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What are you waiting for?
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What are you waiting for?
When I was hired as an assistant professor in 1969, mandatory retirement at age 65 was the law of the land for tenured faculty members. I was 26 years old at the time, so that seemed impossibly far away. But by the time I was 50, two amendments to federal…
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Physicist Leon Lederman died age 96 selling his Nobel Prize to pay medical costs
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The Independent
Nobel-winning physicist who coined term 'God particle' dies after being forced to sell medal to pay medical bills
Scientist hailed for 'extraordinary contributions to our understanding of the basic forces and particles of nature'
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Amazon FBA Experiment
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Distributed Erlang: From Datacenter to Planetary Scale Applications [video]
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YouTube
Keynote: Distributed Erlang: From Datacenter Applications to Planetary Scale Applications
Invited Keynote -- Distributed Erlang: From Datacenter Applications to Planetary Scale Applications, presented by Christopher Meiklejohn.
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Receiving NOAA Weather Satellite Images with $10 USB SDR Device (2014) [video]
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YouTube
Receiving NOAA Weather Satellite Images with $10 USB SDR Device Tutorial
Receiving NOAA weather satellite imagery with my USB Software Defined Radios
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A bit of a tutorial.. Using the NooElec R820t…
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Bcachefs status update, current work
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Three academics are launching a new journal for arguments to be made anonymously
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the Guardian
Do we need to hide who we are to speak freely in the era of identity politics?
Three academics are launching a new journal in which arguments can be made anonymously. But is separating ideas from their authors the best way forward?
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Why Don’t We Forget How to Ride a Bike?
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Scientific American
Why Don’t We Forget How to Ride a Bike?
The way memories are anchored in the brain plays a role, neuropsychologist Boris Suchan explains
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Madrid bans polluting vehicles from city centre
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the Guardian
'It’s the only way forward': Madrid bans polluting vehicles from city centre
From Friday, only vehicles producing zero emissions will be allowed to drive freely in downtown Madrid – making it a pollution pioneer in Europe
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How we built the largest database of police use of force in N.J. history
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NJ.com
How we built the largest database of police force in N.J. history
Five years. 72,607 documents. We built the most comprehensive statewide database of police use of force in the U.S. Search your town or your local officers now.
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Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
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GitHub
Add-on no longer available on Mozilla website · Issue #109 · nextgens/anti-paywall
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/anti-paywall is a dead link and searching their site for the add-on doesn't show it either. Are you able to provide the XPI file?
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Gwern’s Review of “The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T” (2012)
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Gwern’s review of The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T.
Well-done bit of technological investigation & prognostication, now dated & historical. Enough time has passed since 1988 to enable us to judge the basic truthfulness of the predictions & expectations held by the dreamers such as Nicholas Negroponte: they…
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BladeRF 2.0 micro
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Nuand
bladeRF 2.0 micro - Nuand
bladeRF 2x2 MIMO, 47MHz to 6GHz frequency rance, 56MHz bandwidth, USB 3.0 SuperSpeed Software Defined Radio
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Can New Metal-Air Transistors Replace Semiconductors and Continue Moore's Law?
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IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News
New Metal-Air Transistor Replaces Semiconductors
A novel field emission transistor that uses air gaps could breathe life into Moore’s Law
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(2012) How Google Code Search Worked – Regex Matching with a Trigram Index
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Valve creates new rev share tiers to give big sellers a break
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GAMASUTRA
Valve creates new rev share tiers to give big sellers a break
The team at Valve announced today that they're changing up the revenue share rates on the Steam storefront, standardizing a rate of increasing take for devs whose games hit certain sales milestones. It's part of a larger series of changes the company is making…
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Bigger brains are smarter, but not by much
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Medicalxpress
Bigger brains are smarter, but not by much
The English idiom "highbrow," derived from a physical denoscription of a skull barely able to contain the brain inside of it, comes from a long-held belief in the existence of a link between brain size ...
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YugaByteDB,a Transactional Database with Cassandra, Redis and PostgreSQL APIs
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GitHub
GitHub - yugabyte/yugabyte-db: YugabyteDB - the cloud native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications.
YugabyteDB - the cloud native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications. - yugabyte/yugabyte-db
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Ansel Adams’ pictures of LA recall an era of war factories and 10-cent hot dogs
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Medium
Ansel Adams’ pictures of Los Angeles recall an era of war factories and 10-cent hot dogs
We’ve all seen Ansel Adams’ luscious black-and-white images of Yosemite. Lesser known are his pictures of life in World War II-era Los…
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Paleotronic's 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year One: 1980
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Paleotronic Magazine
Paleotronic's 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year One: 1980 - Paleotronic Magazine
Over the next 23 days we’re going on a journey through 12 years of Christmas tech-gifts past. Our first year is 1980, when first generation consoles and home computers began to gain serious traction. Click [more...]
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Undefined Behavior Is Really Undefined
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cryptoservices.github.io
Undefined Behavior Is Really Undefined
Cryptography Services is a dedicated team of consultants from NCC Group focused on cryptographic security assessments, protocol and design reviews, and tracking impactful developments in the space of academia and industry.
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