A while back, there was a discussion comparing the performance of using the hashbrown crate (based on Google’s SwissTable implementation1) in the Rust compiler. In the last RustFest, Amanieu was experimenting on integrating his crate into stdlib, which turned out to have some…
In a recent survey of 100 productivity hacks, timeboxing — migrating to-do lists into calendars — was ranked the most useful. Timeboxing can give you a much greater sense of control over your workday. You decide what to do and when to do it, block out all distractions for that…
In early 2003, long on confidence and short on foresight, the United States invaded Iraq and sent its despot into hiding. Fifteen years ago this month, we found him. (And that’s when our real challenges began.) Here, the harrowing story of Saddam Hussein’s capture, as told by…
Ted Kaczynski’s letters from jail.
There were only about three or four ramen shops on Oahu when Hidehito Uki founded Sun Noodle in 1981. Ramen in America was pretty much just a cup of noodles you cooked in the microwave. Uki — who...
Unlikely comrades Diana Taurasi and Brittney Griner play overseas for the money. As it turns out, they also simplify their lives.
We tend to take a very special interest in archives and maps on this site—and especially in archives of maps. Yet it is rare, if not unheard of, to discover a map archive in which every single entry repays attention.
I had to build a UI recently and (for the first time in a long while) I didn't have the option of using React.js, which is my preferred solution for UI these
One-off collaborations, movie soundtracks and internet upstarts provided some of the most exciting music this year.
Amid the brutal civil war, a town fought off the regime and the fundamentalists—and dared to hold an election. Can its experiment in democracy survive?
Brands are giving the masses the illusion that they are consuming luxury, when in reality they are doing nothing of the sort, argues Eugene Rabkin.
There are many techniques to detect and optionally remove outliers from a dataset. In this blog post, we show an implementation in KNIME Analytics Platform of four of the most frequently used - traditional and novel - techniques for outlier detection.
‘A middle-aged woman in teddy bear-spangled pajamas came hurtling down on a flatbed tricycle.’ Pallavi Aiyar returns to China.
Courtney Dauwalter specializes in extremely long races. But her success in winning them has opened a debate about how men’s innate strength advantages apply to endurance sports.
For the first eight years of my career I was in the U.S.
We’ve all seen Ansel Adams’ luscious black-and-white images of Yosemite. Lesser known are his pictures of life in World War II-era Los…
Product is at the epicenter of everything a product led growth (PLG) company does. So how does the product organization and its PMs need to adapt? Find out here.
It offends rich people who don’t like fun, and what’s more fun than that?
In 2016, a West Virginia police officer came upon a young man in distress who asked the officer to shoot him. The officer didn’t. A few minutes, another officer did. Only one of them lost their job.
On the football field, one team went from six to eleven. Another went from eleven to six. And both faced challenges they didn’t expect.
Jen Hyde discovered that her heart valve was made by women working in a factory near her childhood home. Getting to know them brought her closer to her own mother.
The previous post in this series (excerpted from the Objective Analysis and Coughlin Associates Emerging Memory report) explained why emerging memories are necessary. Oddly enough, this series will explain bit selectors before defining all of the emerging memory technologies…
The biggest question in ecommerce A/B testing is not “how.”
Anaconda is the birthplace of Python data science. We are a movement of data scientists, data-driven enterprises, and open source communities.
Open new routes to successful conversations with colleagues, friends, and family.
Why Chips Die Semiconductor devices face many hazards before and after manufacturing that can cause them to fail prematurely.
A secretive hedge fund used the British court system to punish an IP thief‚ even though he was already in jail.
"We tried to create something that felt very sculptural and responded to the scale of the property," says one of the architects of the house.
These Leftover Turkey Pot Pie Empanadas, or hand pies are a delicious way to use up your leftover Thanksgiving turkey!
After flames engulfed an Atlanta highway last year, police arrested Basil Eleby for arson. The fire could have destroyed his life. Instead, it may have saved it.
Researchers fly the first atmospheric aircraft to use space-proven ionic thrust technology
The making of a white-nationalist poster girl.
How an obscure legal document turned New York’s court system into a debt-collection juggernaut.
A Thanksgiving story about the limits of human empathy.
Sometimes we make decisions based on how they will look to others rather than whether or not they will produce the best outcomes. This article looks at why we tend to do that, and what we can do instead.
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When people are rude, our ego demands we respond in kind with a quick comeback or snide remark. If we give in, we might feel better in the short term, but pay a huge price in the long run. There’s a much better way to diffuse the situation, (and get what you want.)
The ancient traditions reveal an astonishing understanding of chemistry.
Some consider him a master. That takes work.
Ansel Adams captured many an American landscape as no photographer had before or has since, but in his large catalog you'll find few pictures as immediately striking as — and none more famous than — Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico.
It's named what? Figure out what Amazon Web Services should actually have been called.
They made music together, took drugs, and slept together. But none of the legends of Laurel Canyon, including Joni Mitchell and David Crosby, remember it the same way.
The Santa Ana winds of Southern California are sometimes called the “Devil Winds.” They pick up in the late summer and early fall, sweeping down from the mountains and across the coast. They’re hot and dry, and known for creating dangerous fire conditions. In late November of…
From cold cuts to cold case.
Web Components comprises a set of standards that enable user-defined HTML elements. These elements can go in all the same places as traditional HTML. Despite the long standardization process, the ...
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What if clearing trackers was as easy as cleaning your computer screen?
The Art Institute of Chicago recently unveiled a new website design. As part of their first design upgrade in 6 years, they have placed more than 52,000 high-resolution images from their collection online, available to all comers without restr