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Game Source Code Collection
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The Invasion of Giant Pythons Threatening Florida
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Smithsonian Magazine
The Snakes That Ate Florida
Bounty hunters and biologists wade deep into the Everglades to wrestle with the invasion of giant pythons threatening the state's wetlands
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Upgrading my home server
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www.earth.li
Upgrading my home server
At the end of last year I decided it was time to upgrade my home server. I built it back in 2013 as an all-in-one device to be my only always-on machine, with some attempt towards low power consumption. It was starting to creak a bit - the motherboard is...
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Everything You Should Know About Sound (2016)
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Wait But Why
Everything You Should Know About Sound
We all know what sound is. Except actually, no we don't. Let's fix that.
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The Great Hack: A film that goes behind the scenes of the Facebook data scandal
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the Guardian
The Great Hack: the film that goes behind the scenes of the Facebook data scandal
This week, a Netflix documentary on Cambridge Analytica sheds light on one of the most complex scandals of our time. Carole Cadwalladr, who broke the story and appears in the film, looks at the fallout – and finds ‘surveillance capitalism’ out of control
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Kenya launches largest wind power plant in Africa
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Modern text rendering with Linux: Part 1
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Home
Modern text rendering with Linux: Part 1
Introduction
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Fsyncgate: Errors on fsync are unrecoverable (2018)
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Skills Poor Programmers Lack
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To plot my next murder, I went to the Body Farm
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NY Times
To Plot My Next Murder, I Went to the Body Farm
When the thriller writer Lisa Gardner needed to research a new book, she toured the facility that has made death into a science.
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The Grothendieck I Knew: Telling, Not Hiding, Not Judging [pdf]
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‘In my nightmares I'm always in the sea’: a year on from the Greek fires
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the Guardian
'In my nightmares I'm always in the sea': a year on from the Greek fires
Last summer, fires devastated two coastal towns in Greece, leaving 103 dead. Was the government to blame? Survivors and rescuers look back
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Chinese Money in the U.S. Dries Up as Trade War Drags On
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NY Times
Chinese Money in the U.S. Dries Up as Trade War Drags On
Tougher regulations and uncertainty about tariffs have made America less friendly for foreign investment.
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Saving the World from Spreadsheets [video]
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PLSE Seminar Series: Emery Berger, "Saving the World from Spreadsheets"
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Spreadsheets are one of the most widely used programming environments, with roughly 1 billion users of Microsoft Excel alone. Unfortunately, spreadsheets make it all too easy to make errors that go unnoticed. These errors can have catastrophic consequences…
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What Were CGI Scripts?
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Understanding IPFS in Depth(5/6): What Is Libp2p?
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Medium
Understanding IPFS in Depth(5/6): What is Libp2p?
What’s it’s Significance, How it works and Building a libp2p Chat Application
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YouTube was launched as a dating site
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Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it turns out
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A simulation of the insurance industry: The problem of risk model homogeneity
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arXiv.org
A simulation of the insurance industry: The problem of risk model...
We develop an agent-based simulation of the catastrophe insurance and reinsurance industry and use it to study the problem of risk model homogeneity. The model simulates the balance sheets of...
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If this type of dark matter existed, people would be dying of unexplained wounds
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Science
If this type of dark matter existed, people would be dying of unexplained ‘gunshot’ wounds
Study proposes new way to detect mysterious substance
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How Capitalism Changed American Literature
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Public Books
How Capitalism Changed American Literature
Fifty years ago, almost every publisher in the United States was independent. Beginning in the late 1960s, multinational corporations consolidated the industry ...
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