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Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system
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The Law Project
Physical Attractiveness Bias in the Legal System — The Law Project
[Download for PDF/printable version of this article] When I started looking into this subject, I predicted a person’s physical attractiveness would only have minor advantages. I was wrong. In fact, I was so wrong, that in one study, the effects of physical…
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A gentle intro to assembly with Rust
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Google ‘BigBird’ Achieves SOTA Performance on Long-Context NLP Tasks
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Synced | AI Technology & Industry Review
Google ‘BigBird’ Achieves SOTA Performance on Long-Context NLP Tasks | Synced
BigBird is shown to dramatically improve performance across long-context NLP tasks, producing SOTA results in question answering and summarization.
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DeepDream: How Alexander Mordvintsev excavated the computer’s hidden layers
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The MIT Press Reader
DeepDream: How Alexander Mordvintsev Excavated the Computer’s Hidden Layers
A Google researcher looks into the mind of a computer.
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PP-YOLO Surpasses YOLOv4 – State-of-the-art object detection techniques
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Roboflow Blog
PP-YOLO Surpasses YOLOv4 - State of the Art Object Detection Techniques
Baidu publishes PP-YOLO and pushes the state of the art in object detection research by building on top of YOLOv3, the PaddlePaddle deep learning framework, and cutting edge computer vision research.
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Treating children for worms yields long-term benefits, says new study
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Berkeley News
Treating children for worms yields long-term benefits, says new study
Children who receive a few extra years of deworming treatment eventually have better jobs, higher incomes, says study led by Berkeley economist Edward Miguel.
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Blizzard workers share salaries in revolt over wage disparities
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Bloomberg.com
Blizzard Workers Share Salaries in Revolt Over Pay
Employees at Blizzard Entertainment, a division of Activision Blizzard Inc., began circulating a spreadsheet on Friday to anonymously share salaries and recent pay increases, the latest example of rising tension in the video game industry over wage disparities…
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Court ruling clears way for energy storage on the grid
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Forbes
Court Ruling Clears Way For Energy Storage On The Grid. Who Benefits?
Legacy generators have pushed back against battery storage on the grid, fearing it would give energy storage companies an unfair advantage, allowing them to buy excess electricity at lower prices when demand is low, storing it until demand – and prices –…
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Coca-Cola paid scientists to downplay how sweet drinks fueled the obesity crisis
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Mail Online
Coke's work with scientists was a 'low point' in public health history
A team of international researchers say the non-profit GEBN was 'front group' for Coca-Cola to promote that a lack of exercise, not a bad diet or sugar, is driving the US obesity epidemic.
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A Close Call: How a Near Failure Propelled Me to Succeed [pdf]
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Show HN: Starboard – Fully in-browser literate notebooks like Jupyter Notebook
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Anachro-PC – The Anachronistic Personal Computer
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Jamesmunns
Anachro-PC - The Anachronistic Personal Computer
TL;DR - These are my notes for a potential computer hobbyist personal computer architecture. Someone called it "Minix for motherboards".
This roughly describes an architecture of off the shelf microcontroller components that can be used to create a basic…
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Lessons from the use of personal knowledge questions at Google (2015) [pdf]
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The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary
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Underjord
The best parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary
I've been very surprised and delighted over a number of years now by Microsoft's strong efforts in open source. I understand the skeptics, I was on Slashdot when they tried to sue Linux out of existence and I think only time will tell. I figure MS contributing…
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Django 3.1
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Dan Ariely and Irrational Comparison
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Brendan Cahill
Dan Ariely And Irrational Comparison — Brendan Cahill
Are you in control of your own decisions or is someone else making them for you? Are you rational or irrational? How do you even know the difference...
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Neanderthal gene linked to increased pain sensitivity
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Nature
Neanderthal gene linked to increased pain sensitivity
Nature - People who have inherited nerve-altering mutations from the ancient hominins tend to experience more pain.
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Go vs. Rust: Writing a CLI Tool
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cuchi.me
Go vs Rust: Writing a CLI tool - cuchi.me
Hi there! this page is where I share my thoughs and knowledge about software development.
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TikTok and Microsoft’s Clock
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Medium
TikTok and Microsoft’s Clock
I mean, WTF?
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Pi-KVM: easy and cheap DIY KVM over IP with mouse, virtual drive, VNC and IPMI
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Reddit
From the pikvm community on Reddit: Pi-KVM: the cheap DIY KVM over IP with mouse, mass storage drive, VNC, IPMI and other
Explore this post and more from the pikvm community
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Endless Doom Scroller
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Endlessdoomscroller
The Endless Doomscroller
An endless stream of doom, without all the specifics.
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