All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people

As I focus on becoming a better manager of engineers, I have been reflecting more and more on the advice that produced a 10X boost in my…

How SaaS Products Ascend the “Trust Pyramid”

SaaS products may be the future of how we work, but that future will only happen if we can learn how to build trust with your customers.

8-step SEO Crawl Audit for Ecommerce

Your site won’t rank if search engine bots can’t crawl it. And hidden doors that don’t impact human visitors can lock bots out. Use these eight steps to ensure search bots can access all of your ecommerce site.

Algorithms by Jeff Erickson

WTF is authenticated consent?

Authenticated consent is a term that has started to crop up more and will likely gain more steam in the future. Here's what it means.

Why We Can’t Sit Quietly In A Room Alone

Pascal said we couldn't sit alone in a room, and that this inability makes us miserable. Is he right?

Veblen good - Wikipedia

A Veblen good is a type of luxury good, named after American economist Thorstein Veblen, for which the demand increases as the price increases, in apparent contradiction of the law of demand, resulting in an upward-sloping demand curve. The higher prices of Veblen goods may make…

The Mystery of ‘Skeleton Lake’ Gets Deeper

Hundreds of skeletons are scattered around a site high in the Himalayas, and a new study overturns a leading theory about how they got there.

Why is “courage” suddenly such a popular job requirement?

More and more companies are listing the quality as a requirement for entry-level, minimum-wage jobs.

In Southern Appalachia, Searching for the ‘Big Bang’ of Country Music

More than 90 years ago, recordings in a hat warehouse in Bristol, Tenn., unleashed a quintessentially American musical form.

Taylor and Kanye: How two superstars and four words influenced a decade of pop culture

On the 10-year anniversary of ‘I’mma let you finish,’ a look back at a definitive moment.

Just putting it out there: I still buy MP3s

In this column, “Just putting this out there…,” we write about the odd ways we engage with tech and the unpopular opinions we form about it. You can read the rest of the articles in this series here. One of my biggest sources of inner turmo

To date a dinosaur

Stegosaur expert Susie Maidment is laying crucial groundwork for assigning ages to fossils from North America’s most dinosaur-rich rocks. More precise timings promise to reveal plenty about how the beasts lived and evolved through time.

Walking the Path of the Buddha in a Neglected Corner of India

One man’s dream of bringing enlightenment back to its forgotten birthplace.

What Happened to Aung San Suu Kyi?

A human-rights icon’s fall from grace in Myanmar

What the Heck Is Crab Rangoon Anyway?

On the history and origin of the crab rangoon.

Sahara Desert Libraries Are Home to Thousands of Ancient Texts

These desert libraries have been around for centuries and they hold sacred texts from ancient times.

How Ranch Water Became the Unofficial Cocktail of West Texas | PUNCH

Anyone who’s spent time in West Texas between May and September has experienced the relentless desert sun, offset ever-so-briefly by a bone-dry, tumblewe

Meet the next generation of entrepreneurs. They’re all over 65.

Inside Senior Planet, the tech-savviest retirement community on earth.

Feral Horses, Fierce Controversy - Features - Jason G. Goldman - Alta Onlin

Wild mustang populations are out of control, competing with cattle and native wildlife for resources. If the federal government doesn’t rein them in, ranchers may take matters into their own hands.

The True Story of Wild Rice, North America’s Most Misunderstood Grain

The Ojibwe people of northern Minnesota are sustained by the real wild rice, which they harvest by hand and dry over fire

The British Once Built a 1,100-Mile Hedge Through the Middle of India

This quixotic colonial barrier was meant to enforce taxes.

SoftBank’s first bet in energy storage is a startup that stacks concrete bl

So far, most large investments in energy storage have gone to companies building lithium-ion batteries. SoftBank's newest bet changes that.

This Is the Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry

On the rise of alt meat and the decline of cattle.

Arming the Cartels

The inside story of a Texas gun-smuggling ring.

