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Is Travel Writing Dead?
The fun thing about questions like this is that you can substitute any word or term for ‘travel writing’ with no diminution of the urgency of the enquiry. Some years ago, for example, I spoke at a...
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Can this algorithm detect serial killers?
On Aug. 18, 2010, a police lieutenant in Gary, Ind., received an e-mail, the subject line of which would be right at home in the first few scenes of a David Fincher movie:“Could there be a serial...
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India's iconic Ambassador car brand is sold to Peugeot
Image copyrightAFPImage caption The Ambassador was not renowned for its handbrake or steering lockOne of India's most iconic car brands has been sold by Hindustan Motors to the French manufacturer...
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Our 9000-Year Love Affair With Booze
This story appears in the February 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.If you’re a beermaker in Germany, Martin Zarnkow is a guy you want to know. Students come to his department at the...
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How do these neural network style transfer tools work?
Hello! Last week I posted about magical machine learning art tools.This got me to thinking – what would other cool machine learning art tools look like? For example! Sometimes I make drawings, like a...
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Java 9's Immutable Collections Are Easier to Create but Use with Caution
February 5, 2017Code is easier to reason about when collections cannot be altered after their creation. Having to keep track of the current state of a collection as it gets passed around from this...
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After a Stroke at 33 a Writer Relies on Journals to Piece Together Her Own Story
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee's short fiction and essays have appeared in Guernica, The Rumpus, The New York Times and BuzzFeed. Kristyn Stroble/Harper Collinshide captiontoggle caption Kristyn...
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How to play mathematics
What does it mean to know mathematics? Since maths is something we teach using textbooks that demand years of training to decipher, you might think the sine qua non is intelligence – usually ‘higher’...
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Ergonomica a cross-platform shell written in Python
README.rstHomepage | Wiki | GitHub Repo | Download Binaries | Issue TrackerErgonomica is a cross-platform shell language, implemented in Python. Ergonomica aims to modernize the terminal, in an...
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From AST to Lossless Syntax Tree
From AST to Lossless Syntax TreeHome 2017-02-11The Oil project encompasses two shell languages supported by the same runtime:OSH, a bash dialect, andOil, a more usable and consistent language, with...
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FCC spectrum auction bidding ends at $19.6B
By David Shepardson| WASHINGTON The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said Friday that bidding in the wireless spectrum auction has ended at $19.6 billion, significantly less than many analysts...
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Show HN: DeepUI Programming Studio:A completely different approach to...
Live and virtual time Live programming means that we edit the program while it is running so we get instant feedback on every change. To do this we need to rewind, replay and loop time. We can record...
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Effectively Using Android Without Google Play Services with Gplayweb in Docker
There are many good reasons of using Android without Google Play Services (the Google's proprietary part of Android operating system), mostly to protect its privacy. Google Play Services contain...
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Last Page of The Great Gatsby (1997)
Last page of "The Great Gatsby" Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound. And as the moon rose...
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AMD Ryzen Full Lineup Prices, Specs and Clock Speeds Leaked
Pricing along with the specifications and clock speeds for AMD’s full Ryzen lineup has been leaked. AMD’s next generation family of enthusiast desktop CPUs is due March 2nd and is poised to take on...
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How to Close a Gender Gap: Let Employees Control Their Schedules
Another option gives workers the freedom to adjust their schedules, no questions asked, because of unpredictable obligations, like a sleepless night with a toddler or a trip to the emergency room with...
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Tomáš Mikolov on Word2vec and AI research at Microsoft, Google, Facebook [audio]
Episode Summary: Today I sat down with Tomáš Mikolov, my fellow Czech countryman whom most of you will know through his work on word2vec. But Tomáš has many more interesting things to say beside...
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The Three Ways of XOR
We all know the XOR operation. It’s the cousin of NOT, AND and OR. Like AND and OR, it is a binary boolean function. Unlike them, most programming languages don’t have an explicit “logical operator”...
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Government accused of 'full-frontal attack' on whistleblowers
The government’s legal advisers have been accused of launching a “full-frontal attack” on whistleblowers over proposals to radically increase prison sentences for revealing state secrets and prosecute...
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Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decrypt hard drives
Thomas Trutschel/Getty ImagesFrancis Rawls, a former Philadelphia police sergeant, has been in the Philadelphia Federal Detention Center for more than 16 months. His crime: the fired police officer has...
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