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What's SAP? And why is it worth $163B?
40,000 Recipes for Murder
Two scientists inadvertently open the Pandora’s Box of WMDs. What now?
Accelerate Python code 100x by import taichi as ti | Taichi Docs
Python has become the most popular language in many rapidly evolving sectors, such as deep learning and data sciences. Yet its easy readability comes at the cost of performance. Of course, we all complain about program performance from time to time, and Python should certainly…
Purring Is a Love Language No Human Can Speak
Some cats do it, but others can’t—and researchers still don’t fully understand why.
4 Basic Commands When Working with Python Tuples
Making you understand the characteristics of Python Tuples and how you deal with them
rack/rack
A modular Ruby web server interface.
Korean nuclear fusion reactor achieves 100 million°C for 30 seconds
A sustained, stable experiment is the latest demonstration that nuclear fusion is moving from being a physics problem to an engineering one.
Super Hot Sand Could Help Us Store Renewable Energy
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It’d be much cheaper than lithium battery storage.
How to cope with shame | Psyche Guides
Do you feel perpetually bad, broken or unlovable? These tools will help you relate to yourself in a fairer, gentler way
The Despotism of Isaias Afewerki | Alex de Waal
Afewerki’s attack on Tigray is the culmination of the Eritrean dictator’s ambition to become master of the Horn of Africa.
Common Networking Port Numbers in Linux
Here are the common networking ports you'll encounter in Linux.
Putting Amazon’s PR/FAQ to Practice
What it's like putting Amazon's famed Working Backwards process to practice in a small company context, and what was surprising and difficult about it.
The Substance of Silence: A Reading List About Hermits
Humans are social creatures, and loneliness can be debilitating — yet, many have discovered solace in the solitary life.
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TIL: You Can Access A User's Camera with Just HTML
The HTML capture attribute is interesting because it allows you to activate a user's camera with just HTML. This article covers it in more depth.
The Realities And Myths Of Contrast And Color — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Andrew Somers, a 35-year veteran of the Hollywood film and television industry, shares his experience about the hard-fought battles and lessons learned designing for illuminated presentations.
JIT Compilers for Ruby and Rails: An Overview
Find out about the different JIT compilers for Ruby — YJIT, MJIT, and TenderJIT — and their benefits.
How to Search in Less Command
The less command is excellent for reading large text files. It also allows you to search for text in it. Here's what you need to know about searching in less.
The 1,000 Chinese SpaceX engineers who never existed
LinkedIn users are being scammed of millions of dollars by fake connections posing as graduates of prestigious universities and employees at top tech companies.
The best streaming services in 2024
Our picks for the best streaming services and cable alternatives for those considering cord cutting
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[OC] The Most Watched Netflix Shows
33K votes, 2.3K comments. 21M subscribers in the dataisbeautiful community. DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey…
Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit
Notorious AV patent troll Axel Nix is at it again!
PianoChord.io - Explore Piano Chords Freely
A place to explore piano chords freely and interactively
The Missing Chinese Machine Revolution
Before the industrial revolution, there had been a significant increase in machinery use in Europe. Why not in China?
Introducing Trilogy: a new database adapter for Ruby on Rails
We've open sourced Trilogy, the database adapter we use to connect Ruby on Rails to MySQL-compatible database servers.
Why are D-sharp and E-flat considered to be two different notes
Why do the black keys on the piano each have two different names? If the posts on r/musictheory are any indication, this is a persistent point of confusion, especially when music theory teachers ge…
Why an American chestnut tree in Centreville is the 'holy grail' for conservationists
The American chestnut tree used to grow throughout the eastern U.S., but was devastated by a blight in the early 20th century.
The Streaming TV Bloodbath
Streaming platforms like HBO Max and Netflix are axing staff and removing shows from their platform, all in search of profitability.
The Obsessive Pleasures of Mechanical-Keyboard Tinkerers
On the right machine, typing can be like playing a Steinway grand. Is tactile perfection possible?
What is Plex? Everything you need to know
Our guide on what Plex is and what you can stream on it
Newfound Brain Switch Labels Experiences as Good or Bad
A molecule tells the brain whether to put a positive or negative spin on events. Mental disorders may result when the up/down labeling goes awry
An Introduction to Ractors in Ruby
Discover when and why you should use ractors, and build a ractor in Ruby.
Mimetic learning: the power of learning through imitation
From an evolutionary perspective, mimetic learning makes a lot of sense. It’s essential for our survival and sense of belonging, with one generation showing the next the behaviours required of them.
The statistical magic behind the bootstrap
How to use the bootstrap for tests or confidence intervals and why it works
Topic Modeling on PyCaret — Redux
A beginner’s guide to PyCaret’s natural language processing module.
Understanding Jane Street - by Byrne Hobart - The Diff
Plus! Pensions; Customer-Facing; Use Cases; Making a Market; Reflexive Energy Politics; Diff Jobs
SRE Weekly Issue #337
Episode 365 - Automate Rake Tasks | Drifting Ruby
When rake tasks need to be part of a deployment, you could find yourself in a situation where the rake task was forgotten about or have to go through the process of shelling into the environment to execute the tasks. In this episode, we look at addressing these issues by…
Demystifying Object Detection and Instance Segmentation for Data Scientists - MLWhiz
this post is explaining how permutation importance works and how we can code it using ELI5
How data can reveal weaknesses in your customer onboarding process
Customer retention begins at onboarding, so use these metrics to help you track the success of your customer onboarding processes.
Are All Brains Good at Math?
Math provokes dread in so many people—yet we are all born with a sense for numbers.
Find The Fast Moving Water
We work with our NFX Guild on this mental model for greatness from day 1. Now, we are sharing it with the rest of the startup community.
How Ships and Forts Created Western Dominance
How could tiny nations such as Portugal and the Netherlands challenge vast empires like China and India in the age of sail?
What Happened to Anne Boleyn’s Heart?
If YOU ASKED PEOPLE WHAT body part you would associate with Anne Boleyn, most would probably say her head. Logical, of course. It was the part famously detached from the rest of her body on May 19,…
The Curious Hole in My Head (Published 2022)
Born without my left temporal lobe, a brain region thought to be critical for language, I’ve been a research subject for much of my life.
Top 5 Technology Trends in UX Design
Web magazine about user experience matters, providing insights and inspiration for the user experience community
The Return of Privateering?
TexasSignal: Rep. Lance Gooden, a Republican who represents Texas’ 5th District, has introduced legislation that would allow U.S. citizens to seize the yachts, jets, and other property belonging to Russian oligarchs who have been sanctioned in response to the invasion of…
A primer on Roaring bitmaps: what they are and how they work
A detailed primer on Roaring bitmaps explaining what they are, how they're different from traditional bitmaps, and how they work internally.