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McDonald's Real Estate: How They Really Make Their Money
So McDonald’s doesn’t make their money from selling burgers.ALSO READ: Can Water on Mars Help Water Wars on Earth?Does that really surprise you?A lot of us don’t realize that McDonald’s isn’t really a...
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Me and SVG
For the past three-and-a-half years of my life, I have devoted a large portion of my time and creativity to the creature known as SVG. Whether that was a good choice or not, I do not know. But here I...
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The Benefits of Solitude
goosie ganderOn April 14, 1934, Richard Byrd went out for his daily walk. The air was the usual temperature: minus 57 degrees Fahrenheit. He stepped steadily through the drifts of snow, making his...
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Captain401 (YC S15) Is Hiring an Account Specialist / Customer Support
What We're BuildingCaptain401 is a Y Combinator-backed company that offers an easy and affordable 401(k) retirement plan for the modern workforce. We've built an automated, paperless 401(k) that makes...
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The Loch Ness Monster of Mollusks
An elusive five-foot-long clam called Kuphus polythalamia reminds us that, in the living world, everything is a vessel for something else.CreditPHOTOGRAPH BY MARVIN ALTAMIAThe last time people thought...
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Show HN: Deep Learning for Program Synthesis
By Rishabh Singh, Jacob Devlin, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Researchers and Pushmeet Kohli, Partner Research Manager, Cognition Group, Microsoft AI ResearchDespite the many advances in computing over the past...
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Type Systems as Macros
Type Systems as Macros, by Stephen Chang, Alex Knauth, Ben Greenman:We present TURNSTILE, a metalanguage for creating typed embedded languages. To implement the type system, programmers write type...
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Knowing where you are: custom array indices in Julia
18 Apr 2017 | Tim HolyArrays are a crucial component of any programming language, particularly for a data-oriented language like Julia. Arrays store values according to their location: in Julia, given...
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Alexander Grothendieck, a genius of mathematics (2015)
January 11, 2015This is an English translation of a post written in French by my father Gérard Lebrun. The pages numbers refer to the original text of Grothendieck’s work Récoltes et Semailles (“Crops...
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Net Neutrality Alive and Well in Canada
The CRTC today released the final chapter (for now) in its net neutrality governance framework, creating policy that establishes strong safeguards against net neutrality violations and severely...
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Forall.js: Idris-like static types and invariant checks for JavaScript
README.mdExpressive static type and invariant checks for JavaScript. It is similar to TypeScript, but:Has very precise types such as the type of hex-encoded strings with an even number of characters...
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Tomorrow's Cities: Singapore's plans for a smart nation
Media playback is unsupported on your deviceMedia captionKarishma Vaswani tests Singapore's smart city tech Singapore is aiming to be the world's first Smart Nation - but what does that actually...
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Multilingual word vectors in 78 languages
README.mdFacebook recently open-sourced word vectors in 89 languages. However these vectors are monolingual; meaning that while similar words within a language share similar vectors, translation words...
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Automated snare drum made to the order of Aphex Twin (2014)
Snar_2: An automated snare drum for Aphex Twin by Godfried-Willem RaesRobot<Snar_2>an improved automated snare drum made to the order of Aphex TwinGodfried-Willem RAES2014 This musical robot...
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Like It or Not, Chicago's About to Get a Lot Less Orange
On Wednesday, City Council signed off on its $160 million plan to change the color of Chicago, replacing its 270,000 high-pressure sodium lights, which give the city its, um, distinctive orange glow,...
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Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments
I’ve been considering removing comments from this blog for a while; mainly because the site doesn’t trigger much discussion and I didn’t like keeping the overhead of Disqus around. After looking into...
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Resources on creating programming languages
Here it is a new guide, to collect and organize all the knowledge that you need to create your programming language from scratch.Creating a programming language is one of the most fascinating challenge...
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The glEnd of Zelda(): Automatic 3Dification of NES Games (2016)
The glEnd of Zelda(): Automatic 3Dification of NES GamesHi! This is my software for SIGBOVIK 2016, an April 1 conference that usually publishes fake research. And as usual, my contribution is real!...
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