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The former are actual numbers; the latter are inflated statistical estimates

I really do love making paper models of impositions

The world’s largest businesses must routinely police other businesses. By public mandate, Facebook monitors app developers’ privacy safeguards, Citibank audits call centers for deceptive sales practices, and Exxon reviews offshore oil platforms’ environmental…

Java SE 13 introduced text blocks as a preview feature, aimed at reducing the pain of declaring and using multi-line string literals in Java. It was subsequently refined in a second preview, with minor changes, and is scheduled to become a permanent feature…

In the previous post we have seen how to visualize a time series data. In this post we will discuss how to do a time series modelling using ARMA and ARIMA models. Here AR stands for Auto-Regressive and MA stands for Moving Average

The year’s already off to a rocky start for hardware companies, and we’re only beginning to see the true impact COVID-19 will ultimately have on the market. Arm — the U.K. company behind the designs of chips for everyone from Apple to Qualcomm to Samsung…

The Owner-Free File System (OFF System, or OFFS for short) is a peer-to-peer distributed file system in which all shared files are represented by randomized multi-used data blocks. Instead of anonymizing the network, the data blocks are anonymized and therefore…

In Bali, western immigrants are selling products they've never handled, from countries they've never visited, to consumers they've never met

How n-body problems are solved in linear time, without any maths.

This mechanical ventilator can be built quickly from just $400 of off-the-shelf parts.

A tail-risk hedge fund advised by Nassim Taleb, author of “The Black Swan,” returned 3,612% in March, paying off massively for clients who invested in it as protection against a plunge in stock prices.

We try to get rid of the complexity, control it, and seek simplicity. I think framing things that way is misguided. Complexity has to live somewhere. Embrace it

The move comes as air pollution levels drop worldwide and authorities now wish to keep them low

Repository for Open Source Mouse Firmware and Hardware - biomurph/Mouse

Update 2020-05-22: A new section on forward progress has been added, and the discussion of synchronized shuffles has been improved.