How 'One Hundred and One Dalmatians' Saved Disney

Sixty years ago, the company modernized animation when it used Xerox technology on the classic film

Anthropologists and the business of sense-making at work

The long read: For decades, anthropologists have been telling us that it’s often the informal, unplanned interactions and rituals that matter most in any work environment. So how much are we missing by giving them up?

Wu Dao 2.0: A Monster of 1.75 Trillion Parameters | by Alberto Romero | Med

BAAI conference presented Wu Dao 2.0. The most powerful AI to date.

Hacker lexicon: What is a supply chain attack?

From NotPetya to SolarWinds, it’s a problem that’s not going away any time soon.

Big Book of R has over 200 books! | R-bloggers

Way back in August 2020, I launched Big Book of R, a collection of free (and some paid) R programming books organised by categories like Geospatial, Statistics, Packages and many more. What started off as a 100 book collection has now grown to over 200 :D! Anyway, I felt was ……

3 Must-Know SQL Functions For Efficient Data Analysis

SQL is a programming language used by relational database management systems. It provides numerous functions and methods that operate on the data stored in relational databases. SQL is not just a…

4 Testimonial Page Examples for UX/UI Design

In these testimonial page examples, you’ll see how UX designers help clients provide social proof for their products and services.

Want a killer product? Become more opinionated | by Adil Aijaz | Jun, 2021

I laugh at this tweet every time I remember it:

What is freight forwarding?

This piece dives into freight forwarding and how your business can benefit from it.

Learn R through examples

This is a draft of a book for learning data analysis with the R language. This book emphasizes hands activities. Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Dunning-Kruger meets fake news | Ars Technica

People who overrate their media savviness share more misleading material.

The blind woman who switched personalities and could suddenly see | The Sta

It’s All in Your Head review – enduring mystery of psychosomatic illness |

Suzanne O’Sullivan’s excellent book reveals that medicine remains as much an art as a science

How to repeat a character 'n' times in Bash - nixCraft

In this post, I try to explore various ways to repeat a character and string in Bash 'n' times that must run on macOS/FreeBSD and Linux.

An Old Effort To Stop The Smallpox Virus Has Lessons For COVID-19 Today : S

In 1721, London was in the grips of a deadly smallpox epidemic. One woman learned how to stop it, but her solution sowed political division.

Meet the Appalachian Apple Hunter Who Rescued 1,000 'Lost' Varieties

Tom Brown's retirement hobby is a godsend for chefs, conservationists, and cider.

Ho Chi Bear and the Ravens

Dubbed the Ravens, misfit American pilots in Vietnam learned they could fly, fight, and drink as they pleased in a CIA-sponsored secret war. Just one catch: They answered to General Vang Pao.

Narratively | Substack

Discover extraordinary true stories celebrating the diversity of humanity. Click to read Narratively, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Distribution and Demand

Distribution on the Internet is free; what matters is controlling demand. AT&T and Verizon didn’t understand the distinction.

NielsRogge/Transformers-Tutorials: This repository contains demos I made with the Transformers library by HuggingFace.

This repository contains demos I made with the Transformers library by HuggingFace. - NielsRogge/Transformers-Tutorials

App Store Arguments

There are all kinds of arguments to make about the App Store, and nearly all of them are good ones; that’s why the best solution can only come from Apple.

The Snitch - The Atavist Magazine

In Scott Kimball, the FBI thought it had found a high-value informant who could help solve big cases. What it got instead was lies, betrayal, and murder.

The World’s Northernmost Town Is Changing Dramatically

Climate change is bringing tourism and tension to Longyearbyen on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study)

Getting a good performance score from Google is hard for any website — but doing so for an online store is even harder. We achieved green scores — even several for mobile. Here is how we did it.

Why are we so uncharitable to those doing good deeds?

From veganism to fundraising, psychologists have found acts of altruism often attract mistrust and even anger

The Most Expensive Number in Engineering - An Engineering Self-Study

How to put a price on the limits of knowledge

Complete Guide to Data Augmentation for Computer Vision

Data Augmentation is one of the most important topics in Deep Computer Vision. When you train your neural network, you should do data augmentation like… ALWAYS. Otherwise, you are not using your…

How I organize my Rails apps - Code with Jason

Overview Influenced by the experiences I’ve had last over many years of building and maintaining Rails applications, combined with my experiences using other technologies, I’ve developed some ways of structuring Rails applications that have worked out pretty well for me. Some of…

React Tutorial

React Tutorial - This React tutorial is intended to assist you in learning the fundamentals to advance of ReactJS. Learn all about ReactJS from basics to advanced concepts like Component, State, Props, Router, Fragmentation, Redux, etc.

Supercharge Your Machine Learning Experiments with PyCaret and Gradio - KDnuggets

A step-by-step tutorial to develop and interact with machine learning pipelines rapidly.

The Havana Job

This is the previously classified story of a Hail Mary plan, a Dirty Dozen crew of lowlifes, and a woman who wouldn’t bow to authority as she fought to bring three captured CIA agents home from Cuba.

Top 4 Data Extraction Tools

Data extraction tools give you the boost you need for gathering information from a multitude of data sources. These four data extraction tools will help liberate you from manual data entry, understand complex documents, and simplify the data extraction process.

Sentiment Analysis — Comparing 3 Common Approaches: Naive Bayes, LSTM, and

Sentiment Analysis, or Opinion Mining, is a subfield of NLP (Natural Language Processing) that aims to extract attitudes, appraisals, opinions, and emotions from text. Inspired by the rapid migration…

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Make Pandas 3 Times Faster with PyPolars

Learn how to speed up your Pandas workflow using the PyPolars library.

One simple way to build someone’s confidence: Ask for their advice

When we want people to change, we typically tell them what to do. But what if we flipped the script and asked them for their wisdom instead? Behavioral scientist Katy Milkman PhD explains the power…

Is Gerrymandering About to Become More Difficult?

A new approach in the way the Census aggregates its data could make it more difficult to do extreme gerrymandering, says Moon Duchin.

numerical-linear-algebra/README.md at master · fastai/numerical-linear-alge

Free online textbook of Jupyter notebooks for fast.ai Computational Linear Algebra course - fastai/numerical-linear-algebra

What Robots Can—and Can’t—Do for the Old and Lonely

For elderly Americans, social isolation is especially perilous. Will machine companions fill the void?

Five Phrases That Make People Discount What You’re Saying

These common expressions can cause listeners to think twice.

America Loves Gas Station Snacks. Here Are Some of the Finest by Region

From Buc-ee’s Beaver Nuggets to 7-Eleven Spam musubi

The Death of Hahnemann Hospital

When a private-equity firm bought a Philadelphia institution, the most vulnerable patients bore the cost.

The American West's sagebrush sea is rapidly vanishing

Once considered a rangeland weed, this plant is the cornerstone of America’s desert ecosystems

Eternally five years away? No, batteries are improving under your nose

Under the hood, lithium-ion batteries have gotten better in the last decade.

Spaghetti With Fried Eggs Recipe

Here's a quick and delicious pasta dish to make when you have little time, and even less food in the house All you need is a box of spaghetti, four eggs, olive oil and garlic (Parmesan is a delicious, but optional, addition).

Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer | Hacker News

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Interpreting Scattertext: a seductive tool for plotting text

Scroll down to see how to interpret a plot created by a great tool for comparing two classes and their corpora.

Metric-Based (Ratings-based) Conjoint Analysis

In marketing analytics, conjoint analysis is a technique used to gain specific insights about consumers’ preferences. Often derived from consumer surveys, conjoint analysis can tell us, for instance…

Folk Festival a success, but students in short supply