You Don’t Know Jack

Gather ’round, the great American melting cheese has a story to tell.

What Great Listeners Actually Do

Good listening is much more than being silent while the other person talks.

How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math

The building blocks of understanding are memorization and repetition.

Death-Cap Mushrooms Are Spreading Across North America

“There’s nothing in the taste that tells you what you are eating is about to kill you.”

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Museum in a Box

A small, friendly device you put museum objects on to hear their stories... It's history that speaks for itself!

23 Free Web Design Tools from Fall 2019

Free resources from the design community can add value to your ecommerce site. Here is a list of new web tools and design elements from fall 2019. There are designer and developer apps, coding resources, color tools, fonts, and more. All of these tools are free, though some also…

This object-recognition dataset stumped the world’s best computer vision mo

When computer vision detectors are turned loose in the real world, their performance noticeably drops. In an effort to close this performance gap, a team of MIT and IBM researchers set out to create a very different kind of object-recognition dataset called ObjectNet.

But wait, there’s more: the psychology of selling - Ness Labs

Even unintentionally, you’ve probably seen one of these infomercials on TV. The presenter goes through all the supposedly amazing features of an obscure product with an excited voice, an urgent tone, as if he or she was sharing an important secret few will be lucky enough to…

Anyone’s Son

Cody Dalton Eyre, a 20-year-old Alaskan Native, was having a mental health crisis on Christmas Eve, 2017 when his mother called 911 for help. So why did police officers end up shooting and killing him?

How to conquer work paralysis like Ernest Hemingway

The author wasn’t all about literary masterpieces, dry martinis and rakish charm – he also invented a technique that can beat procrastination and boost productivity.

The Hummingbird Whisperer

They’re tiny and they hover, and they’re one of only three groups of birds that are vocal learners. They sing with their mouths andtheir feathers. No wonder UC Riverside researcher Chris Clark is obsessed with hummingbirds.

Alone at the Top of Texas

With the state’s four highest peaks, Guadalupe Mountains National Park offers incredible vistas and rewarding trails, which you just might have mostly to yourself.

A new way to make quadratic equations easy

Many former algebra students have painful memories of struggling to memorize the quadratic formula. A new way to derive it, overlooked for 4,000 years, is so simple it eliminates the need.

Preferred Networks: A 500 W Custom PCIe Card using 3000 mm2 Silicon

The Story of the Game Operation

When you were a kid, it was always fun to play Operation, a game in which you fished parts out of a patient named Cavity Sam, and you had be precise or you'd complete an electric circuit and a buzzer would sound. It was not the first game based on an electric circuit- Ben…

The Depths of the Sea

What creatures live in the depths of the sea? Manatees go about 6 meters into the depths of the water. Polar bears will dive down as far as 24 meters. A thick-billed murre, which is a bird, will search for food as deep as 210 meters.It's a long, long way down past that. Neal…

The Simple Math behind 3 Decision Tree Splitting criterions

This post is about various evaluation metrics and how and when to use them.

Metaflow: Netflix's Python framework for data science is now open source

Build and manage real-life ML, AI, and data science projects with Metaflow.

Getting output of system() calls in Ruby - Stack Overflow

If I call a command using Kernel#system in Ruby, how do I get its output? system("ls")

BERT Explained: A Complete Guide with Theory and Tutorial

Unless you have been out of touch with the Deep Learning world, chances are that you have heard about BERT — it has been the talk of the town for the last one year. At the end of 2018 researchers …

Best Screenplay Goes to the Algorithms - Issue 79: Catalysts

Learning to appreciate the future of literature.

ChessRoots - Chess opening graph from over 800 million Chess games

Chess openings visualized from over 800 million Lichess games, 2 million tournament games and 1 million chess engine games.

Ethos, Pathos, Logos: how to persuade people

The three modes of persuasion — ethos, pathos, logos — are useful skills to master to persuade people and to understand how you’re being persuaded yourself.

Kitchen Rhythm: A Year in a Parisian Pâtisserie - Longreads

An Oxford grad learns to navigate boiling sugar, sleep deprivation, and exacting pastry chefs with whom she can barely communicate.

