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How Ancient Humans Reached Remote South Pacific Islands
PhotoA man competes in a canoe race in Tahiti. Researchers found that remote islands in the Pacific Ocean could not be settled by ancient people until they mastered technology that allowed them to...
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Microsoft Concept Graph
Microsoft Concept Graph Our goal is to enable machines to better understand human communication. An important question is, what does the word “understand” mean here? Consider the following example....
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Neural Symbolic Machines: Learning Semantic Parsers with Weak Supervision
(Submitted on 31 Oct 2016)Abstract: Extending the success of deep neural networks to natural language understanding and symbolic reasoning requires complex operations and external memory. Recent neural...
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What is Blockchain Technology? A Step-by-Step Guide For Beginners
1 month agoIs blockchain technology the new internet?The blockchain is an undeniably ingenious invention – the brainchild of a person or group of people known by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.By...
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Signal and Giphy
The latest Signal release for Android includes support for GIF search and browsing. Signal has long supported sending and receiving GIFs, but this is an experiment that allows users to browse, search,...
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“Free” shipping is not actually free
When shopping online, you tend to run into the lie pretty quickly.Spend a certain amount—perhaps $15 or $20—and your shipment is free. Take advantage of competitive holiday promotions that promise free...
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A Good Way to Grant Equity to Your Employees
Andy Rachleff is President and CEO of Wealthfront, a software-based financial advisor. Prior to Wealthfront, Rachleff co-founded and was general partner of Benchmark Capital. He also teaches courses on...
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Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel (2004)
Emacs standing alone on a Linux KernelJump to Emacs as shellThe purpose of this experiment is to see how emacs can work alone over a linux kernel.The only external tool needed is mount.This...
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On Wall Street, a high-ranking few still avoid email
In an age when most bankers use keyboards to communicate with each other, a small group of the Wall Street elite refuses to say anything substantive in an email, text or chat, and some will not...
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LinkedIn launches Salary to chart what we earn
LinkedIn— the professionally-oriented social networking platform that’s being acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion— has made a play to build what it refers to as “the economic graph“, a concept that...
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Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets
TLDR: Watch the BugReplay Recording of Pornhub dodging AdBlock(NSFW level: medium)We tried to find the most PG page on MindGeek’s network to use as an example- it wasn’t easy.When I was building the...
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Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux
Darling is a translation layer that allows you to run unmodified macOS binaries on Linux. In its nature, it is similar to the well-known Wine project.At this point, does not yet run macOS application...
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Safer to Puff, E-Cigarettes Can’t Shake Their Reputation as a Menace
American public health experts, led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have long been suspicious of e-cigarettes. The possible risks of vaping are vast, officials warn, including the...
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Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile
A common refrain in discussions over the future of mobile is that “eventually, all mobile apps will be iOS or Android apps.”But many of these commentators have a vested interest in helping native...
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Why Slack may live to regret its smarmy letter to Microsoft
Slack has always been easy to like. The fast-growing team communication startup had a classic underdog story, with its founders falling ass-backwards into enterprise software following a failed effort...
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Identity/Persona Shutdown Guidelines for Reliers
When the Mozilla Identity team transitioned the Persona login system to community ownership, we committed resources to operational and security support throughout 2014, and renewed that commitment for...
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The Kingdom of the Dead: For post-Soviet people, Crimea was a gigantic madeleine
Ever since we’d met, Kotik the golden-haired guitarist had been telling me about the Crimean cape of Meganom. Once a Soviet military base, Meganom had remained undeveloped, without houses, resorts,...
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China: The Virtues of the Awful Convulsion
The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in Chinaby Guobin YangColumbia University Press, 262 pp., $60.00 The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962–1976by Frank DikötterBloomsbury, 396...
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Tangled Up in Spacetime
“All the world’s a stage…,” Shakespeare wrote, and physicists tend to think that way, too. Space seems like a backdrop to the action of forces and fields that inhabit it but space itself is not made of...
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An Artist Is Building a Parthenon of Banned Books
In Ancient Greece, no building symbolized democracy and beauty like the Parthenon, a graceful temple that beckoned to the citizens of Athens from atop a hill. And next year, writes Ellie Diaz of the...
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