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Credit for Reddit | MIT Admissionsmitadmissions.org
Aug 29, 2014 — There's a story my mother likes to tell about the time, soon after I began first grade, she received a polite but concerned note from my teacher. Evidently, when my time to show-and-tell had arrived, I read aloud from a library book... -
Can You Solve Walter Benjamin’s Brainteasers?theparisreview.org
From 1927 to 1933, the German literary critic had a radio show for children. The broadcast transcripts are now available in English—this one is full of riddles. -
The Fallacy of Placing Confidence in Confidence Intervals - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Scienceandrewgelman.com
Richard Morey writes: On the tail of our previous paper about confidence intervals, showing that researchers tend to misunderstand the inferences one can draw from CIs, we [Morey, Rink Hoekstra, Jeffrey Rouder, Michael Lee, and EJ Wagenmakers] have ano... -
How Data From The Kepler Space Telescope Is Changing The Drake Equationmedium.com
Many of the parameters in the Drake equation could only be guessed at…until now -
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The pilots of Instagram: beautiful views from the cockpit, violating rules of the airqz.com
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This: Why Atlantic Media is funding a social platform for sharing links, one at a timeniemanlab.org
Andrew Golis wanted to build a network for sharing stories that would provide relief from our contemporary content cascade. - pinker.wjh.harvard.edu
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Dec 12: FastMail's MySQL Replication: Multi-Master, Fault Tolerance, Performance. Pick Any Threeblog.fastmail.com
This blog post is part of the FastMail 2014 Advent Calendar. The previous post on 11th December was from our support team. Stay tuned for another post tomorrow. Technical level: medium For those wh... -
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America’s police on trialeconomist.com
THE store camera tells a harrowing tale. John Crawford was standing in a Walmart in Ohio holding an air rifle—a toy he had picked off a shelf and was presumably... -
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Google Removes Amazon’s App Listing From Google Play Search Following Addition Of Appstore, Instant Video Integrationstechcrunch.com
In October, we spotted that Amazon had quietly launched a hidden and functional app store within its main Android application which was available for download.. -
Staffers Walk Out Of Congress In Protest Over Brown And Garner Casesnpr.org
Dozens of congressional staff walked out of the Capitol Thursday, gathering on the steps to make the hands-up gesture that has come to symbolize frustration with the deaths of two unarmed black men. -
FedEx Tech Manager – computer services and helpfedex.com
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How Facebook Knows When Its Ads Influence Your Offline Purchases | WIREDwired.com
It has happened to you, and it has probably happened more than once. But you may not have realized why. And you may not have known you were helping to change online advertising and, well, advertising in general. Chances are, you’ve bought a hat or a sc...