He’s a biker attorney who specialized in getting small-time defendants off. He’s considered a gang member by Texas police. And now he’s the county’s chief prosecutor. Can Mark Gonzalez change the system?
Can Mark Gonzalez change the system?
Online retailers should take a tip from brick-and-mortar stores: shove your best deals to the back of the store. Research by Thales Teixeira and Donald Ngwe.
Discover extraordinary true stories celebrating the diversity of humanity. Click to read Narratively, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
New Airstreams have all the bells and whistles customary in pricey builds, but nothing beats the vintage style of an old Airstream, made modern.
A blog where I write down my thoughts, ideas and notions, as an exercise to cement them in my memory and improve on their concepts.
How the best robot, "Little Sunfish," helped Japanese scientists understand the scope of the damage at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Connect with developers sharing the strategies and revenue numbers behind their companies and side projects.
What Artur Samarin pulled off at a school in small-town Pennsylvania is one of the boldest hoaxes of our time.
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Kurtosis and Skewness are very close relatives of the “data normalized statistical moment” family – Kurtosis being the fourth and Skewness the third moment, and yet they are often used to detect very different phenomena in data. At the same time, it is typically recommendable to…
I'm often asked why I started FringeSport. People inquire, "Of all the things to do, why sell barbells?" I tell them that if I wanted only to make money,
This article will review the structure of the binary multipliers that use the look-up tables (LUTs) in the Xilinx logic fabric.
Namibian hunter-gatherers deride those who stand out. What does this tell us about why, and how, we care about fairness?
I think it’s probably no secret by now that I hate minimalism. I hate it as the incredibly-tedious piece of […]
This is the laid-back Moroccan surf town of your dreams.
The inside story of the first homicide in America’s most secure prison.
Did you ever have a problem with Git that you knew a command could fix but you just couldn't remember what one it could be? With this tutorial, you can quickly and easily find it, and get a better understanding how each of them works.
Fine-tuning our sentiment classifier
The receptive field is perhaps one of the most important concepts in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) that deserves more attention from…
The inside story of the first homicide in America’s most secure prison.
For many data scientists, data manipulation begins and ends with Pandas or the Tidyverse. In theory, there is nothing wrong with this…
Famous photos of Appalachia in the Depression tell only part of the story.
This month's playlist includes the soulful stylings of Leon Bridges and River Whyless' sobering meditation on the American Dream.
To give back to our community of developers, we looked at our database of thousands of projects and found the top 10 errors in Ruby on Rails projects. We’re going to show you what causes them and how to prevent them from happening. If you avoid these "gotchas," it'll make you a…
In December 2017, researchers at Google and MIT published a provocative research paper about their efforts into “learned index structures”…
In this tutorial, I will cover the basics of the CSS grid layout with example scenarios. CSS Grid is supported by almost all modern browsers now, and it is ready to be used in production. Unlike...
The seventeen-year-old took Paris by storm with his racy, amoral first novel. Shortly thereafter, a séance predicted his untimely death.
Running large deep learning processes on Amazon Web Services EC2 is a cheap and effective way to learn and develop models. For just a few dollars you can get access to tens of gigabytes of RAM, tens of CPU cores, and multiple GPUs. I highly recommend it. If you are new to EC2 or…
My name is Gabi (my bio), and I’m the CEO and co-founder of Chicisimo. We launched three years ago, our goal was to offer automated outfit…
Traditional strategies for taming unstructured, textual data
Strategies for working with discrete, categorical data
Strategies for working with continuous, numerical data
Since the teams were combined, Sephora's customer profiles have been rebuilt to include 360-degree data that tracks in-store purchases, interactions with sales people, online browsing and online purchasing.
A recording salvaged from three miles deep tells the story of the doomed “El Faro,” a cargo ship engulfed by a hurricane.
On Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation, basketball is about much more than winning.
Baklava and mille-feuille come together in this chewy, buttery, sweet and creamy morsel.
Data can change over time. This can result in poor and degrading predictive performance in predictive models that assume a static relationship between input and output variables. This problem of the changing underlying relationships in the data is called concept drift in the…
Which machine learning algorithm should you use? It is a central question in applied machine learning. In a recent paper by Randal Olson and others, they attempt to answer it and give you a guide for algorithms and parameters to try on your problem first, before spot checking a…
A profile of UConn basketball coach Geno Auriemma, who has not found peace despite unprecedented success.
At any given moment there are roughly 6,000 planes on their way to somewhere over American airspace. Getting them safely down to the ground will depend upon the efforts of a small group of controllers who, nearly without fail, get the job done despite long hours, grim working…
How a group of high school kids from a sleepy beach town in California became criminal masterminds.
Low power wireless technologies are adapting to the Internet of Things by including IP connectivity and mesh networking.
Each of the many short-range wireless technologies has unique benefits, requiring careful attention to product complexity, power consumption, and cost.