Paradoxical Geniuses: “Let us burn the ships”

In 1519, Hernán Cortés landed 500 men in 11 ships on the coast of the Yucatan, knowing that he was openly disobeying the governor of Cuba and that he was facing unknown numbers of potential enemies…

UUID Primary Key in Rails 6 with PostgreSQL and ActiveRecord

UUID also known as GUID is an alternative primary key type for SQL databases. It offers some non-obvious advantages compared to standard integer-based keys. Rails 6 release fresh out of beta introduces a new feature in ActiveRecord that makes working with UUID primary keys more…

A ‘Thrilling’ Mission to Get the Swedish to Change Overnight

How a whole country of drivers all switched lanes at the same time.

Crossed Stitches

Beverly Pennington was a Pinterest-perfect entrepreneur whose patchwork quilts—made from people’s most treasured T-shirts—found thousands of devotees all over the country. But when the quilts stopped coming, leaving the shirts in limbo, her customers pieced together a plan to…

The First Family of Counterfeit Hunting

Robert Holmes taught his sons everything he knew about exposing black-market knockoffs. Now they take down the world’s biggest scammers while dodging threats from the mob.

Lessons From a ‘Local Food’ Scam Artist

Working summers at an authentically quaint roadside produce stand, a teenage salesperson is schooled in the not-so-subtle art of how to con a foodie from the big city.

The Real-Life Hollywood Hoax That Turned a Fake Bradley Cooper Epic Into a $14 Million Scam

Adam Joiner’s silver-screen dreams were finally coming true. He had a deal with Netflix, a superstar lead and even interest from Spielberg. There was only one problem: His entire story was a lie

Snow’s Queen

On Saturdays Tootsie Tomanetz cooks barbecue the old-fashioned way for legions of loyal fans. That doesn’t mean she’ll ever give up her day job.

The Zen of Weight Lifting

Chop wood, carry water and other lessons that apply far beyond the gym.

Inside the Secret World of Global Food Spies

Retail giants turn to bitcoin technology to combat food-fraud that costs the global food industry up to $40 billion every year.

The last of the great explorers

The ocean floor is the Earth’s last great uncharted region. Oliver Franklin-Wallis joins the man descending to the bottom of the deepest trenches on the planet

In Search of Life’s Smoking Gun

A journey to the underwater volcanoes where life may have erupted.

Enhancing IO Ring Checks For Consistent, Customizable Verification

Making sure IO rings comply with IP and SoC design rules.

Electromagnetic Challenges In High-Speed Designs

Runaway complexity is making it more difficult and critical to deal with signal integrity in a system context.

It’s a Cascade of 14nm CPUs: AnandTech’s Intel Core i9-10980XE Review

We’d have more quantum computers if it weren’t so hard to find the damn cables

Quantum machines will deliver the next great leap forward in computing, but researchers building them can’t easily get some of the exotic components they need.

The wild story behind the NBA's most unlikely heist

How did an executive in one of the league's smallest markets steal millions of dollars -- and get away with it for years?

Powerful computer vision algorithms are now small enough to run on your phone

Researchers have shrunk state-of-the-art computer vision models to run on low-power devices. Growing pains: Visual recognition is deep learning’s strongest skill. Computer vision algorithms are analyzing medical images, enabling self-driving cars, and powering face recognition…

Counting FLOPS and other CPU counters in Python

On the Linux command line it is fairly easy to use the perf command to measure number of floating point operations (or other performance metrics). (See for example this old blog post ) with this approach it is not easy to get a fine grained view of how different stages of…

The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

Behavior Science Expert Chase Hughes Trains Real-World Jason Bournes on How

Hint: It has to do with laundry.

A Very Old Man for a Wolf

He was the alpha male of the first pack to live in Oregon since 1947. For years, a state biologist tracked him, collared him, counted his pups, weighed him, photographed him, and protected him. But then the animal known as OR4 broke one too many rules.

How containers work: overlayfs - Julia Evans

I Bought an Elephant to Find Out How to Save Them

At a time of unprecedented mass extinctions, no animal epitomizes the global biodiversity free fall more than the Asian elephant. Paul Kvinta travels to Laos to visit a moon-shot project aimed at saving the country's 400 remaining wild behemoths, investigate the strange…

The Innocent Pleasure of Trespassing

Liberating ourselves by treating the world as a free place to roam.