Simone Giertz Gives an Amusing TED Talk About the Psychological Importance of Making Useless Things

Simone Giertz, who calls herself the "Queen of Shitty Robots", gave a really amusing, inspiring and honest TED talk about the importance of making useless things. A born perfectionist, Giertz found that by giving herself permission to purposely fail, she was able to release herse … | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 7 years ago

Are fee-free blockchains possible?

Kik’s announcements yesterday (here and here, for example) to fork the Stellar blockchain and develop a “fee-free blockchain” of their own… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 years ago

Klout on Twitter

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@mobile.twitter.com | 7 years ago

Fitzgerald Officer of the Deck Pleads Guilty at Court-Martial – Military.com

The officer of the deck for the USS Fitzgerald when it collided with a vessel pleaded guilty in a court-martial proceeding. | Continue reading


@military.com | 7 years ago

Building a Bw-Tree Takes More Than Just Buzz Words [pdf]

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@db.cs.cmu.edu | 7 years ago

Deadpool Apologizes to David Beckham for Making Fun of His Voice in the First Film

Deadpool digs deep and heads to the home of David Beckham to formerly apologize for making fun of his voice in the first Deadpool film. Another hilarious promo from 20th Century Fox for the upcoming Deadpool 2 film, which is set to pop into theaters on May 18th, 2018. After survi … | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 7 years ago

SQLite 3.24 to add Postgresql-compatible upsert syntax

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@sqlite.org | 7 years ago

Large Island Declared Rat-Free in Biggest Removal Success

South Georgia Island near Antarctica is now teeming with native wildlife, thanks to an effort to remove invasive rats that had been devouring birds. | Continue reading


@news.nationalgeographic.com | 7 years ago

Commanding infinite streaming storage with Apache Kafka and Pyrostore

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@pyrostore.io | 7 years ago

We found love in a hopeless battle royale game

I love this little piece by Robin Sloan about the world's current video game obsession Fortnite Battle Royale, its relation to Liu | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 7 years ago

How to Generate Random Colors Programmatically

Creating random colors is actually more difficult than it seems. The randomness itself is easy, but aesthetically pleasing randomness is more difficult. For a little project at work I needed to automatically generate multiple background colors with the following properties: Text … | Continue reading


@martin.ankerl.com | 7 years ago

Makaron z kurczakiem, szparagami i sosem alfredo

Kremowy sos alfredo to idealny dodatek do szparagów. Zawiera masło, śmietankę, żółtko jajka oraz parmezan, a zatem składniki, które bardzo dobrze komponują się z zielonymi szparagami. W połączeniu z makaronem to prawdziwe "comfort food" - danie pyszne i sycące, choć trzeba uczciw … | Continue reading


@kwestiasmaku.com | 7 years ago

Show HN: Simple web app for time-tracking your tasks

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@timer.johnny.website | 7 years ago

Terms and Conditions of Different Apps

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@mobile.twitter.com | 7 years ago

Special Operators Predict AC-130J Will Be 'Most Requested' Aircraft

Along with the 105mm cannon the U-models sport, the AC-130J will be equipped with a 30mm cannon. | Continue reading


@military.com | 7 years ago

Developers Should Abandon Agile

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@ronjeffries.com | 7 years ago

Purity versus Greed in Crypto

We recently organized another crypto dinner in Toronto, bringing together the local community and a bunch of people that were in town for EDCON (the Community Ethereum Development Conference). Most… | Continue reading


@versionone.vc | 7 years ago

A University Degree Is Worth More in Some Countries Than Others

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@1843magazine.com | 7 years ago

Here are the Russian-made Facebook ads that tried to shake American politics

"Get a chance to have your say on Muslim immigration without politically censorship." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 years ago

Connecting brains and computers: is this a good idea?

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@translate.google.com | 7 years ago

A new benchmark in determining neutron lifetime

A measurement with unprecedented precision deepens the mystery of why two experimental techniques yield discrepant results.

