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Understand the ins and outs of hierarchical clustering, and how it applies to marketing campaign analysis in the banking industry.
Accessible Independent Travel Is for All Ages and Abilities
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The fascinating evolution of typing Chinese characters
From Wubi to Zhineng ABC, here are the different ways Chinese people have typed their language over the years.
Together AI Unveils Llama-2-7B-32K-Instruct: A Breakthrough in Extended-Con
A multifaceted challenge has arisen in the expansive realm of natural language processing: the ability to adeptly comprehend and respond to intricate and lengthy instructions. As communication nuances become more complicated, the shortcomings of prevailing models in dealing with…
14 Google Drive Add-Ons That Will Save Your Time Every Day
Quick Drive If you use Google Drive, you've probably encountered a situation when you need to quickly look something up in one of your documents or sheets. If you have many files, bookmarking may be challenging. Quick Drive is the permanent answer to this issue. With this Google…
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design
I've been involved in spacecraft and space systems design and development for my entire career, including teaching the senior-level capstone spacecraft design course, for ten years at MIT and now at the University of Maryland for more than three decades.
Roundtable
When in Doubt, Copy
Easy and effective, copying is how we cope with unpredictability.
The mystery of what causes ALS
Scientists are racing to find out what causes this progressive disease. And they're starting to make some headway.
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Reading the Yield Curve
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A Practical Introduction to LLMs
3 levels of using LLMs in practice
In Opposing Gun Program, Lawmaker Omitted His Store Was Subject to It
One of two gun stores owned by Representative Andrew Clyde in Georgia, Clyde Armory in Athens, was placed in a monitoring program in 2020 and 2021.
How to Save cURL Output to a File?
Learn to save the curl command output to a file for later usage in this quick tutorial.
Microsoft Introduces Python in Excel: Bridging Analytical Prowess with Fami
The realm of data analysis has long struggled with seamlessly integrating the capabilities of Python—a powerful programming language widely used for analytics—with the familiar interface and functionalities of Microsoft Excel. This challenge has hindered efficient…
Crayola Trademarks the Smell of Its Crayons
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Post: You may find yourself smelling crayons in the aisles of stores soon -- if Crayola's chief executive Pete Ruggiero has his way. In July, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a trademark to the arts and crafts…
BERT — Intuitively and Exhaustively Explained
Baking General Understanding into Language Models
How Colorful Ribbon Diagrams Became the Face of Proteins
Proteins are often visualized as cascades of curled ribbons and twisted strings, which both reveal and conceal the mess of atoms that make up these impossibly complex molecules.
How to break free of Spotify’s algorithm
By delivering what people seem to want, has Spotify killed the joy of music discovery?
Book Review: A Neurosurgeon’s Inside Look at the Brain
Theodore H. Schwartz's “Gray Matters” explores the evolution of brain surgery, along with its many risks and rewards.
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Crime Jazz: How Miles Davis, Count Basie & Duke Ellington Created Soundtrac
When we think of film noir, we tend to think of a mood best set by a look: shadow and light (mostly shadow), grim but visually rich weather, near-depopulated urban streets.
Simulation 104: Electromagnetic Mapping with Vector Fields
Modeling electric and magnetic fields
What is a Tooltip? Definition, Types, and Best Practices
Time to define tooltips and share best practices. Explore tooltip types and its examples in our blog post coming from a prototyping tool.
The Lows of the High Life
I had never had money, and then I did. For three days in New York, I learned how not to use it.
12 Ruby Gems to make your Ruby coding smoother
How many Ruby gems do you have currently installed? With around 50 new gems released daily, it is...
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Just a few days ago I saw an amazing video about Kurt Quinn, a man who can talk backwards. When I say backwards, I don’t mean that he reverses the order of the words in a sentence, but he act…
The underbelly of electric vehicles
Mining and processing the minerals needed to meet the growing demand for EVs can be costly for workers, local communities and the environment.
Take the high road: the man who visited every country in the world – withou
At 34, Torbjørn Pedersen embarked on a seemingly impossible journey that would take 10 years – and involve cerebral malaria and being held up at gunpoint. He reflects on the highs, the lows and the joy of getting married en route
Why nobody got paid for one of the most sampled sounds in hip-hop
This month marks the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. A few seconds from one forgotten rap song have tied artists and eras together for decades.
A Photographer’s Frank, Tender Portrait of Her Parents’ Final Year
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Ruby's Hash is a Swiss-Army Knife
This article shows the obscure but useful capabilities of Hash, a simple but equally powerful data structure in Ruby.
Congrats on your Customer Lifetime Value prediction model — now what are yo
An obsessively detailed guide to Customer Lifetime Value techniques and real-world applications
Meet Chroma: An AI-Native Open-Source Vector Database For LLMs: A Faster Wa
Word embedding vector databases have become increasingly popular due to the proliferation of massive language models. Using the power of sophisticated machine learning techniques, data is stored in a vector database. It allows for very fast similarity search, essential for many…
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Why Bill Watterson Vanished
The creator of Calvin and Hobbes is back, but the mystery is why he disappeared in the first place.
Trader Joe's: The Anti-Grocer
The grocer created a cult brand with sales of $16B+ a year by doing the opposite of industry best-practices (from wages to product to ads).
Dynamic Pricing with Multi-Armed Bandit: Learning by Doing!
Applying Reinforcement Learning strategies to real-world use cases, especially in dynamic pricing, can reveal many surprises
Kernel Density Estimation explained step by step
Intuitive derivation of the KDE formula
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The 50 Best Movie Soundtracks of the Past 50 Years
From the iconic closing notes of ‘The Breakfast Club’ to the era-encapsulating mix of ‘Dazed and Confused’ to the work of the Purple One himself, these are the best mixes of cinema and sound since 1971
Schedule a Shutdown in Linux Command Line
Learn to schedule a shutdown in Linux. Also explore routine shutdowns using cron jobs and systemd-timers.
There are more than 4 types of search intent
Explore user motivations, intent categories, and tactics to create SEO content that resonates and converts.
Python Global Interpreter Lock (GIL): Understanding, Workarounds, and Paral
Introduction: Python, a popular programming language known for its simplicity and versatility,...
Why the world’s best vanilla is so easy to steal
A journey inside Mexico’s underground vanilla economy
A New Doorway to the Brain
Neuroscientists can now explore the “wild west” in our heads in incredible detail—a boon to medicine and understanding what makes us tick.
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Aristotle’s 10 Rules for a Good Life
An ancient Greek recipe for happiness