The NetBlocks internet observatory has collected technical evidence of the blocking all editions of Wikipedia in Venezuela as of 12 January 2019. The restrictions, implemented by the largest telecommunications provider CANTV. ... | Continue reading
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Your dotfiles will most likely be the longest project you ever work on. For this reason, it is worthwhile to organize your dotfiles project in a disciplined manner for maintainability and extensibility. | Continue reading
Op-ed: Yes, it looks great. It also needs to work! | Continue reading
The Ulysses Pact is a form of commitment device that helps us to build and maintain good habits and decisions despite future temptations. | Continue reading
The past is gone, the future not yet here, only the present is now. But why does it always flow the way it does for us? | Continue reading
This posts discuss about word embeddings and how can you train your own custom data specific embeddings using gensim (a python utility) | Continue reading
It’s tempting to think science gives a God’s-eye view of reality. But we forget the place of human experience at our peril | Continue reading
During the launch of Apollo 12 a major malfunction was caused by 2 lightning strikes. See http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/02/apollo-12-struck-by-lightning.html for more info.The solutio... | Continue reading
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, have now quantified and mapped the functional units of the olfactory center in the brains of vinegar flies... | Continue reading
Users dual booting Windows 10 or 8 and a Linux distribution, be it Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, openSUSE and so on, will sometimes noticed that the Windows partition is mounted as read only. | Continue reading
Making sure Julia can count bits. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. | Continue reading
Notion [https://www.notion.so] is a relatively new wiki tool that's been gaininga lot of traction lately, especially with task management geeks like myself.You can think of it initially like a web-based wiki (with desktop & mobileapps), it has a hierarchy of pages you can fill wi … | Continue reading
Economics shaping aesthetics Executive summary Everlane. Warby Parker. Bonobos. Glossier. Digital-first consumer brands that are all hugely successful and growing rapidly thanks to business savviness and venture capital funding that has helped them grow rapidly. When compared to … | Continue reading
How Apple and Amazon Test Two Very Different Futures for Capitalism | Continue reading
Europe is giving US-led calls for a boycott of Huawei 5G telecoms equipment a mixed reception, with some governments untroubled by spy suspicions against the Chinese giant, but others backing a ban. | Continue reading
Top ad buyers say increased spending on Amazon is mostly coming from other digital platforms. | Continue reading
A Wikipedia book (known as Wikibook) is a collection of Wikipedia articles ona particular theme that is organized as a book. We propose Wikibook-Bot, amachine-learning based technique for... | Continue reading
Jack London State Historic Park, home to the rough and tumble troublemaker with a prolific pen | Continue reading
The Chinese social app’s 2018 report includes detailed profiles of five generations of users, impressing some and creeping out others. | Continue reading
Features:Enjoy the Normal Game mode with three different world's 3 Distinct Worlds with varying difficulty levels.Enjoy the frantic and fast paced game style.The Best Free Action Platform game of 2019Run and Jump your way safety! | Continue reading
This is a societal scourge, not a generational one. So how can we solve it? | Continue reading
Renowned geneticist doubled down on controversial statements about race and intelligence in new documentary | Continue reading
What sweet nothing does the title refers to? It could be about null, but it in fact will say nothing about that. The nothing in question is ... | Continue reading
There are two reasons we say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’. The first is pretty obvious. It gives the other person dignity. It acknowledges their humanity. It implies that at som… | Continue reading
Docker-files - Boilerplate samples for Docker files, Docker compose and Kubernetes | Continue reading
Abstract. The global warming crisis is part of a bigger transformation in which humanity realizes that the Earth is a finite system and that our population, energy usage, and the like cannot contin… | Continue reading
Europe is giving US-led calls for a boycott of Huawei 5G telecoms equipment a mixed reception, with some governments untroubled by spy suspicions against the Chinese giant, but others backing a ban. | Continue reading
SUVs and a big pickup truck will get top billing at Detroit's auto show this year, but there are some surprise sports cars and electric vehicles on the agenda. | Continue reading
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It is tempting to start this article with the classical “i wanted to write this for so long”, but the truth is, pretty much every single… | Continue reading
A study looks at whether citizens of 25 nations think their country is heading in the right direction. | Continue reading
End of fast processing upsets the Apple cart (and workers at other Silicon Valley giants) | Continue reading
Thanks to a fractured HEVC licensing system companies no longer have the financial incentive to innovate, but Leonardo Chiariglione suggests steps to reverse the damage. | Continue reading
TPL is a set of libraries from Microsoft that can be used for parallel processing, basically it’s a set of high level tools that can make… | Continue reading