Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shared this article from New York magazine: In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the largest digital ad-fraud operations ever uncovered…
Google published a strategy book that's a gold mine of data driven tips for increasing sales.
They’re known as the Jills. They’re two of America’s top realtors, selling the glitziest mansions in Miami. Then a place went missing—and everyday greed blossomed into full-blown extortion.
The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm teaches your computer how to riff. The algorithm takes in an archetypical input, and produces procedurally-generated outputs that look like it.
Halibut with mole blanco. A giant soup dumpling. A mug of oysters. Queso. Our Dining Guide contributors share their favorite bites of 2018 from across the state.
How do you scale a system from one user to more than 11 million users? Joel Williams, Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect, gives an excellent talk on just that subject: AWS re:Invent 2015 Scaling Up to Your First 10 Million Users. If you are an advanced AWS user this
Hitman-for-hire darknet sites are all scams. But some people turn up dead nonetheless
In Mexico, this staple — made with heirloom corn — is under pressure from mass production and modernity, but small producers are pushing back.
From political satire to middle school woes.
One of the companion segments of Jay Ward's Rocky and Bullwinkle Show television program of the early 1960's was Fractured Fairy Tales, a 'retelling' of familiar fairy tales that you only thought you were familiar with. In this example, a Prince Charming who looks and acts…
Certificates and public key infrastructure (PKI) are hard. No shit, right? I know a lot of smart people who''ve avoided this particular rabbit hole. Eventually, I was forced to learn this stuff because of what it enables: PKI lets you define a system cryptographically. It''s…
The most successful companies and products of the internet era have all been predicated on the concept of network effects, where the network becomes more valuable to users as more people use it. This is as true of companies like Amazon and Google as it is for open source…
The exploits of a high school football team can become small-town legend. For the Prestonsburg Blackcats of Eastern Kentucky, the 1993 season “was like something out of a movie, if you’ve ever seen ‘Hoosiers,’ ” one coach said. Reality, however, left more complicated memories.
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Computers can generate faces that look real. What a time to be alive. As it becomes easier to do so, you can bet that the software will be used at some point for less innocent reasons. You should p…
Accurately determine parasitic effects with the proper set up of two different methods.
Management teams are responsible for making sense of complex questions. Maybe it’s estimating how much a market will grow next year, or finding the best strategy to beat a competitor. One popular approach for navigating these questions is turning to the “wisdom of crowds” –…
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Charged with manslaughter, the owners were acquitted in December 1911. A Smithsonian curator reexamines the labor and business practices of the era
Attacks by elephants on villages, people and other animals are on the rise. Some researchers are pointing to a species-wide trauma and the fraying of the fabric of pachyderm society.
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Explore a glimpse into how M. Seibel thinks about leadership attributes and some contrarian views that may be at the heart of how he picks great companies.
Every artist copies; Bowie was at his best when he stole from the best, as this 19-hour playlist shows.
How to get the most from the notebook environment
A new metric can help companies pinpoint performance issues on the semiconductor supply chain.
A special kind of origami folding called Miura Ori could help make antennas that can block out certain radio frequencies or next-gen cloaking tech.
They work in hotel rooms, Airbnbs and used RVs just over the state line, so women can give birth on their own terms.
Being able to think clearly is not easy. Working memory is limited, making thinking harder. Luckily, there's a tool to expand and improve your thinking.
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Here are the top 15 Python libraries across Data Science, Data Visualization. Deep Learning, and Machine Learning.
Pricing is a good place to make a few critical resolutions for businesses. Learn the 5 resolutions as you shape your pricing strategy for 2019.
If you’re interested in using the ideas from Stoicism as a way of life, feel free to listen to my podcast series called Practicing Stoicism.
A $5,571 bill to sit in a waiting room, $238 eyedrops, and a $60 ibuprofen tell the story of how emergency room visits are squeezing patients.
Dear designers/marketers (and innocent person reading this note), So, you’re doing customer interviews and user research, good for you! You’ve joined the fold of responsible, empathetic, and effective product design and marketing professionals. But you sound like a robot when…
This is an adaptation on a recipe that was emailed to me. The original recipe was from The New Family Cookbook for People with Diabetes. It goes wel
Donald Knuth, master of algorithms, reflects on 50 years of his opus-in-progress, “The Art of Computer Programming.”
How a cat litter scientist from Iowa ended up in an NBA star’s inner circle.
Prior to 1976, the FDA did not regulate medical implants, and so shoddy and even deadly devices proliferated, inserted into Americans' body. When the FDA finally decided to regulate implants,…
Charlie Santore sees Los Angeles from the inside, by breaking into safes whose owners can no longer unlock them.
The Notorious R.B.G.'s influence on American politics and modern culture has been an inspiration for women in the United States and throughout the world.
"The dogs and cats fled in terror at his aspect, as if they had anticipated the kind of fate he was preparing for them."
They worm into snails and infect the brains of fish. They’ve also found their way into Kevin Lafferty’s heart. He sees them as beautiful examples of sophisticated evolution, and as keys to ecosystem balance.
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” — Oscar Wilde