What Humans Can Learn From The Language Of Honeybees
Advanced technologies like A.I. are enabling scientists to learn that the world is full of intelligent creatures with sophisticated languages, like honeybees. What might they tell us?
What’s Behind the Exploding Prices of Pro Sports Franchises?
Teams were once considered poor, unpredictable investments. Today they’re among the most coveted assets in the world. What changed?
AI Homework – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
The first obvious casualty of large language models is homework: the real training for everyone, though, and the best way to leverage AI, will be in verifying and editing information.
After a Quantum Clobbering, One Approach Survives Unscathed
A quantum approach to data analysis that relies on the study of shapes will likely remain an example of a quantum advantage — albeit for increasingly unlikely scenarios.
Capital in the Twenty-First Century a book by Thomas Piketty and Arthur Goldhammer
A New York Times #1 BestsellerAn Amazon #1 BestsellerA Wall Street Journal #1 BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Sunday Times BestsellerA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyWinner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardWinner of the British Academy…
Beginner’s Guide to Diffusion Models
An intuitive understanding of how AI-generated art is made by Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, or DALL-E
Neurolinguistics
An accessible introduction to the study of language in the brain, covering language processing, language acquisition, literacy, and language disorders.Neurol...
Using the Make Utility and Makefiles in Linux [Guide]
Learn the basics of makefile and how to use the make utility for building your applications in Linux with a sample C project.
Dual Confidence Regions: A Simple Introduction - DataScienceCentral.com
Simulated confidence regions for machine learning professionals and non-statisticians. Introducing a new concept: dual confidence region.
Hiding in Plain Sight? The Argument for Invisible Aliens
Are invisible aliens living among us in shadow biospheres? Is extraterrestrial life hiding in plain sight?
Scan Ports With netcat Command in Linux
Netcat is a popular networking utility for Linux based systems. Learn how to use it to scan for open ports.
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street
In the mid-’80s, Wall Street turned to the quants—brainy financial engineers—to invent new ways to boost profits. Their methods for minting money worked brilliantly… until one of them devastated the global economy.
Machine Learning Dictionary - Machine Learning Techniques
Top entries are in bold, and sub-entries are in italics. This dictionary is from my new book "Intuitive Machine Learning and Explainable AI", available here and used as reference material for the course with the same name (see here). These entries are cross-referenced in the…
Ann Powers' Top 20 Albums Of 2022
NPR's pop critic and correspondent shares her favorite albums of this year.
Best Southern Albums of 2022 — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
The Bitter Southerner’s 2022 Best Southern Records list.
Seven Books That Will Make You Smarter
These titles do more than answer questions: They explain how the world moves and what moves it.
Just How Bad Is CXL Memory Latency?
Conventional wisdom says that trying to attach system memory to the PCI-Express bus is a bad idea if you care at all about latency. The further the memory
Deliberate doubt: the art of questioning our assumptions
Deliberate doubt is the practice of actively questioning our beliefs and assumptions. It is about suspending our certainty and letting go of our preconceived notions in order to explore new ideas and perspectives.
The Uses of Friction
Plus! Market-Making; Poaching and Equity Currency; China's Covid Economy; The Cost of AI; Friendshoring; Diff Jobs
The 10 Best Rock Albums of 2022
In 2022, the top 10 rock albums took a pilgrimage to Memphis, communed with theologians and poets, found the interconnectedness of all beings and danced through pain and pleasure.
Where Does All the Cardboard Come From? I Had to Know. (Published 2022)
Entire forests and enormous factories running 24/7 can barely keep up with demand. This is how the cardboard economy works.
How to Create Large Files in Linux
Want to create large file of 1 GB or some other size? Here are various ways of creating large files with predefined sizes in Linux.
Density-Based Clustering: DBSCAN vs. HDBSCAN
Which algorithm to choose for your data
'Arrival' Is a Timely Film About Aliens and Empathy
The movie's screenwriter talks about the creation of the story's extraterrestrial language and the importance of communication.
