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Researchers quantum teleport particle of light six kilometres
A group of physicists led by Wolfgang Tittel have successfully demonstrated teleportation of a photon, an elementary particle of light, over a straight-line distance of six kilometres.Credit: Riley...
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What are Bloom filters? (2015)
HashingTo understand Bloom filters, you first have to understand hashing. To understand hashing, you don’t have to understand maths, which is good, because I’m a middling mathematician at best. I sit...
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LL and LR Parsing Demystified (2013)
My first adventures in parsing theory came when I was doing an independent study of programming languages in college. When I got to the part about algorithms such as LL, LR, and their many variations...
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Humans Spread from Africa in One Wave, DNA Shows
In the 1980s, a group of paleoanthropologists and geneticists began championing a hypothesis that modern humans emerged only once from Africa, roughly 50,000 years ago. Skeletons and tools discovered...
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Analysis of chronic fatigue syndrome study casts doubt on published results
If your doctor diagnoses you with chronic fatigue syndrome, you’ll probably get two pieces of advice: Go to a psychotherapist and get some exercise. Your doctor might tell you that either of those...
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License now displayed on repository overview
Licenses are now displayed in the repository overview, allowing anyone to easily see if a project has an open source license. This change is immediately available on GitHub, and will also ship with the...
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Hedge-Fund Son Thought Hedge-Fund Dad's Trades Were Pretty Fishy
It turns out that having Leon Cooperman for a grandpa is pretty much exactly like you'd expect:On July 28, 2010, at approximately 6:59 a.m. EDT, APL publicly announced for the first time that it was...
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Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100
Image copyrightAPImage caption Priscilla Chan was trained as a paediatricianFacebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have pledged $3bn (£2.3bn) to fund medical research over the...
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How Norway spends its $882B global fund
TWO decades after Norway’s government paid a first deposit into its sovereign-wealth fund, the country is learning how to manage a behemoth. The vehicle, which is used to invest abroad the proceeds of...
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What every coder should know about gamma
2016 Sep 21A short quizIf you have ever written, or are planning to write, any kind of code that deals with image processing, you should complete the below quiz. If you have answered one or more...
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Sublime Text 3 Build 3124
Sublime Text 3, Build 3124, is out now. Downloads and the full changelog are on the Sublime Text 3 page.Build errors are now shown inline, at the location the error occurred. This is done via the new...
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Show and Tell: Image captioning open sourced in TensorFlow
Posted by Chris Shallue, Software Engineer, Google Brain TeamIn 2014, research scientists on the Google Brain team trained a machine learning system to automatically produce captions that accurately...
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Interactive graphic: Every active satellite orbiting earth
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Announcing TypeScript 2.0
Today we’re excited to announce the final release of TypeScript 2.0!TypeScript 2.0 has been a great journey for the team, with several contributions from the community and partners along the way. It...
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Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs
(Submitted on 9 Sep 2016)Abstract: Machine learning (ML) models may be deemed confidential due to their sensitive training data, commercial value, or use in security applications. Increasingly often,...
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Why $14.5B-worth of goods are stuck at sea
OVER the past few weeks, many American retailers have worried that Christmas, their most profitable selling season, will be ruined. In late August, Hanjin Shipping, South Korea’s biggest container line...
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A Sunken Bridge the Size of a Continent
The planet was cold. Vast sheets of ice extended over the northern half of North America and parts of northeast Asia, forming treacherous frozen barrens. In between, death lurked in many forms. Massive...
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Pixar Universal Scene Description
README.mdUniversal Scene Description (USD) is an efficient, scalable system for authoring, reading, and streaming time-sampled scene description for interchange between graphics applications.For more...
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Getting Press for Your Startup
The best press advice I ever got was from Mike Arrington and M.G. Siegler while they were speaking at an SV Angel CEO conference. They said: Treat PR like biz dev.Once I heard that, everything...
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