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A History of Simlish, the Language That Defined the Sims
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The Verge
A history of Simlish, the language that defined The Sims
How a fake language evolved over two decades.
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Jupyter Notebooks to Web App
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NotebookToWebApp/article.md at master · ChristianFJung/NotebookToWebApp
:thought_balloon: This is the accompanying repo for my article on converting a Jupyter Notebook to a streamlit web app. - ChristianFJung/NotebookToWebApp
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The war against space hackers: how the JPL secures missions from adversaries
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Ask HN: What are your war stories for converting teams to remote?
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Eiffel – Programming Language
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How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporary x86?
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Retrocomputing Stack Exchange
How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporary x86?
The DEC Alpha, released in 1992, seems like an early implementation of a fully 64-bit microprocessor architecture. Its release led to quite a bit of both marketing hype and genuine vendor support i...
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Blender GIS
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GitHub - domlysz/BlenderGIS: Blender addons to make the bridge between Blender and geographic data
Blender addons to make the bridge between Blender and geographic data - domlysz/BlenderGIS
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Diffing Coronaviruses
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jameshfisher.com
Diffing coronaviruses
We can use standard UNIX tools to investigate the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus! I read on Wikipedia that “2019-nCoV has been reported to have a genome sequence 75% to 80% identical to the SARS-CoV and to have more similarities to several bat coronaviruses.”…
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Debian 10.3 Released
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Who Did This?
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who did this?
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Rollerball pens that use fountain pen ink
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Building Firefox's Picture-in-Picture Support
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Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
How we built Picture-in-Picture in Firefox Desktop with more control over video
A behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of the Picture-in-Picture player for the Firefox Desktop browser. This feature is now available for MacOS, Linux and Windows users. From the beginning, it's ...
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Siggraph2019 Geometric Algebra (2019) [video]
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Siggraph2019 Geometric Algebra
**Programmer focused part** starts at 18:00
Try the examples here https://enkimute.github.io/ganja.js/examples/coffeeshop.html
The Geometric Algebra course at Siggraph 2019.
Intro : Charles Gunn (00:00 - 18:00)
Course : Steven De Keninck (18:00 - end)
Course…
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Contextualise: Manage your knowledge
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GitHub - brettkromkamp/contextualise: Contextualise is an effective tool particularly suited for organising information-heavy projects…
Contextualise is an effective tool particularly suited for organising information-heavy projects and activities consisting of unstructured and widely diverse data and information resources - brettk...
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Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 (2015)
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Larry Land
Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2!
Playing Witcher 3, a GPU-intensive game on a 2015 fanless Macbook
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How to reduce 'attention residue'
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Bbc
How to reduce 'attention residue' in your life
Mundane chores take up our time and headspace. Bundling life admin into specific time slots - known as GYLIO - might be the ultimate act of self-care.
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Dopamine and Temporal Difference Learning
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Google DeepMind
Dopamine and temporal difference learning: A fruitful relationship between neuroscience and AI
Learning and motivation are driven by internal and external rewards. Many of our day-to-day behaviours are guided by predicting, or anticipating, whether a given action will result in a positive...
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Frankenstein Veto
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Wikipedia
Frankenstein veto
selective deletion of letters and words from legislation
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How to detect web bots?
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Antoinevastel
Bot detection 101: How to detect web bots?
This blog post presents the main bot detection techniques and explain how behavioral approaches, fingerprinting, as well as CAPTCHA can be used to detect bots.
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A half century ago, better transistors revolutionized computer power supplies
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IEEE Spectrum
A Half Century Ago, Better Transistors and Switching Regulators Revolutionized the Design of Computer Power Supplies
Apple, for one, benefited, though it didn’t spark this revolution, as Steve Jobs claimed
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Cotton Candy
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