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Virtual wearable UI tracking technology

Intel just open sourced Stephen Hawking’s speech system and it’s a .NET 4.5 WinForms app that you can try for yourself

This is why our phones are making us miserable: happiness isn't the same thing as pleasure, and our brain knows it

Researchers have used A.I. to discover nearly 6,000 previously unknown species of virus.

Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js, will be giving a talk on Propel, a JS machine learning framework, at JSConf EU

From the Frugal community on Reddit

[crosspost] I am historian Niall Ferguson, and my new book is The Square Tower: Networks and Power from the Freemasons to Facebook. Ask Me Anything!

I really like reading the strategy guides that some of the banned players wrote.

From the onebag community on Reddit

Scientists have discovered that stress transmitted from others can change the brain in the same way as a real stress does.

Stoics and existentialists agree that meaning in life doesn't come from outside; it is constructed by you. Therefore, the answer to Camus' question on whether to commit suicide or have coffee is also entirely yours.

Vegvísir and Yggdrasil by Andrew from Bläckfisk Tattoo, Berlin (my first tattoo!)

Danger noodle! Tattoo don’t by me, Sewp, at Sang Bleu in London

Building a neural network in JS even if you don’t really understand neural networks

Men with more prefrontal brain activity, a brain region associated with executive control, are also more committed to staying faithful in their relationship.

Fibonacci - acrylic on canvas, A1

A Stray Sumerian Tablet: Unravelling the story behind Cambridge University Library’s oldest written object

TIL Not being able to poop in public toilet is a condition called parcopresis.

[HELP] Tutorial on how to do the circle/futuristic design?

Psychologists confirm the narcissistic spectrum model in a new study: The higher the narcissist’s self-entitlement and grandiosity, the more and more separation occurs between grandiosity and vulnerability. Those highest in self-entitlement are either almost all grandiose or almost all vulnerable.

'Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly.'-Marcus Aurelius. Memento Mori means to 'remember that you must die', you payed no heed to where you where before you where born, so why does death frighten you?

Concept Art: The Knights of Ren. What an awesome looking crew. The backstories of them individually, and as a whole, could be really cool. I hope we learn more about them some day.

Holding Hands Can Sync Brainwaves and Ease Pain - ' Researchers report holding hands with a loved one causes brain waves to fall into sync. The more synchronized the brain waves between partners, the less pain a person will feel.

Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal

TIL Lingerie brand Cosabella replaced it's marketing agency with artificial intelligence, Albert. After three months with Albert, Cosabella saw a 336% increase in return on ad spend.

The Rise of Antihumanism

I just published “Architecting Single Page Applications”

TIL Ashton Kutcher ended up in the hospital with pancreatic issues after following Steve Jobs' fruitarian diet in preparation for the movie Jobs. Steve Jobs died of Pancreatic cancer.

Aquaponics system

Spent the better part of a day chopping up old Honda ads in Ps. Hope someone else appreciates the Super Cub!