Special thanks to Gav Knafo for his quantitative analysis work which made this article possible. We reverse engineered Instagram’s algorithm to find the magic number of likes it takes to viral. I commissioned a 3-day study that followed 31 posts, tracking likes and comments at di … | Continue reading
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The most life-changing mindset I learned in the past five years is “Growth Mindset.” It’s from the book “Mindset” by Dr. Carol Dweck — a… | Continue reading
Our ending begins with a ghost story. | Continue reading
On betting, predictions, and the language we use to forecast | Continue reading
On this episode of On the Metal, we interview Tom Lyon, Sun employee #8, network storage pioneer and systems software polymath. Join us as Tom recounts losing bits in the hallway at Princeton, the peril of software-refreshed DRAM, and how to write a token ring driver from scratc … | Continue reading
Instant rental comps and property investment analysis | Continue reading
Breaking up big firms like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google could make things worse. | Continue reading
Cristiano Ronaldo made $47.8 million in 2019 from 49 sponsored Instagram posts. | Continue reading
The Common Voice corpus is a massively-multilingual collection of transcribedspeech intended for speech technology research and development. Common Voice isdesigned for Automatic Speech... | Continue reading
As we head into 2020, the number of hydrogen cars available to the public is still dreadfully low. There are less than a handful of them and existing infrastructure is woefully behind anything that would sustain any realistic, widespread usage. But had automakers invested in hydr … | Continue reading
From traditional hand-drawn work to cutting edge CG animation, these movies represent the 10 best animated shorts of the decade. | Continue reading
An Exchange 2007 real world situation in which a mailbox clean up inadvertently generated thousands of read receipts. | Continue reading
Maybe you love yourself. Maybe you don’t. Either way, this question will put some distance inside your head between you and your actions… | Continue reading
Well here we are, the end of another year. I should offer my apologies for the slowdown in posts in recent weeks – real life has been all-consuming with one thing and another so work on the b… | Continue reading
Exploring how we can use sound data and machine learning in JavaScript to recognise human activities to augment smart systems. | Continue reading
Second screens and the sickness unto death. | Continue reading
The Central Bank of the Bahamas (CBOB) is planning to introduce a digital version of the Bahamian dollar in the Exuma district. According to an official press release, the CBOB will launch its digital… | Continue reading
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In 2019, gig workers across the United States suffered a series of changes to their pay algorithm that have left many scrambling to pay for food and utilities, and seeking assistance from charities over the holidays. | Continue reading
Mayor London Breed calls for more street cleaning as man uses a Marina Safeway aisle as a toilet. That’s while city is spending $257,534 a day to keep the place tidy, without much effect. | Continue reading
El Reg pulls up a chair next to the fire and chats to box giant's CEO Antonio Neri | Continue reading
So I haven’t posted a tweet in nine months. How am I doing? I’m still in recovery. Over the previous 10 years, I had written 180,000 tweets. Yes, I said 180,000. That’s 18,000 a year, 1,500 a month… | Continue reading
“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” | Continue reading
How the correspondence between Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick gave rise to a scandal about the ethics of turning life into art. | Continue reading
Looking for a wine tour in Napa? There are a lot of options to choose from. Here are my favorite based on my first hand experience. | Continue reading
At only 29 years old, Dave Meder is already an accomplished pianist, composer, and educator. Before | Continue reading
Now Stream This highlights the best movies streaming right now, including The Two Popes, The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, and more. | Continue reading
Bob Dylan, who painted the cover picture for the Band’s 1968 debut, Music from Big Pink, also wrote | Continue reading
After a full day of specialized doggie kindergarten, the furry clients at Puppy Spring Daycare in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea are tucked into adorable little | Continue reading
French urban artist SCAF of GrafoDeco creates giant 3D illusion murals that seem to jump right off the walls and into reality. SCAF often poses humorously | Continue reading