SpaceX’s Starlink satellite launch has led to into an unusual viewing opportunity for skywatchers — and an occasion to wonder about the impact on astronomical observations. | Continue reading
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Daily snapshots of public Spotify playlists. Contribute to mackorone/spotify-playlist-archive development by creating an account on GitHub. | Continue reading
Happy 5.25 Floppy Day 2019! | Continue reading
Adanna Shallowe argues poverty in the UK has reached crisis levels. | Continue reading
Tips and tricks when working unicode characters in Python | Continue reading
http://CppCon.org — Presentation Slides, PDFs, Source Code and other presenter materials are available at: https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2017 — Textures an... | Continue reading
Browser fingerprinting is a relatively new method of uniquely identifyingbrowsers that can be used to track web users. In some ways it is moreprivacy-threatening than tracking via cookies, as... | Continue reading
I just wrapped up a challenging computer vision project and have been thinking about lessons learned. Before we started the project I looked for information about what was possible with the latest technology. I wanted to know what sort of accuracy (precision and recall) I could e … | Continue reading
Entrepreneurs face hurdles trying to turn obscure African plants into the next breakthrough product. The Whole Foods pitch: ‘Delicious ancient grain!’ | Continue reading
Reveal source code line-by-line in LaTeX presentations - mmcloughlin/reveal | Continue reading
These lessons summarize what Joe Lonsdale learned from working over many years with Peter Thiel, a chairman and founder of Palantir. These are very much worth reading — they will change the way you… | Continue reading
In this work of speculative fiction author Cory Doctorow takes us into a near future where the roads are solely populated by self-driving cars. | Continue reading
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun on the promise of neural networks, the need for new paradigms, and the concept of making technology accessible to all. | Continue reading
How much can we infer about a person's looks from the way they speak? In thispaper, we study the task of reconstructing a facial image of a person from ashort audio recording of that person... | Continue reading
Grammar Nazi, someone who constantly points out grammatical errors s/he observes online, has less agreeable personalities than the one who overlooks errors. | Continue reading
An overwhelming majority of Japanese firms have no plans to use 5G mobile networks by China's Huawei or other foreign firms, preferring instead to rely on domestic telecom carriers due to security concerns, a Reuters poll showed. The Corporate Survey results come amid Washington' … | Continue reading
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As cancer rates rise worldwide, researchers predict a shortage of specialists who can deliver chemotherapy, according to a new study. World Health Organization projections suggest that the number of people who will need chemotherapy will rise steadily over coming decades. Unless … | Continue reading
Attorney General Barr has, like many in the Trump administration, Russian connections. Should he, like Jeff Sessions, recuse himself? | Continue reading
With the Netflix reboot here, let's take a look back at what made the original so great. | Continue reading
New studies indicate that the frequencies used by 5G increase the body temperature of insects. A new problem for mother nature? | Continue reading
I’ve made a commitment to reboot my blog, but needed some additional motivation to actually start writing. Money tends to be a good motivator. I figured I’d give Google Adsense a chance. I don’t expect to make much, if anything, in the beginning, but over time I’m hopeful that th … | Continue reading
Venture capitalists who pumped billions into the largest startups bet that the stock market would embrace them too. Public investors have been less than charmed. | Continue reading
The president’s business tells lawmakers it is too difficult to track all its foreign revenue in accordance with the emoluments clause, and it hasn’t asked Congress for a permission slip. | Continue reading
And, ultimately, it only serves to make phones more expensive, and restrict choice. | Continue reading
This article shows how fundamental higher-order theories of mathematical structures of computer science (e.g. natural numbers [Dedekind 1888] and Actors [Hewitt et. al. 1973]) are categorical meaning that they can be axiomatized up to a unique isomorphism thereby removing any amb … | Continue reading
New video up! "IS TESLA DOOMED??" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j0iaVmQKlQ --~-- With this one trick anyone can steal a Tesla. One way to protect yourself... | Continue reading
Support for subgrid (part of the CSS Grid Level 2 specification) has just landed in Firefox Nightly! To start experimenting with it you’ll… | Continue reading
Deep latent variable models have seen recent success in many data domains.Lossless compression is an application of these models which, despite havingthe potential to be highly useful, has yet... | Continue reading