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NASA proposes a magnetic shield to protect Mars' atmosphere
Artist's conception of a terraformed Mars. Credit: Ittiz/Wikimedia CommonsNASA proposes a magnetic shield to protect Mars' atmosphereThis week, NASA's Planetary Science Division (PSD) hosted a...
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“When we do mathematics, we touch immortality.”
When did you first fall in love with math or start to hate it? What about science? Did a particular class or subject in school thrill or frustrate you? Did your teachers inspire or discourage you? Part...
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R Passes SAS, but Python Leaves Them Both Behind
I’ve just updated another section of The Popularity of Data Science Software. It is reproduced below to save you the trouble of reading the entire article. If your organization is looking for training...
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'Once Upon A Time In America': A Butchered Film Rising Up As A Phoenix
What was done to Sergio Leone’s 1984 epic crime drama film called Once Upon a Time in America can be honestly called nothing short of a disgrace. Premiering at the Cannes film festival, Leone’s film...
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How UAE Intelligence Tried to Hire Me to Spy on Its People (2016)
Recently, we’ve been overwhelmed with news of horrors, attacks, monsters who murder the innocent in the name of a faith they don’t truly know. I’m publishing this article today to talk about other...
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Toronto Is in a Housing Bubble
By Guest Blogger Ryan LewenzaWith stocks hitting new all-time highs almost every day, global bond yields at or near zero, and Canadian home prices at nose-bleed levels, it seems like everything these...
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A $10K tiny house 3D-printed in 24 hours
2017-02-20The first house printed using mobile 3D printing technology has been built in Stupino town, Moscow region. The Apis Cor and PIK companies have successfully completed the project which was...
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Comcast-Owned Vox Runs Commercial for Comcast’s $500M Snapchat Investment
Vox has 36 paragraphs on why Snap is a great investment–and none of them had room to acknowledge that Vox‘s main investor just put half a billion dollars into the company.In December (12/21/16), FAIR...
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Vacant Homes Are a Global Epidemic, and Paris Is Fighting It with a 60% Tax
Runaway real estate speculation has been filling global capitals with vacant homes, creating artificial shortages in the world’s most sought after cities. The “shortage” has made local home owners...
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Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
If you ask anyone who knows me, I’m probably the biggest Apple fan they know. Ask for a suggestion of what computer to get, and I’ll almost certainly either tell you the MacBook Pro, or to wait,...
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Tool of Hope: A Sober Alchemy to End My Helplessness
About a year ago, I fought for control of my life. Not over a threat to my flesh and bone, but a threat to my relationships and perceived needs. I was consumed by fear and blind to what was in front of...
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Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway
Apart from the big players in the cloud hosting industry, AWS, Google Cloud and Azure there are several key players that built their way around providing simple infrastructure that makes it easy and...
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Uncertainty in Deep Learning (2016)
Uncertainty in Deep Learning (PhD Thesis)October 13th, 2016 So I finally submitted my PhD thesis (given below). In it I organised the already published results on how to obtain uncertainty in deep...
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The Story of a Lucky Economist
The career guide 80,000 Hours highly recommends getting an Economics PhD. I completely agree with their assessment. If you have an academic personality and a decent work ethic, and are lucky enough to...
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AMA: Explaining my 750 line compiler+runtime designed to GPU self-host APL
Blev streamet live den 13. feb. 2017Welcome to the live stream discussing all things Co-dfns. I'll be talking about the architecture, design history, and overall aesthetic of the compiler today.Hacker...
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Aheui: Esoteric programming language designed for Hangul
AheuiWhy should ASCII have all the fun? :)Puzzlet Chunglast modified: 2016-01-31Aheui(아희) is the first esoteric programming language ever to be designed for the Hangul (Hangeul) . The aim of the...
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Secure Computing for Journalists
This morning on Twitter, Buzzfeed editor Miriam Elder asks the following question:Possibly stupid question: is the Signal desktop client as secure as the mobile app?— Miriam Elder (@MiriamElder) March...
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Cracking Minesweeper with Z3 SMT Solver
Dennis Yurichev: 5-Mar-2017: Cracking Minesweeper with Z3 SMT solverFor those who are not very good at playing Minesweeper (like me), it's possible to predict bombs' placement without touching...
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Bump the Lamp: The Reason for Caring
In 1988, a movie was released by Disney called “Who Framed Roger Rabbit.” It was one of the most advanced full-length films to combine animation and live action scenes throughout an entire movie. The...
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Museums to try ancestors’ sail from Taiwan to Okinawa
Jiji Press TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japanese and Taiwan museums signed an agreement Thursday to jointly conduct a project to replicate a voyage by people some 30,000 years ago from Taiwan to Okinawa. The...
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