15 Docker Commands Beginners Should Know

In this post, basically, I don't put options. If you think this command is lacking something import...

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Brain Damage Saved His Music

After a chunk of his brain was removed, guitarist Pat Martino got his groove back.

How to Save a Loggerhead

Go behind the scenes at the South Carolina Aquarium's Sea Turtle Care Center during a nearly yearlong journey to get a massive injured loggerhead back home

How a 6,000-Year-Old Dog Cancer Spread Around the World

A massive collection of dog tumor samples is revealing the secrets of a contagious, parasite-like cancer that could help explain human cancers too.

This Italian Town Always Smells Like Panettone

The Galup factory and its sweet Christmas bread is the pride of Pinerolo

He'd been kept alive with tubes for nearly 17 years. Who is he, and is it possible he’s conscious?

Finding out his name turned out to be the easy part. The tough part was navigating the blurred lines that separate consciousness from unconsciousness — and figuring out whether his smile was really a smile.

A History of Blue Note Records in 15 Albums (Published 2019)

The most storied label in jazz turns 80 this year. Hear the music that shaped its legacy.

One-Shot Learning: Learning More with Less Data

Hidden Networks: Network Effects That Don’t Look Like Network Effects – And

Many of the most consequential projects of the internet era — from Wikipedia to Facebook and bitcoin — have all been predicated on network effects, where the network becomes more valuable to users as more people use it. As a result, we’ve become really good at analyzing and…

TIL when Rockstar first released Grand Theft Auto, they actually paid reviewers to negatively review the game in order to keep it…

117K votes, 4.1K comments. 38M subscribers in the todayilearned community. You learn something new every day; what did you learn today? Submit…

The 5 Sampling Algorithms every Data Scientist need to know

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

Five Command Line Tools for Data Science

You can do more data science than you think from the terminal.

Why 40% of Vietnamese People Have the Same Last Name

Everyone knows a Nguyen, but how did that come to be?

The tiny video store that survived Netflix

In the wake of an algorithm-led video store apocalypse, Captain Video stays afloat by offering a rarity: human interaction.

Vickrey–Clarke–Groves auction

A Vickrey–Clarke–Groves (VCG) auction is a type of sealed-bid auction of multiple items. Bidders submit bids that report their valuations for the items, without knowing the bids of the other bidders. The auction system assigns the items in a socially optimal manner: it charges…

The Hidden Patterns of Great Startup Ideas

5 frameworks to help Founders coming up with a new startup idea that is the most likely to lead to a transformative company.

The Pirates Strike Back

With so many video streaming services now, we need a unifier

Why Not The Worst?

Primers – Math ∩ Programming

Why Power Brings Out Your True Self

Are you a tyrant or a servant?

In Search of Alaska’s Deadliest Catch: The Sea Cucumber

As a cuke deckhand, your job first and foremost consists of making sure your diver survives

The Multimillion-Dollar Junkets That Introduced Americans to Olive Oil

The olive oil industry spent millions of dollars throughout the ’90s to try to sell American chefs and nutritionists on the Mediterranean diet. It worked.

Can Bowling Win Over the ‘Lebowski’ Generation?

Fox Sports is certainly betting on it. And it just might have the stars to make it work.

The secret seat of the Knights Templar

Under the cobblestoned streets of Paris’s chicest district lie the remnants of the mysterious Knights Templar’s mightiest stronghold.

The King of Adventure Stares Down Death

A rodeo cowboy, skydiver, firefighter, ultramarathoner and motorcycle racer, Coach Stroud is a 71-year-old badass. And he’s determined to die on his own terms.

Don’t Camp at Walmart

Big-box parking lots are an easy stopgap, but there’s so much public land waiting for those willing to look a little.

What exactly is a disease?

There is an ongoing debate about whether or not obesity is a disease. The debate raises other questions, such as, who gets to decide what is a disease and what isn't.

Searching for The Sundays

When music writers are also music fans, they can walk a line between appreciative and intrusive.

On Hitler’s Last Desperate Plan to Destroy Paris

On August 23rd, the day after Dietrich von Choltitz dispatched Rolf Nordling to contact the Allies, Hitler sent a message to Field Marshal Walther Model and von Choltitz demanding that Paris be hel…

The Murders That Shook a Mountain Town

Last winter, Moroccan officials found two hikers dead on the trail to the highest peak in the Atlas Mountains. The international investigation that followed revealed the fragility of the adventure travel economy, as well as what happens when a small tourist hub is suddenly made…

How Capicola Became Gabagool: The Italian New Jersey Accent, Explained

A linguistic exploration.

What This Drawing Taught Me About Four-Dimensional Spacetime

Stuck in his research, a cosmologist finds a hint in an intricate drawing.

Restaurant Secrets From Nobu: Reservations, Unruly Celebs, Sushi

From celebrity seating warfare to dogs sipping Champagne, there’s never a dull moment at America’s most famous sushi joint.

Dr. John: The Joy and Mystery of a New Orleans Saint

Few embodied the spirit of New Orleans, or helped take its music to strange new places, the way the man born Mac Rebennack did.

Wanderland: a journey through Iran’s wild west

Nomads have been central to the country’s history for centuries. Anthony Sattin joins the roaming empire

Losing the News

The Charleston Gazette-Mail, known for its dogged accountability journalism, survived a merger and bankruptcy. Will it survive a new owner with ties to the very industries its reporters have been watchdogging?

The Art of Saying No to Invites When You REALLY Don't Want to Do Something

Plus how to actually do it—with sample scripts

Stan Smith: The Man Who Became A Shoe

How Stan Smith went from a "decent" tennis player to the most popular trainer on the planet

Buried Power Lines Make Memory Faster - IEEE Spectrum

Researchers at imec explore strategy that could make memory more efficient and pack in more transistors

The Comedians, The Mob and the American Supperclub by Kliph Nesteroff

"The Mob was an integral part of everything." - Comedian Jackie Curtiss "I worked for a lot of gentlemen of that persuasion over the years. I learned a long time ago when I worked for Frank Costello in New York...

TF-IDF: The best content optimization tool SEOs aren’t using - Search Engin

Term frequency–inverse document frequency uncovers the specific words that top-ranking pages use to give target keywords context.

yzhao062/pyod: A Python Toolbox for Scalable Outlier Detection (Anomaly Det

A Python Library for Outlier and Anomaly Detection, Integrating Classical and Deep Learning Techniques - yzhao062/pyod

Bullet Time

An inquiry into how young people are hanging out on the internet.

In Memory And Near-Memory Compute

How much power is spent storing and moving data.

5 tactics that encourage customer reviews

Make sure your business pages are claimed and ready for reviews – then be ready with a strategy to respond to them.

Articles - Ness Labs

This archive page lists the last 100 articles in the Ness Labs library by date and title. Articles are listed in reverse chronological order with the newest articles at the top and the oldest ones at the bottom. If you want to read the best articles first, you can also explore…

30 mental models to add to your thinking toolbox - Ness Labs

Mental models affect how we see problems and people. Depending on how you use them, mental models can be incredibly constructive or destructive.

Free SaaS tools for companies on a budget (and a pre-formatted budgeting sheet) - Canny Blog

Not every SaaS company has endless spare money. One of the biggest piggy bank breakers are the tools we use—and it adds up fast.

Our 6 Must Reads for Cutting Through Conflict and Tough Conversations

Big ideas, strong-willed characters, impossible deadlines and close quarters — if you wrote out a recipe for conflict, it might bear an uncanny resemblance to the high-stakes, pressure-cooker environment of a startup. We spoke with top engineers, seasoned managers and experts in…