2019 Data Science Bowl

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@kaggle.com | 4 years ago

Audio-visual treatment points to Alzheimer’s breakthrough

Human trials are underway of a technique that uses light and sound to stimulate brain activity and stem the flow of Alzheimer’s. | Continue reading


@theengineer.co.uk | 4 years ago

World Radiocommunication Conference

By Joanne Wilson, Deputy Director of ITU’s Radiocommunication Bureau *The following is adapted from a briefing I gave to United Nations Ambassadors in New York today. Radiocommunications are everywhere. Nearly every sector of the economy relies upon the opportunity to effectively … | Continue reading


@news.itu.int | 4 years ago

Australian Scientists Debunk Women Having 'Pancake Brains'

Earlier this week, Jezebel reported on a questionable Ernst & Young training program in the U.S. In addition to promoting tired gender stereotypes regarding corporate leadership, the program described women's brains as pancakes that have trouble focusing, and men's as waffles tha … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com.au | 4 years ago

How to spot a wormhole (if they exist)

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@buffalo.edu | 4 years ago

Congresswoman dared Zuckerberg to spend an hour as a FB moderator. He declined

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@businessinsider.in | 4 years ago

Astonishing efficiency, unlimited storage: Why is the human brain so powerful?

A team from Washington University in St. Louis combined neural recordings from rats with computer modeling to uncover one of the largest mysteries of the | Continue reading


@geneticliteracyproject.org | 4 years ago

“My Day as an Abortion Care Provider”

In a piece for the NY Times, obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Lisa Harris shares her experience of a typical day at her practice, whe | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 4 years ago

A Bacon, Eggs and Toast Pagan Breakfast God Mask

The folks at Archie McPhee are always coming up with new, silly ideas that somehow make sense somewhere. One such example is the Pagan Breakfast God Mask, | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Show HN: Lemmy – A federated Reddit alternative in rust

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@dev.lemmy.ml | 4 years ago

How to test ETL processes in production

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@the.agilesql.club | 4 years ago

Install, Configure and Secure PostgreSQL 12 on Ubuntu 18.04

You, as a reader, may find this article too sophisticated but the writer is a minimalistic, green developer. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

On What We Are Doing Wrong

In April I wrote a post about startup capital efficiency, before the Uber IPO and WeWork debacle, that was at the top of Techmeme and Hacker News. It’s a worthwhile read for the simplicity of what I communicated at the time. The lesson and takeaway is though they don’t lead with … | Continue reading


@stevecheney.com | 4 years ago

Container.training

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@container.training | 4 years ago

How the the Masterful Use of Dialogue in ‘Succession’ Creates a Glib Insincerity Within the Characters

Video essayist and web producer Evan Puschak, aka The Nerdwriter, decided to watch both seasons of the HBO show Succession for a second time. In doing so, | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

What People Thought About the iPod’s Introduction

Joe Rossignol at MacRumors has rounded up coverage of and responses to the original iPod, some 18 years ago. | Continue reading


@512pixels.net | 4 years ago

Learning from the Earthquake (1990)

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@sb.longnow.org | 4 years ago

Bundling and Unbundling

No goods or services are stand-alone | Continue reading


@reallifemag.com | 4 years ago

Using Raku book – free download

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@deeptext.media | 4 years ago

Kevin Feige and The Russo Brothers Will Guest Star on ‘The Simpsons’

Following the Disney-Fox merger, The Simpsons guest stars this season will include Marvel CEO Kevin Feige and Avengers Endgame directors the Russo brothers. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

file://maniac

A detective game where the main interactions are done in the REAL game directory. | Continue reading


@born-frustrated.itch.io | 4 years ago

Pictor: A free-to-use open-source Radio Telescope

PICTOR is an open source and open hardware radio telescope that aims to promote radio astronomy on a budget. It consists of a 1.5 meter parabolic dish antenna, 1420 MHz feedhorn, a two stage low noise amplifier (LNA), high pass filter, and from what we gather, an RTL-SDR. Future … | Continue reading


@rtl-sdr.com | 4 years ago

One Family’s Long History of Hand Making a Summer Gruyère d’Alpage Cheese in the Swiss Alps

Great Big Story visited with Alexandre Murith at his family farm in Gruyéres, Switzerland. This is the place where he, his father and their ancestors have | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Interactive Portfolio Ever

Creative developer living in Paris, freelancer, former lead developer at Immersive Garden, former developer at Uzik and teacher. | Continue reading


@bruno-simon.com | 4 years ago

New Open Source Security Vulnerabilities [August 2019]

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@resources.whitesourcesoftware.com | 4 years ago

WeWork shareholders: who's underwater and who's not

SoftBank has given WeWork a new lease on life. But some of the company’s biggest shareholders, including Hony Capital, Fidelity and thousands of employees—as well as SoftBank itself—are now in the red.WeWork’s new valuation of $11.60 a share is below what was paid by every outsid … | Continue reading


@theinformation.com | 4 years ago

Bored to death: What is boreout syndrome?

