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Inside the distinctive, largely unknown ideology of American policing — and how it justifies racist violence.

Want to Get Out Alive? Follow the Ants - Issue 95: Escape

Ants show that emergency exits can work better when they’re obstructed.

The Sultan of Spatter

Dr. Donald Johnson has spent his career making crime scene blood stains spill their secrets. His next mission: bringing forensic science into the iPad age.

Treat Yourself to a Parisian Aperitif That Is Easy to Make at Home

In France, savory cakes salés are served as a light nibble before dinner. They’re remarkably versatile and come together in a snap.

The Ultimate Experience: A Guide to the Principles of Sensory Design

Digital design routinely ignores neurological factors beyond sight. Sensory design principles emphasize the interconnection of human perception and prompt designers to explore non-visual solutions. #design #ux #marketing #art #science #innovation

How the Most Hyped U.S. Oil Merger in a Decade Went Bust

As CEO of Occidental Petroleum, Vicki Hollub made the biggest deal the oil business had seen in years. Will it also go down as the biggest failure?

General Methods | Papers With Code

Browse 1109 deep learning methods for General.

How Do I Find a Stock's Number of Shorted Shares?

Most websites with a stock quotes service offer free short interest data. Learn more about what shorting information means and how to find it.

Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician

By making the first progress on the “chromatic number of the plane” problem in over 60 years, an anti-aging pundit has achieved mathematical immortality.

The 50 Best Cult Movies

From ‘The Room’ to ‘Eraserhead’ to ‘Rocky Horror,’ these are the best movies to ever inspire deep obsession

Which Sounds Are the Most Annoying to Humans?

Earlier this month, a kind of chirping, rainforest-y sound sprung up in my apartment. It came from my roommate’s room. At first, I took it for a video

Scrape the Web at Scale With the scrapestack API

Introduction to Web Scraping Businesses need better information to target and reach wider audiences. They get this information by scraping the web for content from social media platforms,...

Cross-Topic Argument Mining: Learning How to Classify Texts

Classifying cross-topic natural language texts based on their argumentative structure using deep learning

RadixSpline: A Single-Pass Learned Index

A Single-Pass Learned Index.

LZ4, an Extremely Fast Compression Algorithm

Introduction to Phototransistors

In this series of articles, we’ll explore higher-output-current alternatives to photodiodes.

Best alternatives to hosting on Heroku?

33 votes, 56 comments. Heroku is easy to use and has a good marketplace. They make it really easy to deploy and to purchase additional resources. I…

Topology 101: The Hole Truth

The relationships among the properties of flexible shapes have fascinated mathematicians for centuries.

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'One Night In Miami' Is a Rare Glimpse at the Humanity of Our Heroes

The Amazon Prime original is a colorful dramatization of the night Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown celebrated Muhammad Ali's historic 1964 win in a segregated hotel.

How to be a genius

I travelled the world and trawled the archive to unearth the hidden lessons from history’s most brilliant people

NanaGram | Text your photos and we'll mail glossy, frameable 4x6 prints to

Text your photos and we'll mail glossy, frameable 4x6 prints to your loved ones.

Google eyes privacy-friendly substitute to cookies - Axios

Tests show advertisers can expect at least 95% of conversions per dollar spent on ads, compared to cookie-based advertising, Google said.

Survival Metrics Are a Powerful Product Tool. Here’s How They Work.

Product teams often know that a project needs to change direction, but they don’t have a way to make that change safely and quickly. Survival metrics empower them to do just that.

When Every Employee Is a Risk Manager

Risk management needs to be part of the daily lives of all employees up, down, and across an organization. Here’s how the Swiss electricity network achieves that.

The High Price of Mistrust

When we can’t trust each other, nothing works. As we participate in our communities less and less, we find it harder to feel other people are trustworthy. But if we can bring back a sense of trust in the people around us, the rewards are incredible.

Hacker News

I’ve spent a lot of time recently thinking about different proof-of-work mechanisms. When I say proof-of-work, I’m not talking about consensus algorithms like the ones that some crypto currencies use. I’m talking about social networks.

How to Talk to People You Disagree With

Bridge the divide with thoughtful conversation techniques, next-level listening, and a dip into the science of changing minds.

New Transistor Structures At 3nm/2nm

Gate-all-around FETs will replace finFETs, but the transition will be costly and difficult.

10 fabulous free apps for working with audio, video, and images

Whether you just need to crop a photo or are ready to edit an ambitious video, you can get the job done without paying a dime.

There’s an “Inverse Piano” in Your Head

A Kavli Prize–winning scientist details the magic of transforming vibrations into sound in the inner ear.

Hacker News

Feeling stressed, irritable, or moody? Doing something productive with your hands might be just the thing that your brain and body need.

Make Boring Plans. You’re probably familiar with the… | by Camille Fournier

You’re probably familiar with the concept of Choose Boring Technology. If you’re not, I’ll wait for you to read the excellent blog post by…

How to build a music recommender system.

Using Spotify’s data to generate music recommendations.

A concept in psychology is helping AI to better navigate our world | MIT Te

The concept: When we look at a chair, regardless of its shape and color, we know that we can sit on it. When a fish is in water, regardless of its location, it knows that it can swim. This is known as the theory of affordance, a term coined by psychologist James J. Gibson. It…

Top 7 Data Structures You Should Really Know for Your Next Job Interview

Master these data structures to land in your next data science job

How to make a beeswarm plot | RAWGraphs

What I Believe Most · Collaborative Fund

Ten things that guide almost everything I think about in business and investing…

8 Examples to Query a NoSQL Database

A practical guide with MongoDB

Setup Ruby on Rails 6 App with MongoDB under 5 Minutes — Aarvy | by Aarvy |

In this article, I will be discussing how to quickly setup a NoSQL database MongoDB with your brand new Rails 6 app. I am using Ubuntu…

The enduring allure of conspiracies

Conspiracy theories seem to meet psychological needs and can be almost impossible to eradicate. One remedy: Keep them from taking root in the first place.

The Gap Between Reputation and Personal Brand

Reputation is old. Personal brands are new. It is useful to know that they are not the same thing.

C’est Si Bon: Eartha Kitt’s Transformative Life

Kitt’s 1989 autobiography, “Confessions of a Sex Kitten,” tracks an icon’s incredible journey from abused child to outspoken star.

Creating a Ruby DSL: A Metaprogramming Tutorial | Toptal

Leverage metaprogramming for better Ruby with this DSL tutorial.

Palantir’s God’s-Eye View of Afghanistan

The company’s software can sift through enormous amounts of data, and those metrics can be used to make life-or-death decisions.

How to be lucky | Psyche Guides

Most of us think that luck just happens (or doesn’t) but everyone can learn to look for the unexpected and find serendipity

This ‘hillbilly madman’ is country music royalty. So why haven’t you heard

The hard life and overlooked brilliance of Zane Campbell.

How Fast Is Ruby 3 on Rails? - FastRuby.io | Rails Upgrade Service

An article by Noah Gibbs about Ruby 3's performance for a Rails application. Ruby 3.0.0-preview1 was a tiny bit slower than 2.7. The release 3.0 is...

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