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Goodbye Gatekeepers
Harvey Weinstein was a gate-keeper — a position that existed in multiple industries, including the media. That entire structure, though, is untenable on the Internet, and that’s a good thing.…
Brooklyn Academy of Music Puts Online 70,000 Objects Documenting the Histor
Yesterday the sad news broke that The Village Voice will discontinue its print edition.
How to be a World-Class Negotiator
How to be a better negotiator: tips from Christopher Voss, former international FBI hostage negotiator for 24 years
You Don’t Find Your Purpose — You Build It
We’re all looking for purpose. Most of us feel that we’ve never found it, we’ve lost it, or in some way we’re falling short. But in the midst of all this angst, we’re also suffering from fundamental misconceptions about purpose. Challenging these misconceptions could help us…
The Science Behind Smarter Decision Making: 7 Mental Models To Know
Every one of us make dozens, if not hundreds of small to big decisions on a daily basis. Some don’t impact our lives at all, while some can change the outcome of our entire lives. Whether it’s trying to figure out which job you should take,
Joni Mitchell: Fear of a Female Genius
One of the greatest living artists in popular music still isn’t properly recognized. Joni transcends gender, genre, and time. Here’s why.
14 Mental Models to Help You (And Me) Think Clearly, Rationally, and Effect
Here’s some good news: You can train your brain to think faster and work smarter.
Memristor-Driven Analog Compute Engine Would Use Chaos to Compute Efficient
With Mott memristors, a system could solve intractable problems using little power
Comparing NLDM And CCS delay models - Paripath - improving sign-off
Post date: Sep 19, 2014 10:01:08 PM
HackerNoon - read, write and learn about any technology
How hackers start their afternoon. HackerNoon is a free platform with 25k+ contributing writers. 100M+ humans have visited HackerNoon to learn about technology
Anger is temporary madness: here’s how to avoid the triggers | Aeon Ideas
Anger is temporary madness: to avoid the triggers, follow the Stoics’ advice and achieve a kind of serenity
The scientists persuading terrorists to spill their secrets
The long read: Expert interrogators know torture doesn’t work – but until now, nobody could prove it. By analysing hundreds of top-secret interviews with terror suspects, two British scientists have revolutionised the art of extracting the truth
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Ruby “execute shell command” examples | alvinalexander.com
24 Tips for a Winning Win / Loss Analysis
Running a win loss analysis can greatly impact your bottom line. But how do you do so effectively? Get all the tips here.
Here's What Happened When I Opened a Restaurant in Portland
We closed Renard down more than nine months ago, but every night (and often early in the morning), first thing after waking up, I lie there and write the story of my failure over, and over and over again.
See the Beautiful, Campy Posters of Meat Fight
Posters that come high in protein.
Onboarding a product manager – do’s and don’ts in the first few weeks
Want to get the most out of your first month as a product manager? Want your new hire to hit the ground running? Here's our best practices.
Machine Learning | Google Developers
Japanese Vending Machines at Night Juxtaposed with a Wintry Hokkaido Landsc
“In Hokkaido where I live, winters are harsh and snows are deep,” says photographer Eiji Ohashi. “Every day can become rather inconvenient” due to the constant snowfall. But heavy snows also bring wintry wonderlands and the discovery of small pleasures. One snowy night. Ohashi…
Fisher's method - Wikipedia
In statistics, Fisher's method, also known as Fisher's combined probability test, is a technique for data fusion or "meta-analysis" (analysis of analyses). It was developed by and named for Ronald Fisher. In its basic form, it is used to combine the results from several…
jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets: IPython widgets for the Jupyter Notebook
Interactive Widgets for the Jupyter Notebook.
Building Interactive Dashboards with Jupyter
Looking to bring more features into your Jupyter Notebooks? Lean about the powerful features that can be added to enhance business intelligence.
H2O.ai Releases H2O4GPU, the Fastest Collection of GPU Algorithms on the Ma
The Ultimate Python Seaborn Tutorial: Gotta Catch 'Em All
In this step-by-step Python Seaborn tutorial, you'll learn how to use one of Python's most convenient libraries for data visualization.
