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Hacking Water
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Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour of LaTeX
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Nature
Craft beautiful equations in Word with LaTeX
Manufacturers are ditching equation editors in word-processing software in favour of the LaTeX typesetting language. Here’s how to get started.
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Lessons from History
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Five Lessons from History
The most important lessons from history are the takeaways that are so broad they can apply to other fields, other…
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Facebook says social media users can't expect privacy
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The Intercept
In Court, Facebook Blames Users for Destroying Their Own Right to Privacy
“The whole premise of Facebook is to render not private” your activity, said company lawyer, fighting off lawsuits over Cambridge Analytica data collection.
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A “Rat” Every 14 Seconds: Analyzing NYC 311 Calls
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Omnisci
A “Rat” Every 14 Seconds: Analyzing NYC 311 Calls
A call is made to NYC’s 311 Service line every 14 seconds. Explore what’s prompting the calls, uncover patterns, and more using OmniSci Immerse.
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What Is Called Nuclear Waste Is Mostly Fuel for Molten Salt and Fast Reactors
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NextBigFuture.com
What is Called Nuclear Waste is Mostly Unused Fuel for Molten Salt and
Nextbigfuture has had many articles that try to educate people that what we call nuclear waste is unused fuel for different nuclear reactors. The waste is fuel that is mostly even numbered isotopes. U
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Show HN: Brancher – A user-friendly PyTorch module for probabilistic inference
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U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid
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NY Times
U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid (Published 2019)
The Trump administration is using new authority to take more aggressive digital action in a warning to Moscow and in a demonstration of its abilities.
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A radio station that no one claims to run (2017)
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Bbc
The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run
“MDZhB” has been broadcasting since 1982. No one knows why.
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The Obsessively Complete Infocom Catalog
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Soviet Arcade Games from the 70s and 80s
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The Arcade Blogger
The Museum of Soviet Arcade Games
I was thinking recently that here in the West we take our video game history largely for granted. Look back at the Golden Age of video games, and it’s apparent that we had it pretty good R…
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Greenland lost 2B tons of ice yesterday, which is unusual
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Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml
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thume.ca
Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml - Tristan Hume
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To Fix the Social Sciences, Look to the “Dark Ages” of Medicine
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The MIT Press Reader
To Fix the Social Sciences, Look to the “Dark Ages” of Medicine
If medicine could break with its barbarous past, why shouldn’t the same path be open to the social sciences?
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Simone Weil is the patron saint of anomalous persons
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Aeon
Strange and intelligent
Estranged but not alienated, devout but not obedient, philosophical but not a systematiser, Simone Weil defies conventions
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On the Future Computer Era: Modification of the American Character (1968)
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www.rand.org
On the Future Computer Era: Modification of the American Character and the Role of the Engineer, or, A Little Caution in the Haste…
A warning that unintended but disastrous effects on society have resulted from improved and computerized recordkeeping, owing to (1) the habit of limiting the number of variables considered to those easily quantified, (2) the tendency to use ...
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Apollo 11 in Real Time
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Apollo 11 in Real Time
A real-time interactive journey through the first landing on the Moon. Relive every moment as it occurred in 1969.
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Fuller House: Exposing high-end poker cheating devices (2016)
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elie.net
Full(er) House: Exposing high-end poker cheating devices | blog post
This post exposes how real-world highly advanced poker cheating devices work.
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Blood sugar patterns to master as a type 2 diabetic
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diabetic.fyi
The 5 blood sugar patterns to master as a type 2 diabetic
Learn the 5 reasons why your blood sugar might be elevated, and how you should address each of them.
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The NYC subway system runs on OS/2
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.
Subway History: How OS/2 Powered The NYC Subway For Decades
Vintage technology has powered the innards of the NYC subway system for decades—and sometimes, it surfaces in interesting ways. This one’s for you, OS/2 fans.
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Only 37 dogs of each breed can have the same name
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Dana Fried
So... When we got a puppy we registered her with the AKC, because purebred and respectable breeder. The AKC is a little like the old roller derby rule where two dogs of the same breed can't have the same name. Except instead of one dog, it's thirty-seven.…
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