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‘He was central to music history’: the forgotten legacy of Leon Russell
In an illuminating new book, the incredible highs and devastating lows of the influential musician are remembered
The Tough Climb To Profitability For MongoDB
There is something weird about storage companies that were started around the same time as the Great Recession. The big ones that have gone public after
How 20 years of Google’s AdSense changed the internet
Google's targeted ad initiative AdSense was initially launched as “content targeting advertising” 20 years ago this month. Here’s how it changed the internet.
Margaret Atwood Is Ready to Let It Rip
The author spoke with WIRED about her new short story collection "Old Babes in the Wood," crypto, the end of Roe v. Wade, and what’s left to inspire hope.
Target Just Announced Something Brilliant That Amazon Can't Compete With
Make it easy for your customers to do business with you.
Cosmic megastructures: The largest objects in the Universe
The discovery of giant superclusters of galaxies are challenging our very understanding of the Universe.
CSS Border Radius Tricks
CSS border-radius property allows developers to create stylish borders for their website elements....
The Weird Reason We're Afraid of Clowns
Our research shows that coulrophobia, or fear of clowns, is mainly triggered by being unable to understand their facial expressions.
The Daring Ruse That Exposed China’s Campaign to Steal American Secrets
How the downfall of one intelligence agent revealed the astonishing depth of Chinese industrial espionage.
The Folklore-Filled History of Absinthe
Grab your spoons and sugar cubes, we're debunking the biggest myths surrounding absinthe.
The Awesome Side of GitHub - Awesome Lists
Free resources for developers, board games and chess... what do they have in common? You can find...
Setting The Stage For 1.6T Ethernet, And Driving 800G Now
Marvell has had a large and profitable I/O and networking silicon business for a long time, but with the acquisitions of Inphi in October 2020 and of
The Long, Strange Trip of ‘Dark Side of the Moon,’ 50 Years Later
A half-century ago, Pink Floyd unleashed a classic that still lingers on the Billboard charts and in college dorms to this day. But what’s the legacy of the blockbuster album? What’s legacy, anyway?
10 Ways to Improve Your Wi-Fi Without Buying Anything
Before you run out and spend money on a new Wi-Fi router, read these tips.
Web Animations API
Web Animations API is a JavaScript API that provides a standardized approach to creating and...
Plotting Network Graphs using Python
Learn how to use the NetworkX package to visualize complex networks
Episode 391 - Deploying with MRSK | Drifting Ruby
Kamal (MRSK) deploys web apps anywhere from bare metal to cloud VMs using Docker with zero downtime. In this episode, we will set up a Digital Ocean infrastructure with a Load Balancer, Virtual Machines, and a PostgreSQL database. We'll use Kamal (MRSK) to provision and deploy…
Zillow, but for Jets
The private-aviation market is down, so a wannabe oligarch tries out the Guardian Jet Vault 4.0 to look for some deals.
A West Virginia company with a history of safety violations is pushing to l
A West Virginia company with a history of safety violations is pushing to limit payouts to injured workers who were knowingly endangered.
How "Generous Tit for Tat" wins at life
And why the combo of strength+gentleness is unbeatable in the long run.
Vanquishing the Dutch, Jordan Stolz Creates a New Norse Myth - The New York
Stolz, the 18-year-old from Wisconsin, won three gold medals at the speedskating world championships, finishing his turns in a way that seemed like something out of a storybook.
Little useless-useful R functions – Using xspline to create wacky signature
Nothing short of wacky usage of plot() function with xspline to interpolate the points, but still a “parameter” short of Bezier’s curve. 🙂 Given two random vectors, you can generate a plot that, xspline will smooth out the plot and…Read more ›
Going Once, Going Twice: How to Bid on a First-Class Seat (Published 2023)
Fliers on some airlines can upgrade at a discounted rate to avoid what could be a cramped flight. With some cruise ships and even Amtrak getting in on the act, is bidding up worth it?
The Anatomy of a Good Design: An Analysis of 4 Sites
Visually pleasing designs use consistent type styles and spacing, create a visual hierarchy, and utilize an underlying grid structure.
Magic: The Gathering Becomes a Billion-Dollar Brand for Toymaker Hasbro (Published 2023)
The fantasy card game has surpassed the sales of the 100-year-old company’s other brands, including Transformers and G.I. Joe, but some are worried about the downsides of rapid growth.
