How cultures around the world make decisions

Is the American obsession with individual freedom really such a great idea? What other cultures know about how to make good choices.

Steve Blank Do Pivots Matter?

There’s a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure ’ Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven In late 2013 Cowboy Ventures did an analysis of …

Pando: Democratizing career progression

Democratizing career progression

8 Fresh Customer Service Ideas Worth Stealing

If you want to make your customers happy, there are tactics you can use, from handwritten notes to custom-made YouTube videos. Here are some ideas you can steal.

Why Your eCommerce Business Should Have a Pop-Up Shop

Ecommerce is booming, and there’s no doubt about that. The numbers speak for themselves. After all, in 2017, ecommerce sales reached $2.3 trillion, and

The surprising afterlife of used hotel soap

Hotel guests leave behind millions of half-used bars of soap every day. A nonprofit is on a mission to repurpose them.

An inside look at how Figma ships product

Designing the fastest way to keep an entire company up-to-date on our roadmap using a Coda doc and a bit of social engineering.

Intel announces silicon photonics advancement towards optical I/O

Intel has demonstrated an eight-wavelength laser array on a silicon wafer paving the way for the next generation of integrated silicon photonics products.

Howard Suber Of UCLA Film School Explains How To Tell A Story - Barking Up The Wrong Tree

Everything you need to know about Howard Suber Of UCLA Film School Explains How To Tell A Story

Mapping Urban Trees Across North America with the Auto Arborist Dataset

Posted by Sara Beery, Student Researcher, and Jonathan Huang, Research Scientist, Google Research, Perception Team Over four billion people live in...

How Computational Graphs are Executed in PyTorch

Welcome to the last entry into understanding the autograd engine of PyTorch series! If you haven’t read parts 1 & 2 check them now to understand how PyTorch creates the computational graph for the backward pass!

How Imagen Actually Works

Learn how Imagen generates photorealistic images given only a text description.

The Many Uses of CRISPR: Scientists Tell All (Published 2022)

What do infectious diseases, T-cells, tomatoes, heart failure, sickle cell anemia and sorghum harvests have in common?

iseq.c: Use ntz_intptr for faster bitmap scan by casperisfine · Pull Request #6059 · ruby/ruby

Ref: #6053

Ruby Style Guide

Rubocop - 4 ways to reduce your frustration!

Rubocop recently managed to be listed as one of the most loved and most frustrating ruby gems which is quite an achievement. In this episode, I'll show you how to keep it only in the loved section.

Full-text Search with Elasticsearch in Rails

If you're finding performance bottlenecks with full-text search in your database, it may be time to switch to Elasticsearch. In this tutorial, Ianis introduces Elasticsearch and shows us how to implement an efficient ...

How the Higgs Boson Ruined Peter Higgs's Life

A new biography of the physicist and the particle he predicted reveals his disdain for the spotlight

‘Mid-century millennial’ – the ubiquitous look that took over a generation’s homes

Curvy sofas, industrial finishes, pastel overload … mid-century-ish furnishings have come to define the millennial look. What’s the appeal – and what will our homes look like next?

Asking Users to Complete Tough Mudders to Use Your Product

Funnel optimization for web3 companies will become critical to their success. Token grants cost 4-7x than traditional customer acquisition techniques. Other techniques, like incentivized referral, improve the economics but still tally 19 month payback periods. A year-and-a-half…

11 Google Sheets formulas SEOs should know

Sometimes the best SEO tools are free. Learn how to use these formulas to save time and reduce manual errors.

7 Free Chrome Extensions for SEO

Chrome extensions can streamline keyword research, analytics tracking, competitor analysis, and more. Contributor Ann Smarty lists her seven favorite Chrome extensions for SEO.

Is Music Universal?

From a neurological and evolutionary perspective, music is fascinating. There seems to be a deeply rooted biological appreciation for tonality, rhythm, and melody. Not only can people find certain sequences of sounds to be pleasurable, they can powerfully evoke emotions. Music…

What the Anthropology of Smell Reveals About Humanity

Millions of people have lost their sense of smell to COVID-19. Anthropologists are investigating the significance of this underrated sense.

Essential Math for Data Science: Eigenvectors and Application to PCA - KDnuggets

In this article, you’ll learn about the eigendecomposition of a matrix.

Anatomy of a Product Placement (Published 2022)

As consumers skip ads and streaming content balloons, brands aim to be everywhere all at once.

The History of the Singular 'They'

The singular form of 'they' has been endorsed by writers like Jane Austen and William Shakespeare.

Hacker News

Generating Children's Stories Using GPT-3 and DALL·E

We used GPT-3 and DALL·E to generate a children's storybook about Ash and Pikachu vs. Team Rocket. Read the story and marvel at the AI-generated visuals!

Making the Most of man pages in Linux

Though extremely useful, man pages in Linux can be daunting and intimidating at first. This article aims to make it a bit easier to peruse manuals and quickly get the help one needs.

YOLOv6: next-generation object detection — review and comparison

eview and comparison of the next generation object detection

Data Preparation in R Cheatsheet - KDnuggets

Leverage the powerful data wrangling tools in R’s dplyr to clean and prepare your data.

The Case for the Supermarket Supershopper

Some shoppers find joy in daily trips to the grocery store simply for the community, let alone the miracle of abundance.

Blocked persons and letters of marque

What are letters of marque and reprisal, and who is on the US’s list of Block Persons?

Why criticism lasts longer than praise

Most of us are subjected to insults, sarcastic comments or bad feedback in our everyday lives. But we weren't built to deal with torrents of criticism.

Higgs boson: The 'God Particle' explained

The existence of the Higgs boson completes the standard model of particle physics.

Learn the Python Anvil Framework

Buy Till You Die: Understanding Customer Lifetime Value

The BG/NBD model explained.

An Introduction to Regularization

This is what makes your trained models actually usable

Top 10 SEO Tools You Need in 2022

If you are working in the field of SEO or if you are managing a content or Ecommerce website then you...

Understanding CUPED

An in-depth guide to the state-of-the-art variance reduction technique for A/B tests

Could This Be The End Of Hidden Ticket Charges For Concert Tickets?

Hidden ticket charges and more have been outlawed in New York State thanks to new legislature that just passed.

An Introduction to MEMS Vibratory Gyroscopes

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) vibratory gyroscopes can be a bit mysterious and math-intensive. Let's break the math down, and go over gyroscope basics and structures.

3 Best Website Uptime Monitoring Tools 

One way to achieve this is by employing uptime and downtime monitoring tools. Why Is Website Uptime Monitoring Important? An uptime monitoring solution can help you prevent or reduce these losses. Thus, you must employ a dependable tool that detects downtime or any interruptions…

The books that no-one can read

Some of the world's most celebrated authors have written manuscripts that won't be published for a century – why? Richard Fisher visits the Future Library in Oslo to find out.

What is a Subdomain and How Does it Affect Your Site’s SEO?

Subdomains are used to differentiate a page from the main website. They can have a positive impact on SEO—or a negative impact. Click to learn how to use them properly.

Saudi-backed LIV Golf shows how ‘sportswashing’ can backfire

Saudi-backed LIV Golf shows how 'sportswashing' can backfire.

How To Use Google OCR API

Every company is searching for a competitive advantage when conducting their business processes,...

A Hole in the Head: A History of Trepanation

A survey of trepanation, or trephination, the oldest surgical procedure known to humanity.

rebuy-de/aws-nuke: Nuke a whole AWS account and delete all its resources.

Nuke a whole AWS account and delete all its resources. - rebuy-de/aws-nuke