Best Albums of 2022 (Published 2022)
The most effective artists of the year weren’t afraid to root around deep inside and boldly share the messiness, the complexities and the beauty of their discoveries.
How can you tell if the company you’re interviewing with is rotten on the inside?
How can you tell the companies who are earnestly trying to improve apart from the ones who sound all polished and healthy from the outside, whilst rotting on the inside? This seems to be on a lot o…
error I get when doing sudo apt-get update. Tried other solutions but they didn't work
20 votes, 25 comments. 235K subscribers in the Ubuntu community. The Ubuntu community on Reddit
LINUX Commands
A Mind Map about LINUX Commands submitted by kPastor on Jul 20, 2015. Created with Xmind.
10 Best Albums of 2022 | Songlines
Featuring fantastic releases from Abel Selaocoe, Jake Blount, Oumou Sangaré, Silvana Estrada and more
How Michael Goguen Got Conned
How one billionaire with a savior complex and a voracious sexual appetite got conned by his best friend, who saw him as the perfect mark.
Hacker News
What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?
Rails 7.1 features
There are many new features and improvements in Rails 7.1 that can be useful for developers. Here are...
Never-before-seen malware is nuking data in Russia’s courts and mayors’ off
CryWiper masquerades as ransomware, but its real purpose is to permanently destroy data.
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Show HN: Trading cards made with e-ink displays | Hacker News
Right now, each card costs me about $20 each, but with only a bit more scale, I think I can get that down to $10.
Introducing Wyldcard — Wyldcard
Introducing Wyldcard, a new paradigm for tabletop gaming, trading cards which can magically change as you play.
How Led Zeppelin Came to Be
Read how Jimmy Page recruited the other members of Led Zeppelin, and what led up to their first show in 1968 as the New Yardbirds.
Mastering Stratego, the classic game of imperfect information
Game-playing artificial intelligence (AI) systems have advanced to a new frontier. Stratego, the classic board game that’s more complex than chess and Go, and craftier than poker, has now been...
https://squeaky.ai/blog/development/how-switching-to-aws-graviton-slashed-our-infrastructure-bill-by-35-percent
5 CSS Card Design Ideas!
Disclaimer: There is a video version of this tutorial, watch it here Here are 5 card designs, with...
Counting unique visitors without using cookies, UIDs or fingerprinting.
Building a web analytics service without cookies poses a tricky problem: How do you distinguish unique visitors?
Physicists Create ‘the Smallest, Crummiest Wormhole You Can Imagine’
Scientists used a quantum computer to explore the ultimate escape route from a black hole.
An Introduction to SMOTE - KDnuggets
Improve the model performance by balancing the dataset using the synthetic minority oversampling technique.
Category Theory for Programmers: The Preface | Bartosz Milewski's Program
Table of Contents Part One Category: The Essence of Composition Types and Functions Categories Great and Small Kleisli Categories Products and Coproducts Simple Algebraic Data Types Functors Functo…
How to Find Open Ports and Close Them in Linux
Troubleshooting networks? Here's how to find the open ports and close those open ports in the Linux command line.
Finding Rundo (Again): US White Supremacist Facing Criminal Charges Located
A far-right extremist wanted to advertise his clothing brand. Instead he’s given us an unintended lesson on the power of open source research methods.
jlevy/the-art-of-command-line: Master the command line, in one page
Master the command line, in one page.
YOLOv7: A deep dive into the current state-of-the-art for object detection
Everything you need to know to use YOLOv7 in custom training scripts
6 Reinforcement Learning Algorithms Explained
Introduction to reinforcement learning terminologies, basics, and concepts (model-free, model-based, online, offline RL)
How to Get the UUID of a Disk Partition in Linux
UUID is a property of disk partitions used to uniquely identify them. Here are various ways to get the UUID of a disk partition in the Linux command line.