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Async Rust in Three Parts

jacko.io
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Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2018)

incompleteideas.net
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Seeing faces in things: A model and dataset for pareidolia

mhamilton.net
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The brain collector: a scientist unravelling the mysteries of grey matter

theguardian.com

Alexandra Morton-Hayward, a 35-year-old mortician turned molecular palaeontologist, had been behind the wheel of her rented...
Alexandra Morton-Hayward, a 35-year-old mortician turned molecular palaeontologist, had been behind the wheel of her rented Vauxhall for five hours, motoring across three countries, when a torrential storm broke loose on the plains of Belgium. Her wipers pulsed at full speed as the green fields of Flanders turned a ...
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Practical Jokes (2007)

wireshark.org
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The Script Creator

aeon.co
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Species in Pieces

species-in-pieces.com

In Pieces – 30 Species, 30 Pieces. 30 unique species face a fragmented survival. Represented here...
In Pieces – 30 Species, 30 Pieces. 30 unique species face a fragmented survival. Represented here by 30 separate pieces... They share their struggles, and unite together... in an interactive exhibition. 30 species. 30 pieces. 1 fragmented survival. A CSS-based interactive exhibition celebrating evolutionary distinct...
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Self-Documenting Code

lackofimagination.org

Think back to the last time you looked at an unfamiliar block of code. Did you...
Think back to the last time you looked at an unfamiliar block of code. Did you immediately understand what it was doing? If not, you’re not alone – many software developers, including myself, find it challenging to grasp unfamiliar code quickly. Let’s take a look at a simple JavaScript function that creates a user a...

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Lars Tunbjörk documented the rise of alienating office work

newyorker.com

In the winter of 1999, an odd little movie named “Office Space” gleefully demolished the conventional...
In the winter of 1999, an odd little movie named “Office Space” gleefully demolished the conventional portrayal of white-collar work. The film, directed by Mike Judge, was set in a fictional software company called Initech; many scenes played out under fluorescent lights in a featureless warren of cubicles. “Mike wa...

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Taming the buck with a Type III compensator

sig7.se
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Goldman and Apple 'illegally sidestepped' obligations to credit-card customers

yahoo.com

Goldman Sachs (GS) and Apple (AAPL) have to pay $89.8 million for sidestepping legal obligations to...
Goldman Sachs (GS) and Apple (AAPL) have to pay $89.8 million for sidestepping legal obligations to their joint credit card customers, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced Wednesday. The regulator said Apple failed to send tens of thousands of consumer disputes of Apple Card transactions to Gold...

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Parks on the Air

parksontheair.com
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What happens when you make a move in lichess.org?

davidreis.me
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Why is Apple so bad at marketing its TV shows?

fastcompany.com
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My NumPy year: Creating a DType for the next generation of scientific computing

quansight.com
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Nix at work: FlakeHub Cache and private flakes

determinate.systems

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A DSL for peephole transformation rules of integer operations in the PyPy JIT

pypy.org

As is probably apparent from the sequence of blog posts about the topic in the last...
As is probably apparent from the sequence of blog posts about the topic in the last year, I have been thinking about and working on integer optimizations in the JIT compiler a lot. This work was mainly motivated by Pydrofoil, where integer operations matter a lot more than for your typical Python program. In this po...

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Show HN: Agent.exe, a cross-platform app to let 3.5 Sonnet control your machine

github.com
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The Maker of Ozempic Is Trying to Block Compounded Versions of Its Drug

wired.com

Drugmaker Novo Nordisk is taking action to curb the massively popular compounded semaglutide industry, which provides...
Drugmaker Novo Nordisk is taking action to curb the massively popular compounded semaglutide industry, which provides copies of its blockbuster weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy to patients—often for much lower prices.The Danish pharmaceutical company is lobbying the US Food and Drug Administration to add semaglu...
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Her Majesty’s Rat-Catcher (2013)

laphamsquarterly.org

Each great civilization is plagued by its own particular infestation—the point at which the balance between...
Each great civilization is plagued by its own particular infestation—the point at which the balance between man and vermin shifts uncomfortably in the direction of the critters. Biblical Egypt had its plague of locusts, modern New York City is terrorized by bedbugs, and Victorian London had a serious rat problem. Ra...
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Show HN: I built a task manager that finally separates "Do" & "Due" dates

apple.com

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What makes a person seem wise?

theconversation.com

We all admire wise people, don’t we? Whether it’s a thoughtful teacher, a compassionate doctor, or...
We all admire wise people, don’t we? Whether it’s a thoughtful teacher, a compassionate doctor, or an elder in the community, we recognise wisdom when we see it. But have you ever thought about how people in different cultures perceive wisdom? Does someone in Morocco view a wise person in the same way as someone in ...

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What happens if the NY Times tech staff strikes on election night?

washingtonpost.com
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Paper mills: the 'cartel-like' companies behind fraudulent scientific journals

theconversation.com

Science and Nature, two leading science journals, have revealed a growing problem: an alarming rise in...
Science and Nature, two leading science journals, have revealed a growing problem: an alarming rise in fraudulent research papers produced by shady paper mill companies. This wave of fake studies is creating a major headache for the academic world, putting the integrity of global academic research at risk. Paper mil...

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