The jaw-dropping story behind an NFL coach's search for his family

Kansas City Chiefs running backs coach Deland McCullough went searching for his biological parents. He found them where he never would have expected.

Prik Gaeng Panaeng (Thai Panang Curry Paste)

Bust out the mortar and pestle for this peanut-spiked Thai curry paste.

Bikini Kill Is Still Influencing Today's Punk Scene

We talk to femmes in punk about the '90s band's legacy

Heroku Dynos: Sizes, Types, and How Many You Need

The ultimate guide to dynos on Heroku. If you’ve ever asked "how many dynos do I need?" or "which dyno type is right for my app?", this is the guide for you.

How a White Lie Gave Japan KFC for Christmas

One cunning business maneuver created a tradition and saved a franchise.

Open problems in Robotics

Robotics is one of those things the business funny papers regularly wonder about; it seems like consumer robotics is a revolutionary trillion dollar market which is perpetually 20-years away -more…

Prosopagnosia: The artist in search of her face

Carlotta is a prolific self portrait artist from Munich with prosopagnosia - face blindness.

The 9 best landing page builders in 2020 | Zapier

With a great landing page builder, you can get results. We tested dozens of apps, and here are our picks for the 7 best.

Searching for Misha: The Life and Tragedies of the World’s Most Famous Polar Bear

Both I and my research have been deeply affected by a polar bear I have never met face to face.

How to extract tables from PDF files with Camelot

A quick guide for extracting the tables from PDF files in Python using Camelot library

Photonics startup Lightmatter details P1, its AI optical accelerator chip

Ahead of the Hot Chips 2020 conference this week, photonics chip startup Lightmatter detailed its forthcoming test chip accelerator hardware.

Croston forecast model for intermittent demand

How to forecast intermittent demand thanks to the Croston forecast model.

Ackee and Saltfish with Johnny Cakes and Steamed Callaloo Recipe

The Jamaican national dish complemented by 2 classic sides is a well-balanced breakfast and perfect way to start the day.

The First Sentence Is a Handshake (2014)

According to science fiction writer William Gibson, a book's opening should be an inviting enigma to the reader—and a motivational benchmark for the writer.

How To Roast Any Vegetable

They taste great and there’s no recipe required.

Introduction to Terraform

This week I explored Terraform as part of my exploration of development and operations topics. Terraform is a tool for automating the…

My best SEO tactic so far

Over the years, I've worked on building search traffic for two kinds of sites. The first, was working for companies that already had hundreds of thousands or millions of monthly users and were trying ...

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Introduction to Evolutionary Algorithms

Optimization by natural selection

How to stop procrastinating by using the Fogg Behavior Model

B J Fogg is a Stanford professor who came up with a simple model of behavior that helps us understand why we take action or not take action at any given moment.

WTF is Triller?

Triller is one of several video-led social applications including Instagram Reels and Byte riding a wave of anti-TikTok sentiment.

A Little Step Makes a Thousand Miles, and a Little Stream Makes a Great Oce

Youtan, Head of Alibaba Supply Chain Platform(ASCP), Tmall Supermarket, Freshippo, and Digital Agricultural Products

Expiring vs. Permanent Skills · Collaborative Fund

Robert Walter Weir was one of the most popular instructors at West Point in the mid-1800s.

heartcombo/devise: Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.

Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden. - heartcombo/devise

Micron Spills on GDDR6X: PAM4 Signaling For Higher Rates, Coming to NVIDIA’

ERPNext User Manual (English)

How the Library of Congress Unrolled a 2,000-Year-Old Buddhist Scroll

“It was the most fragile object we have ever encountered.”

Finding the Soul of Sonora in Carne Asada (Published 2020)

A carne asada goes far beyond grilled meat: In the Mexican state of Sonora, it’s a weekly ritual, a tight-knit gathering of friends and family.

How To Make Kombucha Tea at Home

Save your pennies! Watch the video to learn how to make your own kombucha at home.

8 Habits of Deeply Inspiring People

The best lessons from films and fiction on what makes a hero

Pricing, Packaging and Product: how to use conjoint and maxdiff to get it r

I bet your company’s pricing is all wrong. Here’s a 4 step method to get it right.

AI 101: Intro to Evolutionary Algorithms

Evolutionary Algorithms

Get the Book on Evolutionary Algorithms (With Python Notebooks) https://datacrayon.com/shop/product/practical-evolutionary-algorithms-book/ 3:06 - To skip to the main content Twitter: @ShahinRostami (http://twitter.com/ShahinRostami) An introduction to the topic of Evolutionary…

How to make your arguments stronger (hint: longer is not the answer)

Resist the temptation to bury people under a blizzard of evidence, says psychology researcher Niro Sivanathan. He explains why.

17 Tools I Can’t Design Without

I think of a creative practice as a combination of an approach (a design philosophy) and a series of techniques (craft skills); a good tool facilitates a technique, which in turn supports an approach.It wasn’t until I sat down to write a list of tools I can’t design without…

Agile vs. Scrum vs. Kanban: Which Project Management Methodology is Right F

Choose the ideal project management methodology. Discover the difference between agile, scrum, and kanban for project management.

Polynomial Regression: The Only Introduction You’ll Need

A deep-dive into the theory and application behind this Machine Learning algorithm in Python, by a student

How the Custom Ringtone Industry Paved the Way for the App Store — and Then Vanished

Why I miss Crazy Frog

Advanced Concepts in Recursion Every Effective Programmer Should Know

One of the most powerful & useful coding approaches

Inside the Turkish start-up that wants to be your “personal butler” - Rest

Local shops in Turkey have been transporting groceries for centuries. Getir promises to bring them to your doorstep in 13 minutes or less.

The Parisian Cookbook We're Escaping Into

"Plating the pasta on a nice plate helps elevate the experience, even when it's just you alone in your kitchen," says Kate Leahy.

11 Essential Neural Network Architectures, Visualized & Explained

Standard, Recurrent, Convolutional, & Autoencoder Networks

A Novel Approach to Feature Importance — Shapley Additive Explanations

The state-of-the-art in feature importance

Designing Mobile Tables

Web magazine about user experience matters, providing insights and inspiration for the user experience community

SEO Pack: 21 Worksheets, Templates, and Cheat Sheets

Looking to up your SEO game? These 19 SEO worksheets, templates, and spreadsheets will supercharge your SEO to increase your visibility and drive traffic.

Why Are Toys Such a Bad Business?

Inflections in finance and tech. Click to read The Diff, by Byrne Hobart, a Substack publication.

Ways to Get People to Do Things They Don’t Want to Do

Developing user habits is not the same as demanding compliance. But sometimes that’s the task at hand.

Lists of radio stations in the United States - Wikipedia

Radio stations in United States have evolved since their early twentieth-century origins. In 1920 8MK started operations in Detroit; after it, thousands of private and public radio have operated in the United States. The lists of radio stations in the US are organized in a…

Healthy Self-Doubt

The Technium: 1,000 True Fans

This is an edited, updated version of an essay I wrote in 2008 when this now popular idea was embryonic and ragged. I recently rewrote it to convey the core ideas, minus out-of-date details. This revisited essay appears in Tim … Continue reading →