The Young Man and the Sea Sponge

SpongeBob SquarePants turned 20 this summer. This is the story of how a marine biology teacher named Stephen Hillenburg gave life to an animated character who continues to delight fans worldwide.

Finding Amelia Earhart’s Plane Seemed Impossible. Then Came a Startling Clu

Robert Ballard has found the Titanic and other famous shipwrecks. This month his crew started trying to solve one of the 20th century’s greatest mysteries.

After 36 years as a commercial product, the powerful Micro-Cap circuit simulator is now free

119 votes, 27 comments. 1.2M subscribers in the electronics community. Discussion and news about component-level electronic circuits.

Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it turns out | Carter Sande

Client-side navigation is supposed to make your pages load faster. But when I tried it, it was actually slower! Why?

Manufacturing memory means scribing silicon in a sea of sensors | Ars Techn

“Industry 4.0” is already here for some companies—especially silicon foundries.

A Framework for Moderation

The question of what should be moderated, and when, is an increasingly frequent one in tech. There is no bright line, but there are ways to get closer to an answer.

Is It Possible to Stop a Mass Shooting Before It Happens?

You’ve never heard of her, but somewhere in America, a top-secret investigator known as the Savant is infiltrating online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country.

The Psychology of Prediction · Collaborative Fund

This report describes 12 common flaws, errors, and misadventures that occur in people’s heads when predictions are made.

Amazon is a boring retailer — Benedict Evans

Amazon is so new, and so dramatic in its speed and scale and aggression, that we can easily forget how many of the things it’s doing are actually very old.

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The 5 Feature Selection Algorithms every Data Scientist should know

This post is about some of the most common feature selection techniques one can use while working with data.

To Catch a Counterfeiter — The California Sunday Magazine

Nearly all the world’s counterfeits come from China. Pinkerton is on the case.

This Is Your Brain on Silence - Issue 38: Noise - Nautilus

Nautilus is a different kind of science magazine. Our stories take you into the depths of science and spotlight its ripples in our lives and cultures.

Jacobian matrix and determinant - Wikipedia

In vector calculus, the Jacobian matrix (/dʒəˈkoʊbiən/,[1][2][3] /dʒɪ-, jɪ-/) of a vector-valued function of several variables is the matrix of all its first-order partial derivatives. When this matrix is square, that is, when the function takes the same…

The Humble Brilliance of Italy’s Moka Coffee Pot

In the era of pods, the iconic item has become an endangered species.

The beauty of Japan's lonely vending machines - CNN Style

Photographer Eiji Ohashi has spent nine years photographing Japan’s ubiquitous vending machines in the most remote and sparsely populated locations.

This Is Why It's Nearly Impossible to Study Pain

A fundamental understanding of what pain is continues to evade scientists.

The Admiral of the String Theory Wars

After a decade, Peter Woit still thinks string theory is a gory mess.

Nvidia’s GauGAN has been used to create 500,000 images

Nvidia's GauGAN tool has been used to create more than 500,000 images, the company announced at the SIGGRAPH 2019 conference in Los Angeles.

Advanced Hack: How to Improve Your SEO in Less Than 30 Minutes

FAQpage schema can help your site rank higher in less than 30 minutes. Here's a step by step guide on how to use it.

How Duolingo Built a $700 Million Company Without Charging Users

“We believe true equality is when spending more can’t buy you a better education.” – Duolingo founders When the language learning software company Rosetta Stone went public in 2009, they… Keep reading

TSMC Talks 7nm, 5nm, Yield, And Next-Gen 5G And HPC Packaging

An update on TSMC current and forthcoming logic process nodes as well as their next-generation advanced packaging technologies.

America’s DIY Phone Farmers

Ordinary Americans are using armies of phones to generate cash to buy food, diapers, and beer through ad fraud.

First Programmable Memristor Computer

Michigan team builds memristors atop standard CMOS logic to demo a system that can do a variety of edge computing AI tasks