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Building a Cross Platform 360-degree Video Experience at The New York Times
Over the past few months, 360-degree videos have gained a lot of traction on the modern web as a new immersive storytelling medium. The New York Times has continuously aimed to bring readers as close...
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The macabre fate of ‘beating heart corpses’
Their hearts are still beating. They urinate. Their bodies don’t decompose and they are warm to the touch; their stomachs rumble, their wounds heal and their guts can digest food. They can have heart...
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Brain implants allow paralysed monkeys to walk
For more than a decade, neuroscientist Grégoire Courtine has been flying every few months from his lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne to another lab in Beijing, China, where...
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A Lost World of Shipwrecks Is Found
“One is tempted,” he wrote, “to begin searching there in spite of the huge expanse of bottom that would have to be inspected.”In 2002, Robert D. Ballard, a discoverer of the sunken Titanic, led a Black...
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Forever Words: A new book collects the unpublished poems of Johnny Cash
The great artist has a finger on the pulse of his time; he also quickens that pulse. In the case of Johnny Cash, his music seems to well up directly from the poverty and deprivation of country life in...
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Full-body reading
In his essay‘Uncritical Reading’ (2004), the Yale English professor Michael Warner writes about the way that universities break students of disreputable reading habits. When students first enter the...
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Trump-Supporting CEO Kicked Out of Y Combinator Startup Incubator
On the Friday after the US Presidential election, Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab.ai, a social network favored by conservatives, was kicked out of Y Combinator, the influential Silicon Valley startup...
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Nvidia on new self-driving system: “basically 5 years ahead and coming in 2017”
NVIDIA reported its financial results for the last quarter yesterday and surprised Wall Street. The chip maker, which is now becoming an “AI company” according to its leadership, reported revenue of $2...
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Reasons not to use Uber
Reasons not to use Uber For current political commentary, see the daily political notes.RMS' Bio |The GNU ProjectToggle Dark ThemeWe should not accept the promotional term "sharing economy" for...
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A road map collection that could help researchers
Robert Berlo got hooked on maps at an early age. As a kid growing up in San Francisco he’d pore over roadmaps in the backseat of the car on family vacations. Sometime around age 11 he started...
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Can We Escape from Time?
Time Travel: A Historyby James GleickPantheon, 336 pp., $26.95This content is subject to copyright.A scene from ‘The Web Planet,’ from the sci-fi television series Doctor Who, in which the Doctor and...
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A Scientist Who Helped Amy Adams Talk to Aliens in “Arrival”
Photograph by Paramount Pictures / YouTube Earlier this year, when Amy Adams was in Montreal working on the sci-fi movie, Arrival, out today, she hung out with linguist Jessica Coon. In the film,...
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Why is machine learning ‘hard’?
There have been tremendous advances made in making machine learning more accessible over the past few years. Onlinecourses have emerged, well-written textbooks have gathered cutting edge research into...
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Clifford Algebra: A visual introduction (2014)
William Kingdon CliffordClifford Algebra, a.k.a. Geometric Algebra, is a most extraordinary synergistic confluence of a diverse range of specialized mathematical fields, each with its own methods and...
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Your slow email replies are causing serious anxiety
Danny Garcia wants you to respond to his emails — pronto. Take too long and he starts getting anxious. He even lies awake at night wondering when you’ll reply.Sending emails creates anxiety for Garcia,...
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How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud
Nov 10, 2016 In my last infrastructure update, I documented our challenges with storage as GitLab scales. We built a CephFS cluster to tackle both the capacity and performance issues of NFS and...
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How to accept Bitcoin payments without running a full node
How (and why) to accept Bitcoin payments yourself (without running a full node)Fri 11 November 2016 Accepting Bitcoin payments for an online service can be daunting at first (I worked out how to do it,...
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Rook – Open, Cloud Native, and Universal Distributed Storage in Alpha
README.mdOpen, Cloud Native, and Universal Distributed StorageWhat is Rook?Rook is a distributed storage system designed for cloud native applications. It exposes file, block, and object storage on...
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Show HN: A Web-to-RSS Parser in Common Lisp
A Web-to-RSS parser in Common Lisp.This software was written because a disappointing number of websites still does not have an RSS or Atom feed so I could subscribe to their updates, e.g. the KiTTY...
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