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Originally published Feb. 17, 2022

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An Intuitive Guide to Maxwell’s Equations

An Intuitive and Visual Guide to Maxwell's Equations

Forget Egyptian cotton. The most luxurious sheets are made in America

Boll & Branch just launched Summit Supima, a new luxury sheet set made from cotton sourced from a Texas cotton farm.

Bellingcat’s Post [Video]

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Python's many command-line utilities

Every command-line tool included with Python. These can be run with python -m module_name.

AMD announces 3nm EPYC Turin with 192 cores and 384 threads — 5.4X faster t

192 cores, 385 threads, socket compatibility. What's not to like?

HTML Over The Wire

Hotwire is an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire.

Why Ruby’s Timeout is dangerous (and Thread.raise is terrifying)

Jason Archer Ghost Of Charlie Tee

TYLER'S carries the best selection of clothing, shoes, and accessories with over 250 brands including William Murray Golf, Melin, HeyDude, On Running, and Yeti.

AMD Announces Instinct MI325X Today, CDNA4 To Come

A New Annual Cadence for ML

Modern CSS Layouts: You Might Not Need A Framework For That

It’s easy to get lost in a sea of CSS frameworks and libraries, each promising easier styling and smoother layouts. Brecht De Ruyte demonstrates four CSS utility classes (plus a bonus) using techniques that allow them to be used practically anywhere you need a particular layout…

Scents and memories at the hospital

Stanford medical student Yoo Jung Kim writes about smells in the hospital and how they can trigger fond memories and provide motivation.

8 CSS & JavaScript Snippets for Awesome Reveal Effects

A collection of copy and paste CSS and JavaScript code snippets for creating animated reveal effects.

A Surf Legend’s Long Ride

For Jock Sutherland, being hailed as the world’s best surfer was just one phase in an unlikely life.

The Bargain Bin Evolves

Thoughts on modern commerce from going to a bin store. It’s a place where e-commerce returns go to die.

Gemfile of dreams: the libraries we use to build Rails apps

We unveil the toolbox of the Martian Rails engineer; we begin constructing a Gemfile from the universe of Martian gems that encapsulate our philosophy and soul.

Watch It Burn

Two scammers, a web of betrayal, and Europe’s fraud of the century.

Fun Delivered: World’s Foremost Experts on Whoopee Cushions and Silly Putty

“Novelties are so much more than goofy, silly things,” Mardi says. “Everything that comes on to the marketplace starts out as a novelty.”

Who Still Buys Wite-Out, and Why?

Correction fluids have improbably outlasted the typewriter and survived the rise of the digital office.

Getting Started: Your Ruby On Rails App Hosted On DigitalOcean With AppSign

In the first part of a two-part series, we'll introduce how to set up DigitalOcean and AppSignal for a Ruby on Rails application.

Exclusive: Inside America’s Secret Efforts to Free US Hostages

With US detainees being held in Russia, Gaza, and Venezuela, VF embedded with the team tasked with gaining their freedom.

Sample Size Calculator

Visual, interactive sample size calculator ideal for planning online experiments and A/B tests.

Perplexity goes beyond AI search, launches publishing platform ‘Pages’

In most cases, Perplexity produced the desired Pages, but what we found missing was the option to edit the content manually.

Why, after 6 years, I’m over GraphQL

GraphQL is an incredible piece of technology that has captured a lot of mindshare since I first started slinging it in production in 2018. You won’t have to ...

What is visual hierarchy, and why do you need it?

Crowded and hard-to-navigate designs are two of the biggest reasons users leave a website. When users quickly leave, engaging them and boosting

Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour s

One day last October, subscribers to an ISP known as Windstream began flooding message boards with reports their routers had suddenly stopped working and remained unresponsive to reboots and all other attempts to revive them.

The Long Linguistic Journey to ‘Dagnabbit’

This piece of pseudo-profanity is what’s known as a taboo deformation—a word we say when we don’t want to say the word.

Massive 2,500-Page Google Document Leaked, Exposing Secret Search Ranking A

A Google document has leaked online that aims to include thousands of APIs aiming to rank better on Google Search for ranking.

ttt30ga/awesome-product-design: A collection of bookmarks, resources, artic

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It’s the first taquería in the world to get a Michelin star. Here come the

For the first time, a taco stand wins a Michelin star. Some taco aficionados in Mexico City are unimpressed.

Policy Gradient Methods in Reinforcement Learning

Teaching a Car to Cross a Mountain using Policy Gradient Methods in Python: A Mathematical Deep Dive into Reinforcement Learning

GaN Devices: Properties and Performance At Extremely High Temperatures

A new technical paper titled “High temperature stability of regrown and alloyed Ohmic contacts to AlGaN/GaN heterostructure up to 500 °C” was published by researchers at MIT, Technology Innovation Institute, Ohio State University, Rice University and Bangladesh University of…

YOLOv10: A new architecture for real-time object detection | Clodoaldo Júnior posted on the topic | LinkedIn

Yesterday (24/05/2024) marked the launch of the new state-of-the-art architecture named YOLOv10 [1], representing the cutting-edge in real-time object…

Python venv: How To Create, Activate, Deactivate, And Delete • Python Land

How to create, activate, use, and delete a Python venv on Windows, Linux, and MacOS. We'll also look at how a Python venv works internally.

Fractal Geometry

Solid-State Beam Steering Comes to 3D LiDAR

Lumotive and Hokuyo Automatic have teamed up to bring the world’s first true beam-steering sensor to 3D LiDAR.

Secrets from the Algorithm: Google Search’s Internal Engineering Documentat

Learn what you always wish you knew about Google's algorithms.

Basis Functions: Simple Definition - Statistics How To

Types of Functions > Basis functions (called derived features in machine learning) are building blocks for creating more complex functions. In other

Create Your Own AI Image Generator App With JavaScript and DALL-E 3

In this tutorial, we’ll build an AI image-generation app with JavaScript. Users will enter text describing the image they want, then behind the scenes we’ll call the DALL-E 3 API to generate it!

Bargaining and Dynamic Competition

Profit Sharing in Partnerships: Complementarity, Productivity, and Commitme

Strategic Informed Trading and the Value of Private Information

The Great AI Chatbot Challenge: ChatGPT vs. Gemini vs. Copilot vs. Perplexi

We tested OpenAI’s ChatGPT against Microsoft’s Copilot and Google’s Gemini, along with Perplexity and Anthropic’s Claude. Here’s how they ranked.

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Streamlining E-commerce: Leveraging Entity Resolution for Product Matching

How Google figures out the price of a product across websites

Master of Make-Believe

Zach Horwitz came to Los Angeles hoping to make it in the movies. He ended up running a seven-hundred-million-dollar scam, defrauding a sprawling group of investors, starting with his best friends.

12 Tools for Generating Hashtags

Need more from social media campaigns? Try high-performing hashtags.

Optical Illusions Can Fool AI Chatbots, Too

Experiments with optical illusions have revealed surprising similarities between human and AI perception

An SQL Vector Database To Enhance Text Search: How We Did It

Performance testing shows integrating Tantivy’s full-text search engine library into vector search significantly improves speed and performance.