How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People
Somebody had to foot the bill for Anna Delvey’s fabulous new life. The city was full of marks.
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The Day the Dinosaurs Died
A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth.
Welcome to Bokeh — Bokeh 1.0.4 documentation
Bokeh is a Python library for creating interactive visualizations for modern web browsers. It helps you build beautiful graphics, ranging from simple plots to complex dashboards with streaming data...
This woman quit her job to live on the road. Now capturing life on the road
From artists to advocates, a new book highlights women in the outdoors.
The Underground Railroad of North Korea - GQ
The story of a desperate North Korean woman who risked her life to reach freedom, and of the complicated man who led the way.
Casting Curses and Love Spells with the Most Powerful Witches in Romania
Witchcraft is very much alive in Romania, and even politicians fear its power. We join the country’s most famous witch dynasty and partake in their yearly rituals.
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The Brain That Remade Itself
Doctors removed one-sixth of this boy’s brain — and what was left did something incredible
Introducing spaCy v2.1 · Blog · Explosion AI
Version 2.1 of the spaCy Natural Language Processing library includes a huge number of features, improvements and bug fixes. In this post, we highlight some of the things we're especially pleased with, and explain some of the most challenging parts of preparing this big release.
‘In Afghanistan, We Laugh Differently’
For a handful of teenage girls, robotics offered a reprieve from their violent, patriarchal country. Now they are back home, with the Taliban poised to gain power.
The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob
The feds knew him as a prolific bank robber. But the bearded man who eluded them for so long was not who they imagined him to be. And absolutely no one expected the story to end the way it did.
The Startlingly Flavorful Dressing That Will Boost More Than Just Your Sala
Stir together a few ingredients, and you have a sauce that will improve boiled broccoli, leafy mustard greens, even pizza crusts.
10 Top Sports APIs
The Illustrated Word2vec
Discussions: Hacker News (347 points, 37 comments), Reddit r/MachineLearning (151 points, 19 comments) Translations: Chinese (Simplified), French, Korean, Portuguese, Russian “There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace…
Heaven Can Wait: The Hidden Genius of Elaine May - The Ringer
Improvising legend. Filmmaking maverick. Comedy savant. Screenwriting secret weapon. Elaine May is one of the most important people in American pop cultural history. Why isn’t she more celebrated? That’s exactly how she wants it.
Show Your Skills With A Bootable CV
It’s a thankless task, searching for a job. You send off your CV, or resume, and it joins a thousand other destined for the round file. What on earth can you do to make your career stand out,…
Easy Git Repository Summaries With Web-git-sum
For those hosting their own git repositories there are a number of solutions for creating convenient web-accessible front ends, but [mitxela] wasn’t quite satisfied with any of them. After tr…
How to Deliver Constructive Feedback in Difficult Situations
Thoughtful, empathetic language can make or break your business relationships
ART OF MONEY GETTING
A US$28 million Picasso masterpiece was missing for 20 years, until the art
Art historian Arthur Brand managed to track down the 1983 painting Buste de Femme (Dora Maar), which went missing from a Saudi prince’s boat in 1999.
Name It, and They Will Come — overreacted
A change starts with a story.
How the Brain Links Gestures, Perception and Meaning | Quanta Magazine
Neuroscience has found that gestures are not merely important as tools of expression but as guides of cognition and perception.
I wrote a story that became a legend. Then I discovered it wasn’t true. - C
In 2003, with what felt like an angel on my shoulder, I wrote a story that became a myth. It was a once-in-a-lifetime piece. An emblem for human courage in the face of adversity, and an inspiration for motorcyclists like me, that swept the world in its small way. It would have…
How the music of 1950’s Cuba revolutionized the sound of young Senegal
“Dakar was where everyone came to make music.”
Who Still Buys Wite-Out, and Why?
Correction fluids have improbably outlasted the typewriter and survived the rise of the digital office.
Boy, 12, said to have created nuclear reaction in playroom lab
Hobbyists say Jackson Oswalt of Tennessee is youngest person to achieve fusion
Stupid Advice: “You’ll Never Be Rich Working for Somebody Else”
Is being an entrepreneur really necessary for success? Here's why you should ignore the hype and how to pick your career path instead.
