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Integrating results on relationship between age and wisdom-related performance
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SAGE Journals
Older and Wiser? Integrating Results on the Relationship between Age and Wisdom-related Performance
Evidence from a psychological approach to the study of wisdom is reviewed with regard to the relationship between age and wisdom. Between 20 and 75 years, age h...
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Creating Effective Job Adverts
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Honest Work Blog
Creating Effective Job Adverts
One of the questions we get asked a lot at Honest Work is what the conversion rate is for job ads. In other words, how many people typically apply for each job?The honest answer to that question is, it depends. It depends on a lot of factors. We’ve
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Out of all major energy sources, nuclear is the safest (2017)
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Our World in Data
What are the safest and cleanest sources of energy?
Fossil fuels are the dirtiest and most dangerous energy sources, while nuclear and modern renewable energy sources are vastly safer and cleaner.
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Artificial Intelligence Hits the Barrier of Meaning
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NY Times
Opinion | Artificial Intelligence Hits the Barrier of Meaning (Published 2018)
Machine learning algorithms don’t yet understand things the way humans do — with sometimes disastrous consequences.
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VirtualBox E1000 Guest-To-Host Escape 0day
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GitHub
GitHub - MorteNoir1/virtualbox_e1000_0day: VirtualBox E1000 Guest-to-Host Escape
VirtualBox E1000 Guest-to-Host Escape. Contribute to MorteNoir1/virtualbox_e1000_0day development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar
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NY Times
Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar (Published 2018)
The company, citing a human rights report it commissioned, said it was moving to prevent further abuses of its platform in Myanmar. Critics said they were unconvinced.
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2018 was a terrible year for Swiss glaciers
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Atlas Obscura
European Glaciers Have Been Coming and Going for Thousands of Years, But Now They’re Just Going
2018 was a terrible year for Swiss glaciers.
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Girl Scouts file trademark lawsuit as Boy Scouts plan to rename to Scouts BSA
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WireGuard for iOS
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Mundane: Rust cryptography library backed by BoringSSL
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GitHub
GitHub - google/mundane: Mundane is a Rust cryptography library backed by BoringSSL that is difficult to misuse, ergonomic, and…
Mundane is a Rust cryptography library backed by BoringSSL that is difficult to misuse, ergonomic, and performant (in that order). - google/mundane
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The history of humans trying to reduce one another to a personality profile
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Lapham’s Quarterly
Meet Yourself
Tracing the history of humans trying to reduce one another to a personality profile.
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How Bill Gates Aims to Save $233B by Reinventing the Toilet
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Bloomberg.com
How Bill Gates Aims to Save $233 Billion by Reinventing the Toilet
Bill Gates thinks toilets are a serious business, and he’s betting big that a reinvention of this most essential of conveniences can save a half million lives and deliver $200 billion-plus in savings.
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Raku Perl 6.d
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Google Sheets Query Function (2016)
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Benlcollins
Google Sheets Query function: Learn the most powerful function in Sheets
Learn how to use the super-powerful Google Sheets Query function to analyze your data in Google Sheets. Includes template.
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A List of Open Questions
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gwern.net
Miscellaneous
Misc thoughts, memories, proto-essays, musings, etc.
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Redditor made a free alternative to Photoshop, that is used by 1.5Ms of people
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Reddit
From the IAmA community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the IAmA community
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Attention and Memory in the Age of the Disciplinary Spectacle
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L.M. Sacasas
Attention and Memory in the Age of the Disciplinary Spectacle
A while ago, I wrote about what I took to be the convergence of the society of the spectacle and the disciplinary society, the convergence, that is, of the analysis offered by Debord and Foucault r…
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Easy-To-use, FPGA-Accelerated Hardware Simulation of RISC-V Systems in the Cloud
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FireSim
FireSim
FireSim is an open-source (https://github.com/firesim/firesim) FPGA-accelerated full-system hardware simulation platform that makes it easy to validate, profile, and debug RTL hardware implementations at 10s to 100s of MHz. FireSim simplifies co-simulating…
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Who Killed Prolog? (2010)
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A Programmers Place
Who Killed Prolog?
There are a thousand programming languages out there (Literally, it seems, according to people who actually count such things.) A classification of so many species is bound to be complex and subjec…
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Researchers “see” through walls using ambient Wi-Fi signals and a smartphone
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MIT Technology Review
Using Wi-Fi to “see” behind closed doors is easier than anyone thought
Wi-Fi fills our world with radio waves. In your home, in the office, and increasingly on city streets, humans are bathed in a constant background field of 2.4- and 5-gigahertz radio signals. And when people move, they distort this field, reflecting and refracting…
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Linux compatibility in IncludeOS
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IncludeOS
Linux compatibility in IncludeOS
The last version of IncludeOS, 0.13, is the most significant release we’ve made to date. The important change is the depreciation of Newlib, which used to be our C library. The C library is one of the fundamental APIs an operating system can provide.
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