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Stripe
Stripe Newsroom: The Latest News & Announcements
Read the latest news and information from Stripe, including corporate and product announcements, research reports, brand assets, and more.
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Some ancient narratives contain remarkably reliable records of real events
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SAPIENS
The Oldest True Stories in the World
Evidence gathered in recent years shows that some ancient narratives contain remarkably reliable records of real events.
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Intel 9th Gen Review
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AnandTech
The Intel 9th Gen Review: Core i9-9900K, Core i7-9700K and Core i5-9600K Tested
Intel’s newest line of desktop processors bring with them a number of changes designed to sway favor with performance enthusiasts. These new parts bring Intel’s consumer processors up to eight cores, with higher frequencies, better thermal connectivity, and…
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42 percent of new cancer patients lose their life savings
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Big Think
42 percent of new cancer patients lose their life savings
A new study delivers the dark financial reality of cancer.
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GraphSense – A Scalable Cryptocurrency Analytics Platform
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Winamp 5.8 Release – First update in 5 years
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Show HN: Applying for jobs? Manage all your interviews in one place
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Extreme Botany: The Precarious Science of Endangered Rare Plants
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Yale Environment 360
Extreme Botany: The Precarious Science of Endangered Rare Plants
They don’t make the headlines the way charismatic animals such as rhinos and elephants do. But there are thousands of critically endangered plants in the world, and a determined group of botanists are ready to go to great lengths to save them.
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First Evidence of Sleep in Flight
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Max Planck Neuroscience on Nautilus
First Evidence of Sleep in Flight - Max Planck Neuroscience on Nautilus
For the first time, researchers have discovered that birds can sleep in flight. Together with an international team of colleagues, Niels Rattenborg from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in...
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A tutorial on Principal Component Analysis
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Let’s talk about PAKE
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A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
Let’s talk about PAKE
The first rule of PAKE is: nobody ever wants to talk about PAKE. The second rule of PAKE is that this is a shame, because PAKE — which stands for Password Authenticated Key Exchange — is actually o…
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Asterix in Translation: The Genius of Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge
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Aunty Muriel's Blog
Asterix in translation: the genius of Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge
As promised in a previous blog entry, what follows is a discussion of the translation of some of my favourite Asterix gags. The translators’ modus operandi was to include as many jokes in the Engli…
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Improving AI language understanding by combining multiple word representations
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Facebook Engineering
Dynamic meta-embeddings: Improving AI language understanding by combining word representations - Facebook Engineering AI Research
An approach to using word embeddings for NLP, dynamic meta-embeddings outperform similar models. This code is now open source.
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Did Facebook’s faulty data push publishers to make terrible decisions on video?
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Nieman Lab
Did Facebook’s faulty data push news publishers to make terrible decisions on video?
Publishers' "pivot to video" was driven largely by a belief that if Facebook was seeing users, in massive numbers, shift to video from text, the trend must be real.
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“Whole Earth” origin (1976)
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A Hacker from South Africa Rescued the First NASA Computer in Space
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Atlas Obscura
A Hacker From South Africa Rescued the First NASA Computer in Space
The 1966 Apollo Guidance Computer paved the way for the moon landing—and then sat in a scrap heap for decades.
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Mac Apps released outside the App Store can now be notarized by Apple
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Harvard’s Admissions Process, Once Secret, Is Unveiled in Federal Court
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NY Times
Harvard’s Admissions Process, Once Secret, Is Unveiled in Affirmative Action Trial (Published 2018)
A lawsuit accusing one of the country’s most selective universities of discriminating against Asian-Americans is providing a glimpse into how admissions officers decide “yea” or “nay.”
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Ask HN: First month job anxiety. Am I *actually* an impostor?
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Business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone trend
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Ars Technica
This business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone trend
Its simple design argues that, sometimes, a phone can just be a phone.
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Mystery of the ketchup cups
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Medium
Mystery of the ketchup cups
On the first day of August, 2012, Foodbeast.com published the article “So Apparently, We’ve Been Using Ketchup Cups All Wrong.”
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