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The Rise and Fall of Industrial Research Labscacm.acm.org
The news flashed last September that Microsoft Research closed down its Silicon Valley Lab. While the specifics may have been surprising, these actions are entirely consistent with the historical pattern of the rise and fall of industrial... -
kenlimmj/rougegithub.com
rouge - A Javascript implementation of the Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation (ROUGE) evaluation metric for summaries. -
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Common sense and statistics - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Scienceandrewgelman.com
John Cook writes: Some physicists say that you should always have an order-of-magnitude idea of what a result will be before you calculate it. This implies a belief that such estimates are usually possible, and that they provide a sanity check for calc... -
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Mindfulness Mitigates Biases You May Not Know You Have - HBRhbr.org
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Google Opens Its Cloud to Crack the Genetic Code of Autism | WIREDwired.com
Google has spent the past decade-and-a-half perfecting the science of recognizing patterns in the chaos of information on the web. Now it's applying that expertise to searching for clues to the genetic causes of autism in the vast sea of data contained... -
Heat-map.co | Discover the Heat Map of Your Websiteheat-map.co
Our service allows to discover the heat map of your website or mobile application in order to improve the conversion. -
In Naples, Gift of Coffee to Strangers Never Seennytimes.com
The Neapolitan tradition of “suspended coffee” — paying for two, drinking one and leaving the receipt for the other for a stranger — has spread around the world. - roaringbitmap.org
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Oil’s Swift Fall Raises Fortunes of U.S. Abroadnytimes.com
A plunge in oil prices has sent tremors through the global political and economic order, helping the United States but pushing several big oil-exporting nations to the brink of financial crisis. -
U.S. Spy Agency Reports Improper Surveillance of Americansbusinessweek.com
The National Security Agency today released reports on intelligence collection that may have violated the law or U.S. policy over more than a decade, including unauthorized surveillance of Americans’ overseas communications. -
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Rapid A/B-testing with Sequential Analysisauduno.com
A common issue with classical A/B-tests, especially when you want to be able to detect small differences, is that the sample size needed can be prohibitively large. In many cases it can take several... -
Coravin | Enjoy wine by the glass without pulling the corkcoravin.com
The Coravin Wine Access System uses transformational technology that allows you to pour your favorite wine by the glass, without pulling the cork. With no oxidation, preserve your wine over weeks, months and longer. -
The Fermi Paradox - Wait But Whywaitbutwhy.com
Scientists estimate that there are over 100,000 intelligent alien civilizations in our galaxy alone—but we've never heard anything from any of them. Here are 13 possible explanations for why. -
Six Pictures of Paradise - Issue 101: In Our Nature - Nautilusnautil.us
For many years I ran a field station in Amazonian Peru. The station was a five-hour canoe ride from the nearest road, and every Friday…