The under-recognized condition affects workers in offices across the globe. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 4 years ago

Understanding and Exploiting Go’s DSA Verify Vulnerability

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@paul.querna.org | 4 years ago

Vulnerability in content distribution networks found by researchers

Researchers have found a flaw that could lead to denial of service attacks on content distribution networks around the world. | Continue reading


@nakedsecurity.sophos.com | 4 years ago

People Forget Things They See If They're Taking in Too Much Information

Visual crashes boil down to a glitch in the way we recognize and understand images. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

State of Web Development

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@mobile.twitter.com | 4 years ago

Marine Corps Vet Who Served in Iraq Deported to El Salvador

Jose Segovia-Benitez, a 38-year-old Marine Corps combat veteran who served in Iraq, was deported to El Salvador — a country where he hasn’t lived since he was a toddler — on Wednesday. | Continue reading


@thehill.com | 4 years ago

Echo Frames – Eyeglasses with Alexa

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@amazon.com | 4 years ago

How to Use SQL and Lenses Data API to Explore Streaming Data in Apache Kafka

A breakdown of the 3 different ways of querying and exploring data in the Apache Kafka streams with the Lenses Data API and SQL | Continue reading


@lenses.io | 4 years ago

Nuclear impulse could deflect asteroid

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@llnl.gov | 4 years ago

A Timeline of the Most Popular Websites 1996 to 2019

Data Is Beautiful, a self-described data geek who enjoys making visualizations as a hobby, has created a fascinating timeline video that shows the most | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Tesla has made a profit. Repeat, Tesla has made a profit – $143m in fact

Shares jump by a fifth | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

The Humanitarian Crisis of Deaths of Despair

David V. Johnson in the APA Blog: Last April, Princeton University economists and married partners Anne Case and  Sir Angus Deaton delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Stanford University. The title of their talks, “Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism,” is … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 4 years ago

Discord Turned into an Info-Stealing Backdoor by New Malware

A new malware is targeting Discord users by modifying the Windows Discord client so that it is transformed into a backdoor and an information-stealing Trojan. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 4 years ago

In Scorsese and Coppola, Marvel Meets Formidable Foes

NEW YORK (AP) — It's not exactly the stuff of "Stop the presses!" that some of the greatest filmmakers in the world have misgivings about the rise of the superhero film and its outsized place in... | Continue reading


@apnews.com | 4 years ago

Memes got weaponized: A short history

Memes come off as a joke, but some people are starting to see them as the serious threat they are. | Continue reading


@technologyreview.com | 4 years ago

50 Hit Songs From 1982 Seamlessly Mashed Together

In the penultimate episode of their "Thursdays in October" mashups, Aaron Brink and Steve Reidell of The Hood Internet compiled 50 music videos from 1982 | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Show HN: Geoparsing

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@geocode.xyz | 4 years ago

✚ Analysis as Detective Work (The Process #62)

Analysis and visualization are often a messy process that never matches up to the step-by-step guides you read, but that’s normal. | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 4 years ago

DHS warns of Russian interference plans in 2020 elections

U.S. government efforts to prevent Russia from conducting influence operations directed at American audiences have largely failed, and Moscow is continuing its attempts to influence the American political system by exacerbating social divisions. | Continue reading


@news.yahoo.com | 4 years ago

What if a delivery drone falls on your head? And more questions

Google sibling Wing just launched commercial drone delivery in the U.S., and other companies are pursuing it. Questions about privacy, noise and liability still need to be answered. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 4 years ago

SiFive unveils Shield security architecture

Today SiFive is unveiling their platform security architecture called Shield. | Continue reading


@semiaccurate.com | 4 years ago

How to Improve MySQL AWS Performance 2X over Amazon RDS at the Same Cost

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@scalegrid.io | 4 years ago