Circular or cyclic dependencies are natural in many domain models where certain objects of the same domain depend on each other. But in software design,... | Continue reading
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Facial recognition has a race problem. | Continue reading
Astronomers from the United States and South Korea have made the first high-resolution, radio telescope observations of the molecular clouds within a massive star-forming region of the outer Milky Way. | Continue reading
When it comes to publishing the most impactful scientific research and identifying the best up-and-coming research paths, it takes one to know one. | Continue reading
Researchers say mercury buried in ancient rock provides the strongest evidence yet that volcanoes caused the biggest mass extinction in the history of the Earth. | Continue reading
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is set to move 7nm EUV process technology to volume production in the second quarter of 2019, according to a recent Chinese-language report. | Continue reading
Scientists at the University of Illinois have developed new hybrids of purple corn containing different combinations of phytochemicals that may fight obesity, inflammation and diabetes, a new study in mice indicates. | Continue reading
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The lamprey, an eel-like primitive vertebrate, is a popular organism for neurobiology studies because it has a relatively simple nervous system. It is of particular interest to those studying spinal cord injury (SCI) because, unlike humans, the lamprey can regenerate nerve connec … | Continue reading
Last year we published our ML workflow landscape. One category we’ve seen continued interest in is data labeling, the process of attaching… | Continue reading
eMarketer predicts mobile will surpass traditional TV as the medium attracting the most entertainment minutes in the U.S. this year. Are advertisers ready? | Continue reading
A nearby system hosts the first Earth-sized planet discovered by NASA's Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite, as well as a warm sub-Neptune-sized world, according to a new paper from a team of astronomers that includes Carnegie's Johanna Teske, Paul Butler, Steve Shectman, Jeff … | Continue reading
Introduction This is the seventh article in my series of articles on Python for NLP. In my previous article, I explained how to perform topic modeling using Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Non-Negative Matrix factorization. We used the Scikit-Learn library to perform topic modeli … | Continue reading
Sharing everything about my experience as a first-time attendee at a TC39 meeting | Continue reading
In HBO's Big Little Lies season 2 trailer, Meryl Streep joins the cast and wants to find the truth about what happened to Alexander Skarsgard's character. | Continue reading
I think that 2018 will be remembered as the breaking point in which the federal tax code become too complex for anyone other than a full-time accountant to understand. One of the brand new areas is… | Continue reading
The Charmin Forever Roll is a wonderfully handy subscription service that delivers giant rolls of toilet paper to your door. The rolls come in single and | Continue reading
Designer Sophie Rowley transforms waste products to look like natural materials | Continue reading
When Rules Don’t Apply is an educational multi-media campaign that highlights how antitrust law was used to protect labor rights in the digital age. | Continue reading
YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat are the most popular online platforms among teenagers. | Continue reading
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The past stood at my shoulder, naked and defenseless as all dead things, as though it were time itself that had been laid open by the fall of … | Continue reading
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I recently received a vintage core memory array, part of an IBM System/360 mainframe computer. These arrays were used in a 128-kilobyte core... | Continue reading
Researchers from NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, report that streams of meteoroids striking the Moon infuse the thin lunar atmosphere with a short-lived water vapor. | Continue reading
Your humble blogger plans to leave NYC. | Continue reading
Close to half of the UK’s electricity will come from renewable sources by 2025, according to Carbon Brief analysis of new government projections. | Continue reading
Manage your shared resources in Slack. Yoink keeps track of which shared resources are in use and which ones aren't. Think of it as a hosted mutex platform in Slack. | Continue reading
The PFA Design Toolkit is your home base for downloading the graphic assets you need to support our grassroots campaign. | Continue reading
New data privacy regulation targeted for the first half of 2020: The California Consumer Protection Act, or CCPA. | Continue reading
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The scientific community has long held an understanding about the effect of temperature on sperm production in mammals, but this new study sheds light on how spermatogenesis in insects is hampered at extreme temperatures. | Continue reading
Hackers and Microsoft seem to disagree on key details of the hack. | Continue reading
I’ve been to Greece often enough that I’ve picked up a bit of (modern) Greek. Like anyone in my situation, I’ve had fun spotting Greek words with Englishs cognates based on Greek… | Continue reading
In most colonies, ants work in service of a single reproductive queen, but that's not always the way ant societies function. | Continue reading
A new paper published today in the journal Nature Communications shows a blueprint for conserving enough habitat to protect the populations of almost one-third of the warblers, orioles, tanagers, and other birds that migrate among the Americas throughout the year. | Continue reading
Zero Inbox is an iPhone app made for one goal -- zeroing your inbox! It comes with unique multi-action swipe UI, empowers you to triage your email in a delightful way on daily basis. | Continue reading
Fetishizing the guillotine is like fetishizing the state: it means celebrating an instrument of murder that will always be used chiefly against us. | Continue reading
Envoy provides a low-friction approach to observing application-level network traffic. Envoy enables getting visibility into all external… | Continue reading
A new study has shown that allowing "dark play" in a serious video game intended to practice skills transferable to a real-life setting does not impact the game's effectiveness. Dark play, in which players choose inappropriate or unethical actions, is an option in nearly all vide … | Continue reading
For The Upshot, Josh Katz, Kevin Quealy, and Margot Sanger-Katz, consulted economists to ask what the cost of Medicare for all might look like: The proposals themselves are vague on crucial points.… | Continue reading