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Why Are Letters Shaped the Way They Are?

Linguistic games and research are revealing a hidden connection between what words look and sound like, and what they mean.

The Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist

In most languages, sounds can be re-arranged into any number of combinations. Not so in Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language.Brian Goodman via Shutterstock Languages, like human bodies, come in a variety of shapes—but only to a point. Just as people don’t sprout multiple heads…

In the beginning was the word, and the word was embodied | Aeon Essays

A special class of vivid, textural words defies linguistic theory: could ‘ideophones’ unlock the secrets of humans’ first utterances?

Some Rules of Language are Wired in the Brain

In fascinating study involving synesthesia, people make good guesses at meanings of foreign words

A Quest to Return the Banjo to Its African Roots

The Black Banjo Reclamation Project aims to put banjos into the hands of everyday people.

A Comprehensive Benchmark of Deep Learning Libraries on Mobile DevicesA Com

Machine Learning Algorithms Cheat Sheet — Accel.AI

Machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) and computer science that focuses on using data and algorithms to mimic the way people learn, progressively improving its accuracy. This way, Machine Learning is one of the most interesting methods in Computer…

How to live with your regrets

Regret is often seen as undesirable, but it’s a crucial emotion in helping us develop. How do we harness its powerful lessons?

Everything We See Is a Mash-up of the Brain’s Last 15 Seconds of Visual Information

The brain is basically a time machine that ensures what we see is stable and continuous.

Top Performers Have a Superpower: Happiness

Employee well-being and happiness are surprisingly powerful predictors of performance.

Log-normal Distribution — A simple explanation

How to calculate μ & σ, the mode, mean, median & variance

The Sales Sandwich by @ttunguz

The most consistent sales leader I’ve worked with hit plan 27 consecutive quarters. How can a sales leader develop similar repeatability? Much goes into it here are the reports he used to manage his team at the board level. The PQR (pipeline-to-quota) funnel is first. Pipeline…

Decision-Making: Research Shows What Happens When We Wait for “Something Better”

Terrible at making decisions? A 2020 study reveals just how much our expectations drop while taking the time to decide on something.

Changing a polymorphic_type in Rails — Development (2022)

How my team redefined the way we store one of the polymorphic associations in the Shopify codebase. This post is the solution we wish we found when we were looking.

How a jazz legend's resting place was lost and found, 50 years after his tr

Though the trumpeter Lee Morgan was killed in 1972, his legacy was well maintained. At least it seemed so, until one fan discovered last year that Morgan's gravesite seemed to have vanished.

Flour Trip

During the pandemic, Americans have turned to baking in droves, but few of us know exactly how our flour is made. What happens when we start to find out?

Here’s what actually happens to all your online shopping returns

Ordering clothes from Chinese fast-fashion brands like Shein is easy. Sending them back is a lot more complicated

Complete SEO Checklist for 2024

‍SEO Checklist has created and categorized all the tasks that you can need for your optimizing website. You just need to choose which categories to work on and invite your customers to the checklist to follow the process.

“Columbo” shows the benefits of asking just one more thing

However powerful the villain, the scruffy detective always outwits them

Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

Mermaid is a JavaScript based diagramming and charting tool that takes Markdown-inspired text definitions and creates diagrams dynamically in the browser.

IRA Design by Creative Tim

Build your own amazing illustrations.

Irma Thomas, a Soul Queen Far Beyond New Orleans

As she turns 81, the singer whose intimacy matches her grandeur is the subject of a public television documentary, “Irma: My Life in Music.”

Did jazz forget about Oscar Peterson?

The visionary pianist influenced everyone from Quincy Jones to Billy Joel, while flying under the fame radar himself. A new documentary tells the unsung hero’s story.

Formatting Ruby: Part 1

This post is part of a series about how ruby-syntax-tree/syntax_tree works under the hood.

How to Commit Murder Inside a Locked Room

Few genres are more preposterous than the locked room mystery. The premises are absurd and plot solutions ridiculous—but still I keep on reading.

The Best Ruby HTTP clients for 2021 | ScrapingBee

This article will discuss the best HTTP clients in Ruby. Faraday, HTTParty, Rest-client...it can be hard to choose the best one.

20 Cannabis Edibles That Are Truly, Actually Delicious

The world of cannabis is bursting with new flavors—here are ones worth picking up.

The Most Prized Watch Brands You’ve Never Heard Of

The rising prices of Rolexes and Pateks have collectors turning to what one expert called “the dead brands society.”

The Little TV Industry That Could

Want a medical drama, a spy thriller, a snowy neo-noir? Finland has you covered.

The Babushka of Baikal, the granny in her 80th year who has popularised the

How the Riot Grrrl Movement Created a Revolution in Rock & Punk

The Riot Grrrl movement feels like one of the last real revolutions in rock and punk, and not just because of its feminist, anti-capitalist politics. As Polyphonic outlines in his short music history video, Riot Grrrl was one of the last times anything major happened in rock…

Beyond Rumours: Building a Fleetwood Mac Record Collection

AllMusic provides comprehensive music info including reviews and biographies. Get recommendations for new music to listen to, stream or own.

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An ancient language has defied decryption for 100 years. Can AI crack the c

Machine learning can translate between two known languages, but could it ever decipher those that remain a mystery to us?

The Rise and Fall of a Prison Town Queen

A family feud over drugs, money and fried fish roils the heart of the Texas prison system.

Opinion | The depressing final act of Eric Clapton

Bigotry and ignorance, in the age of the internet, have a way of catching up with you. And Clapton’s racism and conspiracy theories can no longer be ignored.

Crypto Glossary of Terms And Jargon

Learn all of the most important blockchain and cryptocurrency terms and jargon here. We add new words and descriptions every week.

$3.6 billion bitcoin seizure shows how hard it is to launder cryptocurrency

A couple allegedly used a “laundry list” of technical measures to cover their tracks. They didn’t work.

Color Picker with Ruby on Rails 6, Stimulus and Webpacker

A tutorial to integrate a Javascript color picker library Pickr, with Ruby on Rails 6.0, StimulusJS, and Webpacker.

Library of design inspiration examples & user flows from web apps • Nicely

Browse a curated design library of web app screens, UI components and User flows from top SaaS web apps, inspiring product teams from leading companies.

How Crypto’s Original Bubble Boy Rode Ethereum And Is Now Pulling The Strings Of The DeFi Boom

Now he’s pulling the strings, and raking in hundreds of millions, from a blockchain rage called DeFi, which promotes the fantasy of democratized financial services.

Intelligent System Security

We present a novel approach to infiltrate data to air-gapped systems without any additional hardware on-site.

A step by step guide to scenario mapping - UXM

Scenario mapping is a really quick, easy and dare I say it even fun way to collaboratively create, discuss and communicate user scenarios. Find out how to go about creating scenario maps and why they’re so damn useful in the first place.

Topic Modeling in Python | Toptal

Topic modeling can bring NLP to the next level. Here’s how.

Micromanipulation: The Covert Tactic That Narcissists Use in Arguments to Reassert Control

Here’s how to recognize its damaging effects.

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The LA Rams are winners in football. They’re ‘loss leaders’ in economics

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(PDF) Text is not the enemy: How illiterates' use their mobile phones

PDF | Despite 800 million illiterate people worldwide little research has aimed at understanding how they use and appropriate mobile phones. We... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Top 10 web hacking techniques of 2021 | PortSwigger Research

Welcome to the Top 10 (new) Web Hacking Techniques of 2021, the latest iteration of our annual community-powered effort to identify the most significant web security research released in the last year