A Powerful Statement of Resistance from a College Student on Trial in Mosco

Yegor Zhukov’s message about responsibility and love shows what political dissent can be and seems to describe American reality as accurately as the Russian one.

Getting Started with Automated Text Summarization

This article will walk through an extractive text summarization process, using a simple word frequency approach, implemented in Python.

Longreads Best of 2019: Crime Reporting

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year. Here is the best in crime reporting.

Imaging technique spots colorectal tumors with 100% accuracy

A new method that provides accurate, real-time, computer-aided diagnosis of colorectal cancer identified tumors with 100% accuracy in a new pilot study.

All Hail the Rat King - Longreads

From Martin Luther to The Nutcracker, Germany's original national nightmare was a tangled knot of writhing rats.

Terms and Conditions Generator | iubenda

Use our terms & conditions generator to make terms and conditions, terms of service, or terms of use in mins. Perfect for sites, apps, ecommerce + more.

Getting Started with React (2019 Edition) ― Scotch.io

See why React is the most popular JavaScript library for building frontends, and use it to build sites and apps.

Texas Music Hour of Power Sat nites 7-9 pm central KRTS Marfa & KWVH Wimber

www.marfapublicradio.orgwww.westtexaspublicradio.orgwww.wimberleyvalleyradio.orgwww.kwvh.orgwww.kpft.org/kpft.org/schedule-hd2/schedule-hd2/Every Saturday nite, yours truly hosts the Texas Music Hour of Power, showcasing all kinds of Texas sounds created over the past century of…

Why This Opportunity Solution Tree is Changing the Way Product Teams Work - Product Talk

Have you heard? My new book Continuous Discovery Habits is now available. Get the product trio's guide to a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery. I’ve found a visual […]

Why Crowdsourcing Often Leads to Bad Ideas

Most crowdsourcing initiatives end up with an overwhelming amount of useless ideas. Dealing with a full submission box is not only extremely time consuming and costly, it also biases how ideas are selected: When firms receive too many ideas, they tend to focus on ideas that are…

They Were the Renaissance Men of Roman Antiquity - The New York Times

Daisy Dunn’s “The Shadow of Vesuvius” is a lively dual biography of the polymath Pliny the Elder and his nephew (and adopted son), Pliny the Younger.

Viral Video Captures the Screams of a Mystery Creature - VICE

Cryptid enthusiasts say this is evidence of Bigfoot.

The Mystical, Mind-Sharing Lives of Tulpamancers

Drawing on ancient Tibetan practices and a very human need for companionship, these people believe they have figured out how to create sentient beings within their own bodies.

Coach O & The Cajun People

An exile from French Louisiana realizes that Ed Orgeron is her very own

The Startling Secret of an Invincible Virus

A phage that resists all forms of the antiviral defense known as CRISPR has an unusual means of survival.

The Resurrection of the Greatest Sci-Fi Writer You’ve Never Read

He was beloved by Neil Gaiman and Robert Jordan, and so good that he won a World Fantasy Award for a Christmas card. How did John M. Ford disappear?

The matrix calculus you need for deep learning

Most of us last saw calculus in school, but derivatives are a critical part of machine learning, particularly deep neural networks, which are trained by optimizing a loss function. This article is an attempt to explain all the matrix calculus you need in order to understand the…

You Don’t Know Jack

Gather ’round, the great American melting cheese has a story to tell.

What Great Listeners Actually Do

Good listening is much more than being silent while the other person talks.

How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math

The building blocks of understanding are memorization and repetition.

Death-Cap Mushrooms Are Spreading Across North America

“There’s nothing in the taste that tells you what you are eating is about to kill you.”

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Museum in a Box

A small, friendly device you put museum objects on to hear their stories... It's history that speaks for itself!

23 Free Web Design Tools from Fall 2019

Free resources from the design community can add value to your ecommerce site. Here is a list of new web tools and design elements from fall 2019. There are designer and developer apps, coding resources, color tools, fonts, and more. All of these tools are free, though some also…

This object-recognition dataset stumped the world’s best computer vision mo

When computer vision detectors are turned loose in the real world, their performance noticeably drops. In an effort to close this performance gap, a team of MIT and IBM researchers set out to create a very different kind of object-recognition dataset called ObjectNet.

But wait, there’s more: the psychology of selling - Ness Labs

Even unintentionally, you’ve probably seen one of these infomercials on TV. The presenter goes through all the supposedly amazing features of an obscure product with an excited voice, an urgent tone, as if he or she was sharing an important secret few will be lucky enough to…

Anyone’s Son

Cody Dalton Eyre, a 20-year-old Alaskan Native, was having a mental health crisis on Christmas Eve, 2017 when his mother called 911 for help. So why did police officers end up shooting and killing him?

