The Zen of Weight Lifting

Chop wood, carry water and other lessons that apply far beyond the gym.

Inside the Secret World of Global Food Spies

Retail giants turn to bitcoin technology to combat food-fraud that costs the global food industry up to $40 billion every year.

The last of the great explorers

The ocean floor is the Earth’s last great uncharted region. Oliver Franklin-Wallis joins the man descending to the bottom of the deepest trenches on the planet

In Search of Life’s Smoking Gun

A journey to the underwater volcanoes where life may have erupted.

Enhancing IO Ring Checks For Consistent, Customizable Verification

Making sure IO rings comply with IP and SoC design rules.

Electromagnetic Challenges In High-Speed Designs

Runaway complexity is making it more difficult and critical to deal with signal integrity in a system context.

It’s a Cascade of 14nm CPUs: AnandTech’s Intel Core i9-10980XE Review

We’d have more quantum computers if it weren’t so hard to find the damn cables

Quantum machines will deliver the next great leap forward in computing, but researchers building them can’t easily get some of the exotic components they need.

The wild story behind the NBA's most unlikely heist

How did an executive in one of the league's smallest markets steal millions of dollars -- and get away with it for years?

Powerful computer vision algorithms are now small enough to run on your phone

Researchers have shrunk state-of-the-art computer vision models to run on low-power devices. Growing pains: Visual recognition is deep learning’s strongest skill. Computer vision algorithms are analyzing medical images, enabling self-driving cars, and powering face recognition…

Counting FLOPS and other CPU counters in Python

On the Linux command line it is fairly easy to use the perf command to measure number of floating point operations (or other performance metrics). (See for example this old blog post ) with this approach it is not easy to get a fine grained view of how different stages of…

The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

Behavior Science Expert Chase Hughes Trains Real-World Jason Bournes on How

Hint: It has to do with laundry.

A Very Old Man for a Wolf

He was the alpha male of the first pack to live in Oregon since 1947. For years, a state biologist tracked him, collared him, counted his pups, weighed him, photographed him, and protected him. But then the animal known as OR4 broke one too many rules.

How containers work: overlayfs - Julia Evans

I Bought an Elephant to Find Out How to Save Them

At a time of unprecedented mass extinctions, no animal epitomizes the global biodiversity free fall more than the Asian elephant. Paul Kvinta travels to Laos to visit a moon-shot project aimed at saving the country's 400 remaining wild behemoths, investigate the strange…

The Innocent Pleasure of Trespassing

Liberating ourselves by treating the world as a free place to roam.

19 Free Tutorials for Google Analytics

Google Analytics may be the most important application to understand the behavior of your visitors. And whether you’re a beginner or an experienced user, there are many free resources to help. Here is a list of free tutorials for Google Analytics.

The most remote emergency room: Life and death in rural America - The Washi

If anything defines the growing health gap between rural and urban America, it’s the rise of emergency telemedicine in the poorest, sickest, and most remote parts of the country, where the choice is increasingly to have a doctor on screen or no doctor at all. These physicians…

The transhumanists who want to live forever

For a core of longevity true believers, the time to intervene is now.

The Final Days Of Japan's Most Incredible Arcade

Japan is known for its video arcades, from the tiniest little collections of claw games in basements to entire high-rise buildings packed with floor after floor of video amusements. On Sunday, November 17, perhaps the most elaborately themed arcade in the country, Anata no…

How Turkish coffee destroyed an empire

Kahve was a favourite drink of the Ottoman Empire’s ruling class. Little did they know it would one day hasten the empire’s demise

Harnessing the Power of Shower Thoughts

One of the best ways to learn and come up with new ideas is to focus intensely on a problem, then let your mind wander. I’ve enjoyed doing this when problem solving and learning, and recently I’ve been thinking about how weird it is to build trust in your unconscious to do the…

They Love Trash

Young rebels take on the unpleasant byproducts of festival culture.

