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“I would like to maintain the floppy driver”
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An Ancient Egypt-to-Black Sea Route? Adventurers to Test Theory
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phys.org
An ancient Egypt-to-Black Sea route? Adventurers to test theory
Were the ancient Egyptians able to use reed boats to travel as far as the Black Sea thousands of years ago?
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Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced
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standardebooks.org
Standard Ebooks
Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. Download free ebooks with professional-quality formatting and typography, in formats compatible with your ereader.
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Living Near Trees, Not Just Green Space, Improves Wellbeing
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Bloomberg.com
CityLab - Bloomberg
Bloomberg CityLab reports on the world’s cities, communities, and neighborhoods: How they work, the challenges they face, and the solutions they need.
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An explanation of why we ground electrical systems
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reddit
An explanation of why we ground electrical systems, why the...
/u/eleitl posted a question about why 'neutral's' and 'ground's' and connected at the panel. There was a TON of inaccurate information presented...
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A practical guide to CSS transitions and animations
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Medium
This Ain’t Disney: A practical guide to CSS transitions and animations
Oh, animation… we want to get it right so badly, don’t we? I mean, does anybody really enjoys a stiff, snappy UI? Can anyone admit they’re…
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KIP-500: Replace ZooKeeper with a Self-Managed Metadata Quorum
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Insured price: $2,758. Cash price: $521
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Los Angeles Times
Column: Insured price: $2,758. Cash price: $521. Could our healthcare system be any dumber?
The near-total lack of transparency in healthcare pricing is a key reason we have the highest costs in the world -- roughly twice what people in other developed countries pay.
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Advances in Conversational AI
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Facebook
Advances in Conversational AI
Facebook AI has made scientific progress in improving nuanced conversational skills, including consistency, specificity, and empathy.
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Network Effects That Don’t Look Like Network Effects
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Andreessen Horowitz
Hidden Networks: Network Effects That Don’t Look Like Network Effects
Many of the most consequential projects of the internet era — from Wikipedia to Facebook and bitcoin — have all been predicated on network effects, where the network becomes more valuable to users as more people use it. As …
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Misconfigured Jira instances exposed data of hundreds of Fortune 500 companies
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Medium
One Misconfig (JIRA) to Leak Them All- Including NASA and Hundreds of Fortune 500 Companies!
Hi Guys,
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A teen’s visual diary of the early-90s rave scene
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Huck Magazine
A teen's visual diary of the early-90s rave scene
At 15, Simon Burstall made two discoveries that would change him forever: photography and raves. Now, having trawled through a trove of material from that time, the Australian has uncovered scenes from a subcultural oasis – and a turning point in his life.
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The Art of Warez [video]
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Vimeo
The Art Of Warez
This is "The Art Of Warez" by oliver payne on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US
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the Guardian
Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US
Exclusive: the high-altitude balloons promise a cheap monitoring platform that could follow multiple cars and boats for extended periods
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Medieval people bathed regularly
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Going Medieval
I assure you, medieval people bathed.
I can’t believe I have to write this down right now, but my dear friends, medieval people bathed regularly. Yes. I assure you. I am very serious. It is true. In fact, medieval people loved a bath a…
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Amazon will pull the plug on dash buttons
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MarketWatch
Amazon will pull the plug on Dash buttons at the end of August
Those little branded gadgets that let users reorder products with just one touch will stop working at the end of August, Amazon said Thursday.
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Facebook to Add Its Name to Instagram, WhatsApp
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The Information
Facebook to Add Its Name to Instagram, WhatsApp
In a big shift, Facebook plans to signal its control of Instagram and WhatsApp by adding its name to both apps, according to three people familiar with the matter. The social network will rebrand the apps to “Instagram from Facebook” and “WhatsApp from Facebook…
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More on Backdooring (or Not) WhatsApp
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SpaCy PyTorch Transformers
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explosion.ai
spaCy meets Transformers: Fine-tune BERT, XLNet and GPT-2 · Explosion
Huge transformer models like BERT, GPT-2 and XLNet have set a new standard for accuracy on almost every NLP leaderboard. You can now use these models in spaCy, via a new interface library we've developed that connects spaCy to Hugging Face's awesome implementations.
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Building a Programming Language Pt. 3 – Interpreting
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China’s options for retaliating against tariffs are limited by its own economy
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NY Times
China Wants to Hit Back at Trump. Its Own Economy Stands in the Way.
Beijing’s leaders have increasingly focused on rekindling growth as the trade war drags on and negotiations prove difficult to control or predict.
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