Can American soil be brought back to life?
A new idea: If we revive the tiny creatures that make dirt healthy, we can bring back the great American topsoil. But farming culture — and government — aren't making it easy.
Locking A Loophole
The Biden administration’s push to close an obscure loophole on imports highlights just how disruptive the Temu model really is.
Did Frank Sinatra Really Perform at My Grandma's High School?
Because sometimes you have to fact-check your grandmother
The Dumb Domain Store : Weird Domains Quick
The place you go when you need a cheap domain and you’re lazy.
The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich: End of a Tax Evasion Strategy
I wrote a decade ago about the Double Irish Dutch Sandwich, a strategy for corporations to evade taxes that was widespread and large-scale enough to come to the attention of the International Monetary Fund. But due to various changes in national and international tax agreements…
The Fever Called Living by Evan Malmgren
On the plight of environmental-illness refugees
Memory Fundamentals For Engineers
eBook: Nearly everything you need to know about memory, including detailed explanations of the different types of memory; how and where these are used today; what's changing, which memories are successful and which ones might be in the future; and the limitations of each memory…
caret Cheatsheet
It can be found on the RStudio cheatsheet page. Suggestions and pull requests are always welcome.
How Not To Sort By Average Rating – Evan Miller
Users are rating items on your website. How do you know what the highest-rated items are?
The Tater Tot Is American Ingenuity at Its Finest
The genius move that turned potato scraps into a frozen-food empire
Complete Guide to Delegation for Leaders
My earliest memories of delegation involve elementary school group projects in which my classmates didn’t take the assignment seriously. More often than not, this left me in the undesirable position…
The economics of GPUs: How to train your AI model without going broke
AI won't replace you, but someone using AI will — so it’s time to embrace AI, and it’s possible to do so even on a low budget.
12 Terminal Commands Every Web Developer Should Know About - Tutorialzine
A collection of Unix commands that will greatly improve your web dev workflow.
The End of Season Tickets
The great unbundling is upon us, thanks to an aggressive rise in the secondary market. So why do fans still shell out for their annual fees?
11 Important Model Evaluation Techniques Everyone Should Know - Data Scienc
Model evaluation metrics are used to assess goodness of fit between model and data, to compare different models, in the context of model selection, and to predict how predictions (associated with a specific model and data set) are expected to be accurate. Confidence Interval…
Bash-Snippets: A collection of small bash scripts for heavy terminal users
A collection of small bash scripts for heavy terminal users - alexanderepstein/Bash-Snippets
Bulletproof Confidence: The Secrets of a Professional Poker Player
Why Marketers Need to Invest in Authentic Long-Form Storytelling
In the wake of the Pepsi debacle, brands should turn up the authenticity in their marketing budgets with more long-form films and documentaries.
Design the Team You Need to Succeed
Part One: Types of Teams Written to sort out my thoughts for my UXDC keynote. If you’d like me to speak at your conference on high performing teams, check out cwodtke.com “High Performing Team” is …
Designing High Performing Teams
This is Part 2 of a three part series on high performing teams. Part one is of Design the Team You Need to Succeed Now you’ve decided you want more than a workgroup, what should you do? What does i…
awesome-deep-learning-papers/README.md at master · terryum/awesome-deep-lea
The most cited deep learning papers.
Relative error distributions, without the heavy tail theatrics
Nina Zumel prepared an excellent article on the consequences of working with relative error distributed quantities (such as wealth, income, sales, and many more) called “Living in A Lognormal…
AirBnB's Pricing Algorithm
The sharing economy needs machine intelligence to set prices
9ish Low Latency Strategies for SaaS Companies - High Scalability -
Achieving very low latencies takes special engineering, but if you are a SaaS company latencies of a few hundred milliseconds are possible for complex business logic using standard technologies like load balancers, queues, JVMs, and rest APIs. Itai Frenkel, a software engineer…