The Military Adventures of Alexander the Great: An Animated Documentary Sho
To learn about history is to learn about war, or so it can feel when you go far back enough in time. And in any era of antiquity, few could have matched Alexander the Great's mastery of that art.
The Trust Engineers
Can you engineer empathy?
Asynchronously Parallel Optimization Method For Sizing Analog Transistors U
A new technical paper titled “APOSTLE: Asynchronously Parallel Optimization for Sizing Analog Transistors Using DNN Learning” was published by researchers at UT Austin and Analog Devices. Abstract “Analog circuit sizing is a high-cost process in terms of the manual effort…
The Tunguska Mystery--100 Years Later
Finding a piece of the elusive cosmic body that devastated a Siberian forest a century ago could help save Earth in the centuries to come
TuneIn Explorer - Discover New Radio Stations & Songs from Around the World
Explore music, culture, and sounds from around the globe with TuneIn Explorer. Discover new songs and bands for free on desktop, mobile, and tablet devices.
The Original King of Crypto Is Back
Arthur Hayes rubbed success in the Feds’ face and got busted. Now he’s returning to a shell-shocked industry.
The “Dazed and Confused” Generation
People my age are described as baby boomers, but our experiences call for a different label altogether.
The Surprising Reason Europe Came Together Against Putin
A major advance in translation technology means that Ukrainians can inform and debunk in real time. The world hasn’t seen a weapon quite like it before.
Configuring Rails Environments
Despite its strong opinions and powerful conventions, Rails is a highly flexible and configurable framework. If you don’t like something, there’s almost certainly a way to change it. This article provides a brief overview of configuring Rails applications and environments.
Call ChatGPT (or really any other API) from R
It’s March 2023 and right now ChatGPT, the amazing AI chatbot tool from OpenAI, is all the rage. But when OpenAI released their public web API for ChatGPT on the 1st of March you might have been a bit disappointed. If you’re an R user, that is. Because, when scrolling through…
35 Hidden Python Libraries That Are Absolute Gems
I reviewed 1,000+ Python libraries and discovered these hidden gems I never knew even existed.
There’s Something Odd About the Dogs Living at Chernobyl
Pets left behind when people fled the disaster in 1986 seem to have seeded a unique population.
Sanctuary
A woman, an elephant, andan uncommon love story spanningnearly half a century.
Mastering the awk command in Linux
Introduction Hey there! As a Linux user, you might have heard about the powerful AWK...
Dinner with Proust: how Alzheimer’s caregivers are pulled into their patients’ worlds
The long read: What do you say to someone whose wife prefers photographs of deceased authors to him?
Python’s multiprocessing performance problem
While multiprocessing allows Python to scale to multiple CPUs, it has some performance overhead compared to threading.
11 Popular R Packages for Beginners in 2023 - Analytics Vidhya
The article talks about R packages with a range of functions, including data manipulation, data visualization, machine learning, etc.
stringr package - RDocumentation
A consistent, simple and easy to use set of wrappers around the fantastic 'stringi' package. All function and argument names (and positions) are consistent, all functions deal with "NA"'s and zero length vectors in the same way, and the output from one function is easy to feed…
readr package - RDocumentation
The goal of 'readr' is to provide a fast and friendly way to read rectangular data (like 'csv', 'tsv', and 'fwf'). It is designed to flexibly parse many types of data found in the wild, while still cleanly failing when data unexpectedly changes.
ggplot2 package - RDocumentation
A system for 'declaratively' creating graphics, based on "The Grammar of Graphics". You provide the data, tell 'ggplot2' how to map variables to aesthetics, what graphical primitives to use, and it takes care of the details.
Using PyGWalker to Enhance Your Jupyter Notebook EDA Experience
An Introduction to the PyGWalker Library for Easy Data Visualisation
The Stark Beauty of Tushetian Shepherds’ Journey Across Georgia’s Caucasus
These stunning photographs reveal the determination and resilience of a centuries-old way of life.
Linux Process Management: A Deep Dive
Improve your Linux system's performance with efficient process management. Introduction A...
How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain | Quanta Magazine
Feelings of loneliness prompt changes in the brain that further isolate people from social contact.