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Google Earth didn't update its image of a military installation for eight years
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Vice
The One Place in the US Google Earth Stopped Mapping
For eight years, Google Earth didn't update its satellite image of a military installation in Nevada. So we bought one ourselves.
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Lavender’s Soothing Scent Could Be More Than Just Folk Medicine
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Lavender’s Soothing Scent Could Be More Than Just Folk Medicine
In mice, researchers found that some components of lavender odor had effects on anxiety similar to taking Valium.
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The path to $100B [video]
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Startup School
The Path to $100B
**YC Partner and the creator of Gmail, Paul Buchheit in conversation with Geoff describes how he thinks about companies that manage to scale to the ultimate level.**
You can also follow along with all of the content via Podcast. Subscribe on:
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RIP Todd Bol, Inventor of ‘Little Free Libraries’
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The Weekly Standard
RIP Todd Bol, Inventor of ‘Little Free Libraries’
He built the first one in 2009. Now there are 75,000 of them.
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Show HN: Relica – Cross-platform local, remote, and multi-cloud file backups
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Citus Data Donates 1% of Equity to PostgreSQL Organizations
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Citusdata
Citus Data Donates 1% of Equity to Non-Profit PostgreSQL Organizations
The donation of 1% of Citus Data stock is being made to advance the growth of the open source PostgreSQL database in both the U.S. & in Europe. The Citus database is an extension to PostgreSQL. Citus Data is also joining the Pledge 1% movement alongside organizations…
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Practical Text Classification with Python and Keras
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Realpython
Practical Text Classification With Python and Keras – Real Python
Learn about Python text classification with Keras. Work your way from a bag-of-words model with logistic regression to more advanced methods leading to convolutional neural networks. See why word embeddings are useful and how you can use pretrained word embeddings.…
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A.I. will have implications for education, welfare and geopolitics (2016)
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The Economist
Re-educating Rita
Artificial intelligence will have implications for policymakers in education, welfare and geopolitics
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PipelineDB 1.0 – High-Performance Time-Series Aggregation for PostgreSQL
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PipelineDB 1.0.0 - High-Performance Time-Series Aggregation For PostgreSQL
PipelineDB is an open-source relational database that runs SQL queries continuously on streams, incrementally storing results in tables.
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Tesla Third Quarter 2018 Update [pdf]
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gRPC-Web is going GA
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Cloud Native Computing Foundation
gRPC-Web is going GA | Cloud Native Computing Foundation
On behalf of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, I’m excited to announce the GA release of gRPC-Web, a JavaScript client library that enables web apps to communicate directly with backend gRPC…
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Spatial – Collaborate from anywhere in AR
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What Comes After the Roomba?
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NY Times
What Comes After the Roomba?
The Roomba cleaned floors, and it was a hit. But though many have tried to perfect the next version of a home robot, no one has succeeded yet.
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When the U.S President Phones Friends, the Chinese Listen and Learn
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NY Times
When Trump Phones Friends, the Chinese and the Russians Listen and Learn (Published 2018)
President Trump has been repeatedly told by aides that his cellphone calls are not secure from foreign spies. But he has refused to heed the warnings to stop talking.
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Eugene Shoemaker Is Still the Only Man Buried on the Moon
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Atlas Obscura
Eugene Shoemaker Is Still the Only Man Buried on the Moon
For now, anyway.
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So, today, for the first time in *25* years of Apple, I downgraded
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buzzways.at
So, today, for the first time in 25 (!)... | Buzzways
Tweet Collection related to: "So, today, for the first time in 25 (!) years of Apple, I downgraded. From the 2016 MacBook Pro to my 2013, which I had kept in a drawer..."
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Optimal Time-Inconsistent Beliefs: Misplanning, Procrastination, and Commitment [pdf]
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The Problem with Facebook and Virtual Reality
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Stratechery
The Problem with Facebook and Virtual Reality
Virtual reality has always been destined to be less important than augmented reality, and Facebook taking a stake has never made much sense.
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The Swords of George Washington
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George Washington's Mount Vernon
Washington's Swords: An Interview with Erik Goldstein
Mount Vernon had the chance to speak with Dr. Erik Goldstein about his new book, The Swords of George Washington. Learn more about the rich history behind Washington's collection of swords.
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First analysis of ‘pre-registered’ studies shows sharp rise in null findings
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Nature
First analysis of ‘pre-registered’ studies shows sharp rise in null findings
Logging hypotheses and protocols before performing research seems to work as intended: to reduce publication bias for positive results.
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PNG format co-designer Glenn Randers-Pehrson has died
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