What’s new about conspiracy theories?

Outsiders have always had a weakness for paranoid fantasies. Now our leaders are conspiracists, too. | Continue reading


@newyorker.com | 6 years ago

Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Using the Differentiable Neural Computer

My experiments found that a model learned in a Differentiable Neural Computer outperformed a vanilla LSTM based model, on two gaming environments. | Continue reading


@blog.adeel.io | 6 years ago

Research as a Stochastic Decision Process

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@cs.stanford.edu | 6 years ago

“How to Read Gene Wolfe” by Neil Gaiman (2007)

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@sfsite.com | 6 years ago

Life-Sized Lego Electronics

Brix System is a collection of scaled-up Lego versions of computers, phones, and music machines made out of wood. This is super ne | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

I Got Hired by Google

I recently announced on Twitter that I got hired by Google! | Continue reading


@blog.amaiorano.io | 6 years ago

Use Golang in Interviews

Golang is a great interviewing language. It's simple, effective for data structures, and has a wow factor! You should use it for your interviews. | Continue reading


@briantliao.com | 6 years ago

Institutional Failure as Surprise

Realizing an institution is near failure is a difficult epistemic problem. There are many outwardly visible pieces of institutions that do… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 6 years ago

Doorman for macOS

Doorman is my second macOS menu bar app that I'm releasing through Product Hunt. Doorman gives you the ability to see all other menu bar apps that are currently running and you can close multiple apps by checking the box and tapping close. | Continue reading


@producthunt.com | 6 years ago

Brazil’s Supreme Court Censors Damaging Report on Chief Justice

Online magazine Crusoé published a story linking Brazil's Supreme Court Chief Justice to the Odebrecht construction company. | Continue reading


@brazilian.report | 6 years ago

Uber IPO vs. Lyft IPO – Blue Ocean Strategy

A breakdown of the Uber IPO vs Lyft IPO and how Blue Ocean Strategy could be have a major effect. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 6 years ago

James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect

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@en.wikipedia.org | 6 years ago

Yachtkov: Building a Yacht Rock Song Title Generator

Since moving to Atlanta and getting a place with a pool, I like to spend the warmer months coding out on the deck with my Jack Russell Terrier, jumping into the water while things build, and then diving back into the code. I’ve found Yacht Rock to be a genre that accompanies this … | Continue reading


@robertelwell.info | 6 years ago

The Simple Solow Model of Software Engineering – LessWrong 2.0

Optional background: The Super-Simple Solow Model[https://mru.org/courses/principles-economics-macroeconomics/solow-model-economic-growth]Software is economic capital - just like buildings, infrastructure, machines,etc. It’s created once, and then used for a (relatively) long tim … | Continue reading


@lesswrong.com | 6 years ago

A “Brave” New World: Internet Archive on Brave's Micropayments

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@blog.archive.org | 6 years ago

How much energy does a photon need to form a black hole?

I was wondering if it is possible for a single photon to form a black hole if it has a small enough wavelength.If so, what would this wavelength be? I came across this question because I am reading... | Continue reading


@physics.stackexchange.com | 6 years ago

Show HN: Astral, play tabletop roleplaying games online

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@astraltabletop.com | 6 years ago

Andrew Yang centers presidential bid around 'universal basic income'

Andrew Yang is basing his bid for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2020 on providing subsidies to Americans who may lose their jobs to automation. | Continue reading


@upi.com | 6 years ago

Monday's parting rainbow shots

EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City. | Continue reading


@evgrieve.com | 6 years ago

‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ Ending Changed During Production, Kathleen Kennedy Talks About the “Blueprint” to Bring Palpatine Back, and More

Daisy Ridley says the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ending changed during production, Kathy Kennedy talks the next 10 years of Star Wars, and much more. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 6 years ago

Show HN: Sortraits, Portraits of Sorting Algorithms

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@wtracy.gitlab.io | 6 years ago

When Your Startup Fails

We are inundated with stories of successful startups and their founders. In this narrative, failure is shown primarily as a prelude to… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 6 years ago

It's even worse than it appears. | Continue reading


@scripting.com | 6 years ago

12% drop of Bitcoin trading volume on LocalBitcoins after Apr.1 price jump. Why?

