A Beginner’s Guide to the Dizzying World of Caribbean Rum

Consider this your entry-level guide to the curious world of Caribbean rum.

Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues explained visually

At 70, Smithsonian Folkways Is An Antidote To Music Algorithms

Smithsonian Folkways, known for its broad-based music catalog, wants to surprise you with sounds you didn't even know existed. The treasured American label turns 70 years old on May 1.

Inside the Final Days of Robin Williams

New York Times reporter Dave Itzkoff details the beloved star’s heartbreaking decline in this exclusive excerpt from Robin, his new biography.

Topic Modeling with Gensim (Python) - A Practical Guide

Topic Modeling is a technique to understand and extract the hidden topics from large volumes of text. Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA) is an algorithm for topic modeling, which has excellent implementations in the Python's Gensim package. This tutorial tackles the problem of…

Swarm Optimization: Goodbye Gradients - DataScienceCentral.com

Fish schools, bird flocks, and bee swarms. These combinations of real-time biological systems can blend knowledge, exploration, and exploitation to unify intelligence and solve problems more efficiently. There’s no centralized control. These simple agents interact locally…

Best Practices for Feature Engineering

Unsure how to perform feature engineering? Here are 20 best practices and heuristics that will help you engineer great features for machine learning.

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AutonomousDrivingCookbook/AirSimE2EDeepLearning at master · Microsoft/Auton

Scenarios, tutorials and demos for Autonomous Driving - microsoft/AutonomousDrivingCookbook

Multi-label classification with Keras - PyImageSearch

In this tutorial you will learn how to perform multi-label classification using Keras, Python, and deep learning.

Alchip Minimizes Dynamic Power For High-Performance Computing ASICs

Alchip Minimizes Dynamic Power for High-Performance Computing ASICs How a fabless chipmaker successfully reduced power consumption within its fishbone clock tree methodology.

Why Entrepreneurship Programs for Engineers Fail

Entrepreneurship is an increasingly core component of commercial work, and one for which students in highly technical fields are ill-prepared. Blended entrepreneurial programs (BEPs) are attempting to answer this need by merging university-level entrepreneurial education with…

First Listen: Ry Cooder, 'The Prodigal Son' : NPR

The 71-year-old raconteur returns to the old songs and inhabits the guises of death-haunted bluesmen to speak to the issues of the current era.

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Tearing Apart Google’s TPU 3.0 AI Coprocessor

Google did its best to impress this week at its annual IO conference. While Google rolled out a bunch of benchmarks that were run on its current Cloud TPU

Making useless things

Simone Giertz, bringer of joy and self-described expert in shitty robots, makes machines that succeed in failing. In her TED talk, Giertz talks about her path from “useless” things to e…

LightTag is a text annotation platform for data scientists creating AI trai

LightTag, a newly launched startup from a former NLP researcher at Citi, has built a "text annotation platform" designed to assist data scientists who

Google Announces 8x Faster TPU 3.0 For AI, Machine Learning - ExtremeTech

Google's new TPUs are here -- and they're quite a bit faster than last year's model.

The Most Unlikely D.A. In America - POLITICO Magazine

He’s a biker attorney who specialized in getting small-time defendants off. He’s considered a gang member by Texas police. And now he’s the county’s chief prosecutor. Can Mark Gonzalez change the system?

The Most Unlikely D.A. In America

Can Mark Gonzalez change the system?

Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts

Online retailers should take a tip from brick-and-mortar stores: shove your best deals to the back of the store. Research by Thales Teixeira and Donald Ngwe.

The Great Unsolved Mystery of Missing Marjorie West

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

Restored vintage Airstream is 140 square feet of mobile bliss

New Airstreams have all the bells and whistles customary in pricey builds, but nothing beats the vintage style of an old Airstream, made modern.

The Various Kinds of IO - Blocking, Non-blocking, Multiplexed and Async.

A blog where I write down my thoughts, ideas and notions, as an exercise to cement them in my memory and improve on their concepts.

Little Sunfish: The Robot That Could - Longreads

How the best robot, "Little Sunfish," helped Japanese scientists understand the scope of the damage at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Indie Hackers: Work Together to Build Profitable Online Businesses

Connect with developers sharing the strategies and revenue numbers behind their companies and side projects.

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The Great High School Impostor | GQ

What Artur Samarin pulled off at a school in small-town Pennsylvania is one of the boldest hoaxes of our time.

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Skewness vs Kurtosis – The Robust Duo

Kurtosis and Skewness are very close relatives of the “data normalized statistical moment” family – Kurtosis being the fourth and Skewness the third moment, and yet they are often used to detect very different phenomena in data. At the same time, it is typically recommendable to…

Why sell barbells?

I'm often asked why I started FringeSport. People inquire, "Of all the things to do, why sell barbells?" I tell them that if I wanted only to make money,

How Does Xilinx Use Its Logic Fabric to Implement Efficient Multipliers?

This article will review the structure of the binary multipliers that use the look-up tables (LUTs) in the Xilinx logic fabric.

Envy’s hidden hand

Namibian hunter-gatherers deride those who stand out. What does this tell us about why, and how, we care about fairness?

Minimalism Is Just Another Boring Product Wealthy People Can Buy

I think it’s probably no secret by now that I hate minimalism. I hate it as the incredibly-tedious piece of […]

You Don’t Have to Surf to Fall in Love With This Bohemian Moroccan Beach To

This is the laid-back Moroccan surf town of your dreams.

Murder at the Alcatraz of the Rockies

The inside story of the first homicide in America’s most secure prison.

Git Commands Ultimate Tutorial [Part 2]

Did you ever have a problem with Git that you knew a command could fix but you just couldn't remember what one it could be? With this tutorial, you can quickly and easily find it, and get a better understanding how each of them works.

Understanding what is behind Sentiment Analysis (Part II)

Fine-tuning our sentiment classifier

A guide to receptive field arithmetic for Convolutional Neural Networks

The receptive field is perhaps one of the most important concepts in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) that deserves more attention from…

Murder at the Alcatraz of the Rockies — The Atavist Magazine

The inside story of the first homicide in America’s most secure prison.

HyperTools: A python toolbox for gaining geometric insights into high-dimensional data — hypertools 0.6.2 documentation

Command Line Tricks For Data Scientists

For many data scientists, data manipulation begins and ends with Pandas or the Tidyverse. In theory, there is nothing wrong with this…

A lost vision of West Virginia – Explore Parts Unknown

Famous photos of Appalachia in the Depression tell only part of the story.

Heavy Rotation: 10 Songs Public Radio Can't Stop Playing

This month's playlist includes the soulful stylings of Leon Bridges and River Whyless' sobering meditation on the American Dream.

Top 10 errors from 1000 Ruby on Rails projects (and how to avoid them)

To give back to our community of developers, we looked at our database of thousands of projects and found the top 10 errors in Ruby on Rails projects. We’re going to show you what causes them and how to prevent them from happening. If you avoid these "gotchas," it'll make you a…

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An Introduction to Hashing in the Era of Machine Learning

In December 2017, researchers at Google and MIT published a provocative research paper about their efforts into “learned index structures”…

Introduction to the CSS Grid Layout With Examples

In this tutorial, I will cover the basics of the CSS grid layout with example scenarios. CSS Grid is supported by almost all modern browsers now, and it is ready to be used in production. Unlike...

Monsieur Bébé: The Brief, Strange Life of Raymond Radiguet

The seventeen-year-old took Paris by storm with his racy, amoral first novel. Shortly thereafter, a séance predicted his untimely death.