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An Honest Living
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Steve Salaita
An Honest Living - Steve Salaita
What is it like to go from a tenured professorship to an hourly wage driving buses? This piece tries to make sense of an unusual transition.
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Oodi, Helsinki’s new flagship library
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The Economist
Inside Oodi, Helsinki’s new flagship library
Its purpose goes far beyond books
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3264 conics tangent to five conics
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www.juliahomotopycontinuation.org
3264 conics tangent to five conics
All of them can be real.
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JavaScript-Based Spreadsheet-Like Formulas in Google Docs
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Google
Reversible Formulas - Sketch-n-Script - Google Docs add-on
Insert formulas in your Google docs. Evaluate them. Update them. Generate Images, LaTeX, bibliographies, references, tables, items
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How did the police know you were near a crime scene? Google told them
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MPR News
How did the police know you were near a crime scene? Google told them
Police are increasingly using judge-approved "reverse location" search warrants to find cellphones near crime scenes. Civil liberties experts worry it's a digital dragnet ripe for abuse. Authorities say it's an important new crime fighting tool.
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Honda Plans to Leave Britain as Brexit Draws Close
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Honda Confirms Plan to Leave Britain as Brexit Looms
The Japanese automaker, which employs 3,500 at its Swindon, England, plant, is set to close the site by 2021.
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Shunting-yard algorithm
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China Unveils Plan to Tie Hong Kong, Macau Closer to Mainland
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Deep learning may need a new programming language
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VentureBeat
Facebook’s chief AI scientist: Deep learning may need a new programming language
Deep learning may need a new programming language that’s more flexible and easier to work with than Python, Facebook AI Research director Yann LeCun said.
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Show HN: Summarized Finance / Tech Newsletter Using Natural Language Processing
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Show HN: Fltrdr – A TUI Text Reader for the Terminal
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GitHub
GitHub - octobanana/fltrdr: A TUI text reader for the terminal.
A TUI text reader for the terminal. Contribute to octobanana/fltrdr development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Average Office Worker Spends Less Than 3 Hours of the Day Working Productively
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vouchercloud
Survey Reveals Employee Productivity Averages 2 Hours and 53 Minutes a Day
New research from the UK’s largest money-saving brand has revealed that the average UK office worker is only productive for 2 hours and 53 minutes out of the working day; with social media and trawling news websites labelled as the main distractions.
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Four-day week trial: study finds lower stress but no cut in output
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the Guardian
Four-day week: trial finds lower stress and increased productivity
Study of pilot at New Zealand firm finds staff were happier and 20% more productive
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Can a robot pick a strawberry better, faster, and cheaper than a human?
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Amazon Caught Selling Counterfeits of Publisher’s Computer Books–Again
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Ars Technica
Amazon caught selling counterfeits of publisher’s computer books—again
Bill Pollock says Amazon is printing them—and even the product photo is fake.
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Flavors of SIMD
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zeux.io
Flavors of SIMD
During development of meshoptimizer a question that comes up relatively often is “should this algorithm use SIMD?”. The library is performance-oriented, but SIMD doesn’t always provide significant performance benefits - unfortunately, the use of SIMD can…
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Improve your privacy in the age of mass surveillance (2017)
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web.archive.org
Improve Your Privacy in the Age of Mass Surveillance – Internet of Things Darwin Award
Instructions for improving your privacy step by step with minimum technical language
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Ledger's Advanced Side Channel Analysis Repository
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GitHub
GitHub - Ledger-Donjon/lascar: Ledger's Advanced Side-Channel Analysis Repository
Ledger's Advanced Side-Channel Analysis Repository - Ledger-Donjon/lascar
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As McKinsey Sells Advice, Its Hedge Fund May Have a Stake in the Outcome
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Nytimes
As McKinsey Sells Advice, Its Hedge Fund May Have a Stake in the Outcome (Published 2019)
The world’s most prestigious consulting firm has a secretive $12.3 billion investment arm, prompting questions about conflicts of interest.
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Jeff Bezos at YC Startup School 2008 [video]
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YouTube
Jeff Bezos at Startup School 08
Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon.com, speaks at Startup School 2008
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Shazam removed all 3rd party SDKs from its iPhone app
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Appfigures
Shazam for iOS Sheds 3rd Party SDKs
Shazam, the song identification app Apple bought for $400M, recently released an update to its iOS app that got rid of all 3rd party SDKs the app was using except for one. The SDKs that were removed include ad networks, …
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