Worldwide Bitcoin Trading on LocalBitcoins in Comparison to other Crypto Exchanges | Continue reading


@medium.com | 6 years ago

We contain microbes so deeply weird they alter the tree of life

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@newscientist.com | 6 years ago

Computer Data Storage, in Pictures

Nowadays we are used to having hundreds of gigabytes of storage capacity in our computers. This was pure science fiction only a few decades ago. For example, the first hard disk drive to have gigabyte capacity was as big as a refrigerator, and that was in 1980. Not so long ago! | Continue reading


@royal.pingdom.com | 6 years ago

(Right to Left (The Mirror World

Localization at Spotify is a big deal. Our mission is to “unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it.” To achieve this mission, it’s import … | Continue reading


@labs.spotify.com | 6 years ago

Made my first convolutional neural network with Keras while playing WPICTF

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@tcode2k16.github.io | 6 years ago

Setting Expectations with Clients

I was asked by a potential client the other day what the biggest challenge would be if we were to start working together. Would we bump… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 6 years ago

How to Approach Tough Technical Interview Problems

So you want to get better at interviewing. This article is going to cover a lot. It'll walk you through a usual technical (whiteboard or non-whiteboard) interview question-- the mentality, the | Continue reading


@algodaily.com | 6 years ago

Robots could wipe out 1.3M Wall Street jobs in the next 10 years

The financial services industry is a popular place for job seekers, but artificial intelligence could wipe away a million banking jobs. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Watch: ‘Game of Thrones’ Premiere Featured Cameos From Martin Starr and Rob McElhenney, George Lucas Visited the Set, and More

Did you notice these Game of Thrones cameos from comedic actors Martin Starr (Silicon Valley) and Rob McElhenney (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)? | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 6 years ago

DiscoverDev - curated engineering articles for Tue, 16 Apr 2019

The list of curated resources and software engineering blog posts for 2019-04-16 | Continue reading


@discoverdev.io | 6 years ago

AI Helps Classify Lung Cancer at the Pathologist Level

researchers from Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center and the Hassanpour Lab at Dartmouth University developed a deep learning-based system for automated classification of histologic subtypes on lung adenocarcinoma surgical resection slides on par with pathologists. | Continue reading


@news.developer.nvidia.com | 6 years ago

Lover of the Strange, Barbarianologist of the Farthest Peripheries

Winnie Wong brings us a short biography of the Chinese curioso Pan Youxun (1745-1780). At issue? Hubris, hegemony, and global art history. | Continue reading


@publicdomainreview.org | 6 years ago

African swine fever to leave China hungry for animal protein

African swine fever is expected to cut China’s pork production by 30 percent in 2019. | Continue reading


@capitalpress.com | 6 years ago

The Notorious Board Game That Takes 1,500 Hours to Complete

The thick, black-and-white rulebook packaged with every copy of the 1979 war-game The Campaign For North Africa is full of obtuse decrees, but the tabletop community always had a special appreciation for entry 52.6 - affectionately known as the “macaroni rule.” The Italian troops … | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 6 years ago

Copperfield’s magic secrets crashed into the moon, but you can help find them

Even if it’s not intact, the 30-million-page backup of human history would be “the first archaeological ruins of early human attempts to build a library on the moon.” | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 6 years ago

Apple Dropped ‘Life on iPad’ and Other iPad Videos

Apple recently uploaded six new videos to YouTube focusing on the new iPad Pros, with one called ‘Life on iPad.’ | Continue reading


@macobserver.com | 6 years ago

A hacker has dumped nearly one billion user records over the past two months

Hacker Gnosticplayers has stolen over 932 million user records from 44 companies. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

ReasonML with React Hooks Tutorial–Building a Pomodoro Timer

Learn Reason React by building a Pomodoro Timer with React hooks | Continue reading


@dev.to | 6 years ago

A $1k Art-Auction Bet Turned into a 450M 'Da Vinci'

The invention of the Salvator Mundi. | Continue reading


@nymag.com | 6 years ago

Mapping Where Traffic Pollution Hurts Children Most

Research shows nearly one in five childhood asthma cases were caused by traffic-related air pollution. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Knapsack for Hope: Satellite Filecasting Using Commodity Hardware

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@netfreedompioneers.org | 6 years ago

How Catastrophic Is the Notre-Dame Cathedral Fire?

A blaze consumed the roof and spire of the 13th-century Gothic cathedral in Paris. But "the worst has been avoided." | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Show HN: Video Game Recommendations Through a Unique 1v1 Battle System

War of the Games pits games from beloved classics to modern masterpieces against each other, and shows you how other people feel about that game. | Continue reading


@warofthegames.com | 6 years ago

Exclusive ‘Miss Bala’ Clip Goes Behind-The-Scenes of the Gina Rodriguez Action-Thriller

Go behind-the-scenes of Gina Rodriguez's new film with this exclusive Miss Bala clip. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 6 years ago

The Framing of Notre-Dame de Paris

The framing of Notre-Dame de Paris is certainly one of the oldest structures in Paris with that of Saint-Pierre de Montmartre (1147). | Continue reading


@notredamedeparis.fr | 6 years ago