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Intercultural Communication: High- and Low-Context Cultures
Understanding whether international colleagues or employees come from high or low context cultures can help a person working internationally adapt.
Palantir Knows Everything About You
Peter Thiel's data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens.
‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’
A conversation with former Reddit product head Dan McComas on the problems with Reddit, Twitter, and the rest of the web.
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A day in Singapore, Part I: Urban identity
Epistemic status: My personal impressions from wandering the city for a day. Very likely that I'm missing important nuance in lots of places. If you notice a gap, please let me know! I'm so curious to learn more about Singapore. This is more of a...
Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos | Quanta Magazine
In new computer experiments, artificial-intelligence algorithms can tell the future of chaotic systems.
Why restaurants became so loud — and how to fight back
"I can’t hear you."
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I've been reading daedtech.com, a blog by Erik Dietrich, for quite a while now. He really stokes the embers for me about how being a W2 e...
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What The World's Most Famous Amateur Can Teach Pro Runners
Photo credit: Alexander Hassenstein/ Getty At just 30 years old, Yuki Kawauchi is in a distance running category of his own. As of January 1, he has run the…
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Jupyter, Mathematica, and the Future of the Research Paper – Paul Romer
The Atlantic has a great article on new ways to share research results. Its three parts make three points: A graphical user interface (GUI) can facilitate…
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The Story of a Voice: HAL in ‘2001’ Wasn’t Always So Eerily Calm - The New
The veteran Shakespearean actor Douglas Rain replaced the Oscar winner Martin Balsam, setting the standard for how artificial intelligence sounds.
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Whitcraft Services BMW R1150 Custom Adventure Bike
Editor's Note: This article was written by Davey Whitcraft of Whitcraft Services. When possible we like to give custom builders the chance to tell the stor
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A Gentleman's Guide to the NBA: When Players Agree to Take Plays Off
It was during his NBA debut when Jordan Bell heard the question posed for the first time. "You going?" Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic asked him...
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Is the Chinese Language a Superstition Machine? - Issue 59: Connections - Nautilus
Every year, more than a billion people around the world celebrate Chinese New Year and engage in a subtle linguistic dance with luck.…
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Resolutionator · Many Tricks
Support About Blog Apps Many Tricks Play Resolutionator Embiggen your display Buy Now $3 That's a pretty good deal. Download Free Trial Resolutionator 1.1.1…
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Houshi (english)
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Advice for New Bikepackers - BIKEPACKING.com
What's the most important thing someone planning their first bikepacking trip should know? We asked a panel of experienced riders to share their insights...
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The Thing That Made The Office Great Is the Same Thing That Killed It
Its TV-as-catharsis approach to the monotony of office work was groundbreaking, but the show's premise wasn't built to last more than a few seasons.
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The enemy within: Gut bacteria drive autoimmune disease
Bacteria found in the small intestines of mice and humans can travel to other organs and trigger an autoimmune response, according to a new study. The researchers also found that the autoimmune reaction can be suppressed with an antibiotic or vaccine designed to target the bacteria, they said.
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RSS is undead
RSS died. Whether you blame Feedburner, or Google Reader, or Digg Reader last month, or any number of other product failures over the years, the humble protocol has managed to keep on trudging along despite all evidence that it is dead, dead, dead. Now, with Facebook’s scandal over Cambridge Analyt…
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Why Does "=" Mean Assignment?
Take the following code: a = 1 a = a + 1 print(a) A common FP critique of imperative programming goes like this: “How can a = a + 1? That’s like saying 1 = 2. Mutable assignment makes no sense.” This is a notation mismatch: “equals” should mean “equality”, when it really means “assign”. I agree with this criticism and think it’s bad notation. But I also know some languages don’t write a = a + 1, instead writing a := a...
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Zeynep Tufekci's Facebook solution - can it work? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is her NYT piece, I’ll go through her four main solutions, breaking up, paragraph by paragraph, what is one unified discussion: What would a genuine legislative remedy look like? First, personalized data collection would be allowed only through opt-in mechanisms that were clear, concise and transparent. There would be no more endless pages of …
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Opinion | What Should Congress Ask Zuckerberg?
Lawmakers yelling at Mark Zuckerberg will look like progress but amount to nothing.
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Indian Slavery Once Thrived in New Mexico. Latinos Are Finding Family Ties to It.
The revelations have not only prompted personal reckonings but also fueled a larger debate on Hispanic and Native American identity.
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The Story of a Voice: HAL in ‘2001’ Wasn’t Always So Eerily Calm
The veteran Shakespearean actor Douglas Rain replaced the Oscar winner Martin Balsam, setting the standard for how artificial intelligence sounds.