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2021-02-10 · unintendedconsequenc.es

It’s easy to write or talk about an issue without staking anything on its outcome. After all, that’s what casual forecasters do all the time. But having something in play — reputation or money or something else — can make sure that people remember their claims. This can keep us…
2021-02-09 · lemonde.fr

Multinationals, billionaires, artists, sportsmen, criminals : an investigation by Le Monde reveals for the first time exhaustively what the Grand Duchy’s financial centre conceals, thanks to its tax advantages.
2021-02-09 · nytimes.com

Iga Swiatek of Poland came out of nowhere to win the French Open in October. A sports psychologist was with her all the way.
2021-02-09 · grubstreet.com

“It’s always a good thing to know who your enemies are.”
2021-02-09 · viewer.legacysurvey.org
2021-02-09 · thedriftmag.com

After Kenya declared independence from British rule in 1963, there came a flood of renamings. Schools, suburbs, and roads were rechristened in ways that spoke to a new idea of what it meant to be…
2021-02-09 · seths.blog

By every measure I can think of, ranked-choice voting is a superior way to hold a modern election. When a group of people want to decide something at the national or even the organizational level, …
2021-02-09 · getpocket.com

And it cooks in a fraction of the time.
2021-02-09 · nytimes.com

Two researchers are on trial for writing that a Polish mayor was complicit in a massacre. Critics say the government is trying to emphasize Polish suffering in World War II and downplay complicity in Nazi crimes.
2021-02-09 · fortune.com

Last summer a monster storm tore across Iowa, leaving billions of dollars damage in its wake. It was a brutal blow to an economy already reeling from a deadly pandemic and a state divided by politics like never before.
2021-02-09 · annehelen.substack.com

This is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing.
2021-02-09 · technologyreview.com

New messenger RNA vaccines to fight the coronavirus are based on a technology that could transform medicine. Next up: sickle cell and HIV.
2021-02-08 · venturebeat.com

The graph database is popular with social networks, but there's no reason to limit it to tracking people and their friendships.
2021-02-08 · kcrw.com

A red, beef stew tucked into a corn tortilla stained red from the juices — birria de res has become a bonafide phenomenon. Bill Esparza documented its journey from Tijuana to Los Angeles and beyond in a deep dive for Eater .
2021-02-08 · theunixschool.com
--> awk and sed tutorials: awk: awk - Read and split file contents awk - Passing arguments or shell variables to awk awk - Match a pat...
2021-02-08 · 12factor.net
A methodology for building modern, scalable, maintainable software-as-a-service apps.
2021-02-08 · nytimes.com

With the right federal response, it could become a model of renewal for other places around the country that prosperity has left behind.
2021-02-07 · towardsdatascience.com

The essential for Python in tasks automation apps
2021-02-07 · towardsdatascience.com

Knowing the terminology is essential to understanding any tutorial.
2021-02-07 · getpocket.com
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Handy words from other languages with no English equivalent.
2021-02-07 · robotmoon.com
2021-02-07 · newyorker.com

And to know it is to need it.
2021-02-07 · htck.github.io
2021-02-07 · altaonline.com

The Pacific Crest Trail is as dangerous as it is beautiful. This is the story of one young hiker who never made it home.
2021-02-07 · psyche.co

Anger is a fuel that’s dangerous when out of control. But managed well, it can energise you to identify and confront problems
2021-02-07 · macwright.com
A world beyond Amazon
2021-02-06 · theguardian.com

Across US public lands thousands of people are taking to van life, as featured in the Oscar-winning film Nomadland
2021-02-06 · theatlantic.com

The narrative wrongfully portrays both Beijing and the developing countries it deals with.
2021-02-06 · news.learnenough.com

News & blog about Learn Enough (including the Ruby on Rails Tutorial)
2021-02-06 · kwokchain.com

How Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe—and winning In 2010, Photoshop was ubiquitous. Whether you were editing a photo, making a poster, or designing a website, it happened in Photoshop. Today, Adobe looks incredibly strong. They’ve had spectacular stock performance, thanks to…
2021-02-06 · nesslabs.com

Psychology and neuroscience are such rapidly growing fields of research, it’s easy to get confused. If you’ve sometimes been scratching your head trying to figure out who does what, this guide is for you. We will cover 40 major fields of psychology and neuroscience using plain…
2021-02-06 · talend.com

Talend Data Fabric offers a scalable, cloud-independent data fabric that supports the full data lifecycle, from integration and quality to observability and governance.
2021-02-05 · scientificamerican.com

Scientists search for the neural basis of an enigmatic experience
2021-02-05 · reddit.com

The original subreddit, now archived.
2021-02-05 · rubyweekly.com
2021-02-05 · developer.nvidia.com
Speech and natural language processing (NLP) have become the foundation for most of the AI development in the enterprise today, as textual data represents a significant portion of unstructured content.
2021-02-05 · anysilicon.com

Consumer electronics markets, the mobile phone market in particular, are extremely demanding. They are driven by the desire to pack more and more functionality and enhanced value into the same size handheld device, and often at lower costs. This drive towards smaller, cheaper…
2021-02-05 · chipbond.com.tw

Flexible Tape-and-Reel Circuit Substrate, High-end FPC, tape-and-reel, FPC, COF film, tape, single-piece packaging, Circuit Substrate,COF tape, tape film, substrate
2021-02-05 · denverite.com

DPD Chief Pazen, who is fond of the STAR program, says it frees up officers to do their jobs: fight crime.
2021-02-05 · atthis.link

Thinking about how we can make computing better.
2021-02-04 · theorangeduck.com
Computer Science, Machine Learning, Programming, Art, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Short Fiction
2021-02-04 · humanloop.com
Data labeling is often the biggest bottleneck in machine learning. Active learning lets you train machine learning models with much less labeled data. The best AI-driven companies, like Tesla, use active learning.
2021-02-04 · allaboutcircuits.com

Learn some basic, foundational info about fiber optic communication systems in this primer.
2021-02-04 · intel.com

Understanding Intel® processor names and numbers helps identify the best laptop, desktop, or mobile device CPU for your computing needs.
2021-02-04 · pinterest.com
2021-02-04 · thenewatlantis.com

If America wants to keep China from setting the global course of science, we need a crash program to recruit international talent.
2021-02-04 · medium.com

Activation functions are functions which take an input signal and convert it to an output signal. Activation functions introduce…
2021-02-04 · arxiv.org

The ability of the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) framework to learn generative models mapping from simple latent distributions to arbitrarily complex data distributions has been...
2021-02-04 · paperswithcode.com
Browse 31 tasks • 61 datasets • 57
2021-02-04 · medium.com

Recently, a colleague of mine asked me a few questions like “why do we have so many activation functions?”, “why is that one works better…