Have Scholars Finally Deciphered Linear Elamite, a Mysterious Ancient Scrip

Linear Elamite, a writing system used in what is now Iran, may reveal the secrets of a little-known kingdom bordering Sumer

Sam Taggart’s Hard Sell

A door-to-door salesman’s quest to rebrand his profession.

Building a Web server in Bash, part I - sockets

Have you ever wondered how a Web server works under the hood? Moreover, would you be willing to...

The Joy of A/B Testing: Theory, Practice, and Pitfalls

How today’s tech companies make data-driven decisions in Machine Learning production

This is the last Sears for hundreds of miles. What can it tell us about the

The department store in Maryland is sparsely merchandised and low on traffic. Senior Reporter Ben Unglesbee takes a look inside to see how retail has changed since the heyday of malls.

How the Brain Links Gestures, Perception and Meaning

Neuroscience has found that gestures are not merely important as tools of expression but as guides of cognition and perception.

Semis for Everyone?

Google is promoting the growth of open source tools for designing semis. The science fiction version of this story leads to everyone designing chips, the reality is going to be much narrower, but s…

Retail’s ‘Dark Side’: As Inventory Piles Up, Liquidation Warehouses Are Busy (Published 2022)

Consumers are buying fewer discretionary goods and returning more. To clear their shelves, retailers are selling to liquidators at steep discounts.

The Language You Speak Influences Where Your Attention Goes

It’s all because of the similarities between words.

Parallel Processing Large File in Python - KDnuggets

Learn various techniques to reduce data processing time by using multiprocessing, joblib, and tqdm concurrent.

Pytest with Marking, Mocking, and Fixtures in 10 Minutes

Write robust unit tests with Python pytest

Site taxonomy for SEO: A straightforward guide

In this guide: learn why website taxonomy is fundamental to SEO success and how to optimize site taxonomies.

More Than a Feeling: A Blues Reading List

A hundred years on from its birth, the music continues to speak to the heart — an art form that also serves as social commentary, communal history, and cathartic release.

The Details of Shopify’s Massive Q2 2022 Loss

Having posted a massive $1.2 billion loss in Q2 2022, Shopify effectively reset its financial outlook. Longtime contributor and analyst Marcia Kaplan looks at the details.

Opportunity Solution Tree

What is an Opportunity Solution Tree? Learn more about opportunity solution trees and the 4 steps involved in creating them.

MIT engineers develop stickers that can see inside the body | MIT News | Ma

MIT engineers designed an adhesive patch that produces ultrasound images of the body. The stamp-sized device sticks to skin and can provide continuous ultrasound imaging of internal organs for 48 hours.

nbdev – Create delightful software with Jupyter Notebooks

Write, test, document, and distribute software packages and technical articles — all in one place, your notebook.

Turning Tricks

The rise and fall of contract bridge.

Microstrip Antenna Design

This e-book explores microstrip antenna design, highlighting the single-element rectangular microstrip antenna and antenna arrays constructed from single microstrip elements.

How to Build Resilience to Shame

Today’s hustle culture claims “unearned” pleasure is shameful. But there are ways to resist this cultural response.

A Brief Introduction to Geometric Deep Learning

AI for complex data

carbon-language/carbon-lang: Carbon Language's main repository: documents,

Carbon Language's main repository: documents, design, implementation, and related tools. (NOTE: Carbon Language is experimental; see README) - carbon-language/carbon-lang

Introducing Carbon, Google's Experimental Successor for C

There’s another new language on the block: Carbon. Find out if this one’s worth learning.

Rethinking Thinking: How Do Attention Mechanisms Actually Work?

The brain, the mathematics, and DL — research frontiers in 2022

Royalty Exchange: Buy & Sell Music Rights & Copyrights

Royalty Exchange is an online marketplace & auction platform where investors & owners of royalty streams can buy royalties and sell all types of royalties.

How Much Does Google Ads Cost? | 2022 Google Ads Pricing

How much does Google Ads cost? Google Ads costs $100 - $10,000 per month with an average CPC of $0.11 - $0.50. Learn more about Google Ads pricing here!

Nobody optimizes happiness

People don’t seem to try very hard to make themselves happier. Why not?

Getting Started – nbdev

Create delightful software with Jupyter Notebooks

An Introduction to Antenna Basics - Technical Articles

Antennas are used to transmit and receive electromagnetic energy. This article covers basic antenna theory.

[2206.14007] The Importance of (Exponentially More) Computing Power

Denizens of Silicon Valley have called Moore's Law "the most important graph in human history," and economists have found that Moore's Law-powered I.T. revolution has been one of the most...

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The Night That Grasshoppers Killed Texas League Baseball

Fifty years ago, a minor league game in Midland was postponed for the rarest of reasons—a swarm of grasshoppers biblical in its proportions.

SQLite Internals: Pages & B-trees

Let's open a hex editor and see what this thing is made of

SkyWater and Google expand open source program to new 90nm technology | Goo

Over the last two years, Google and SkyWater Technology have partnered to make building open silicon accessible to all developers

Buy Royalties & Intellectual Property Rights Income | Royalty Exchange

Royalty Exchange is a marketplace where investors can buy income-generating intellectual property and other royalty streams as alternative investments.

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The Humpback and the Killer

Oceans also have their vigilantes.

Is the Minimalist Restaurant Menu Over?

More than ever, diners need actual descriptions of what they’re eating

How building codes work in the US - by Brian Potter

Buildings must be built to the requirements of the building code, a set of laws that governs how a building must be built.

Build Your Own Web Framework – Vercel

Build your own web framework that deploys to edge and serverless infrastructure.

Fully Mastering Fisher’s Exact Test for A/B Testing

While Fisher’s exact test is a convenient tool for A/B testing, the idea and results of the test are often hard to grasp and difficult to…

The Dynamics of Exploration on Spotify - Spotify Research

Digital media platforms give users access to enormous amounts of content. To stay interested in this content, users must explore by seeking variety. In this study, we examine how users explore online content on Spotify at different points of their lifecycles, whether by…

A collection of bad album covers that are both hilarious and awkward, 1960s-1980s - Rare Historical Photos

In this collection, you can see some of the worst album covers of all time. Everything from rock, metal bands, country, gospel comedy, jazz, etc.

Developer Center | Targomo Developers!

Build the next generation of Location Intelligence applications with the Targomo API

Isochrone Map Generator: How to Create Travel Time Maps | Blog

Learn how to create isochrones for different transport modes with our free isochrone map generator, Isochrone API or software plugins.

Test Your Product On A Crappy Laptop | CSS-Tricks

There is a huge and ever-widening gap between the devices we use to make the web and the devices most people use to consume it. It’s also no secret

vs. : How To Choose The Right One — Smashing Magazine

In this article, Olushuyi explores a mental model that helps you decide between the `` and `` elements when writing documents. You will explore how grouping content affects accessibility and how you can make it all count for users.

Into the Forbidden Forest

Famed American biologist Patricia Wright explores an astonishing breadth of biodiversity in the wilderness of Madagascar

The difference between procs and lambdas in Ruby

Note: before starting this post, I recommend reading my other posts about procs and closures for background. Overview What’s the difference between a proc and a lambda? Lambdas actually are procs. Lambdas are just a special kind of proc and they behave a little bit differently…

What Keeps a Crowd from Becoming a Mob?

Amid COVID, studies in Denmark suggest that crowds do not always engage in bad behavior—and that mass-gatherings sometimes offer meaningful connection