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Mathematicians urge colleagues to boycott police work in wake of killings
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Nature
Mathematicians urge colleagues to boycott police work in wake of killings
More than 1,400 researchers have signed a letter calling on the discipline to stop working on predictive-policing algorithms and other models.
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Deep Learning from Scratch Part 3: Generalizing Gradient Descent
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The World in 2036: Nassim Taleb looks at what will break, and what won't (2010)
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The Economist
Nassim Taleb looks at what will break, and what won't
Paradoxically, one can make long-term predictions on the basis of the prevalence of forecasting errors. A system that is over-reliant on prediction (through leverage, like the banking system before the recent crisis), hence fragile to unforeseen “black swan”…
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Stuck at home, scientists discover new insect species
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Wired
Stuck at Home, Scientists Discover 9 New Insect Species
Without a DNA sequencer, two Los Angeles entomologists relied on two of biology’s oldest tools: microscopes and lots of free time.
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Show HN: Generate Visual Sitemap from sitemap.xml, just write URL
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octopus.do
Free Visual Sitemap Generator from URL, XML Sitemap Creator
Use our FREE Online Sitemap Generator for Google to crawl your website from URL and Generate Visual Sitemap with meta tags. Generate XML Sitemap for submitting to Google. Change sitemap settings for XML sitemap. Create and generate new visual sitemaps & improve…
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A/B Street: A simulation game to fix Seattle's traffic
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What happens when you update your DNS
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Julia Evans
What happens when you update your DNS?
I’ve seen a lot of people get confused about updating their site’s DNS records to change the IP address. Why is it slow? Do you really have to wait 2 days for everything to update? Why do some people see the new IP and some people see the old IP? What’s happening?
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What’s New in macOS Big Sur
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Apple
What’s New in macOS 11 - macOS - Human Interface Guidelines - Apple Developer
Learn about designing apps for macOS.
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What Is Zig's “Colorblind” Async/Await?
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kristoff.it
What is Zig's “Colorblind” Async/Await?
An introduction to Zig's curious concurrent programming API.
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Book Review: Raise a Genius (2017)
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Slate Star Codex
Book Review: Raise A Genius!
I. A few months ago, I learned about Laszlo Polgar, the man who trained all three of his daughters to be chess grandmasters. He claimed he could make any child a genius just by teaching them using …
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Why did Facebook acquire Mapillary?
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Medium
Why on Earth did Facebook Just Acquire Mapillary?
The big news in the geospatial world at the moment is Facebook’s acquisition of Mapillary. For those unfamiliar, Mapillary is a darling of…
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Trump suspends H1B, H4 visas till year end
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The Times of India
Donald Trump suspends H-1B, H-4 visas till year end - Times of India
US News: The Trump administration on Monday extended the freeze on the issuance of "green cards" for new immigrants and suspended range of work visas for forei
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Prolog Web Applications (2016)
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www.metalevel.at
Prolog Web Applications
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Crows’ ability to discriminate between languages
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corvidresearch.blog
Crows are watching your language, literally
That crows can recognize humans faces (and other physical attributes) has been a staple of our experiences with them for thousands of years. It’s part of what has allowed them to take s…
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Cameo's CEO on how he plans to disrupt Hollywood
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dot.LA
'All Celebrities Are Gig Economy Workers': Cameo's CEO On How He Plans to Disrupt the Entertainment World
To date, Cameo has sold over 1 million videos, with a peak of 69,000 in the week before this year's Mother's Day. The company currently has 130 employees – 80 in Chicago, 40 in L.A., 10 distributed elsewhere – and expects to generate $100 million in bookings…
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Unreal Engine 4 .NET Core integration
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GitHub
GitHub - nxrighthere/UnrealCLR: Unreal Engine .NET 6 integration
Unreal Engine .NET 6 integration. Contribute to nxrighthere/UnrealCLR development by creating an account on GitHub.
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nCino S-1
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Ask HN: Best Video Call Solution for Elderly
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Reverse Engineering the Comtech AHA363 PCIe Gzip Accelerator Board
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Electronics etc…
Reverse Engineering the Comtech AHA363 PCIe Gzip Accelerator Board
All this work was done in November last year. I haven’t worked on it since, but others have shown interest in picking this up, so it’s about time this gets thrown out in the open.
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Eating Thai Fruit Demands Serious Effort but Delivers Sublime Reward
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NY Times
Eating Thai Fruit Demands Serious Effort but Delivers Sublime Reward (Published 2020)
Many delicious species in Thailand, “the Great Power nation of fruit,” require laborious peeling and careful chewing. Then there’s the sticky fingers and occasional disappointment.
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Kafka: The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time
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The New Yorker
The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time
Fiction by Franz Kafka: “Did he suppose I could fix in a couple of hours what two people had done wrong over the course of their entire lives?”
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