The provision of chocolate cookies had a significant effect on course evaluation. These findings question the validity of SETs and their use in making widespread decisions within a faculty.

Fixing things is human nature, so why are companies so against it?

An economic development group is rolling out a package of incentives for Chicagoans who move to its slice of the state and work for a company somewhere else.

Org: an Emacs Mode for Notes, Planning, Authoring and more!

An experiment analyzing the NYC taxi dataset through the eyes of an options trader.

As we approach the first true COVID winter, the Scandinavian concept of friluftsliv may help us spend time outdoors during the coldest, darkest time of the year — something Norwegians have done since long before the pandemic.

The language of touch binds our minds and bodies to the broader social world. What happens when touch becomes taboo?

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, in 1997, it had a conventional structure for a company of its size and scope. It was divided into business units, each with its own P&L responsibilities. Believing that conventional management had stifled innovation, Jobs…

In case you weren’t uneasy enough about having to create Facebook accounts just to use a virtual reality headset, you should know that in some circumstances deleting a linked Facebook account will then remove your access to any Oculus purchases you have made.

An unusual development is ongoing in the Arctic Circle, as the sea ice is not freezing as expected, exposing a large part of the Arctic Ocean

Improving connection scalability in Postgres 14. From the neat to the gritty: snapshot scalability edition.

Maritime archaeologist Yftinus van Popta of the University of Groningen discovered four submerged villages in the northeastern part of the Zuiderzee area. His research shows that the first inhabitants lived in the area in the 10th and 11th centuries, when…

Free Texts Mathematics and Computer Science, and more, from Jim Hefferon

Download Youtube Video in Golang. Contribute to kkdai/youtube development by creating an account on GitHub.

Twitter tried to reduce load times for external links, but made things slower instead. It mistakenly normalizes domain to a point where they’re no longer useful.

AMD delivers leadership high-performance and adaptive computing solutions to advance data center AI, AI PCs, intelligent edge devices, gaming, & beyond.

Veripol is a software that assesses the veracity of complaints filed with the Spanish national police. It was introduced in 2018, but it's unclear if it works as intended.

A post about running wonderfull Amiga 1000 with Phoenix motherboard along with some modern addons. Have fun reading it :)