Lightelligence releases prototype of its optical AI accelerator chip
Boston-based startup Lightelligence's optical machine learning accelerator has entered prototyping stage, the startup announced.
Working with the SQL Server command line (sqlcmd)
In this new chapter, we are going to show the following examples in a local SQL Server using SQL Server command line (sqlcmd).
mssql-cli/usage_guide.md at master · dbcli/mssql-cli
A command-line client for SQL Server with auto-completion and syntax highlighting - dbcli/mssql-cli
SEO Trends in 2024 and How to Adapt
A complete guide to search engine optimization in 2024. Learn about SEO trends like voice search, AI, search intent, new on-page SEO techniques, and more.
The Astronaut Who Might Actually Get Us to Mars – Texas Monthly
As an eighteen-year-old immigrant to the U.S., Franklin Chang Díaz dreamed of becoming an astronaut. Now, decades after tying the record for most spaceflights, he might be the best bet to get us to Mars.
How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World (Published 2019)
Murdoch and his children have toppled governments on two continents and destabilized the most important democracy on Earth. What do they want?
Part 2: Inside the Succession Battle for the Murdoch Empire - The New York
President Trump’s election made the Murdoch family more powerful than ever. But the bitter struggle between James and Lachlan threatened to tear the company apart.
Part 3: The Future of Fox: An Even More Powerful Political Weapon (Published 2019)
The Disney deal left the Murdochs with a media empire stripped to its essence: a hard-core right-wing news machine — with Lachlan in charge.
US Workers Are Highly Taxed If You Count Premiums – People's Policy Project
Only the Netherlands has a higher average compulsory payment wedge than the US.
Opting Out of Vaccines Should Opt You Out of American Society
People who are able to take vaccines but refuse to do so are the moral equivalent of drunk drivers
The dogs that protect little penguins
When foxes nearly wiped out a colony of little penguins, a sheepdog saved the day.
She falsely accused a stranger of trying to abduct her child, police say. S
Mohamed Fathy Hussein Zayan, an engineer from Egypt who was visiting West Virginia for work, was arrested on felony attempted abduction charges before Santana Renee Adams recanted her story.
One night of telescope time rules out black hole/dark matter idea
Black holes formed right after the Big Bang aren’t common enough to be dark matter.
Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go
Things I've learned porting a 50 thousand lines of code from Java to Go
Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform
Second-order thinking is a mental model that smart people like Warren Buffett & Howard Marks use to avoid problems. Read this article to learn how it works.
A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes
How to turn a collection of small building blocks into a versatile tool for solving regression problems.
Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 17,000 Historic Blue
A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s have been digitized and made available online for free listening.
Memory Architectures In AI: One Size Doesn't Fit All
Comparing different machine learning use-cases and the architectures being used to address them.
Abigail Disney Has More Money Than She’ll Ever Spend
Abigail Disney, heiress to the Disney fortune, on being raised with wealth.
My dispiriting, infuriating – and illuminating – time as a political telema
The long read: What I learned about politics while phone-banking for the Democrats
A Drug Shows an Astonishing Ability to Regenerate Damaged Hearts and Other Body Parts
A once abandoned drug compound shows an ability to rebuild organs damaged by illness and injury
Stop Focusing on Trying to Go Viral and Instead Take a Stand
Consumers want to connect with a brand.
How to Learn Chinese: 8 Things I Wish I Had Known Before I Started - Scott H Young
Eight tips I wish I had known when I started. Learning Chinese is hard, but if you take the right approach, you'll be speaking, reading and writing soon!
A ferocious tank battle in the desert explains how to prepare for the unexp
The key is flexibility, according to Trump's former National Security Advisor.
Every Living Creature – Truly*Adventurous – Medium
When a massive Caribbean volcano erupts, the island’s residents flee, leaving their beloved animals behind. As pets and livestock are…
How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People
Somebody had to foot the bill for Anna Delvey’s fabulous new life. The city was full of marks.
The Day the Dinosaurs Died
A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth.
Welcome to Bokeh — Bokeh 1.0.4 documentation
Bokeh is a Python library for creating interactive visualizations for modern web browsers. It helps you build beautiful graphics, ranging from simple plots to complex dashboards with streaming data...
This woman quit her job to live on the road. Now capturing life on the road
From artists to advocates, a new book highlights women in the outdoors.
The Underground Railroad of North Korea - GQ
The story of a desperate North Korean woman who risked her life to reach freedom, and of the complicated man who led the way.
Casting Curses and Love Spells with the Most Powerful Witches in Romania
Witchcraft is very much alive in Romania, and even politicians fear its power. We join the country’s most famous witch dynasty and partake in their yearly rituals.
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The Brain That Remade Itself
Doctors removed one-sixth of this boy’s brain — and what was left did something incredible
Introducing spaCy v2.1 · Blog · Explosion AI
Version 2.1 of the spaCy Natural Language Processing library includes a huge number of features, improvements and bug fixes. In this post, we highlight some of the things we're especially pleased with, and explain some of the most challenging parts of preparing this big release.
‘In Afghanistan, We Laugh Differently’
For a handful of teenage girls, robotics offered a reprieve from their violent, patriarchal country. Now they are back home, with the Taliban poised to gain power.
The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob
The feds knew him as a prolific bank robber. But the bearded man who eluded them for so long was not who they imagined him to be. And absolutely no one expected the story to end the way it did.
The Startlingly Flavorful Dressing That Will Boost More Than Just Your Sala
Stir together a few ingredients, and you have a sauce that will improve boiled broccoli, leafy mustard greens, even pizza crusts.
10 Top Sports APIs
The Illustrated Word2vec
Discussions: Hacker News (347 points, 37 comments), Reddit r/MachineLearning (151 points, 19 comments) Translations: Chinese (Simplified), French, Korean, Portuguese, Russian “There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace…
Heaven Can Wait: The Hidden Genius of Elaine May - The Ringer
Improvising legend. Filmmaking maverick. Comedy savant. Screenwriting secret weapon. Elaine May is one of the most important people in American pop cultural history. Why isn’t she more celebrated? That’s exactly how she wants it.
Show Your Skills With A Bootable CV
It’s a thankless task, searching for a job. You send off your CV, or resume, and it joins a thousand other destined for the round file. What on earth can you do to make your career stand out,…
Easy Git Repository Summaries With Web-git-sum
For those hosting their own git repositories there are a number of solutions for creating convenient web-accessible front ends, but [mitxela] wasn’t quite satisfied with any of them. After tr…
How to Deliver Constructive Feedback in Difficult Situations
Thoughtful, empathetic language can make or break your business relationships
ART OF MONEY GETTING
A US$28 million Picasso masterpiece was missing for 20 years, until the art
Art historian Arthur Brand managed to track down the 1983 painting Buste de Femme (Dora Maar), which went missing from a Saudi prince’s boat in 1999.
Name It, and They Will Come — overreacted
A change starts with a story.
How the Brain Links Gestures, Perception and Meaning | Quanta Magazine
Neuroscience has found that gestures are not merely important as tools of expression but as guides of cognition and perception.
I wrote a story that became a legend. Then I discovered it wasn’t true. - C
In 2003, with what felt like an angel on my shoulder, I wrote a story that became a myth. It was a once-in-a-lifetime piece. An emblem for human courage in the face of adversity, and an inspiration for motorcyclists like me, that swept the world in its small way. It would have…
How the music of 1950’s Cuba revolutionized the sound of young Senegal
“Dakar was where everyone came to make music.”
Who Still Buys Wite-Out, and Why?
Correction fluids have improbably outlasted the typewriter and survived the rise of the digital office.