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Life is a perennial journey of self-discovery.

Some of us here don't mind waiting for a computer to boot. It reminds us of the old days when we had to wait for the tubes to warm up.

Build your own Cold War-era countdown timer prop with John Park’s Mystery Box: Crypto Countdown Case learning guide. This mystery box is a Soviet themed launch-code box complete…

The digital sign at the train station near my home could show me what time it is. It could tell us how many more minutes until the next train. Or it could announce if the train was runnin…

Discover Site Reliability Engineering, learn about building and maintaining reliable engineering systems, and find resources to learn more about SRE and other reliable engineering organizations

The basis of almost all functional programming, Professor Graham Hutton explains Lambda Calculus. http://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at http://www.bradyharan.com

Web application that indexes all popular torrent sites, and saves it to the local database. - GitHub - sergiotapia/magnetissimo: Web application that indexes all popular torrent sites, and saves it...

🚀 A Complete Fast Android Networking Library that also supports HTTP/2 🚀 - GitHub - amitshekhariitbhu/Fast-Android-Networking: 🚀 A Complete Fast Android Networking Library that also supports HTTP/2 🚀

Which actor dies the most on screen? Believe it or not, Sean Bean is not at the top of the list, and he's edged out by a few other veteran actors.

Audits to use on frontend. Contribute to Sendoushi/auditing development by creating an account on GitHub.

Welcome brave new world of workplace sociometrics

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Reviving the “Lesbian Rule” (which Aristotle wrote about, and was proverbial in Shakespeare's day) can help us handle a new kind of weaponized-math threat (that Cathy O’Neil calls “Weapons of Math Destruction”).

If Rolls-Royce has its way, commercial vessels will soon have no crew on board

Refugees and green card holders detained and interrogated despite legal right to come to the US

The 26-year-old actor Kristen Stewart played Bella Swan, the protagonist in five "Twilight" vampire films. Vanity Fair listed her as the top-earning actress of 2010. And now, she is a co-author of a scholarly paper about machine learning. Stewart is listed as the paper's co-author, along with Bhautik J. Joshi, a research engineer at Adobe, and David…

Nobody starts a free-software project hoping that it will fail, so it is a rare project indeed that plans for its eventual demise. But not all projects succeed, and a project that doesn't plan for failure risks is doing its users harm. Dan Callahan joined Mozilla to work on the Persona authentication project, and he was there for its recent shutdown. At the 2017 linux.conf.au in Hobart, Tasmania, he used his keynote slot to talk about the lessons that have been learned about designing a project for failure.

A DIY blog with topics including Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Python, Astrophotography, Twitter Bots and more.

The reasons for Trump’s win are obvious, if you know where to look.

Why you should rethink software developmentToday, software is everywhere. Modern society depends on it. It’s inside watches, medical devices, phones, TVs, elevators, cars, and even “computers” (as if those other things don’t compute.) As a consultant, I’ve helped companies develop software for the past 14 years, and

Epistemic Status: moderately confident Edit To Add: It’s been brought to my attention that I was wrong to claim that progress in image recognition is “slowing down”. As classifica…

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee, and Petty sit down with Andy Milenius and Kenny Rowe of Maker. Maker is a company working to create decentralized markets for exchanging digital assets, as well as a "stablecoin", a fixed asset pegged to a particular store of value. They give us the lowdown on how stablecoins, and Maker, can help assist to improve the Ethereum DAPP (Decentralized Application) ecosystem. Links: MakerDao: http://makerdao.com Maker Market: https://mkr.market/#trade/W-ETH/MKR Gnosis: http://gnosis.pm Augur: http://augur.org Intro/Outro Music "In the Cut" by Aaron London (feat. Masego): https://soundcloud.com/aaron_london/inthecut Show Sponsor: http://Purse.io Purse Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.purse.app

Five minute Ignite-style talk from PubConf London 2016