I’ve been having a ton of fun iterating on www.niche-museums.com. I put together some notes on how the site works last week, and I’ve been taking advantage of the Thanksgiving …

Segment saw two ideas flop and was almost out of money when it tried one last desperate strategy. Seven years later, the customer data company is a unicorn.

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by THOMAS OLAVSON Thomas leads a team at Google called "Operations Data Science" that helps Google scale its infrastructure capacity optim...

The uptick reverses a decades-long trend in America’s progress toward cleaner air.

3.3.0 (2019-12-04)
v3.3.0 is a minor release that adds new features, including custom templates and support for the new optional chaining and nullish coalescing operators.
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After just one day in zero gravity conditions, researchers found over 80% of cancer cells died in a trial. Now, their plan is to send them to space. The initial results confirm earlier findings from German researchers.

The Machine Learning team at Mozilla continues work on DeepSpeech, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine which aims to make speech recognition technology and trained models openly available to developers. ...

Magic Cap was a smartphone before smartphones were smartphones!

A definitive and beautifully designed survey of ’70s, ’80s and early ’90s arcade game pixel typography.

When we’re under pressure our mental bandwidth narrows – and that means we focus on the wrong tasks. So what’s the remedy for unproductive ‘tunnelling’?

In this article I will give a brief overview of what a monad is. Later articles in this series will use monadic features in different programming examples, therefore I thought it would be a good idea to first give an overview of what a monad is. I will use…

Natural Language Processing Best Practices & Examples - microsoft/nlp-recipes

The Partnership on AI (PAI) is today releasing SafeLife – a novel reinforcement learning environment that tests the safety of reinforcement learning agents and the algorithms that train them. SafeLife version 1.0 focuses on the problem of avoiding negative…

Efficient lock-free durable sets Zuriel et al., OOPSLA’19 Given non-volatile memory (NVRAM), the naive hope for persistence is that it would be a no-op: what happens in memory, stays in memor…

The aim is to bring the system “into the 21st century” by imposing a 3% levy on tech giants such as Amazon, but first a government must be formed

Luciano Floridi elucidated and popularized the ideas of Infosphere, Philosophy of information, The Ethics of Information and Fourth Revolution. The pres...