The Quest to Acquire the Oldest, Most Expensive Book on the Planet | Litera
A wooden box containing one of the most valuable books in the world arrives in Los Angeles on October 14, 1950, with little more fanfare—or security—than a Sears catalog. Code-named “the commode,” …
Buc-ee’s: The Path to World Domination
Beaver Aplin built the quirky convenience chain into a Texas empire. Will his tactics translate outside the state?
A journey to the Disappointment Islands
In 1765, an English explorer gave two islands a rather unfortunate name that has sheltered them from the world and preserved one of Earth’s last paradises.
Jeremy Mikkola - Rules for Autocomplete
15 Steps to Understand & Influence User Behavior: A Deep Dive
Understanding user behavior is key to understanding how users interact with your product. Here are 15 steps to analyze & change their interactions to your benefit.
Awesome Ruby
Your go-to Ruby Toolbox. A collection of awesome Ruby gems, tools, frameworks and software. 1319 projects organized into 137 categories.
100-Year-Old Negatives Discovered in Block of Ice in Antarctica
For the past 100 years, a box of never-before-seen negatives has been preserved in a block of ice in Antarctica. Recently, Conservators of the New Zealand
The Dark Romance and Grim Reality of Life in the French Foreign Legion | Va
Legionnaires need war, and Afghanistan is winding down. But there's always the hopeless battle against rogue gold miners in French Guiana . . .
An AI invented a bunch of new paint colors that are hilariously wrong
Let’s just say this neural network won’t make you fear the robot uprising.
What a beautiful tiny house in rural Japan can teach us about the health of
Guests are transforming the sleepy town into a major destination for tourists seeking the "real Japan."
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
$9 Marketing Stack: A Step-by-Step Guide
Update 2016-10-18: This tutorial has been updated to reflect the latest version of my stack (now with Drip!). I’ve also updated pricing info (it’s technically a $0 stack now) and screenshots. The original outdated article is archived here. “Just tell me what to do so I can stop
nfl-football-ops/Big-Data-Bowl: Homepage for the National Football League's
Homepage for the National Football League's Big Data Bowl - nfl-football-ops/Big-Data-Bowl
The Definitive 2019 Guide to Cryptographic Key Sizes and Algorithm Recommen
A simple, accessible recommendation for key sizes and recommended algorithms for various cryptographic algorithms.
The Home Of SXSW Is So Much More Than That: How Austin Got Weird : NPR
A new book, Austin to ATX, explains the creative, contrarian history of the Texas capital. As South By Southwest ravages a large swath of the city, let's take a look back.
The Believer — The California Sunday Magazine
Why the world was wrong about the "worst Olympian ever."
Working efficiently with JupyterLab Notebooks
Being in the data science domain for quite some years, I have seen good Jupyter notebooks but also a lot of ugly. Notebooks can have the perfect balance between text, code and visualisations but how often do your notebooks rather get messy and incomprehensible after a while?…
The Impossibly Cool Album Covers of Blue Note Records: Meet the Creative Te
Blue Note release—whether or not you were a fan of jazz or had heard of the artist or even the label. “If you went to those record stores,” says Estelle Caswell in the Vox Earworm video above, “it probably wasn’t the sound of Blue Note that immediately caught your attention.
The History of the Color Blue: From Ancient Egypt to the Latest Scientific Discoveries
Some scientists believe that the earliest humans were actually colorblind, and had no concept of the color blue.
Startup Sheds Some Light On Optical Processing
Optalysys, a startup based in the United Kingdom, has introduced an entry-level optical coprocessor, the first such system of its kind on the market. The
Project Management Tools Comparison: Jira vs Trello vs MS Project vs Baseca
Project management software comparison websites list about 600 different project management tools and choosing the right one can be head-spinning. We provide a list of 6 essential Project Management tools and insights on which types of projects they are most suited for.
Outline of The Elephant in the Brain
Cone of Shame Notecards
Spawned from her Cone of Shame series, photographer and creative director Winnie Au's new notecards—which are currently funding on Kickstarter—are essentials for dog lovers and design enthusiasts alike. Stylist Marie-Yan Morvan created