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@physicstoday.scitation.org | 7 years ago

GraphQL Binding 2.0: Improved API, schema transforms and automatic codegen

In a recent blog post, we introduced the concept of GraphQL bindings as a way for reusing and composing GraphQL APIs. Since then, we have… | Continue reading


@blog.graph.cool | 7 years ago

Twitter in Microsoft Comic Chat

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@mobile.twitter.com | 7 years ago

Research Brief: Observability and Modern Enterprise

Observability is fast emerging as the approach to understand the dynamics of distributed system. In today's cloud native world where Microservices are encapsulated by containers and distributed across multiple clouds, Observability tells why the systems are behaving in certain wa … | Continue reading


@stacksense.io | 7 years ago

Bird Counting 101

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@ebird.org | 7 years ago

Titanic: Data Science Solutions

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@kaggle.com | 7 years ago

Quantum Impossibilities: A Conversation with Whurley – AGE OF ROBOTS Magazines

The site was a 37th floor suite in the new Fairmont Hotel in Austin, Texas. William Hurley, aka whurley, had just delivered a SXSW keynote speech with the alluring title “The Endless Impossibilities of Quantum Computing” to a packed ballroom in the convention center across the st … | Continue reading


@neuroroboticsmagazine.com | 7 years ago

Elon Musk Text Replacement

Text replacement addon | Continue reading


@chrome.google.com | 7 years ago

Why ML interfaces will be more like pets than machines

Photo by Dave Parker When I talk to people about what’s happening in deep learning, I often find it hard to get across why I’m so excited. If you look at a lot of the examples in isolat… | Continue reading


@petewarden.com | 7 years ago

Lupita, Chastain, P Cruz, Fan Bingbing, and Marion Cotillard All Look Hotter In Sunglasses at Cannes

Apparently they’re all in a movie together! | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 7 years ago

Manhattan Population Explorer

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@manpopex.us | 7 years ago

Like Google Duplex, but with real human callers

Upcall - We quickly qualify and set meetings 📆 with your online leads. (Sales, APIs, and Customer communication) Discover 7 alternatives like Contactually and Kit CRM | Continue reading


@producthunt.com | 7 years ago

China Now Has 9 Times as Many Solar Jobs as the US

Trump's policies will only make it worse. | Continue reading


@motherjones.com | 7 years ago

ResistanceHole

When They Go Low, We Go Viral | Continue reading


@resistancehole.clickhole.com | 7 years ago

To go faster, try slowing down

Based in Silicon Valley, madmork stories coaches technology marketing leaders in creating and telling powerful stories and building world class marketing teams. | Continue reading


@madmork.com | 7 years ago

Ethics are not enough to fix the technology industry

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@macwright.org | 7 years ago

Nerdalize schedules work on CPUs to heat homes

View more about this event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 | Continue reading


@kccnceu18.sched.com | 7 years ago

How we used GitLab CI to build GitLab faster

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@about.gitlab.com | 7 years ago

Laws of Thermodynamics [pdf]

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@haystack.mit.edu | 7 years ago

A Fascinating 3-Dimensional Histogram of New York City’s Hourly Population on Each Day of the Week

redditor citrusvanilla posted to the Data is Beautiful community an absolutely fascinating 3D histogram that measured the population of New York City on a hourly basis for every day of the week. Amongst the prevalent trends were the midday highs, evening lows, a good amount of ac … | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 7 years ago

Supporting React Native at Pinterest

Vivian Qu | Pinterest engineer, Growth | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 years ago

Day 476: Wrap it up.

Wrap it up. | Continue reading


@whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com | 7 years ago

What Happens When Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Tech Collide?

Oftentimes in this cutthroat world, one emerging technology replaces another. Just think about your | Continue reading


@theonlinetech.org | 7 years ago

The Race to Save Arctic Cities As Permafrost Melts

As the ground warms beneath their feet, officials in Canada’s Nunavut—where housing is already scarce—must raise buildings on pilings and find stable areas for development. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 7 years ago

Broad Institute sequences its 100,000th whole human genome

Milestone crossed on the 15th anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project, as the worldwide estimate for whole human genomes sequenced approaches one million | Continue reading


@broadinstitute.org | 7 years ago

Why contenteditable is terrible or: how Medium works

Or: How the Medium Editor Works | Continue reading


@medium.engineering | 7 years ago

New GWAS explains a substantial fraction of hair color variation/heritability [pdf]

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@gwern.net | 7 years ago

Planning chemical syntheses with deep neural networks and symbolic AI [pdf]

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@gwern.net | 7 years ago