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Still, for all our expertise, distraction retains an aura of mystery. It’s hard to define: it can be internal or external, habitual or surprising.

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After the First World War, traumatized soldiers were often prescribed a course of reading.

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I have just forked a project in Github, made my changes etc. This got me wondering: I see mostly README.txt in opensource projects and the file I edited was Readme.txt. Is this some sort of

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This is going to be a two-part post—one on why machine intelligence is something we should be afraid of, and one on what we should do about it. If you’re already afraid of machine intelligence,

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What does a volcanologist know about volcanoes? Hear Steve Sparks FRS in conversation with Jim Al-Khalili about a fascinating career studying one of the most.

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(Summer 2015) - In this essay, I begin by identifying the reasons that automation has not wiped out a majority of jobs over the decades and centuries. Automation does indeed substitute for labor—as it is typically intended to do.

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Total Annihilation has a special place in my heart since it was the very first RTS I played; it was with Command & Conquer and …

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Perini Navi built Seahawk, was previously Captain from 2015 to 2020 for the 56m Perini Navi Bayesian which sank Stephen Edwards, captain of the 58.6m

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Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) were first introduced in a seminal publication by Trevor Darrell, Evan Shelhamer, and Jonathan Long in 2015. Introduction Semantic segmentation, categorizing images pixel-by-pixel into specified groups, is a crucial problem in computer vision.

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Back in January of 2012, Russ Cox posted an excellent blog post detailing how Google Code Search had worked, using a trigram index. By that point, I’d already implemented early versions of my own livegrep source-code search engine, using a different indexing approach that I developed independently, with input from a few friends.

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Data shows that firearms were purchased in 212 Texas counties before being trafficked to Mexico and recovered as crime guns from 2015-2022, for a total of nearly 22,000 firearms.

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I have lived in IRC for about 7 years. What I mean by this is that IRC has been my primary hub for reading information online and interacting with people and systems. I don't use an RSS reader, I visit Twitter and Facebook only.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

In ancient times the Japanese divided their year into 24 periods based on classical Chinese sources. The natural world comes to life in the even more vividly named 72 subdivisions of the traditional Japanese calendar.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

If you’ve used an *nix system, at some point you’ve stumbled upon Midnight Commander, a file manager based on the venerable Norton Commander. You’re probably familiar with the basic operations (F5 for copying, F6 for moving, F8 for deleting, etc.) and how to switch panels (ummm, the Tab key). But mc offers so much more…

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Nine years after hackers targeted Ashley Madison, the dating site for wannabe adulterers, many people still don't grasp what was truly chilling about the scandal, says Annalee Newitz

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A fish-shaped iron ingot is reducing the number of cases of iron deficiency anemia in Cambodia and beyond

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Office vacancies in San Francisco hit another record in the second quarter, and rent prices fell to their lowest since 2015, according to Cushman & Wakefield.

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launched in July 2015, which means this year we turn 9. Healthchecks.io Time flies! Previous status updates: In 2018, My One-person SaaS Side Project Celebrates its Third Birthday In 2021, Healthchecks Turns 6, Status Update Money Healthchecks.io currently has 652 paying customers,

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The Wikipedia page about me says that I'm known mostly for my involvement with Lego Bionicle.

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Let's take a look at some of the changes that arise from this, through a simple case study: making an international phone call to a relative. Before abolishing time zones I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there? Google tells me it is currently.

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In the last decade, most of the big U.S. airlines have shifted major maintenance work to places like El Salvador, Mexico, and China, where few mechanics are F.A.A. certified and inspections have no teeth.

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In the basement of the Argosy Book Store, I found a collection of essays from 1933. The one that prompted the purchase of the book was entitled: The Craft of Experimental Physics, by P.M.S. Though written more than 80 years ago, the salient points are just as relevant today.

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Windows 10 DesktopJuly 2015 –– An icon is defined, among other things, by its longevity. Icons don’t withstand change - they endure it, by evolving.

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Hands up if you've been in this situation; you are building out a handful of new features that happen to share certain facets. To the customer they are distinct deliverables, but to you and your team it's a rinse and repeat type scenario with maybe one or two tweaks in each case.

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(This is a chapter from my forthcoming book, co-written with Tess Read, “The Secret Life Of Money”. The book deals with all sorts of…

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billion tonnes produced from the 1950s to 2015. The World Bank estimates solid waste production will increase by 73% to 3.88 billion tonnes by 2050. Plastic waste, in particular, poses a significant challenge, with over 8.3 appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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One of the key breakthroughs in deep learning is the ResNet architecture, introduced in 2015 by Microsoft Research. Introduction Deep learning has revolutionized computer vision and paved the way for numerous breakthroughs in the last few years.

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How Software Works explains everyday software to the non-programmer.

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I can now officially cross something off my bucket list:

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One day, I was playing in my living room with my almost 3 year old son and we were building with his Lego® Bricks. My living room floor pretty much always looks like this: I have had a teaching challenge simmering in my head for a while now. How do I help students really […]

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analyzed over 10,000 AI companies and their funding data between 2015 and 2023. Our friends over at writerbuddy.ai The data was collected from CrunchBase, NetBase Quid, S&P Capital IQ, and NFX. Corporate AI investment has risen consistently to the tune of billions.

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Over the past few years, it seems like the rate at which new CLI tools are being written has picked back up again, accelerating after seeing relatively little activity between ~1995 and ~2015.

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An MIT study finds the same consumers tend to purchase failed products. Dubbed “harbingers of failure,” these buyers may provide new window into consumer behavior and behavioral economics.

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What is the aggregate real rate of return in the economy? Is it higher than the growth rate of the economy and, if so, by how much? Is there a te

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