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Startup options are much better than they look (2017)
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benkuhn.net
Startup options are much better than they look
People often make several complaints about how employment works at startups:
They don’t pay well. They claim to make up the difference with stock options, but the options are worthless and you can earn more by working for a big stable company.
They prey on…
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Traveling Wave Reactor
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Malaysian government plans to promote startups by becoming a venture capitalist
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South China Morning Post
Funders, keepers: Malaysia’s cunning plan for start-up dominance
Having struggled to nurture tech giants of its own, Malaysia is turning its attention to funding the region’s start-ups instead.
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Thailand judge shoots himself in court after criticising system
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BBC News
Thailand judge shoots himself in court after criticising system
The judge gave a speech calling for a fairer judiciary before shooting himself in the chest.
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Principal Component Analysis
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ML From Scratch, Part 6: Principal Component Analysis - OranLooney.com
In the previous article in this series we distinguished between two kinds of unsupervised learning (cluster analysis and dimensionality reduction) and discussed the former in some detail. In this …
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The GM strike is really about the switch to electric cars
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MarketWatch
The GM strike is really about the switch to electric cars
Auto-assembly workers are in a difficult position — fewer of them will be needed.
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Show HN: Easy Serverless GraphQL APIs with Serverless Framework AppSync
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GitHub
serverless-components/aws-app-sync
Easily Deploy AWS AppSync GraphQL APIs Using Serverless Framework Components - serverless-components/aws-app-sync
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Deep Learning: Our Miraculous Year 1990-1991
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people.idsia.ch
Deep Learning: Our Miraculous Year 1990-1991
In 2020-21, we celebrate that many of the basic ideas behind the Deep Learning Revolution were published three decades ago within fewer than 12 months in our "Annus Mirabilis" 1990-91
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Ancient Greek Scroll's Hidden Contents Revealed Through Infrared Imaging
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WeWork Rivals Pitch to Win Back Market Share, Try Not to Gloat
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Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning
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PNAS
Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom
We compared students’ self-reported perception of learning with their actual learning under controlled conditions in large-enrollment introductory ...
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Physically fit young adults have healthier white matter in their brains
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NY Times
Being Young, Active and Physically Fit May Be Very Good for Your Brain
Physically fit young adults have healthier white matter in their brains and better thinking skills than young people who are out of shape.
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Columbia Silences Its Marching Band
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NY Times
Columbia Silences Its Marching Band
The university has prohibited its scramble band, often irreverent and sometimes funny, from performing at athletic events, and plans to form a more traditional band after the football season.
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Google, Xiaomi, and Huawei affected by zero-day flaw that unlocks root access
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The Next Web
Google, Xiaomi, and Huawei devices affected by zero-day flaw that unlocks root access
Researchers at Google’s security group Project Zero have found an active vulnerability in Android that affects several popular devices including the Pixel 2, Huawei P20 Pro, and Xiaomi Redmi Note 5. A post from the security group suggests it found the bug…
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The Wave that changed the world (2017)
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Palo Alto Online
The Wave that changed the world
The classroom guards, symbolic armbands and secret salutes carried out by members of an elite student movement at Cubberley High School in Palo Alto may have ended decades ago, but that brief, ominous week in April 1967 when a history lesson took an unexpected…
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Avoid Working Alone
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Letters To A New Developer
Avoid Working Alone
Dear new developer, I suggest that the first job you take be the one with the highest learning potential, not the highest earning potential. (This post contrasts the two, in the context of entrepre…
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Quantum computers: amazing progress, but probably false supremacy claims
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Combinatorics and more
Quantum computers: amazing progress (Google & IBM), and extraordinary but probably false supremacy claims (Google).
A 2017 cartoon from this post. After the embargo update (Oct 25): Now that I have some answers from the people involved let me make a quick update: 1) I still find the paper unconvincing, specific…
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Pagers, faxes and cheques: Things that might seem obsolete, but aren't
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BBC News
Things that might seem obsolete, but aren't
As Japan's pagers beep for the final time, we look at other outdated tech that's still clinging on.
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Kitty Hawk reveals its secret project, Heaviside
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TechCrunch
Kitty Hawk reveals its secret project, Heaviside
Sebastian Thrun is waving a device in his hand with an excited, almost gleeful expression on his face as he trots from a makeshift aircraft hangar toward the secret project that Kitty Hawk Corp. has been working on for nearly two years.
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Good design and type safety in Yahtzee
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E*Trade Announces $0 Base Commissions for Online Stock, ETF, and Options Trades
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