Warlord Economics
Charles Taylor had rubber. Jonas Savimbi had diamonds. Mohamed Farrah Aidid had bananas. A look at how five notorious warlords financed their armies through resources, smuggling and makeshift taxation.
How to Decompose Time Series Data into Trend and Seasonality - MachineLearningMastery.com
Time series decomposition involves thinking of a series as a combination of level, trend, seasonality, and noise components. Decomposition provides a useful abstract model for thinking about time series generally and for better understanding problems during time series analysis…
Finally – A Carbon Nanotube Application - NeuroLogica Blog
The carbon nanofiber revolution has been slower than hoped. This is one of the drawbacks of being a technophile and following tech news - you hear about exciting technology years before it is realized, and many of the tantalizing breakthroughs never come to realization. So you…
Why the Bronze Age collapsed
Historians like to blame drought, famine and invaders. But this can’t explain why the empires never came back.
More Bounce to the Ounce!
A love letter to the rocket that everyone is too chicken to build
The Yakuza and the Way of the Would-Be Warrior
Ian Buruma on “Yakuza: A 400-Year History of the Japanese Underworld,” by Andrew Rankin.
How Do Cuttlefish Hide? Scientists Search for the Secret to Camouflage.
Cephalopods are masters of camouflage. Scientists want to decipher how the process works in the brain.
The Alchemists -history of oil
How oil built the world
The Tragedy of 3D XPoint (AKA Intel Optane AKA Micron QuantX)
Too early and too late. Can it be resurrected from the dead?
usermod Cheatsheet
Quick reference for modifying Linux user accounts with usermod and managing groups with groupadd, gpasswd, and groupdel
Bessie Smith: Empress of the Blues, the Klan and Her Train
Bessie Smith toured in her own railway carriage, loved women and men and died in a 1937 crash. Plus the family's Klan story and Janis Joplin's gravestone.
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Freakonomics - The hidden side of everything
The Horse Costume Problem
How the future is accidentally invented
Mining
Colorado has the two US mines dedicated to molybdenum. Molybdenum is a metal used mainly as an alloying agent in cast iron, steel and superalloys. Henderson is an underground mine that opened in 1976. The ore travels to the mill on a conveyor 15 miles long, and ten of those…
When Anesthesia Goes Wrong
A teenage boy went into surgery for a broken arm and emerged with brain damage. His mother was determined to figure out what had happened.
How I Became a Lock Picker
Shayla Love on lock picking and the sport of opening locks.
F.02 Decommission
We love Figure 02. It is an incredible robot.
How I look at buildings, with aphantasia
A photograph is not a substitute
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design
Sling TV
Stream your favorite live TV without cable for the best price. Flexible options including Essentials, Select, Orange, Blue, and the combined Orange & Blue plan.
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Can the US build a DJI?
How DJI achieves its exceptional margins, from a teardown of two popular drones.
Apache Cheatsheet
Apache HTTP Server at a glance: service commands, file layout on Ubuntu and RHEL, virtual hosts, modules, .htaccess, redirects, TLS, reverse proxy, and log …
TikTok Quietly Gutted Its Advertising Rules. Scams Have Exploded Ever Since.
Last year, TikTok’s executives quietly defanged its advertising rules, opening the floodgates to fraudsters that target American users with fake sales of products that never arrive. Sources told Forbes the change was understood internally as a way to make more money.
The Rise and Fall of the Plasma Screen
In 1960, a team at the University of Illinois released the first version of their PLATO “computerized instruction system,” a network of what would eventually be thousands of computer terminals connected to large mainframe computers.
NLP for Sentiment Analysis: How It Works and Why It Matters for Business
Discover why sentiment analysis is becoming a core enterprise capability, with modern NLP techniques providing a deeper understanding of the customer experience than ever before.
What Would You Do If Your Employer Could Destroy the World?
Exit interviews with defectors from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind.
If You Want a Real Digital Commons, Build It Yourself
Rappler’s answer to state-sponsored lies and harassment was to stop using corporate social media as its public square.
Because we owned our own data and combined them with publicly available, vetted databases, our chatbot’s error rate was a little more than 1.6 percent—at the time, the error rate of commercial chatbots was about 16 percent.
Matrix is open-source and allows users to set up their own communication servers.
Asia’s 50 Best Bars | The List and Awards
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In this essay, Carson Gross discusses his advice to young people interested in computer science worried about the future given the advancements in AI.
Free Browser Utilities — 10 Private Tools
Converters, formatters and debuggers that never upload your files.
David Byrne’s New Book Explores the Strange Afterlife of Good Ideas: From Vermeer’s Paintings to Roman Concrete & Dark Matter
David Byrne will always be most widely known as the co-founder and frontman of Talking Heads. That may count among the greatest possible achievements for any artist — to the minds of many an Open Culture reader, at least — but it must occasionally frustrate the man himself.
Any Human Ever
One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.
Helion CEO David Kirtley on why fusion finally works
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Why Halloween’s ‘Poison Candy’ Myth Endures
Even though we know better.
Why Are Berries Everywhere, in Every Season? Driscoll’s.
The California giant has helped turn a local, seasonal treat into a worldwide refrigerator staple and marketing juggernaut.
Mathematicians invented a knitting stitch that stops mistakes from spreading
With a little help from knot theory, scientists have invented a “robust knit” to fight laddering
Photography Legend Steve McCurry Opens a New Show at Leica Gallery New York
Photographer Steve McCurry has an exhibition at Leica Gallery New York showcasing works from earlier in his career and a new body of work.
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What Does Maceration Mean in Wine? | Wine Enthusiast
Maceration is like steeping tea, but instead of a teabag, it's grape solids soaking in juice, imparting color, tannins, and flavor.
Why the US has nothing like the European MBDA Meteor Missile
What makes the MBDA Meteor such an amazing air-to-air missile and why doesn’t the US have anything like it?
The Pulse: Firebase’s global outage & poor response
The Firebase iOS SDK crashed after a backend change, crashing all apps which used Firebase analytics for 2-6 hours. Google didn’t update the status page, but did offer a postmortem 4 days later.
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SSH Config Cheatsheet
SSH client config directives at a glance: Host and Match patterns, keys, jump hosts, keepalives, multiplexing, port forwarding, host key checking, and tokens …
How to Resize and Extend a Linux Partition and Filesystem
Extend a Linux partition and grow ext4, XFS, Btrfs, or LVM storage after a disk resize, with layout checks, safe ext4 shrink steps, and troubleshooting.
The Legend of the Paper Crane - Mazda Stories
Mazda Stories explores the ancient art of origami, its importance in Hiroshima and how it's believed to have miraculous powers…
Southern Olive Oil
As climates shift and traditional growing regions suffer, the American South has potential to be the next global olive oil source.