by Frederic Filloux

A collection of mental models useful in everyday life.

Harlan County, Kentucky, is probably best known for the hard-fought strikes in its coal mines in the 1930s and 1970s. Today the remaining mines are nonunion. But evidently the local spirit of

An examination of court filings in all seven leak cases filed under Trump yields a detailed picture of how the government tries to unmask confidential sources.

RegExr is an online tool to learn, build, & test Regular Expressions (RegEx / RegExp).

“We made the decision to totally ban them.”

The landscape of funding for biotech startups is changing. What happened for software companies 10 years is happening today. Here's why more people will be able to start biotech companies moving forward.

Public pathway in Essex, England

Germany is looking for new ways to power its economy as the traditional growth engines of manufacturing and exports falter. But the sorry state of the country’s online network has become a national joke and an economic liability.

The memo, noscriptd “I’m Not Returning to Google After Maternity Leave, and Here is Why,” has been read by more than 10,000 employees at the company.

In these videos, I talk about how VGA signals work and build a circuit that provides the correct timing of sync signals so that a monitor recognizes the signal and displays an image stored on an EEPROM.

N-grams have been a common tool for information retrieval and machine
learning applications for decades. In nearly all previous works, only a few
values of $n$ are tested, with $n > 6$ being...

Applied Computer Science: On Murder Considered As STEM Field—using information theory to quantify the magnitude of Light Yagami’s mistakes in <em>Death Note</em> and considering fixes

In 2015, Lawless launched Robs10kFriends, an initiative to meet 10,000 different people for an hour each. So far, he’s connected with close to 3,000 strangers. He projects to spend the next 10 years plugging away at the goal and speaking about the value of…

Human-induced warming also made the hot spell up to 100 times more likely in some parts.

Kawaii (a Japanese word meaning “cute”) things are popular because they produce positive feelings. However, their effect on behavior remains unclear. In this study, three experiments were conducted to examine the effects of viewing cute images on subsequent…

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