Just when we thought octopuses couldn't be any weirder, it turns out that they and their cephalopod brethren evolve differently from nearly every other organism on the planet.

Lyft’s entire business model is predicated on its relationship with its drivers.

A team of Israeli researchers has found that one of the reasons that sleep could be so important to animals — including humans — is that it takes neurons 'offline' so DNA damage accumulated during waking hours can be repaired.

This post gives an intuitive explanation of an approach called Natural Gradient, an elegant way to dynamically adjust gradient step size.

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Morin Oluwole heads the social media giant’s advisory operation for Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and others.

Web scraping is a technique for extracting content from websites in order to archive data in a structured way. Be careful, however, to respect the terms of use of the website concerned.Electron is a framework for creating native Windows/Mac/Linux applications…

Collection of cross-platform one-file C/C++ libraries with no dependencies, primarily used for games - RandyGaul/cute_headers

Some notes on things I find interesting and important. - frankmcsherry/blog

Learn about a handful of helpful search engines that are not Google, Bing, or any of the other really obvious ones

Free will, from a neuroscience perspective, can look like quite quaint. In a study published this week in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers in Australia were able to predict basic choices participants made 11 seconds before they consciously declared…

All 157 people on board Boeing 737 killed in plane crash en route to Nairobi, Ethiopian Airlines says.

GUIs are bloatware. I’ve said it before. However, rather than just complaining about IDEs I’d like to provide an understandable guide to a much better alternative: the terminal.

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