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Before the East India Company
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Lapham’s Quarterly
Before the East India Company
The precursors to the most powerful corporation in history.
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Starship Update
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SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
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Life as a cancer patient: ‘it feels like dying from the drugs meant to save me’
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the Guardian
‘My body feels like it is dying from the drugs that are meant to save me’: life as a cancer patient
The long read: When I was diagnosed with highly aggressive breast cancer, I was confronted with a cure so poisonous that, if I survived, I could lose my eyesight, speech and memory
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Doubling the speed of std:uniform_int_distribution in the GNU C++ library
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Daniel Lemire's blog
Doubling the speed of std::uniform_int_distribution in the GNU C++ library (libstdc++)
The standard way in C++ to generate a random integer in a range is to call the std::uniform_int_distribution function. The current implementation of std::uniform_int_distribution in the GNU C++ library (libstdc++) to generate an integer in the interval [0…
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Why Blameless Post-Mortems
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Medium
Why Blameless Post-mortems?
We had a minor outage recently: we made a change to our systems, and started serving errors to customers. We rolled back the change within…
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David E. Shaw and the Ultimate College Hedge
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New York
The Shaw Family Admission Plan
David E. Shaw’s broad, risk-averse strategy, applied to university admissions.
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SBCL 20: Steel Bank Common Lisp's 20th Anniversary Workshop
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500MP camera that can identify every face in a crowd of tens of thousands
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The Telegraph
China unveils 500 megapixel camera that can identify every face in a crowd of tens of thousands
Chinese scientists have developed a 500 megapixel facial recognition camera four times more detailed than the human eye that can identify individuals from crowds of tens of thousands in streets or at sports stadiums.
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Pictures from the 1939 New York World's Fair
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Rare Historical Photos
Rare pictures from the 1939 New York World's Fair - Rare Historical Photos
An idea dreamed up at the height of the depression, the theme of the 1939 World's Fair in New York was "The World of Tomorrow".
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AllenNLP Interpret: A Framework for Explaining Predictions of NLP Models
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allennlp.org
AllenNLP is a free, open-source natural language processing platform for building state of the art models.
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Online courses vs. colleges for software engineering
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Raahul's Blog
Online courses vs. colleges for software engineering
Proud dropouts sometimes swear by online courses, because the project-based learning that they provide is hands-on, and also representative of the how the real world is going to be. On the other hand, …
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Text Rendering Hates You
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The Inevitable Death of VMs: A Progress Report [pdf]
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JSON for Modern C++
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GitHub
GitHub - nlohmann/json: JSON for Modern C++
JSON for Modern C++. Contribute to nlohmann/json development by creating an account on GitHub.
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People are reporting collisions with Tesla’s Smart Summon feature
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The Drive
People Are Already Reporting Collisions With Tesla's Driverless Smart Summon Feature
The functionality is part of Tesla’s V10 software, which had its widespread release earlier this week.
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Event Modeling
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eventmodeling.org
Event Modeling: What is it?
Event Modeling is a way to design a blueprint for an Information System of any size or scale. It is done in a way that allows the clearest communication of the system's workings to the largest possible cross-section of roles in an organization. The system…
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What Is Gradual Typing? (2009)
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Jeremy Siek | Indiana University Bloomington
What is Gradual Typing | Jeremy Siek
(For a Japanese translation, go here) Gradual typing is a type system I developed with Walid Taha in 2006 that allows parts of a program to be dynamically typed and other parts to be statically typed. The programmer controls which parts are which by either…
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GE, NASA Partner to advance the future of electric flight
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ZDNet
GE, NASA partner to advance the future of electric flight
Aerospace heavyweights have a plan to reinvent this crucial component, which is holding back electric flight.
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Proof emerges that a quantum computer can outperform a classical one
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The Economist
Proof emerges that a quantum computer can outperform a classical one
A leaked paper has given the game away
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Nuclear Fusion Could Rescue the Planet from Climate Catastrophe
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We can’t trust AI systems built on deep learning alone
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MIT Technology Review
We can’t trust AI systems built on deep learning alone
Gary Marcus is not impressed by the hype around deep learning. While the NYU professor believes that the technique has played an important role in advancing AI, he also thinks the field’s current overemphasis on it may well lead to its demise. Marcus, a neuroscientist…
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