An irregularly-scheduled roundup of Brett’s favorite web discoveries. | Continue reading
A story about hearing yourself represented with same-gender lyrics for the first time | Continue reading
New research suggests that intermittent fasting is no better than calorie restriction for weight loss and is less effective for reducing body fat content. | Continue reading
Weights & Biases, developer tools for machine learning | Continue reading
An important challenge in reinforcement learning is training agents that cansolve a wide variety of tasks. If tasks depend on each other (e.g. needing tolearn to walk before learning to run), curriculum learning can speed uplearning by focusing on the next best task to learn. We … | Continue reading
In contrast with other animal species on Earth, over the course of their life, humans can develop a fairly clear idea of who they are as individuals and what sets them apart from others. This abstract concept of self is known to be fragmented and fuzzy in individuals with certain … | Continue reading
Fluvio is a blazing-fast programmable streaming platform for data-in-motion. Apply your own custom logic to protect, normalize, and enrich the data as it moves between services. | Continue reading
What India needs is transformational, not incremental, changes. The Modi government is committed to the deregulation of the economy and ushering in systemic reforms | Continue reading
What India needs is transformational, not incremental, changes. The Modi government is committed to the deregulation of the economy and ushering in systemic reforms | Continue reading
The heat is being caused by a combination of a significant atmospheric blocking pattern on top of a human-caused climate changed world. | Continue reading
Art critic Seph Rodney considers on his reviews during the last few years and what he may have gotten wrong and why. | Continue reading
The company said the hackers targeted video games in China, potentially to cheat and compromise their accounts. | Continue reading
Though I hate to admit it, I am a slow, indecisive mess in the grocery store checkout lane. Since I am an extremely cheap person, I watch the prices scroll up on screen like a hawk, often saying things like “Oh, I thought that was on sale,” or, “Actually, I don’t really want that … | Continue reading
RabbitMQ Summit July 13-14, 2021 https://rabbitmqsummit.com We have two free tickets to @RabbitMQSummit to give away to our listeners! Submit your questions on all things #beam to our hosts by tweeting @BeamRadio1 with #processmailbox and we'll answer your question on the air and … | Continue reading
Today, EFF sent a letter to Ecuador's Human Rights Secretariat about the troubling, slow-motion case against the Swedish computer security expert Ola Bini since his arrest in April 2019, following Julian Assange's ejection from Ecuador's London Embassy. Ola Bini faced 70 days of … | Continue reading
A story about hearing yourself in same-gender lyrics for the first time | Continue reading
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The e-Camper electric campervan can sleep up to four people, has a pure-electric range of 60 miles and a total range of 304 miles; prices start from £62,650 excluding VAT | Continue reading
As the world gets warmer, staggering transformations are taking place in some of Earth's coldest locations – events that might go completely unnoticed by humans, were it not for our eyes in the sky. | Continue reading
The Convivial Society: Vol. 2, No. 12 | Baseball analytics offer an interesting vantage point from which to consider the nature of data-driven optimization that now structures so much of contemporary society. | Continue reading
The launch of its new production facility has given Future Meat a way to mass-produce cultured meat in a way that makes it affordable. | Continue reading
The ‘How might we’ design prompt is insidious, and it’s time to bury it. | Continue reading
In 1977, Jerry Ehman — an astronomer working with the SETI project to seek out alien life — came across an interesting radio signal, one… | Continue reading
While Great Jones' affordable, pastel-colored cookware became a must-have for millennials, a war was brewing between the estranged best-friend founders. | Continue reading
I am sick of the QR codes. | Continue reading
Over the past few decades, computer scientists have developed computational tools that can generate specific types of data, such as images, words or audio recordings. These systems could have a variety of valuable applications, particularly in creative fields that entail the prod … | Continue reading
I’ve been using VSCode as my defacto Typescript IDE for the last few months. I’m a heavy Emacs user, however, and it was only a matter of time until I attempted to get a similar experience via Emacs configuration, thereby continuing my quest to use Emacs as the sole interface to … | Continue reading
In a shocking and explosive claim, Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday accused the Biden administration of spying on him through the National Security Agency (NSA) by monitoring his texts and emails. | Continue reading
At Xbox, our mission is simple: bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone on the planet. To achieve that, we aspire to empower everyone to play the games you want, with the people you want, anywhere you want. We are creating a future that combines the gaming heritage of X … | Continue reading
2017 UPDATE: Read my latest revenue data and lessons here. | Continue reading
Accidents have already happened at American labs. But the government panel that oversees the experiments is operating in near-total secrecy. | Continue reading
Following up my last video on what American culture is doing to what could be one of its jewels, here is a shorter, punchier view of Washington Square Park today. The quote, “Pride Destroyed … | Continue reading
Despite unproven efficacy, Biogen set the drug’s list price at $56,000 per year. | Continue reading
Is your website performance lacking? Squeeze more performance out of your webpages with our 11 tips for more visitors and less bounce! | Continue reading
An assorted group specializing in climate, psychology, and ethics say that it's time to call social the threat that it is. | Continue reading
Recognizing that forest ecosystems, like societies, have elements of intelligence would help us leave behind the old notion that they are inert and predictable. | Continue reading
Over the past few decades, loneliness has reached almost epidemic levels, with men uniquely suffering its effects. How and why has isolation become such a threat? | Continue reading
Probabilistic autoregressive dance generation with multimodal attention | Continue reading
Georges Maciunas /FluxusWhen an artist named George Maciunas looked up the word "flux" in the dictionary in 1960, he found seventeen definitions. "Flux" can be used as a verb, an adjective, or a noun. The multiplicity of the word made it the perfect term for the art movement he w … | Continue reading