The World Has a New Largest-Known Prime Number

The Mersenne prime was discovered by a computer in Ocala, Fla., on Dec. 7. Mathematicians have spent the past two weeks verifying the calculations. | Continue reading


@npr.org | 5 years ago

Epistemic Learned Helplessness

[ Epistemic Status | Probably I'm just coming at the bog-standard idea of compartmentalization from a different angle here. I don't know if anyone else has noted how compartmentalization is a good thing before, but I bet they have. ] A friend in business recently complained about … | Continue reading


@web.archive.org | 5 years ago

SAP Cloud Platform Offers Quorum Blockchain Service

Blockchain service is now available to SAP Cloud Platform trial accounts | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

An Uplifting Timelapse of Droopy Houseplants Perking Up Over the Course of Eight Hours After Being Watered

Carl Forrest of Austin, Texas shared an uplifting timelapse that showed how his houseplants quite literally perked up over the course of eight hours after | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

The home cell method of productivity

I read about a productivity method once that was suppose to be great for dealing with distractions. The idea behind it was that you can either do nothing or work on your goal. If you do nothing, you get bored, and if you’re bored you’ll eventually... | Matthew Roberts | I am a cr … | Continue reading


@roberts.pm | 5 years ago

Colorizing Pakistan

Deep Learning can be fun. You give it some cat and dog photos — and it can figure out which photos are of cats and which photos are of… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Velodyne Lidar Announces Collaboration with Nikon in Tech. Development and Mfg

Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced Nikon Corporation as a new strategic investor with an investment of $25M. | Continue reading


@businesswire.com | 5 years ago

iOS App Remakes Massive Attack's Mezzanine into Mixed Reality Experience

Fantom Mezzanine is a free new iOS app from legendary UK group Massive Act which recreates their classic, masterpiece album Mezzanine into an immersive, interactive format. It's co-created by adaptive music/sound artist Robert Thomas, who's been designing ambitious audio experien … | Continue reading


@nwn.blogs.com | 5 years ago

evilrooster on Twitter

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@mobile.twitter.com | 5 years ago

A Tale of Two Attributions

19 and 20 December 2018 will likely blend into the overall insanity of the entire year, especially when considered from a US/UK political perspective. Yet these dates, aside from being consecutive,… | Continue reading


@pylos.co | 5 years ago

You can't start a fire with moonlight no matter how big your magnifying glass is

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@what-if.xkcd.com | 5 years ago

Tutorial: MQTT with JavaScript – SDK SOFT

For large or expensive deployments, a hand-developed protocol may save costs. However, in the case of smaller installations in particular | Continue reading


@sdksoft.eu | 5 years ago

BUIDL Christmas: The Story of the Blockchain Christmas Layoffs

The inside story of the holiday crypto layoffs. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Corruption and Incompetence in Champaign County

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@corruptcu.com | 5 years ago

Gorgeous “Good Life” Private House by Bogdanova Bureau

Forest and city - they became the basics that architects of Bogdanova Bureau had taken to create a “Good Life” private house project. | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 5 years ago

A data-driven look at dApp adoption in 2018

2018 was the year when crypto went from mainstream hype and speculation mania to a sobering price crash. While most mainstream headlines… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Marketing Day: Ad agency CEO calls out Facebook, in-app advertising, first party data

Here's our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. | Continue reading


@marketingland.com | 5 years ago

Five other countries formally accuse China of APT10 hacking spree

Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, and the UK also point the finger at the Beijing government. Germany expected as well. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Let’s Try t-SNE

An Observable notebook by Mike Bostock. | Continue reading


@beta.observablehq.com | 5 years ago

8 ways to be resilient and kind when things get hard at work

How might we become more resilient, and even thrive, when things get hard at work? | Continue reading


@opentable.design | 5 years ago

These skulls look purple and orange. They are both red

In the image above, two skulls appear to be two different colors, purple and orange, when in reality they are the same hue. The pigments morph because of the Munker-White illusion. | Continue reading


@popsci.com | 5 years ago

Micro.blog for iOS update: 1.4.1

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@manton.org | 5 years ago

Rain…Harvard Square

It’s raining hard and normally I couldn’t use a camera in this weather. However, the Olympus EM1 II is water resistant and in bad weather taking close up shots of people is easier becau… | Continue reading


@frogpondjournal.com | 5 years ago

Fog Waves Are the Most Beautiful Thing I Captured After 8 Years of Experimenting

For the last 8 years I've been shooting in the San Francisco area I have been absolutely obsessed with the fog. Night and day it's what I live for and what defines my photographic style. I check the cams, satellites, and other forecasts to always be able to just get up and go. We … | Continue reading


