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American Idle — Remains of the Day

TikTok’s Warp Scan filter is a bizarre concept for a filter in and of itself, but the myriad of ways TikTok users put it to use just shows what happens when you throw random tools to the masses and allow for emergent creativity. It only takes a handful of innovators to unleash a…

The Power of Scripting: A Deploy Script | Learn Enough News & Blog

News & blog about Learn Enough (including the Ruby on Rails Tutorial)

The Ultimate Guide to Liars and Lying: Everyone Falls Into These 4 Types

What is the psychology of the liar? There are various ways of classifying lies: by their consequences, by the importance of their subject matters, by the speakers' motives, and by the nature or context of the utterance. Perhaps the most useful way to classify lies is by the type…

Buyer beware: Massive experiment shows why ticket sellers hit you with last-second fees | Haas News | Berkeley Haas

There’s a reason that online ticket sellers hit you with those extra fees after you’ve picked your seats and are ready to click “buy.” Pure profit. A

Garam Masala, Za'atar and More Homemade Spice Blends

Grind these five versatile, beloved mixes ahead of time, then keep them on hand for cooking that’s full of verve and depth.

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Veblen good - Wikiwand

A Veblen good is a type of luxury good, named after American economist Thorstein Veblen, for which the demand increases as the price increases, in apparent cont...

The Made-Up Language That Accidentally Became Real: The Story of Klingon

The Klingon language remains relevant to today’s culture and continues to evolve in surprising ways. (Finally, you must be thinking, some Star Trek content.)

An Idea From Physics Helps AI See in Higher Dimensions

The laws of physics stay the same no matter one’s perspective. Now this idea is allowing computers to detect features in curved and higher-dimensional space.

[1902.04615] Gauge Equivariant Convolutional Networks and the Icosahedral C

The principle of equivariance to symmetry transformations enables a theoretically grounded approach to neural network architecture design. Equivariant networks have shown excellent performance and...

An overview of synthetic data types and generation methods

Synthetic data can be used to test new products and services, validate models, or test performances because it mimics the statistical property of production data. Today you'll find different types of structured and unstructured synthetic data.

8 Common Pitfalls of Running A/B Tests

How not to fail your online controlled experimentation

Ventana Asheville - NC Real Estate | Asheville North Carolina

Discover the natural beauty that Ventana Asheville has to offer. This luxurious mountain real estate community is located in Western North Carolina and has

Start with a Niche

The most popular products don’t become mass popular overnight. It’s a process. Usually they popularity is uneven, they are unknown in some niches, but very popular in another niches.

What is Huffman Coding?

The Huffman Coding algorithm is a building block of many compression algorithms, such as DEFLATE - which is used by the PNG image format and GZIP.

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The Decoy Effect: How You Are Influenced to Choose Without Really Knowing I

Think you got a good deal? Look again.

50 Great Classic Novels Under 200 Pages

We are now past the mid-way point in February, which is technically the shortest month, but is also the one that—for me, anyway—feels the longest. Especially this year, for all of the reasons that …

Affinity Analysis (Market Basket Analysis)

Have you ever wondered how often do you buy certain items together? Why do you buy some items together? How likely do you purchase an item…

A Personal Git Repo as a Knowledge Base Wiki

While it's not something that everyone likes to do, I've always found it essential to write notes. Th...

The Profile Dossier: Charlie Munger, the Master of Mental Models

“Deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end."

Persuading the Unpersuadable

We live in an age of polarization. Many of us may be asking ourselves how, when people disagree with or discount us, we can persuade them to rethink their positions. The author, an organizational psychologist, has spent time with a number of people who succeeded in motivating…

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Take your pasta up a notch with Niigata’s kanzuri chili paste

Fans of yuzu kosho will love kanzuri's complex heat and citrus undertones — use it in place of harissa or to give dishes an extra kick.

How To Make Classic French Madeleines

A perfect accompaniment to your afternoon cup of tea.

Sitting Atop the World, Sketching the Faces of the Dead

The author, a former soldier, reflects on his experiences helping build the top secret Karakoram Highway between China and Pakistan in the late 1970s.

The 25 Essential Episodes of The Muppet Show

Now that the classic show is streaming on Disney+, we round up the best episodes — and ask guest stars about their Muppet memories.

My history with Forth & stack machines

Star Wars Intro Creator

Create your own Star Wars opening crawl.

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The Real Reason Why You Sabotage Your Own Goals

How to overcome psychological reactance, the rarely-discussed psychological reflex that’s holding you back

How to Build an Invention Machine — 6 Lessons That Powered Amazon’s Success

Former Amazon execs Colin Bryar and Bill Carr helped build the "invention machine" that enabled the company to successfully launch everything from AWS to the Kindle. Here, they share granular advice and concrete takeaways for startups looking to alter their own trajectories.

‘Nomadland’ | Anatomy of a Scene

The director Chloé Zhao narrates a scene from her movie featuring Frances McDormand and David Strathairn.

The Secret to a Rich and Comforting Beef Stew? Just Add Cookies

The classic Belgian dish carbonnade is enhanced when you throw in some speculoos.

How to be more productive without forcing yourself

Imagine you could work more and be wildly productive. And you wouldn’t need to force yourself to work.

The Rules of Margin Collapse

“Margin collapse” has a dastardly reputation, one of the trickier parts of CSS. Fortunately, it gets a lot easier once you learn a few rules! In this tutorial, we take a deep dive into the governing principles, and learn how to use them to our advantage.

Swiss File Knife – A Command Line Tools Collection

Categorical cross-entropy and SoftMax regression

Ever wondered how to implement a simple baseline model for multi-class problems ? Here is one example (code included).

HTML Boilerplates

Build and download your HTML boilerplate for free.

Explain Machine Learning Models: Partial Dependence

From black box to no more box

What leader(s) over your product career truly changed how you approach prod

I learned from bosses & peers, including some famous peeps like Reed Hastings, Patty McCord, and Dan Rosensweig. But mainly I learned by doing, supercharged by feedback from many "Friends of Gib."

A/B Testing — A complete guide to statistical testing

Optimizing web marketing strategies through statistical testing

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A/B Testing — A complete guide to statistical testing - bjpcjp/AB_Testing

Huntsville station

‘It’s a trip just being out’: at the local Greyhound bus station with newly released men from the Texas State Penitentiary

YAML - Collections and Structures - Tutorialspoint

YAML - Collections and Structures - YAML includes block collections which use indentation for scope. Here, each entry begins with a new line. Block sequences in collections indicate each entry with a dash and space (-). In YAML, block collections styles are not denoted by any…

It's going to cost four figures

Let's talk about pricing commissioned work (on existing open source projects). Or: things I learned the hard way from past mistakes.

How to have better arguments online

The long read: The troubled times we live in, and the rise of social media, have created an age of endless conflict. Rather than fearing or avoiding disagreement, we need to learn to do it well

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Researchers Levitated a Small Tray Using Nothing but Light

One day a “magic carpet” based on this light-induced flow technology could carry climate sensors high in the atmosphere—wind permitting.