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Palantir Knows Everything About You
Peter Thiel's data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens.
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‘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...
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Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos | Quanta Magazine
In new computer experiments, artificial-intelligence algorithms can tell the future of chaotic systems.
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Child's play
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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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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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)
Houshi Ryokan was founded around 1,300 years ago and it has always been managed by the same family since then. It is the oldest still running family business in…
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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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An ambitious African-science project is getting into its stride
New campuses are being built, and new talent nurtured
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Inside the world of instruction manuals
Some user manuals are a frustration, some are a pleasure – and all reveal more about us than we might think.
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The Stack Overflow Age
I want to catch you all up on some stuff but mostly I want to tell the story of Stack Overflow in a not-completely-disorganized way.
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Nikon versus Canon: A Story Of Technology Change
Nikon losing the leadership position to Canon in the market for professional photography 30 year technology transition story.
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Migrating bajillions of database records at Stripe
There are roughly ten thousand bajillion (to the nearest bajillion) merchants registered with Stripe. We recently finished a Very Big Migration of Large Amounts Of Data between several database tables for every single one of them, without losing any of it, without any downtime, mis-reads or mis-writes, whilst running a system that is responsible for the transfer of squillions of dollars every single day.
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Is chronic pain something more people should accept?
Amid the opioid crisis, the concept of “pain acceptance” is gaining credibility.
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You’ve Reached the Winter of Our Discontent
A half-assed elegy for the Cool-Loser Dream Boy of Gen-X cinema.
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Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next
"We will dig through this hole, but it will take a few years."
