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Fixing Mass Effect black blobs on modern AMD CPUs
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Silent’s Blog
Fixing Mass Effect black blobs on modern AMD CPUs
Graphical artifacts caused by a CPU, not GPU? Sure thing.
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The abolition of mandatory retirement, and how it changed America (2011)
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Slate Magazine
Mandatory retirement: How the abolition of mandatory retirement continues to change America in unexpected ways.
In the 1970s, W. Glenn Campbell had a brilliant idea for reviving the backwater California think tank he ran: He would hire pre-eminent scholars who...
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I Test in Prod (2019)
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Increment
I test in prod
Testing in production is a superpower. It’s our inability to acknowledge it that’s the trouble.
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Does playing chess make you smarter? A look at the evidence
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The Conversation
Does playing chess make you smarter? A look at the evidence
The truth about chess playing and intelligence.
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Clear explanation of Rust’s module system
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Shesh's blog
Clear explanation of Rust’s module system
Easy to understand explanation using visual aids and practical examples
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MIT OCW: Statistics for Applications (2016)
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Lecture Slides | Statistics for Applications | Mathematics | MIT OpenCourseWare
This section includes a full set of the lecture notes.
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Insect-worn microcamera streams 5fps monochrome video to phone 120 meters away
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IEEE Spectrum
A Bug-Sized Camera for Bug-Sized Robots and Bug-Sized Bugs
Minuscule camera streams video from tiny robots and live bugs
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Shall the West Pass Too? Whispers from Fallen Civilisations
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The Metasophist
Ch.1: Whispers from Fallen Civilisations — The Metasophist
Is it the destiny of the West to die? For Oswald Spengler, the answer was yes. In The Decline of the West he argued that all civilisations go through a similar life-cycle. According to Spengler, the Medieval Era was the spring of the West, the Renaissance…
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Remdesivir will cost insurers $520 for a single vial. Production cost: 93 cents
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The Intercept
The Trump Administration Is Waiving the Public’s Right to Affordable Coronavirus Treatments
Amid record unemployment, HHS is doling out more than $1 billion in coronavirus contracts that omit price-gouging safeguards.
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The NBA bans you from putting freehongkong on customized league jerseys
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Clay Travis
The NBA bans you, the fan, from putting #freehongkong on customized league jerseys even as they allow players to wear customized jerseys. https://t.co/px9enQa1qk
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Spies in the Xerox Machine (1997)
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Microsoft Analyzed Data on Its Newly Remote Workforce
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Harvard Business Review
Microsoft Analyzed Data on Its Newly Remote Workforce
Here’s what it found about meetings, culture, workdays, and engagement.
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The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
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Peter Thiel's New Man in the Defense Department
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Defense One
Peter Thiel’s New Man In The Defense Department
The new head of defense research and engineering comes from the White House with a relatively light resume.
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Citrine: Localized Programming Language
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citrine-lang.org
Citrine, localized programming language | Create your own apps and games in your native language
Citrine Programming Language: How to make a game, how to make an app.
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Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API
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Minimaxir
Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API
GPT-3 is indeed a large step forward for AI text-generation, but there are very many caveats with the popular demos and use cases.
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GitHub buries 21 TB open-source code in Arctic vault for 1k years
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Gizmeek
GitHub, the world's largest open-source software site buries 21 TB open-source code in Arctic vault for 1,000 years
Github, the world's leading software development platform last year at Github Universe 2019 revealed its plan to store all of its open-source software data in an Arctic vault as part of its Archive Program. Now the code-hosting platform is done making sure…
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Building DIY LED strips for fun
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A Whole Lotta Nothing
Building DIY LED strips for fun
I work remotely and have for many years, but let’s be honest: it’s the case for a lot of people now. Lately I’ve been trying to step up how my home office looks, especially with r…
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Ask HN: What's your favorite HN post?
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Magnets cannot exist under classical mechanics
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Wikipedia
Bohr–van Leeuwen theorem
theorem
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Study of over 1m people finds association between lifespan and blood iron levels
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Nature
Multivariate genomic scan implicates novel loci and haem metabolism in human ageing
Nature Communications - Ageing phenotypes are of great interest but are difficult to study genetically, partly due to the sample sizes required. Here, the authors present a multivariate framework...
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