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Gilbert Strang's New Course on Linear Algebra+ for ML Now Online

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New Game: Minecraft Earth

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The Cul-de-Sac of the Computational Metaphor

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Get Your Book, Make It Free

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The Cul-de-Sac of the Computational Metaphor

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Foucault in California

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The rise of the sober bar

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Get Your Book, Make It Free

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Why Airplane Boarding Got So Ridiculous

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Why Airplane Boarding Got So Ridiculous

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Latency Compensating Methods in Client/Server In-Game Protocol Design (2001)

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Flexport.org is hiring engineers to work on humanity’s biggest problems

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As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern

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Grumpy Cat internet legend dies

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I Hacked iPhone’s “Do Not Disturb While Driving” Function and Improved My Life

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Intel vulnerabilities costing 25% CPU performance loss to a Cloud Provider

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Wind provided 37 per cent of Irish electricity in Q1 2019

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Genomics – A Programmer's Guide

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Grumpy Cat internet legend dies

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As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern

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Flexport.org is hiring engineers to work on humanity’s biggest problems

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Wind provided 37 per cent of Irish electricity in Q1 2019

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I Hacked iPhone’s “Do Not Disturb While Driving” Function and Improved My Life

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Excessive Consumption Limits Creativity

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Intel vulnerabilities costing 25% CPU performance loss to a Cloud Provider

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Why Play a Music CD? No Ads, No Privacy Terrors, No Algorithms

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Genomics – A Programmer's Guide

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Building better software with better tools: sanitizers versus valgrind

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How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students (2007) [pdf]

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Why Play a Music CD? No Ads, No Privacy Terrors, No Algorithms

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Building better software with better tools: sanitizers versus valgrind

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FatELF: Universal Binaries for Linux

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New best story on Hacker News: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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FatELF: Universal Binaries for Linux

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Writing a Procedural Puzzle Generator

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Spina bifida: Keyhole surgery repairs baby spine in womb

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Spina bifida: Keyhole surgery repairs baby spine in womb

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Third fatal Tesla Autopilot crash renews questions about system

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Police Feeding Celebrity Photos into Facial Recognition Software to Solve Crimes

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Police Feeding Celebrity Photos into Facial Recognition Software to Solve Crimes

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Third fatal Tesla Autopilot crash renews questions about system

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Data Blending: combine multiple sources into one dataset with Tableau or Alteryx

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Matrices as Tensor Network Diagrams

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Data Blending: combine multiple sources into one dataset with Tableau or Alteryx

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Matrices as Tensor Network Diagrams

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New best story on Hacker News: Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal

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New best story on Hacker News: I turned my interview task for Google into a startup

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New best story on Hacker News: Things to use in Python 3

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The Achievement of Vasily Grossman

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France to ban electric scooters from pavements in September

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Chelsea Manning sent back to jail after refusing to testify before a grand jury

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Hertz bug leads to people being erroneously arrested and jailed

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HPE to acquire supercomputing pioneer Cray

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The kilo is dead. Long live the kilo

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Show HN: Made a new notification tool and I'm looking for some beta testers

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The struggles of an open source maintainer

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Translatotron: An End-to-End Speech-to-Speech Translation Model

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U.S. Presidents and Comparative Stock Market Performance

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Security Update

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Faster Smarter JavaScript Debugging in Firefox DevTools

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Can we all stop using Medium now?

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I.M. Pei has died

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Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and Machine Learning

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The Achievement of Vasily Grossman

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Dark Side of the Ring: Pro Wrestling and Americana

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Neural nets typically contain smaller “subnetworks” that can often learn faster

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Have we forgotten to make heat traps? (2012)

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Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal

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Zero Cost Abstractions

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Hertz bug leads to people being erroneously arrested and jailed

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The struggles of an open source maintainer

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France to ban electric scooters from pavements in September

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Security Update

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HPE to acquire supercomputing pioneer Cray

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Firms That Promised Ransomware Decryption Almost Always Just Pay the Hackers

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The kilo is dead. Long live the kilo

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Faster Smarter JavaScript Debugging in Firefox DevTools

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Translatotron: An End-to-End Speech-to-Speech Translation Model

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Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and Machine Learning

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Zero Cost Abstractions

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When to Stop Fuzzing

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Chelsea Manning sent back to jail after refusing to testify before a grand jury

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SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships

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Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal

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Sony and Microsoft set rivalry aside for cloud gaming alliance

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Neural nets typically contain smaller “subnetworks” that can often learn faster

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Can we all stop using Medium now?

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“Bomb Carbon” Has Been Found in Deep-Ocean Creatures

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Hermes – A message broker built on top of Kafka

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Show HN: Made a new notification tool and I'm looking for some beta testers

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Coca-Cola most common source of packaging pollution on UK beaches: study

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I.M. Pei has died

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How Contemporary Art Became a Fiat Currency for the World’s Richest

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Have we forgotten to make heat traps? (2012)

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Dark Side of the Ring: Pro Wrestling and Americana

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U.S. Presidents and Comparative Stock Market Performance

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Universal Math Solutions in Dimensions 8 and 24

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Hackers can fake radio signals to 'hijack' aircraft landing systems

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Tracking the Journey of a Uranium Cube

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