Gangster’s paradise: how organised crime took over Russia
The long read: Under Vladmir Putin, gangsterism on the streets has given way to kleptocracy in the state
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Turning The Tables Listening Party: Women Of Roots And Americana
In this special episode, we discuss two milestone albums in Americana music: Bonnie Raitt's Nick of Time and Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.
Logistic Regression: A Concise Technical Overview
Interested in learning the concepts behind Logistic Regression (LogR)? Looking for a concise introduction to LogR? This article is for you. Includes a Python implementation and links to an R script as well.
Baidu Apollo Releases Massive Self-driving Dataset; Teams Up With Berkeley DeepDrive
Baidu this Thursday announced the release of ApolloScape, billed as the world’s largest open-source dataset for autonomous driving…
The story of Heady Topper, Americas most loved craft beer
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Interactive map of Linux kernel
Command-line-text-processing/ruby_one_liners.md at master · learnbyexample/
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TinEye Reverse Image Search
TV Time, the TV tracking app with over a million daily users, can now find
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vuejs/vue-hackernews: HackerNews clone with Vue.js
HackerNews clone with Vue.js.
Hierarchical Classification – a useful approach when predicting thousands o
Traditionally, most of the multi-class classification problems (i.e. problems where you want to predict where a given sample falls into, from a set of possible results) focus on a small number of possible predictions.
Top 5 Best Jupyter Notebook Extensions
Check out these 5 Jupyter notebook extensions to help increase your productivity.
Fade to Grey: Will Headless Browsers Kill Web Design?
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Ball Breakers
“The reason women-only billiards tournaments exist is not because the players can’t beat men. It’s because they can.”
Time Series for Dummies – The 3 Step Process
Time series forecasting is an easy to use, low-cost solution that can provide powerful insights. This post will walk through introduction to three fundamental steps of building a quality model.
The hearts coming back from the dead
Cardiac arrest kills off parts of the heart. Once dead, the cells don’t recover. But scientists may have come up with a way to reverse this – and potentially save thousands of people.
A dive into spatial search algorithms
Searching through millions of points in an instant
Machine Learning Pipelines for R
Building machine learning and statistical models often requires pre- and post-transformation of the input and/or response variables, prior to training (or fitting) the models. For example, a model may require training on the logarithm of the response and input variables. As a…
R-exercises – Start here to learn R!
Learn R through 1000+ free exercises on basic R concepts, data cleaning, modeling, machine learning, and visualization.
Factorization Machines for Recommendation Systems
Stay up-to-date on the latest data science and AI news in the worlds of artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, implementation, and more.
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Introduction to Concurrency Models with Ruby. Part II
In the second part of our series we will take a look at more advanced concurrency models such as Actors, Communicating Sequential Processes, Software Transactional Memory and of course Guilds – a new concurrency model which may be implemented in Ruby 3.
8 Board Games So Beautiful, They’re Works Of Art
Find the latest Design news from Fast company. See related business and technology articles, photos, slideshows and videos.
Google’s new Bristlecone processor brings it one step closer to quantum sup
Every major tech company is looking at quantum computers as the next big breakthrough in computing. Teams at Google, Microsoft, Intel, IBM and various
'Heroin(e)': The Women Fighting Addiction In Appalachia : NPR
An Oscar-nominated documentary short explores the country's opioid crisis through the heroism of women in Huntington, W.Va. — women like fire chief Jan Rader and drug court judge Patricia Keller.
A Comprehensive Website Planning Guide (Part 3)
Planning is essential for most businesses and organizations. Unfortunately, when it comes to websites there is often a failure to plan properly or at all. This guide aims to change that. Always remember that a good website isn't a one-time event, but rather an extensible…
A Digital Archive of Heavy Metal, the Influential “Adult Fantasy Magazine”
In making a time capsule of the late 20th century, one would be remiss if they did not include at least an issue or two of Heavy Metal magazine. Yes, it specialized in unapologetically turning women in metal bras into sex objects.
The Story of Dave and His Killer Bread
Dave’s Killer Bread has become a cult favorite across the nation, drawing in both health-conscious consumers and those who root for an unlikely success story. But you won’t find the full story on the bread packaging.
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The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code – Joel on Software
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How we grew from 0 to 4 million women on our fashion app, with a vertical m
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In France, Our Dog Has His Day (Published 2018)
Hotels, shops, bars, restaurants — dogs are welcomed warmly just about everywhere. For Pip (a.k.a. Pierre), the prancing was never better.
Baidu’s voice cloning AI can swap genders and remove accents
China's tech titan Baidu just upgraded Deep Voice. The voice-cloning AI now works faster than ever and can swap a speaker's gender or change their accent.
‘Feeding the spirit, soul and stomach’: Inside Pittsburgh’s famous fish fri
Disruptive technology is embraced in sectors where customers are eager to tear up and replace old models for doing business. That's not so much the case
Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore To Release ‘Downey to Lubbock’ This Summ
Wolfram Blog: News, Views and Insights from Wolfram
Livecoding event with Christopher Wolfram on the process he went through and the code generated in building the alien language for the movie Arrival.
Linear Algebra Cheat Sheet for Machine Learning
All of the Linear Algebra Operations that You Need to Use in NumPy for Machine Learning. The Python numerical computation library called NumPy provides many linear algebra functions that may be useful as a machine learning practitioner. In this tutorial, you will discover the…
The Amazing Story of the Russian Defector Who Changed his Mind
The home phone of FBI special agent Michael Rochford rang in the middle of the night on August 2, 1985. He grabbed it and heard the voice of his FBI supervisor. “There’s a plane coming in, a high-level defector.” The day before, a Soviet man had walked into the US consulate in…
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Crypto Canon
Here’s a list of crypto readings and resources (2018-2019). It’s organized from building blocks and basics; foundations (& history); and key concepts — followed by specific topics such as governance; privacy and security; scaling; consensus and governance…
Combat Consultant: Q&A With Retired General Stanley McChrystal
Retired Army general and special forces commander Stanley McChrystal shares his insights about adaptable teams and organizations.
Dimensionality Reduction Using t-SNE
t-SNE is a method for visualizing high dimensional space. It often produces more insightful charts than the alternatives like PCA.
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The Periodic Table of Data Science
This periodic table can serve as a guide to navigate the key players in the data science space. The resources in the table were chosen by looking at surveys taken from data science users, such as the 2016 Data Science Salary Survey by O'Reilly, the 201...
A dive into spatial search algorithms – Vladimir Agafonkin – Medium
Searching through millions of points in an instant
Recommendation System Algorithms: An Overview
This post presents an overview of the main existing recommendation system algorithms, in order for data scientists to choose the best one according a business’s limitations and requirements.
Using Self-Organizing Maps to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem
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100,000 happy moments
What makes people happy? A huge database is making it possible to discern the answer at last.
Eureka! California-Grown Coffee Is Becoming The State's Next Gold Mine
Sure, a cup of California-grown coffee sells for about $18 a cup, but people are buying it. The niche industry is booming with no signs of slowing, and the state's farmers still can't meet demand.