Adam Savage on Lists, More Lists, and the Power of Checkboxes | WIRED

The 'Mythbusters' star and author of the new book 'Every Tool's a Hammer,' explains the magic of the colored-in checkbox.

Where Are The Robotic Bricklayers? - by Brian Potter - Construction Physics

When researching construction, you invariably discover that any new or innovative idea has actually been tried over and over again, often stretching back decades.

60 Awesome UI and UX resources for Developers and Designers 2021

Yearning organizers, genuine solopreneurs, and sprouting visual creators all need a convincing...

The tangled physics of knots, one of our simplest and oldest technologies

Which knot is the strongest?

6 Upright Abs Exercises That Will Absolutely Crush Your Core

Get off the mat to give your abs a whole different type of challenge.

Hora | Hora Search Everywhere

Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages - (or any static file hoster) - ph

I was writing a tiny website to display statistics of how much sponsored content a Youtube creator has over time when I noticed that I often write a small tool as a website that queries some data from a database and then displays it in a graph, a table, or similar. But if you…

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Vanilla

The world of vanilla products is as rich as it is potentially confusing. Here’s how to navigate it.

5 Ultimate Python Libraries for Image Processing

OpenCV is not the only one

Report Card Writer: What I’ve Learned from One Year of User Interviews and Customer Feedback

Almost exactly a year ago, I started a little boutique software company called Report Card Writer. As the name suggests, my flagship software product does pretty much one thing: it helps teachers write report card comments faster. Its core technical functionality is part survey…

How real-time data works on Meteor — Know your pub/subs

Let's start with how publications and subscriptions work on Meteor, which are the "under the hood" of Meteor's real-time data model.

Free for dev - list of software (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)

Content by github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev Contributors:...

An introduction to A* pathfinding (tutorial)

This is part 3 of a series on bot programming originally published on the Coder One blog. Part 1:...

Why Japan Didn’t Create the iPod (2008)

10 Digital Libraries Where You Can Download Ebooks for Free

If you're looking for free ebooks to download and dive into, these digital libraries are worth checking out.

How to Add Uncertainty Estimation to your Models with Conformal Prediction

Why conformal prediction for uncertainty estimation can improve your predictions

ruby - Rbenv and Rails mismatches - Stack Overflow

Good morning everyone, I've installed Ruby 3.0.2 via rbenv in order to test-drive a Rails 6.0 app. It seems like rbenv's Rails shiv is not working properly. $ rbenv install 3.0.2 Downloading ruby-3...

The Novel Material That’s Shrinking Phone Chargers, Powering Up Electric Cars, and Making 5G Possible

Gallium, once an industrial-waste product, is transforming our increasingly electrified world.

https://dev-alloy.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Guide_NoNonsenseForecasting_Alloy_022019.pdf

30 Interesting Tools and Services to Monitor Your Linux Servers

An exhaustive list of 30 interesting server monitoring tools and services for you to explore!

Six emerging trends in product packaging

In the modern business world, there are several businesses releasing similar products into the market.

What is an Affinity Diagram and How It Can Help You

Affinity diagrams are especially helpful in the design process. See how this method can help you organize and plan product ideas.

8 Dimensionality Reduction Techniques every Data Scientists should know

Essential guide to various dimensionality reduction techniques in Python

Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram Reflects On Leaving – And Sharing – '622'

Clarksdale, Miss., where blues guitarist-singer Christone "Kingfish" Ingram hails from, is "pretty much the mecca of the blues," Ingram says in an interview with NPR's A Martinez on Morning Edition.

Designing the Smallest Possible Thing

If designers want to get more agile, they should learn how to make small things, get feedback and embrace experimentation, iteration and refactoring.

Why athletes need a ‘quiet eye’

Want to know who will win a World Cup game or Wimbledon match? Look closely at the athletes’ eyes — including when it seems they're about to lose.

Why Horror Films Are More Popular Than Ever

It feels good to control what will terrify you.

Intercultural Management

In order to do well in an increasingly globalised world, managers need to be able to navigate different cultural waters. But what does that mean, exactly? What are the key things you need to know about intercultural management?

Star Trek's Warp Drive Leads to New Physics

Researchers are taking a closer look at this science-fiction staple—and bringing the idea a little closer to reality

How Yola Got Her Groove Back: Why America is Falling for Bristol’s Greatest Soul-Country-Pop Export

Yola discusses mixing genres from country to disco in her Dan Auerbach-produced 'Stand for Myself' and acting in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis film.

How Pork Rinds Ditched the ‘Junk Food’ Label

The shift to “wellness” and changing class signifiers have turned fried pork skin into a “healthy” snack that's earned space on Whole Foods shelves.

No, we don’t use Kubernetes

“No, we don’t use Kubernetes”. That always gets raised eyebrows... so we decided to write about our reasoning behind this cloud architecture decision.

scikit-learn-intelex · PyPI

Intel(R) Extension for Scikit-learn is a seamless way to speed up your Scikit-learn application.

Papers with Code - Paper with Code Newsletter

Papers With Code highlights trending Machine Learning research and the code to implement it.

16 Tools to Manage Your Reputation

Reputation management is essential for any brand. Your company's future may depend on what’s been said about it in posts, comments, reviews, and rankings. Fortunately, there are affordable tools to help. Here is a list of tools to manage your brand’s reputation.

Sci-Fi Short Film “FTL" | DUST - YouTube

A lone astronaut testing the first faster-than-light spacecraft travels farther than he imagined possible. "FTL" by Adam Stern #DUST #scifi #shortfilm More About FTL: Ethan Kane, a NASA Astronaut and decorated pilot, has recently retired from active duty to spend more time with…

Flying Dead Bodies Across the Land of the Midnight Sun

When there’s a murder or mysterious death in remote areas of Alaska, corpses are flown in to the state morgue. This is what it’s like to run that airborne operation.

The Weird History of Hillbilly TV — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

Gabe Bullard takes a long, hard look at the history of hillbilly TV, from Andy Griffith to “Duck Dynasty.”

Timeboxing: Why It Works and How to Get Started in 2024

Timeboxing is the nearest thing we have to productivity magic, yet most people don’t utilize it. It amounts to boxing out periods of time to work on distinct tasks each day. But when I recommend perhaps the most effective technique ever devised to help people stay on track, most…

Inserting One Billion Rows in SQLite Under a Minute

This is a chronicle of my experiment where I set out to insert 1B rows in SQLite

“The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson

Fiction, from 1948: “The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.”

Tips From a Sign Language Interpreter for Overcoming Language Barriers

An ASL interpreter shares some travel-friendly tips and techniques that she’s learned from the Deaf community, the real masters of cross-cultural communication.

PyMOL | pymol.org

A Peek Inside the World's Greatest Record Store

A lovable grouch, obsessed with the magic of American sidewalk harmony, runs the Philadelphia shop

Focusing on Blue - 10 Projects

Your Brand Has Never Been Easier to Destroy

Welcome to the wild world of product displacement, in which no brand is safe from "hatejacking" and other threats.

Why do we buy what we buy?

A sociologist on why people buy too many things.

Assertiveness is a virtue that anyone can develop with practice | Psyche Id

You can’t stop people making demands on your time and energy, but you can develop assertiveness skills to protect yourself

deepmind/alphafold: Open source code for AlphaFold.

Open source code for AlphaFold.

How to Become a Master at Talking to Strangers

Entrepreneurs must become experts at connecting with anyone-and with a few simple strategies, you can. Here's what happened when I tried them myself.