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People who have seen their work destroyed in a failed rocket launch
On a balmy night in late October 2014, Rachel Lindbergh and dozens of others stood on the grass at the end of Arbuckle Neck Road in Virginia, staring across the bay. Their eyes were trained on a spot...
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Daniel Dennett’s Science of the Soul
Four billion years ago, Earth was a lifeless place. Nothing struggled, thought, or wanted. Slowly, that changed. Seawater leached chemicals from rocks; near thermal vents, those chemicals jostled and...
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Hopfield Networks in Go
As I continue to explore the realm of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) I keep learning about some really cool types of neural networks which don’t get much attention these days. Many of these networks...
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Launch HN: Hivy (YC W17) – An App to Get What You Need at the Office
Hi HN,I’m Pauline, the co-founder of Hivy (https://hivyapp.com). We're part of the YC Winter 2017 batch.Hivy is an office management platform that makes it easy for employees to tell their office...
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Japanese company develops a solar cell with record-breaking efficiency
Enlarge/ A solar cell with 26.3 percent efficiency.Photovoltaic & Thin Film Research Laboratories (Kaneka corporation)Solar panels are cheaper than ever these days, but installation costs can still...
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Howard University opens a new campus at the Googleplex
When I joined Google a decade ago, there was hardly any discussion of diversity in tech. This was long before we published our diversity numbers or understood how important it was for our workforce to...
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VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering
CPU usage even when idle (due to cursor rendering) · Issue #22900 · Microsoft/vscode · GitHub You can't perform that action at this time.You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your...
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Loopy: a tool for thinking in systems
In a world filled with ever-more-complex technological, sociological, ecological, political & economic systems... a tool to make interactive simulations may not be that much help. But it can...
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US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules
Senate lawmakers voted Thursday to repeal a historic set of rules aimed at protecting consumers' online data from their own Internet providers, in a move that could make it easier for broadband...
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“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US
Getty Images | tieroYears in the making, a proposal to mandate the installation of fiber conduits during federally funded highway projects might be gaining some new momentum.If the US adopts a "dig...
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7,000 underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic
'With time the bubble explodes, releasing gas. This is how gigantic funnels form.' Picture: Yamal RegionScientists have discovered as many as 7,000 gas-filled 'bubbles' expected to explode in Actic...
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Modern JavaScript for Ancient Web Developers
Learn JavaScript using… JavaScript. Image via learnyounode.There’s a certain kind of old-school, backend web developer who, a long time ago, mastered things like Perl or Python or PHP or Java Server...
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Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Trust in Existing Symantec-Issued Certificates
Note: Historically, the Google Chrome team has not used the Blink Process for Certificate Authority-related security issues, of which there have been a number over the years. However, we are interested...
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Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting started
AMAZON is an extraordinary company. The former bookseller accounts for more than half of every new dollar spent online in America. It is the world’s leading provider of cloud computing. This year...
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Car hacked to play MarioKart 64
As someone who has turned a car into a video game controller before, I feel that I’m completely qualified to say that this is way better than the crude, 8-bit era hack I cobbled together to play Pole...
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TidalCycles – A language for the Live Coding pattern
TidalCycles (or Tidal for short) is a language forlive coding pattern. It allows you to make musical patterns with text, describing sequences and ways of transforming and combining them, exploring...
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A second life for very old C programs
At TailorDev, we are polyglot developers and scientists: we are comfortable with numerous programming languages, and we use our Le lab sessions to play with new programming languages and alternative...
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The PhD Octopus (1903)
William James - The PhD Octopus William James Some years ago, we had at our Harvard Graduate School a very brilliant student of Philosophy, who, after leaving us and supporting himself by literary...
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Survival of the Friendliest
Violence has been the sire of all the world’s values,” wrote poet Robinson Jeffers in 1940. “What but the wolf’s tooth whittled so fine the fleet limbs of the antelope? What but fear winged the birds,...
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