data slowly making us more well behaved.. but less human?
What band were you slow to realize was awesome? As in, you liked a single s
25K votes, 12K comments. 49M subscribers in the AskReddit community. r/AskReddit is the place to ask and answer thought-provoking questions.
When COVID hit, a Colorado county kicked out second-home owners. They hit b
How a group of nonresident homeowners tried to influence a rural Colorado election.
In this rapaciously dry year, a quiet question grows louder: What are we do
Drought, dread and family in the American Southwest.
Dr. Death: The Shocking Story of Christopher Duntsch, a Madman with a Scalp
Plano surgeon Christopher Duntsch left a trail of bodies. The shocking story of a madman with a scalpel.
Russian Off-Roaders Crossed 2,000 Miles of Siberia to Reach One Of The Most
Oh, you hit the fire road again with your lifted Wrangler? Cute.
How to Talk Like a Physicist - Facts So Romantic
Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, who probably is the smartest person on her block, has fun in her latest video skewering the scientific braggart.Photograph by Francisco De Legarreta C. / Unsplash Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The…
The Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants: Discover the 1977 Illustrated Gu
I mean, the idea that you would give a psychedelic—in this case, magic mushrooms or the chemical called psilocybin that's derived from magic mushrooms—to people dying of cancer, people with terminal diagnoses, to help them deal with their - what's called existential distress.
Travel Throwback: Svalbard's call of the Arctic - Lonely Planet
With so much of the world inaccessible right now, we’re taking a look through our archive of travel writing to revisit our past trips and to look at how Lonely…
The Squid Hunter | The New Yorker
The giant squid has taken on a near-mythical status for generations of sailors, explorers, and writers. How could something so big remain unseen—or be less understood than dinosaurs?
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Why procrastination is about managing emotions, not time - BBC Worklife
Address the real reasons you procrastinate and you’re more likely to start achieving your goals.