The Young Man and the Sea Sponge

SpongeBob SquarePants turned 20 this summer. This is the story of how a marine biology teacher named Stephen Hillenburg gave life to an animated character who continues to delight fans worldwide.

Finding Amelia Earhart’s Plane Seemed Impossible. Then Came a Startling Clu

Robert Ballard has found the Titanic and other famous shipwrecks. This month his crew started trying to solve one of the 20th century’s greatest mysteries.

After 36 years as a commercial product, the powerful Micro-Cap circuit simulator is now free

119 votes, 27 comments. 1.2M subscribers in the electronics community. Discussion and news about component-level electronic circuits.

Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it turns out | Carter Sande

Client-side navigation is supposed to make your pages load faster. But when I tried it, it was actually slower! Why?

Manufacturing memory means scribing silicon in a sea of sensors | Ars Techn

“Industry 4.0” is already here for some companies—especially silicon foundries.

A Framework for Moderation

The question of what should be moderated, and when, is an increasingly frequent one in tech. There is no bright line, but there are ways to get closer to an answer.

Is It Possible to Stop a Mass Shooting Before It Happens?

You’ve never heard of her, but somewhere in America, a top-secret investigator known as the Savant is infiltrating online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country.

The Psychology of Prediction · Collaborative Fund

This report describes 12 common flaws, errors, and misadventures that occur in people’s heads when predictions are made.

Amazon is a boring retailer — Benedict Evans

Amazon is so new, and so dramatic in its speed and scale and aggression, that we can easily forget how many of the things it’s doing are actually very old.

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The 5 Feature Selection Algorithms every Data Scientist should know

This post is about some of the most common feature selection techniques one can use while working with data.

To Catch a Counterfeiter — The California Sunday Magazine

Nearly all the world’s counterfeits come from China. Pinkerton is on the case.

This Is Your Brain on Silence - Issue 38: Noise - Nautilus

Nautilus is a different kind of science magazine. Our stories take you into the depths of science and spotlight its ripples in our lives and cultures.

Jacobian matrix and determinant - Wikipedia

In vector calculus, the Jacobian matrix (/dʒəˈkoʊbiən/,[1][2][3] /dʒɪ-, jɪ-/) of a vector-valued function of several variables is the matrix of all its first-order partial derivatives. When this matrix is square, that is, when the function takes the same…

The Humble Brilliance of Italy’s Moka Coffee Pot

In the era of pods, the iconic item has become an endangered species.

The beauty of Japan's lonely vending machines - CNN Style

Photographer Eiji Ohashi has spent nine years photographing Japan’s ubiquitous vending machines in the most remote and sparsely populated locations.

This Is Why It's Nearly Impossible to Study Pain

A fundamental understanding of what pain is continues to evade scientists.

The Admiral of the String Theory Wars

After a decade, Peter Woit still thinks string theory is a gory mess.

Nvidia’s GauGAN has been used to create 500,000 images

Nvidia's GauGAN tool has been used to create more than 500,000 images, the company announced at the SIGGRAPH 2019 conference in Los Angeles.

Advanced Hack: How to Improve Your SEO in Less Than 30 Minutes

FAQpage schema can help your site rank higher in less than 30 minutes. Here's a step by step guide on how to use it.

How Duolingo Built a $700 Million Company Without Charging Users

“We believe true equality is when spending more can’t buy you a better education.” – Duolingo founders When the language learning software company Rosetta Stone went public in 2009, they… Keep reading

TSMC Talks 7nm, 5nm, Yield, And Next-Gen 5G And HPC Packaging

An update on TSMC current and forthcoming logic process nodes as well as their next-generation advanced packaging technologies.

America’s DIY Phone Farmers

Ordinary Americans are using armies of phones to generate cash to buy food, diapers, and beer through ad fraud.

First Programmable Memristor Computer

Michigan team builds memristors atop standard CMOS logic to demo a system that can do a variety of edge computing AI tasks

15 Docker Commands Beginners Should Know

In this post, basically, I don't put options. If you think this command is lacking something import...

SciKit-Learn Laboratory (SKLL) — SciKit-Learn Laboratory 1.5 documentation

Brain Damage Saved His Music

After a chunk of his brain was removed, guitarist Pat Martino got his groove back.

How to Save a Loggerhead

Go behind the scenes at the South Carolina Aquarium's Sea Turtle Care Center during a nearly yearlong journey to get a massive injured loggerhead back home

How a 6,000-Year-Old Dog Cancer Spread Around the World

A massive collection of dog tumor samples is revealing the secrets of a contagious, parasite-like cancer that could help explain human cancers too.

This Italian Town Always Smells Like Panettone

The Galup factory and its sweet Christmas bread is the pride of Pinerolo

He'd been kept alive with tubes for nearly 17 years. Who is he, and is it possible he’s conscious?

Finding out his name turned out to be the easy part. The tough part was navigating the blurred lines that separate consciousness from unconsciousness — and figuring out whether his smile was really a smile.

A History of Blue Note Records in 15 Albums (Published 2019)

The most storied label in jazz turns 80 this year. Hear the music that shaped its legacy.

One-Shot Learning: Learning More with Less Data

Hidden Networks: Network Effects That Don’t Look Like Network Effects – And

Many of the most consequential projects of the internet era — from Wikipedia to Facebook and bitcoin — have all been predicated on network effects, where the network becomes more valuable to users as more people use it. As a result, we’ve become really good at analyzing and…

TIL when Rockstar first released Grand Theft Auto, they actually paid reviewers to negatively review the game in order to keep it…

117K votes, 4.1K comments. 38M subscribers in the todayilearned community. You learn something new every day; what did you learn today? Submit…

The 5 Sampling Algorithms every Data Scientist need to know

This post is about some of the most common sampling techniques one can use while working with data.

Five Command Line Tools for Data Science

You can do more data science than you think from the terminal.

Why 40% of Vietnamese People Have the Same Last Name

Everyone knows a Nguyen, but how did that come to be?

The tiny video store that survived Netflix

In the wake of an algorithm-led video store apocalypse, Captain Video stays afloat by offering a rarity: human interaction.

Vickrey–Clarke–Groves auction

A Vickrey–Clarke–Groves (VCG) auction is a type of sealed-bid auction of multiple items. Bidders submit bids that report their valuations for the items, without knowing the bids of the other bidders. The auction system assigns the items in a socially optimal manner: it charges…

The Hidden Patterns of Great Startup Ideas

5 frameworks to help Founders coming up with a new startup idea that is the most likely to lead to a transformative company.

The Pirates Strike Back

With so many video streaming services now, we need a unifier

Why Not The Worst?

Primers – Math ∩ Programming

Why Power Brings Out Your True Self

Are you a tyrant or a servant?

In Search of Alaska’s Deadliest Catch: The Sea Cucumber

As a cuke deckhand, your job first and foremost consists of making sure your diver survives

The Multimillion-Dollar Junkets That Introduced Americans to Olive Oil

The olive oil industry spent millions of dollars throughout the ’90s to try to sell American chefs and nutritionists on the Mediterranean diet. It worked.

Can Bowling Win Over the ‘Lebowski’ Generation?

Fox Sports is certainly betting on it. And it just might have the stars to make it work.

The secret seat of the Knights Templar

Under the cobblestoned streets of Paris’s chicest district lie the remnants of the mysterious Knights Templar’s mightiest stronghold.