How to conquer work paralysis like Ernest Hemingway

The author wasn’t all about literary masterpieces, dry martinis and rakish charm – he also invented a technique that can beat procrastination and boost productivity.

The Hummingbird Whisperer

They’re tiny and they hover, and they’re one of only three groups of birds that are vocal learners. They sing with their mouths andtheir feathers. No wonder UC Riverside researcher Chris Clark is obsessed with hummingbirds.

Alone at the Top of Texas

With the state’s four highest peaks, Guadalupe Mountains National Park offers incredible vistas and rewarding trails, which you just might have mostly to yourself.

A new way to make quadratic equations easy

Many former algebra students have painful memories of struggling to memorize the quadratic formula. A new way to derive it, overlooked for 4,000 years, is so simple it eliminates the need.

Preferred Networks: A 500 W Custom PCIe Card using 3000 mm2 Silicon

The Story of the Game Operation

When you were a kid, it was always fun to play Operation, a game in which you fished parts out of a patient named Cavity Sam, and you had be precise or you'd complete an electric circuit and a buzzer would sound. It was not the first game based on an electric circuit- Ben…

The Depths of the Sea

What creatures live in the depths of the sea? Manatees go about 6 meters into the depths of the water. Polar bears will dive down as far as 24 meters. A thick-billed murre, which is a bird, will search for food as deep as 210 meters.It's a long, long way down past that. Neal…

The Simple Math behind 3 Decision Tree Splitting criterions

This post is about various evaluation metrics and how and when to use them.

Metaflow: Netflix's Python framework for data science is now open source

Build and manage real-life ML, AI, and data science projects with Metaflow.

Getting output of system() calls in Ruby - Stack Overflow

If I call a command using Kernel#system in Ruby, how do I get its output? system("ls")

BERT Explained: A Complete Guide with Theory and Tutorial

Unless you have been out of touch with the Deep Learning world, chances are that you have heard about BERT — it has been the talk of the town for the last one year. At the end of 2018 researchers …

Best Screenplay Goes to the Algorithms - Issue 79: Catalysts

Learning to appreciate the future of literature.

ChessRoots - Chess opening graph from over 800 million Chess games

Chess openings visualized from over 800 million Lichess games, 2 million tournament games and 1 million chess engine games.

Ethos, Pathos, Logos: how to persuade people

The three modes of persuasion — ethos, pathos, logos — are useful skills to master to persuade people and to understand how you’re being persuaded yourself.

Kitchen Rhythm: A Year in a Parisian Pâtisserie - Longreads

An Oxford grad learns to navigate boiling sugar, sleep deprivation, and exacting pastry chefs with whom she can barely communicate.

Paradoxical Geniuses: “Let us burn the ships”

In 1519, Hernán Cortés landed 500 men in 11 ships on the coast of the Yucatan, knowing that he was openly disobeying the governor of Cuba and that he was facing unknown numbers of potential enemies…

UUID Primary Key in Rails 6 with PostgreSQL and ActiveRecord

UUID also known as GUID is an alternative primary key type for SQL databases. It offers some non-obvious advantages compared to standard integer-based keys. Rails 6 release fresh out of beta introduces a new feature in ActiveRecord that makes working with UUID primary keys more…

A ‘Thrilling’ Mission to Get the Swedish to Change Overnight

How a whole country of drivers all switched lanes at the same time.

Crossed Stitches

Beverly Pennington was a Pinterest-perfect entrepreneur whose patchwork quilts—made from people’s most treasured T-shirts—found thousands of devotees all over the country. But when the quilts stopped coming, leaving the shirts in limbo, her customers pieced together a plan to…

The First Family of Counterfeit Hunting

Robert Holmes taught his sons everything he knew about exposing black-market knockoffs. Now they take down the world’s biggest scammers while dodging threats from the mob.

Lessons From a ‘Local Food’ Scam Artist

Working summers at an authentically quaint roadside produce stand, a teenage salesperson is schooled in the not-so-subtle art of how to con a foodie from the big city.

The Real-Life Hollywood Hoax That Turned a Fake Bradley Cooper Epic Into a $14 Million Scam

Adam Joiner’s silver-screen dreams were finally coming true. He had a deal with Netflix, a superstar lead and even interest from Spielberg. There was only one problem: His entire story was a lie

Snow’s Queen

On Saturdays Tootsie Tomanetz cooks barbecue the old-fashioned way for legions of loyal fans. That doesn’t mean she’ll ever give up her day job.