Star Wipers Makes the Rags That Clean Up All Your Messes

Before there was recycling, there was the rag trade.

How We Built Uber Engineering’s Highest Query per Second Service Using Go |

The Best Employees Are Not the Agreeable Ones, According to Adam Grant

Grant said he separates workers along two axes: givers and takers, and agreeable and disagreeable.

Rules of Machine Learning: | Google for Developers

Into the abyss: The story of the MV Lyubov Orlova

What really happened to the MV Lyubov Orlova, a Russian cruise liner that was abandoned in St. John's Harbour nine years ago and eventually drifted out to sea as a rat-infested ghost ship? To find the answers, reporter Randi Beers delves into some Soviet history, the secretive…

How VCs Make Money

Digging into "Two and Twenty" & VC compensation

Yes, You Can Catch Insanity

A controversial disease revives the debate about the immune system and mental illness.

Postgres is a great pub/sub & job server

If you need a publish/subscribe or job server at any point in your project, try using Postgres. It'll give you lots of data integrity and performance guarantees, and it doesn't require you or your team learning any new technology.

How I Built A $200K/Month Business Selling Proofreading Courses

Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?Hello! My name is Caitlin Pyle, and I start Proofread Anywhere back in 2014. I help proofreaders earn extra income from anywhere in the world… even if you’re starting from scratch! I have two different courses: Transcript…

LimeWire: The Oral History of the App That Changed Music Forever

In 2001, the internet’s premier file-sharing service Napster was shut down after just two years, leaving a giant vacuum in the ever-expanding peer-to-peer file-sharing space....

In Kansas, girls didn’t have a wrestling championship of their own. Mya Kretzer changed that.

For many female wrestlers, the toughest challenge is finding opponents.

It’s Not Enough to Be Right. You Also Have to Be Kind.

Takedowns and clever quips are easy, but empathy and persuasion are better

Undercover in the Orthodox Underworld

Chained wives, violent rabbis, and one woman’s mission to infiltrate an Orthodox crime ring

Inside Shenzhen’s race to outdo Silicon Valley

Shenzhen flooded the world with cheap gadgets. Can it now become what Silicon Valley never did—a global hub of innovation, entrepreneurship, and manufacturing?

The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction of the Decade

Friends, it’s true: the end of the decade approaches. It’s been a difficult, anxiety-provoking, morally compromised decade, but at least it’s been populated by some damn fine lite…

O Sister, Where Art Thou?

History makes no mention of what was one of the most popular all-female country acts ever. Yet the story of the Goree Girls—inmates who banded together in the forties at Texas’ sole penitentiary for women—is worth a listen.

Cut out everything that’s not surprising | Derek Sivers

https://blog.floydhub.com/introduction-to-adversarial-machine-learning/

Understanding UMAP

UMAP is a new dimensionality reduction technique that offers increased speed and better preservation of global structure.

The Minor Regional Novelist

Texas may have inspired Larry McMurtry to become a writer, but there is no writer who has inspired an understanding of Texas quite like Larry McMurtry. At age eighty, our most iconic author still has work to do.

Leonard Cohen and the Divine Voice

A new short film captures some of Cohen’s reflections on creativity and spirituality, and on preparing for the end of life.

Decisions, Decisions or Why Baskets of Options Dominate

“Crazy. They believe that an option on a basket is better than a basket of options.” My interjection abruptly halted the executive…

Inference Results – MLPerf

MLCommons ML benchmarks help balance the benefits and risks of AI through quantitative tools that guide responsible AI development.

Research Guide: Advanced Loss Functions for Machine Learning Models - KDnuggets

This guide explores research centered on a variety of advanced loss functions for machine learning models.

This is How Tiny Changes in the Words You Hear Impact Your Thinking

In a fascinating look at language, a professor lays out how political parties can sway supporters with tiny tweaks in word choice.

Two Things to Do After Every Meeting

To make sure productivity doesn’t slow after you walk out of the room, do two things after and in between meetings.