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West Virginia Inmates Will Be Charged by the Minute to Read E-Books on Tablets
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Reason.com
West Virginia Inmates Will Be Charged by the Minute to Read E-Books on Tablets
The tablets aren't supposed to replace regular books, but similar policies have led to restrictions on book donations and price-gouging in other states.
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Scala.js 1.0.0-RC1
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Scala.js
Announcing Scala.js 1.0.0-RC1
Build robust front-end web applications in Scala with Scala.js
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HPE Drive fail at 32,768 hours without firmware update
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How I built my tiny SaaS from idea to first 15+ paying customers
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Bloggi Blog
The making of Bloggi
The full story of how I built Bloggi—from idea to launch to where it’s at today, including all the numbers, lessons learned, and what’s next.
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Learn Coq in Y Minutes
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The Vienna Bank Job
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OCCRP
The Vienna Bank Job - OCCRP
A storied bank helped Eastern European bankers loot their own institutions.
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SinGAN: Learning a Generative Model from a Single Natural Image
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arXiv.org
SinGAN: Learning a Generative Model from a Single Natural Image
We introduce SinGAN, an unconditional generative model that can be learned from a single natural image. Our model is trained to capture the internal distribution of patches within the image, and...
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Instagram Killed the Tabloid Star
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NY Times
When Instagram Killed the Tabloid Star (Published 2019)
In the 2010s, celebrity culture was domesticated by a free photo sharing app, and the paparazzi were left stranded on the pavement.
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Psilocybin for Major Depression Granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA
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New Atlas
Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted psilocybin therapy a Breakthrough Therapy designation for the second time in a year, this time with a view on accelerating trials testing its efficacy treating major depressive disorder (MDD).
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A scientific attempt to demystify meditation yielded astounding results
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aeon.co
How a scientific attempt to demystify Buddhist meditation yielded astounding results | Aeon Videos
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Air pollution causes brain structure changes that resemble Alzheimer's disease
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NY Times
Air Pollution May Damage the Brain (Published 2019)
Tiny air pollutants may cause changes in brain structure that resemble those of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years
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media.emacsconf.org
Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years - Perry E. Metzger - EmacsConf 2019
Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years talk by Perry E. Metzger for EmacsConf 2019
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IKEA Furniture Assembly Environment
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clvrai.github.io
IKEA Furniture Assembly Environment
Lee et al. IKEA Furniture Assembly Environment.
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Building a language server for the Muon programming language
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Muon development blog
Building a language server for Muon
I’m a big fan of interactive tool support for programming. I often use features like “go to definition”, “find symbol”, compile error underlining, etc. Also, earlier this year, I launched Muon, a new low-level programming language. As no tooling existed beyond…
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A Siberian mammoth tusk gold rush
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WIRED UK
The climate crisis has sparked a Siberian mammoth tusk gold rush
The Arctic permafrost is thawing, revealing millions of buried mammoth skeletons. But the rush for mammoth ivory could put elephants in danger all over again
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Y Combinator Abruptly Shutters YC China
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TechCrunch
Y Combinator abruptly shutters YC China
Prolific startup accelerator Y Combinator has abandoned plans to establish a branch of the program in China. The company cites a general change in strategy, but a deafening silence on the complexity and controversy of working with China right now suggests…
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Machine Learning on Encrypted Data Without Decrypting It
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Billionaire Khosla Wins Ruling Threatening Public Beach Access
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Bloomberg.com
Billionaire Khosla Wins Ruling Threatening Public Beach Access
Billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla’s long-running fight to block public access to a stretch of Pacific Ocean beach adjacent to his property got new life thanks to an appeals court ruling that could make it harder for surfers and sun seekers to get…
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Big Calculator: How Texas Instruments Monopolized Math Class
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Medium
Big Calculator: How Texas Instruments Monopolized Math Class
These $100 calculators have been required in classrooms for more than twenty years, as students and teachers still struggle to afford them
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China sets up Hong Kong crisis center in mainland
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Reuters
Exclusive: China sets up Hong Kong crisis center in mainland, considers replacing chief liaison
HONG KONG/SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - Tightening control over efforts to manage the upheaval in Hong Kong, the Chinese leadership has set up a crisis command center on the mainland side of the border and is considering replacing its official liaison to the…
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The heritability of self-control: A meta-analysis
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