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SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

At several points throughout history, someone has sat down to watch a ballet; a long and complex performance with multiple dancers and changes of music and style, and at the end of it, said: “somehow, I have to write that down.”

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JUNE 20, 2023

Pre-Post Note/ Nov 2017. Although this post was written in 2011 it's still my most popular post ever (!!), so I'm refreshing it as part of our 8th year on the road. See my updates in italics below the original text on each topic. One of the beautiful things about aging is you carry along the…

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JULY 9, 2024

author, Eric Holscher& the Write the Docs community, Documentation as Code ( Docs as Code) refers to a philosophy that you should be writing documentation with the same tools as code: Issue Tracke.

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MAY 28, 2024

From the Louvre museum to the sculpted façade of Notre Dame to the quintessential six-story apartment buildings with their grey-beige blush, Paris is built.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2023

A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like. I now have an answer: Greg Brockman. Every successful startup I know has at least one person who provides the force of will to make.

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AUGUST 26, 2024

Since starting wwiiafterwwii, I receive from time to time suggestions for topics. These are wide-ranging but two in particular seem very popular: WWII weapons in the Vietnam War, which has been touched on several times; and a general question of how the world "cleaned up" WWII battlefields after the war. For the latter, I was…

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Organizations tend to drift towards danger and normalize deviations from procedure.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

Our legal team decided to clear a few things up about using the VELCRO® trademark correctly. Don't say "Velcro", say VELCRO® Brand.

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APRIL 29, 2024

Nonplussed' by definition means that one is perplexed, but a modern usage has sprung up to mean nonchalance. We try to explain how this came about and how to deal with it.

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Dataconomy

AUGUST 28, 2017

The post Trends Shaping Machine Learning in 2017 appeared first on Dataconomy. The introduction of Machine Learning has revolutionized the world of data science by enabling computers to classify and comprehend large data sets. Another important innovation which has changed the paradigm of the world of the tech world.

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Analytics Vidhya

APRIL 16, 2024

Introduction Welcome into the world of Transformers, the deep learning model that has transformed Natural Language Processing (NLP) since its debut in 2017. These linguistic marvels, armed with self-attention mechanisms, revolutionize how machines understand language, from translating texts to analyzing sentiments.

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Hacker News

JUNE 6, 2024

A map of the roads of ancient Rome, in the style of a transit diagram.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

In this project, I'm adding an ESP8266 to an Aukey charger to create a DIY Smart Socket. Making things is fun, and adding ESP8266s to household items to turn it into IoT devices seems to be my new hobby! This is the 2nd part of the guide focusing on the hardware.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

On a Saturday night, a security engineer at Equifax was updating an SSL certificate on a Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS). Immediately after, suspicious connections were detected. After a more in-depth investigation, it became evident that the situation was far graver than anticipated.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

SSH is an incredibly powerful protocol whose footprint needs to be monitored closely in enterprises. The most common use of SSH is for totally legitimate purposes like terminal (ssh) or for file transfer (scp,sftp).

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Data Natives Berlin 2017: A Conference for the Data-Driven Generation This November, Dataconomy’s global community of data science enthusiasts will once again gather in Berlin for the widely-celebrated, third edition of the Data Natives conference. appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The post 2017 – The Year Data Made Bank? Financial data finally starting to pay off If you are in Finance, you would have read at least one of the many predictions articles that poured from all directions on the internet in the past month. This is not trying to be yet another one but focus on the CX. appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Hacker News

MAY 18, 2024

There is a story repeated so often that it has become a truth -- that medieval folk drank weak beer to avoid the perils of drinking water -- but it's a myth.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

There was a time when Radio Shack offered an incredible variety of supplies for the electronics hobbyist. In the back of each store, past the displays of Realistic 8-track players, Minimus-7 speakers,

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Data Natives 2017 is just a couple weeks away, and we have never had this many industry-altering speakers, workshops and networking opportunities. The post 5 reasons to attend Data Natives 2017 appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The pleasure of being necessary to my parents was profound. I was not like the children in folktales: burdensome mouths to feed.

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MAY 12, 2024

Plotters were a thing before we had nice laser and inkjet printers. But now they’re coming back like 80s music (lol), this time at the…

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JULY 7, 2024

An inside look at the creation and fallout of Square's industry-defining role-playing game, as told by those who were there.

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Hacker News

AUGUST 14, 2024

The night that Stephen Paddock opened fire on thousands of people at a Las Vegas country music concert, nearby Sunrise Hospital received more than 200 penetrating gunshot wound victims. Dr. Kevin Menes was the attending in charge of the ED that night, and thanks to his experience supporting a local SWAT team, he'd thought ahead

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MAY 10, 2024

BBC journalist and the documentarian behind HyperNormalisation, Adam Curtis, discusses art, individualism, power, myth, and the complications of self-expression.

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JULY 27, 2024

Aphex Twin's "Vordhosbn" just got a surprising video reveal, showing how the track was made. So let's revisit trackers and 90s underground music culture.

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JUNE 14, 2024

In recent years, a number of prominent computer scientists, along with academics in fields such as philosophy and physics, have lent credence to the notion that machines may one day become as large as humans. Many have further argued that machines could even come to exceed human size by a significant margin.

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MARCH 3, 2024

We all have pet peeves, even though there's a lot going on in the world that makes them pretty insignificant. While acknowledging that there are many more

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The first raid was 2017. Hello to all list-reading entities! On Aug 16th 2024 German police considered it once again appropriate to raid the home&office at the registered address of our organization.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The post 6 Ways Business Intelligence is Going to Change in 2017 appeared first on Dataconomy. Business Intelligence, previously known as data mining combined with analytical processing and reporting, is changing how organizations move forward.

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Hacker News

MARCH 10, 2024

Swap is used to give processes room, even when the physical RAM of the system is already used up. In a normal system configuration, when a system faces memory pressure, swap is used, and later when the memory pressure disappears and the system returns to normal operation, swap is no longer used.

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Hacker News

APRIL 12, 2024

As a civilian, the beloved American Civil War general and two-term president failed at every attempt to make money. Except for one.

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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Using nothing but physics, Indian engineer Sonam Wangchuk is creating giant ‘ice stupas’ in the Tibetan plateau to counteract the effects of climate change.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Dealing with surprising human emotions is one of the most challenging aspects of being a manager. Generally, when someone appears triggered, or angry, or some other strong emotion that’s surprising, it’s likely that their amygdala has been hijacked, which I’ve written about before.

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APRIL 4, 2024

It’s only me, and my colleagues can assure you that I’m mostly harmless. I do software development and work at one of Vincit offices in Phoenix, Arizona.

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