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The economic professor explains his Media Diet

Updated on March 6th, 2017 since Vultr has updated their $5 offering. The data tables have been updated and the applicable sections have updates near the end of the section. Usually I wait to run fresh benchmarks on all providers, but the comments section has been blowing up about Vultr’s

Eight years ago I wrote : In RFC 793 (1981) the late, great Jon Postel laid down one of the basic design principles of the Internet, Pos...

About the business and technology of very large and very small systems.

One reason it's difficult to understand each other is that behind the words we use are the worldviews, the emotions and the beliefs we have before we even consider what's being said. Befo…

Graphcore produced a series of striking images of computational graphs mapped to its “Intelligent Processing Unit.” The graph compiler builds up an intermediate representation of the co…

This. Looks. Amazing! Triseum have announced a “third-person exploration game based on calculus” called Variant. While the gameplay is clearly different from Myst (3rd person perspectiv…

Check out the eerie photos of the now demolished Nara Dreamland up on Dezeen. Built in Nara Prefecture in 1961, the theme park was expected to become Japan’s answer to Disneyland. But it stru…

Behold “library hand,” or a simulation thereof. It’s penmanship for librarians writing out catalogue cards. Sometimes (still) seen on the ...

The country’s universities and tech giants are starting to surpass American ones when it comes to researching and implementing AI

Your company is probably already doing AI and machine learning, but it needs a road map.

Explore the universe and discover our home planet with NASA through a collection of our sounds from historic spaceflights and current missions. You can hear the roar of a space shuttle launch or Neil Armstrong's "One small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind" every time you get a phone call if you make our sounds your ringtone. Or, you can hear the memorable words "Houston, we've had a problem," every time you make an error on your computer. For sound file use policy, please see: http://go.nasa.gov/contentuse

I had to wait my turn while a silver-haired man in an expensive suit took High Roller’s adult-sized big wheel for a spin, but it was worth it. This was one of the happiest moments in my adult life.

Wired magazine recently published, Keeping Up with the Times, a story about the New York Times and its slow & painful transition to a digital first publication. “It’s to transform the Tim…

Facebook knows about your past, present, and likely future. But how do they know this information? Data Selfie is a creepy new tool that will give you an answer. The free plugin provides a gateway into the data mining and predictive analytics that is used by Facebook to create your online identity. 

A browser extension that provides a personal perspective on data mining, predictive analytics and our online data identity through your Facebook consumption.

tldr; you can do jobs, queues, real time change feeds, time series, object store, document store, full text search with PostgreSQL. How to,...

Open source with a difference, from Redmond

Why you should focus on Riskiest Assumption Tests and forget about MVPs.

Web application to convert Bugzilla bugs into an Atom feed. - GitHub - kaueraal/bugzillatoatom: Web application to convert Bugzilla bugs into an Atom feed.

Docker is growing by leaps and bounds, and along with it its ecosystem. Being light, the predominant container deployment involves running just a single app or service inside each container. Most software products and services are made up of at least several such apps/services. We all want all our

RSS/Web reader with ML powered recommendations. Contribute to MLdog/nayesdog development by creating an account on GitHub.

It’s one thing to set up an “anonymous” Twitter Hulk account whose anonymity your friends and colleagues can’t pierce, because the combination of your care not to tweet iden…

Security expert Micah Lee’s guide to creating an anonymous email account, anonymous phone number — and anonymous Twitter account.