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AUGUST 12, 2024

An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it. Antimemes are real. Think of any piece of information which you wouldn't share with anybody, like passwords, taboos and dirty secr.

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MAY 2, 2018

We’ve already been exposed to multiple extraordinary health technologies in 2018, and there is plenty to look forward to. The post 6 Incredible HealthTech Devices of 2018 appeared first on Dataconomy.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The best way you can contribute to an open source project is to remove lines of code from it. We should endeavor to write code that a novice programmer can easily understand without explanation or.

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JUNE 3, 2024

This document specifies the behavior that is expected from the Domain Name System with regard to DNS queries for names ending with ' home.arpa.' ' and designates this domain as a special-use domain name. 'home.arpa.' 'home.arpa.' ' is designated for non-unique use in residential home networks.

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The post It’s a Wrap: Highlights from Data Natives 2018 appeared first on Dataconomy. How do you bring together the likes of Google and IBM with academics and universities to find answers to the most relevant questions in the world.

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Hacker News

MARCH 6, 2024

I hold an unpopular stance: code comments are as important as the code itself. OK, maybe that’s a little overstated, but I maintain that code comments are critical to code readability and maintainability. Before you see if I weigh more than a duck, please hear me out… When I was a college undergrad, I had…

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JUNE 15, 2024

I have a theory about why the notion of an arms race between human and machine intelligences is fundamentally ill-posed: the way to survive and thrive in an environment of AIs and robots is not to …

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Hacker News

MAY 18, 2024

Scorned by stage actors and mocked by the theater-going upper classes, filmmakers nevertheless developed a bold new art form — but they needed better weather.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The most successful people are not the most talented, just the luckiest, a new computer model of wealth creation confirms. Taking that into account can maximize return on many kinds of investment.

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MARCH 4, 2024

Discover Le Grand K in Saint-Cloud, France: The former global standard for the exact mass of one kilogram sits under lock and key outside Paris.

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The Data Natives Conference 2018 will be exploring life at an accelerated pace, and what rapid innovation. The post Ethics to Ecotech: 5 Unmissable Talks At Data Natives 2018 appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The post Machine Learning & Data Analysts: Seizing the Opportunity in 2018 appeared first on Dataconomy. As ML and AI become increasingly ubiquitous in many industries, so does the proof that advanced analytics significantly improve day-to-day operations and drive more revenue for businesses.

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Hacker News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

A Clock Projector can project the time to a ceiling in the night. There are lots of commercial alarm clocks with integrated clock projector on the market but I thought, it would be fun to build one myself. Moreover it was a good project for becoming accustomed to the process of 3d-designing cases which can be…

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JULY 16, 2018

This is the first part of an article series based on a whitepaper by Dataiku) The year 2018 was supposed to be the one. The post The most important unanswered questions of 2018 in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) appeared first on Dataconomy. Let’s find out.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Eric Portis remembers that images on the web, just like presents under the tree, come in different shapes and sizes. There’s little more disappointing than unwrapping a large-looking gift to find that it’s mostly packaging. Avoid expectation-jank with some great enhancements coming to the web platform soon.

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APRIL 29, 2024

Introduction In 2018, when we were contemplating whether AI would take over our jobs or not, OpenAI put us on the edge of believing that. Our way of working has completely changed after the inception of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2022. But is it a threat or a boon?

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Hacker News

JUNE 22, 2024

by Tung-Hui Hu Ant Farm’s 1970 “Truckstop Network” was borne of the idea that one could reverse the dreary flow of information by taking it into one’s own hands.

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AUGUST 4, 2024

I became fascinated with guilds when I moved to Germany. Being an avid reader of all medieval history I could get my hands on, I was well aware of the Hansa (slang for Hanseatic) League's rise in the 1100s in northern Europe - mainly Germany. The word Hansa is Low German for "convoy" - thus, this…

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DECEMBER 16, 2023

[intense_dropcap font_color="primary"]'S [/intense_dropcap]o what's the scoop on this conductor guy?” a friend once asked after I took her to an orchestral

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AUGUST 13, 2024

A new study finds that arts establishments are actually more concentrated in affluent and gentrified—rather than gentrifying—neighborhoods.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

Preparations are well underway for the 2018 edition of Data Natives– the data driven conference of the future, hosted in Dataconomy’s hometown of Berlin. The post First Speakers Announced for Data Natives 2018, The Tech Conference of the Future appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

No, not multi-threading. I’m talking about Clojure’s threading macros, better known as “the arrows.” ” The -> (“thread-first”) and ->> (“thread-last…

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AUGUST 15, 2024

Many different programs are the implementation of the same algorithm. The collection of programs can be partitioned into different classes corresponding to the algorithms they implement. This makes the collection of algorithms a quotient of the collection of programs.

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Hacker News

AUGUST 29, 2024

Superhuman founder and CEO Rahul Vohra walks us through the framework his startup used to make product/market fit more actionable, detailing the survey and four-step process that were key to measuring and optimizing it.

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JULY 24, 2024

This post details my implementation of Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing in Python.

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APRIL 24, 2023

The company was founded in 2018 by Alexander Matveev, a former researcher at MIT, and Nir Shavit, a professor of computer science at MIT. Neural Magic is a startup company that focuses on developing technology that enables deep learning models to run on commodity CPUs rather than specialized hardware like GPUs.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

by Mike Bendzela Tribes In the great class of mammalian vertebrates, antagonism arose between the egg-laying monotremes and the marsupials. Neither side could see the other on its own terms, each insisting it was the True Mammal. An opossum (Didelphis) complained, “The platypus is a shameful pretender! It won’t admit that it is a failed…

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Dataconomy

MAY 30, 2018

Great tech events often feature a stunt or two that attendees will be talking about long after the conference hall has closed its doors; on this front, CUBE Tech Fair 2018 certainly delivered. The post Machine Learning to Mineral Tracking: The 4 Best Data Startups From CUBE Tech Fair 2018 appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Analytics Vidhya

JANUARY 24, 2024

However, in 2018, the “Universal Language Model Fine-tuning for Text Classification” paper changed the entire landscape of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Introduction Welcome to the world of Large Language Models (LLM). In the old days, transfer learning was a concept mostly used in deep learning.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The post 5 Ways Big Data and Analytics Will Impact E-Commerce in 2018 appeared first on Dataconomy. One of the ways we understand our world is to study trends in behavior. The issue that people run into now, however, is that technology.

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Hacker News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Explaining how quaternions, a four-dimensional number system, describe 3d rotation.

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AUGUST 24, 2024

Even with no one in charge, army ants work collectively to build bridges out of their bodies. New research reveals the simple rules that lead to such complex group behavior.

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Hacker News

JULY 24, 2024

The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.

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JUNE 29, 2024

Let’s automatically identify weird machines in software. Combating software exploitation has been a cat-and-mouse game ever since the Morris worm in 1988. Attackers use specific exploitation primitives to achieve unintended code execution. Major software vendors introduce exploit mitigation to break those primitives. Back and forth, back and forth.

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Hacker News

MAY 25, 2024

I once worked at a company that priced everything with a.95 The bestselling software package was $999.95. Add-on products were $9.95, or $19.95, or $49.95. Everything ended with a.95. It had been this way for more than twenty years. One day, one of the VPs suggested we change all prices to end […]

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OCTOBER 3, 2024

Animal research indicates that a combination of physical activity and sensory enrichment has the largest and the only sustaining effect on adult neuroplasticity. Dancing has been suggested as a human homologue to this combined intervention as it poses demands on both physical and cognitive functions.

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