The Mauritania Railway: backbone of the Sahara

Careening through the desert, a massive railway sustains life in northwest Africa

Cookbook — Bayesian Modelling with PyMC3

Recently I’ve started using PyMC3 for Bayesian modelling, and it’s an amazing piece of software! The API only exposes as much of heavy machinery of MCMC as you need — by which I mean, just the pm.sample() method (a.k.a., as Thomas Wiecki puts it, the Magic Inference Button™)…

When Recurrent Models Don't Need to be Recurrent

Algorithms off the convex path.

Bandit Algorithms

Memory app Timehop built an ad server to go from near-death to profitable

Timehop's 15-person team ended up creating its own ad server. A year and a half later, CPMs have grown from $2 to $28.

Amazon is testing an attribution pixel, a key step in rivaling the duopoly

Like Google and Facebook, Amazon wants to take credit for the success of ads outside its own platform.

Sevanavank in Sevan, Armenia

This ancient monastery complex was transformed from an island to a peninsula when the lake was partially drained.

Lalah Hathaway: Tiny Desk Concert

The veteran singer showcases her soaring powerfully expressive voice in a performance that bridges several generations of classic soul.

A satellite engineer explains the challenges of space electronics

Mystery of the cargo ships that sink when their cargo suddenly liquefies

We know how to stop solid minerals converting to a liquid state mid voyage – so why does it still happen?

How a Brutal Mafia Enforcer Became a Deadly Serious Marathoner

Discover extraordinary true stories celebrating the diversity of humanity. Click to read Narratively, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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Top PirateBay Alternatives — Free Movie and Torrent Download Sites

Discover the latest Piratebay news, best torrent sites, and top Piratebay proxies. Stay updated on the Piratebay alternative sites and secure VPN serv

20 Best Bootstrap 4 Plugins

Totally open source and free to use, Bootstrap has become one of the most popular front-end frameworks for desktop and mobile development. With a mobile-first approach, the framework essentially...

IP addresses & routing - Julia Evans

CLI: improved

I'm not sure many web developers can get away without visiting the command line. As for me, I've been using the command line since 1997, first at university wh…

Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A – Chick-fil-A Tech Blog – Medium

How to Motivate Frontline Employees

One question that has long plagued organizations is how to create high-performing front lines — without unexpected consequences. The solution may be simple: Focus on motivating frontline workers. An experiment with a national retail organization found that transforming the…

One Deep Learning Benchmark to Rule Them All

Over the last few years we have detailed the explosion in new machine learning systems with the influx of novel architectures from deep learning chip

A Feature Selection Tool for Machine Learning in Python

Using the FeatureSelector for efficient machine learning workflows

The Ultimate Angular CLI Reference Guide — SitePoint

Create new Angular 2 applications, scaffold components, run tests, and build for production with Jurgen Van de Moere's guide to Angular CLI

The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time | Penguin Random House

Relish this list of the best sci-fi books of all time, including both classic tales and works thats have been flying under the radar.

The Looking Glass makes sci-fi movie-style holograms a reality

The disclaimer at the very beginning of the video should be indication enough that the things you are about to see will blow your minds away. After decades of watching 3D holographic projections in movies like the Star Wars franchise, a Kickstarter project is bringing the…

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Emotion and Sentiment Analysis: A Practitioner’s Guide to NLP

Sentiment analysis is widely used, especially as a part of social media analysis for any domain, be it a business, a recent movie, or a product launch, to understand its reception by the people and what they think of it based on their opinions or, you guessed it, sentiment!

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Justifying Investments with the Capital Budgeting Process

The capital budgeting process involves applying the time value of money concepts to business investment decision making. It is critical towards ensuring that capital is invested into the right projects.

How to be human: the man who was raised by wolves

The long read: Abandoned as a child, Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja survived alone in the wild for 15 years. But living with people proved to be even more difficult

9 Food Markets Around the World We'd Hop on a Plane For

Because food tourism is the best tourism.

It Came From the ’70s: The Story of Your Grandma’s Weird Couch

Futzing around on social media, as one does, I recently stumbled upon a meme that hit close to home. Over a picture-patterned sofa in an autumnal-colored ...

https://thinkinginpublic.org/story/why-on-earth-is-stubbs-bbq-sauce-for-sale-in-a-prague-grocery-store/

The Man Who Walked Backward

When the Great Depression put Plennie Wingo’s bustling Abilene cafe out of business, he tried to find fame, fortune, and a sense of meaning the only way he knew how: by embarking on an audacious trip around the world on foot. In reverse.

The Fences Between Us

Nothing comes easy when you’re dividing up the countryside.

Tutorial: Intro to React – React

The library for web and native user interfaces

https://stephenmann.io/post/whats-in-a-production-web-application/

Why Adding More Products Isn’t Always the Best Way to Grow

Product expansion is often used as a path to growth, but it can have unintended consequences for other aspects of the business — including the customer experience central to the company’s value proposition. Indeed, current trends are moving away from broad offerings in many…

Why This Japanese Knife Takes 42 Days to Make

Inside the workshop of Japan’s Miyabi Knives.

Magical West Texas hot spot springs up to beckon Austin travelers

Desert Getaway

A Counterintuitive Way to Shape Demand

Investing in more efficient ways for consumers to use your core commodity as it faces disruptive competition can be a smart move.

Creating value at industrial companies through advanced pricing techniques

Faced with tough competition and uncertainty in raw-material prices, industrial companies must reset their pricing architecture.

People Don’t Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves

What Apple, Samsung, and Starbucks learned from Pepsi

Jupyter Notebook Tricks for Data Science that Enhance your efficiency

Edited: Update on 2018-11-23 Added: Table of Content, %debug magic, nbdime for notebook diffing

Can Liquor Have a Local Taste? They’re Banking on It (Published 2018)

No one is sure whether spirits can convey “terroir” like wine does. But distillers are seeking, and selling, that sense of place.

Forever 21 visual search tool boosted purchase value by 20%

The fast-fashion retailer has debuted, and quickly expanded, an AI-based visual search and navigation tool for its mobile and e-commerce business.

How a hacker network turned stolen press releases into $100 million - The V

International hackers based in Ukraine stole unpublished press releases and passed them to stock traders to reap tremendous profits.

Home Audio Like You’ve Never Heard (Or Seen) It

Designer Chanmi Lee rethinks home entertainment in an all-new, never-before-seen format known as the Wind Sound Bar. Don't be confused by the name, however... this is anything but the sound bar you're probably imagining. The design adopts a shape similar to that of a trumpet or…

When Local Roller Rinks Had Their Own Collectible Stickers

Distinctive designs from the "Golden Age" of roller-skating.

Introduction to Switching-Mode Power Amplifiers: Class D Operation

In this article, we'll learn the basics of switching-mode RF amplifiers in general and Class D amplifiers in particular.

eCommerce 101: Understanding Shopping Cart Abandonment [with Infographic]

An illuminating infographic highlights 10 e-commerce pain points that ruin the user experience and lead to shopping cart abandonment.

This deck of cards will spark small, IRL experiences

The fabulous Lea Redmond of Leafcutter Designs (previously) has launched a brand new project. It's called Lively Matter and it's a 52-card activity deck to create grand adventures and experiences…