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Sauce-maker David Tran and farmer Craig Underwood came together from different worlds to create an American icon. After 28 years, it fell apart in one day.
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Liberals Love Ranked-Choice Voting. Will Conservatives?
Ranked-choice voting could be on the November ballot in four states, a sign of the system’s rising popularity. Most conservatives have opposed it. But some say that could be changing.
DAREBEE - Fitness On Your Terms.
2300+ FREE workouts, fitness programs, monthly challenges and training guides.
Tools for better thinking | Untools
Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.
Beautiful Free Images & Pictures | Unsplash
Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty free or stock photos.
Paraphrasing Tool - QuillBot AI
Write effortlessly and efficiently with QuillBot's suite of AI tools. Paraphrase, check grammar, analyze tone, improve fluency, and more. Start doing your best work.
Welcome to Open Library | Open Library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.
Paper Lanterns, Party Lights, Wedding & Decoration
Paper Lantern Store is the world's LARGEST online shop for paper lanterns, with thousands colors and styles! Free Shipping on orders over $99! Shop party string lights, wedding decor and more at guaranteed LOW prices. Find party supplies, star lanterns, parasols and to make your…
Music Machinery | a blog about music technology by Paul Lamere
a blog about music technology by Paul Lamere
CoAxLab/DeBaCl: Density Based Clustering (DeBaCl) Toolbox
Density Based Clustering (DeBaCl) Toolbox.
Team overview | bjpcjp | Netlify
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The bumblebee battle against invasive hornets
Experts warn it's "boom time" for invasive species like the Asian hornet. But some native bee species are learning to fight back.
The Triumph and Terror of Wang Huning
One man’s thought has become pivotal in China’s new political and cultural crackdowns. That man is not Xi Jinping.
When "letting it crash" is not enough
This essay explores the connection between Erlang's process supervision, state management and durable execution.
Innovative three-year-olds expose the limits of AI chatbots
New experiments show that very young children are better at solving creative puzzles than ChatGPT and other AI models
How Two Irish Businessmen Almost Took Nigeria for $11 Billion
A mundane contractual provision met with rampant corruption — revealing a serious vulnerability in one of the backbones of international commerce.
Why Gamification Fails
And why play works
How Odors Influence Brain’s Decision Making Mechanism
Researchers have uncovered a novel function of the hippocampus in decision making, showing that specific brain cells, known as 'time cells,' are stimulated by odors to facilitate rapid 'go, no-go' decisions.
How to Talk to Your Team About a Decision You Disagree With
When you’re part of a company’s management structure, there will be moments when you’ll have to represent a decision your bosses made that you don’t agree with to your team. Carrying the proverbial flag on behalf of the powers-that-be won’t feel good, but that’s part of the job…
Postgres is Enough
Postgres is Enough · GitHub
Object Detection Basics — A Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide (Part 1)
Learn the basics of this advanced computer vision task of object detection in an easy to understand multi-part beginner’s guide
Taylor Swift Is Off TikTok: Why Universal Music Pulled Its Songs - Bloomber
We’re about to find out how important TikTok is to the music industry.
Nvidia’s Big Tech Rivals Put Their Own A.I. Chips on the Table - The New Yo
Chafing at their dependence, Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft are racing to cut into Nvidia’s dominant share of the market.
Why Ted Lasso isn’t the massive hit in the U.K. that it is in the U.S.
Despite revolving around English football, a variety of factors have contributed to Ted Lasso not taking hold in the United Kingdom
Why Should Lodash be Your JavaScript Project's Go-To Library?
Check this post on my web notes. In almost every project we work on, we use extra tools to make...
A 500-Page Book Explores the Ghosts & Monsters from Japanese Folklore
Westerners tend to think of Japan as a land of high-speed trains, expertly prepared sushi and ramen, auteur films, brilliant animation, elegant woodblock prints, glorious old hotels, sought-after jazz-records, cat islands, and ghost towns.
Turning abandoned mines into batteries | IIASA
A novel technique called Underground Gravity Energy Storage turns decommissioned mines into long-term energy storage solutions, thereby supporting the sustainable energy transition.
About pandoc
Introducing Pkl, a programming language for configuration
How Quora Died
The once-thriving site used to answer our most specific questions. But users are fleeing.
Understanding the Guanella Transmission Line Balun
Learn how bifilar coils can be used to build Gustav Guanella’s classic RF balun.
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A Teen’s Fatal Plunge Into the London Underworld
After Zac Brettler mysteriously plummeted into the Thames, his grieving parents discovered that he’d been posing as an oligarch’s son. Would the police help them solve the puzzle of his death?
Whitewashing (censorship)
Whitewashing is the act of minimizing or covering up vices, crimes or scandals, or of exonerating the guilty by means of a perfunctory investigation or biased presentation of data with the intention to improve someone's reputation.[1]
Shari Liu: How babies think about danger | TED Talk
Are babies oblivious to danger? It's not that simple, says cognitive scientist Shari Liu. Sharing surprising insights (and plenty of baby videos) from studies of early human development, Liu highlights the unexpected ways babies perceive and respond to risky situations — and…
Liquid logistics: The fine art of wine transportation
Wine transport is as old as the craft itself, but as the business grows globally wine shipping companies face many challenges. Join us as we uncork the world of liquid logistics and wine shipping services.
CBS’s Super Bowl Features 165 Camera Feeds. He Watches Them All
Even as networks cram more tech into their sports production, replay producers still play a critical, human role.
A Russian Bank Account May Offer Clues to a North Korean Arms Deal
Moscow may be trying to help Pyongyang with access to the international financial system in exchange for missiles and ammunition, U.S.-allied intelligence officials suggest.
Texas Is Already Running Out of Water
Parts of the state are starting the year with low reserves. With light winter rains failing to replenish supply, and a scorching summer predicted, key areas may be pushed to the brink.
Text vs. Images: Which Content Format is Effective?
When we talk about using different ways to share information, it's like picking the one that fits what you need! Words, pictures, and mixes of both have
People Have Very Different Understandings of Even the Simplest Words
Distinctive meanings for a word like “risk” can have a big impact on public messaging, especially when it comes to issues like climate change
15 Quotes on the Unparalleled Power of Example
Discover the power of examples in shaping our lives. Explore quotes on example and how they inspire us to reach new heights.
Unique Pop Culture Valentines from Castle McQuade
It's nice to get a romantic Valentine's Day card, but it's extra special to get one that shows how your significant other went the extra mile to acknowledge your personality, preference, or passion. Show how much you've been paying attention to what they like by getting a pop…
Why the Is Everywhere
The sign has become inescapable in the world of branding.
Why Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life.
Musings on Hofstadter’s phenomenal book about computation, consciousness, and epistemology.
foldMation - Origami Simulator and Creator
Learn and Create Origami Folding Simulations and Animations Online
How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger
At the top of the world, the Inuit culture has developed a sophisticated way to sculpt kids' behavior without yelling or scolding. Could discipline actually be playful?
Why is the Pile a good benchmark?
The Pile is a 825 GiB diverse, open source language modelling data set that consists of 22 smaller, high-quality datasets combined together.
Title:BloombergGPT: A Large Language Model for Finance
The use of NLP in the realm of financial technology is broad and complex, with applications ranging from sentiment analysis and named entity recognition to question answering. Large Language...
Binary image convex hull – algorithm notes » Steve on Image Processing with
Today I want to tell a little image processing algorithm story related to my post last week about the new bwconvhull function in the Image Processing Toolbox. The developer (Brendan) who worked on this function came to see me sometime last year to find out how the 'ConvexImage'…