@boredpanda.com | 5 years ago

New Books and ARCs, 12/21/18

Just in time for your Solstice celebrations and/or last minute shopping, a nice stack of new books and ARCs for your wintertime consideration. See anything here you'd love to have under the tree? The comments are the place to note them! | Continue reading


@whatever.scalzi.com | 5 years ago

Pastry Chef Attempts to Replicate the Distinctive Taste of a Snickers Bar in a Much Healthier Gourmet Version

For her ongoing quest to make healthier versions of junk food, pastry chef Claire Saffitz of the Bon Apétit series Gourmet Makes attempts to recreate that | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Sticking Our Neck Out

Who knew a Twitter thread could literally rip your heart open and pour out thoughts and emotions you’ve pushed down and pushed away and… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Who says AI will kill low wage jobs? China becoming an AI power with their help

Discover AI products, projects, news, and more. | Continue reading


@turingtribe.com | 5 years ago

Ganta Claus – Turning Famous Faces into Santa Using AI

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@gantaclaus.com | 5 years ago

A new security model for crypto wallets

Unprecedented protection for your cryptocurrency wallet | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Copyleft and community licenses are not without merit, but they are a dead end

Last Friday Confluent announced that they would be changing the license on some portions of their platform from Apache2 to The Confluent Community License. This comes on the heels of AWS’ recent launch at Re:Invent 2018 of a managed Kafka service. Their move follows similar moves … | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 5 years ago

Gates-led fund is investing in a startup to build a cheap battery

Boston-based Malta thinks it has an answer to the problem of expensive lithium-ion batteries in the form of heat pumps, chilled chambers, and molten salt. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

The NFL’s Analytics Revolution Has Arrived

Football is still well behind baseball and basketball when it comes to embracing advanced metrics, but teams have made significant progress in recent years. Those who do not adapt will be left behind. | Continue reading


@theringer.com | 5 years ago

A Bad Lip Reading of the 2018 Apple Product Launch

Bad Lip Reading offered a hilariously bizarre take on the 2018 Apple Product Launch, the annual event that previews the new products for the coming year. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Rancher and Arm Partner to Deliver a Kubernetes-Based Platform for IoT, Edge

Rancher Labs, a provider of container management software, today announced a partnership with Arm to meet the needs of Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing deployments. | Continue reading


@rancher.com | 5 years ago

Discover Vagrant Boxes

Vagrant Cloud by HashiCorp | Continue reading


@app.vagrantup.com | 5 years ago

Show HN: Try focuspocus and stay productive (Google Chrome Extension)

focuspocus! helps you to stay productive and get work done. Just focus on what matters! | Continue reading


@chrome.google.com | 5 years ago

The man turning China into a quantum superpower

Jian-Wei Pan, China’s “father of quantum”, is masterminding its drive for global leadership in technologies that could change entire industries. | Continue reading


@technologyreview.com | 5 years ago

Nice blog post on Open Source PostgreSQL Tablespaces before you go for holidays

pg_basebackup is a widely used PostgreSQL backup tool that allows us to take an ONLINE and CONSISTENT file system level backup. These backups can be used for point-in-time-recovery or to set up a s… | Continue reading


@percona.com | 5 years ago

Gas jets make beautiful lens for light we can’t normally focus

Matching light wavelength and atom's energy level creates focus. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 5 years ago

A Big List of Facebook’s 2018 Scandals

Mark Zuckerberg began the year promising that he would fix Facebook. He didn’t, and 2018 has only presented more problems. | Continue reading


@buzzfeednews.com | 5 years ago

Zero-based date, Christmas, and emoji

Not every method in JavaScript's Date object returns a zero-based number. Here's a tip will help you understand that a little better. | Continue reading


@allthingssmitty.com | 5 years ago

Speeding up Matrix with Py3

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@matrix.org | 5 years ago

Google Killing Google+ APIs March 2019

Google announced earlier this month its plans to shutter Google+, its failed social network, after a second security breach exposed the data of millions. Along with the social network, Google plans to shut down the Google+ APIs on March 7, 2019. However, some APIs may stop workin … | Continue reading


@programmableweb.com | 5 years ago

Cindy Li

1975-2018 | Continue reading


@adactio.com | 5 years ago

Apple Claims Bent iPad Pros Are Totally Normal

Some new iPad Pros are coming with a slight bend in the case. Apple insists that the bend is totally normal and nothing to worry about. If you end up with such a unit, we recommend returning it immediately. | Continue reading


@tidbits.com | 5 years ago

Wav2letter++, the fastest open source speech system, and flashlight

Wav2letter++ is the fastest state-of-the-art end-to-end speech recognition system available. We're also releasing flashlight, a fast, flexible ML library. | Continue reading


@code.fb.com | 5 years ago

Fugs & Pieces, December 21st, 2018

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 5 years ago