A startup’s competitive advantage is execution speed. That quickness stems from a CEO’s ability to decide and this ability separates the great from the good. According to a recently published Harvard Business Review article, one of the four key behaviors distinguishing…
Great thought and effort go into creating restaurant menus – and there are some very powerful psychological tricks employed to make you choose.
“Robby the Robot”, the seven-foot tall creature featured in the 1956 science fiction film Forbidden Planet, sold at auction for US$5.375 million, a record for a film prop, a New York auction house said on Tuesday.
After crops failed, botanist Kathleen Drew-Baker realized that nori wasn’t what it seemed.
The author presents 10 statistical techniques which a data scientist needs to master. Build up your toolbox of data science tools by having a look at this great overview post.
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Helium may not seem harmful, but the gas, a byproduct of fusion, can destroy metal, making fusion power a distant dream. A new material could change that.
Take the rough with the smooth: how the sound of a voice is multisensory, and creates interior meaning through metaphor
The musical formula for good vibrations.
Lessons learned from opening a brick-and-mortar retail store may apply to online merchants, providing insights about promoting products, driving sales,
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Emil Mikhailov is the founder of XIX.ai [http://XIX.ai] (YC W17). Roman Trusov is a researcher at XIX.ai. Recent studies by Google Brain have shown that any machine learning classifier can be tricked to give incorrect predictions, and with a little bit of skill, you can get them…
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Collection of generative models, e.g. GAN, VAE in Pytorch and Tensorflow. - wiseodd/generative-models
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PyTorch Tutorial for Deep Learning Researchers.
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To stop society's unsustainable demand for ever-more resources, we need to decentralize and localize our economy. Combining the new ledger technology with UBI may be the way to make that happen.
Hello all and welcome to Part 3 of building the JackBlockChain — JBC. Quick past intro, in Part 1 I coded and went over the top level math and requirements for a single node to mine its own b…
The Kullback-Leibler divergence between two probability distributions is sometimes called a "distance," but it's not. Here's why.
Cryptographers have researched zero-knowledge proofs for two decades, but the technique is only just now poised to redefine the concept of online privacy.
In Northern Albania, vengeance is as likely a form of restitution as anything the criminal-justice system can offer.
The spillover from retailer debt will flow far and wide across the economy.
Breakthrough that could lead to greatly increased performance and more energy-efficient computer memory and processing technologies
Legacy plans and pricing kneecaps your growth and can crush your relationships with your customers.
Last night I figured out what might kill crypto. And it’s not a black swan event. History suggests it’s the natural end of the path we’re on today.
People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the "liquid networks" of London's coffee houses to Charles Darwin's long, slow hunch to today's high-velocity web.
Yes, really, nothing but Python! Anvil has a drag-and-drop editor, Python in the browser and on the server, and one-click deployment.
Tech specs have more utility than most engineers realize.
From the Red Sea to Hong Kong in 10 minutes – a stunning cargo-ship timelapse
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Roxane Gay: "It is painfully transparent that people with tiny house budgets often have McMansion dreams"
Rather than simply selling products, more and more companies have begun to sell projects, helping customers achieve a specific goal on a specific timeframe. For example, consider the evolution of medical device maker Philips. After more than a century of profitable existence…
In this article, we explore 7 interesting yet simple techniques to visualize geospatial data that will help you visualize your data better.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is hot. Over $4 billion in venture capital has been invested in AI firms just in the US. But supply chain planning software companies, with their cadre of operations research Ph.Ds who have been modeling complex problems for decades, may be better…
Meet the hidden pressures shaping design, from the waistlines of kings to the whims of 18th Century wagon drivers.
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