What is Huffman Coding?

The Huffman Coding algorithm is a building block of many compression algorithms, such as DEFLATE - which is used by the PNG image format and GZIP.

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The Decoy Effect: How You Are Influenced to Choose Without Really Knowing I

Think you got a good deal? Look again.

50 Great Classic Novels Under 200 Pages

We are now past the mid-way point in February, which is technically the shortest month, but is also the one that—for me, anyway—feels the longest. Especially this year, for all of the reasons that …

Affinity Analysis (Market Basket Analysis)

Have you ever wondered how often do you buy certain items together? Why do you buy some items together? How likely do you purchase an item…

A Personal Git Repo as a Knowledge Base Wiki

While it's not something that everyone likes to do, I've always found it essential to write notes. Th...

The Profile Dossier: Charlie Munger, the Master of Mental Models

“Deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end."

Persuading the Unpersuadable

We live in an age of polarization. Many of us may be asking ourselves how, when people disagree with or discount us, we can persuade them to rethink their positions. The author, an organizational psychologist, has spent time with a number of people who succeeded in motivating…

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Take your pasta up a notch with Niigata’s kanzuri chili paste

Fans of yuzu kosho will love kanzuri's complex heat and citrus undertones — use it in place of harissa or to give dishes an extra kick.

How To Make Classic French Madeleines

A perfect accompaniment to your afternoon cup of tea.

Sitting Atop the World, Sketching the Faces of the Dead

The author, a former soldier, reflects on his experiences helping build the top secret Karakoram Highway between China and Pakistan in the late 1970s.

The 25 Essential Episodes of The Muppet Show

Now that the classic show is streaming on Disney+, we round up the best episodes — and ask guest stars about their Muppet memories.

My history with Forth & stack machines

Star Wars Intro Creator

Create your own Star Wars opening crawl.

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The Real Reason Why You Sabotage Your Own Goals

How to overcome psychological reactance, the rarely-discussed psychological reflex that’s holding you back

How to Build an Invention Machine — 6 Lessons That Powered Amazon’s Success

Former Amazon execs Colin Bryar and Bill Carr helped build the "invention machine" that enabled the company to successfully launch everything from AWS to the Kindle. Here, they share granular advice and concrete takeaways for startups looking to alter their own trajectories.

‘Nomadland’ | Anatomy of a Scene

The director Chloé Zhao narrates a scene from her movie featuring Frances McDormand and David Strathairn.

The Secret to a Rich and Comforting Beef Stew? Just Add Cookies

The classic Belgian dish carbonnade is enhanced when you throw in some speculoos.

How to be more productive without forcing yourself

Imagine you could work more and be wildly productive. And you wouldn’t need to force yourself to work.

The Rules of Margin Collapse

“Margin collapse” has a dastardly reputation, one of the trickier parts of CSS. Fortunately, it gets a lot easier once you learn a few rules! In this tutorial, we take a deep dive into the governing principles, and learn how to use them to our advantage.

Swiss File Knife – A Command Line Tools Collection

Categorical cross-entropy and SoftMax regression

Ever wondered how to implement a simple baseline model for multi-class problems ? Here is one example (code included).

HTML Boilerplates

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Explain Machine Learning Models: Partial Dependence

From black box to no more box

What leader(s) over your product career truly changed how you approach prod

I learned from bosses & peers, including some famous peeps like Reed Hastings, Patty McCord, and Dan Rosensweig. But mainly I learned by doing, supercharged by feedback from many "Friends of Gib."

A/B Testing — A complete guide to statistical testing

Optimizing web marketing strategies through statistical testing

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A/B Testing — A complete guide to statistical testing - bjpcjp/AB_Testing

Huntsville station

‘It’s a trip just being out’: at the local Greyhound bus station with newly released men from the Texas State Penitentiary

YAML - Collections and Structures - Tutorialspoint

YAML - Collections and Structures - YAML includes block collections which use indentation for scope. Here, each entry begins with a new line. Block sequences in collections indicate each entry with a dash and space (-). In YAML, block collections styles are not denoted by any…

It's going to cost four figures

Let's talk about pricing commissioned work (on existing open source projects). Or: things I learned the hard way from past mistakes.

How to have better arguments online

The long read: The troubled times we live in, and the rise of social media, have created an age of endless conflict. Rather than fearing or avoiding disagreement, we need to learn to do it well

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Researchers Levitated a Small Tray Using Nothing but Light

One day a “magic carpet” based on this light-induced flow technology could carry climate sensors high in the atmosphere—wind permitting.

Sarcasm Spurs Creative Thinking

Although snarky comments can cause conflict, a little verbal irony also stimulates new ideas.

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The Extraordinary Trial of the Child Soldier Who Became a Brutal Rebel Comm

Kidnapped at 9 by Joseph Kony’s notorious guerilla army, Dominic Ongwen was groomed to kill. Is he a lost soul deserving of mercy, or a cold-blooded war criminal who must face justice?

How A Retail Chain Without A Website Powered Through The Pandemic

Burlington shut down online sales in March right before coronavirus lockdowns. But it's among the discount retailers that have endured the pandemic surprisingly well, even opening new stores.

IDseq

Real-time pathogen detection, microbiome characterization and outbreak detection for researchers

Respect the Base Rate – Of Dollars And Data

On making optimal decisions, when to expect the average outcome in life, and when not to.

What Chip Startups Can Learn from Google’s TPU Design Team

The inception of Google’s effort to build its own AI chips is quite well known by now but in the interests of review, we’ll note that as early 2013 the

11 Easy UI Design Tips for Web Devs

Whilst learning web development, most of us don’t have much design experience or access to a UI desig...

How Bellingcat uncovered Russia’s secret network of assassins

From Sergei Skripal to Alexei Navalny, Russia’s attempts to silence its enemies have been forensically exposed. At the centre of these revelations has been investigative unit Bellingcat

NoCodeAPI – The easiest way to connect APIs without code

NoCode API is a great place to experiment with APIs and interact with them, without the need to setup servers and infrastructures. It gets the work done, reliable.

Letter from Chihuahua - Cliff Dwellers of the Sierra Madre - Archaeology Magazine - March/April 2021

A recurring design motif found in northern Mexico’s ancient mountain villages reflects complex cultural ties between distant peoples

How to SSH into a Self-driving Vehicle (2020)

You can SSH into self-driving robots using a reverse SSH tunnel, but this method only scales so far, and it requires more than 50 steps to set up.

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Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

Diving into different GAN architectures

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Custom domains for websites, web apps, and email