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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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YouTube
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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Bulgaria tax hacking: An entire nation was hit
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Recreate Secret Doors from Movies
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Hidden Door Store
Secret Door Ideas From Movies & Books - Hidden Door Store
Bring your favorite secret door from a movie to life! Read on to see how to create these hidden doors using products from The HIdden Door Store.
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Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets at Protestors
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Animals living alongside humans produce amylase, enzyme that breaks down starch
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eLife
Evolution: Of starch and spit
Animals living alongside humans have multiple copies of the gene for alpha-amylase, the enzyme that breaks down starchy foods, and high levels of this protein in their saliva.
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Frontier: ORNL's 2021 exascale supercomputer will run on AMD CPUs and GPUs
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All Chrome extensions can execute remote code in their own context
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How is it like to be a dev in Iran
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Shahin Sorkh’s Blog
What is it like to be a dev in Iran
It is going to cover censorship and sanctions. Read in Russian.
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A Peculiarly Dutch Summer Rite: Children Abandoned in the Night Woods
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NY Times
A Peculiarly Dutch Summer Rite: Children Let Loose in the Night Woods (Published 2019)
Far from the land of helicopter parenting, getting ‘dropped’ in the forest is a beloved scouting tradition.
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Ancient History of Lyme Disease Revealed with Bacterial Genomes (2017)
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Yale School of Medicine
Ancient History of Lyme Disease in North America Revealed with Bacterial Genomes
A team of researchers led by the Yale School of Public Health has found that the Lyme disease bacterium is ancient in North America, circulating silently in forests for at least 60,000 years—long before the disease was first described in Lyme, Connecticut…
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Almost Always Add Swap Space
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LinuxBlog.io
Linux Performance: Almost Always Add Swap Space
Swap vs no swap. With enough RAM available, is it better to remove swap space? Find out the performance benefits of swap space.
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