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Dürer's polyhedron: 5 theories that explain Melencolia's crazy cubetheguardian.com
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Bluetooth Now Smarter and Faster to Enable IoT | Bluetooth Technology Websitebluetooth.com
Introducing Bluetooth 4.2. New Core Specification makes Bluetooth Smart smarter, faster and the ideal technology for the Internet of Things. Check out the features and benefits and the team who put it all together. -
Extending Van Gogh’s Starry Night with Inpainting—Wolfram Blogblog.wolfram.com
Digital inpainting can extend or repair photos, artwork, and other images. See how it works in the Wolfram Language, and try it yourself. -
Why has human progress ground to a halt? – Michael Hanlon – Aeonaeon.co
Some of our greatest cultural and technological achievements took place between 1945 and 1971. Why has progress stalled? -
Napoleon’s Guide to Improperly Using Cryptographywondersandmarvels.com
By Sarah Giordano (Guest Contributor) For all his military genius, the one idea that Napoleon could not quite seem to grasp was the importance of cryptography. Most prominently, this failing was se... -
The Weight of Guiltgrantland.com
Death, disgrace, and a handful of knockers: inside the secret world of competitive bass fishing cheaters. -
I Asked My North Korean Students to Write Critical Essays. They All Chose America as Their Topic.slate.com
Adapted from Without You, There Is No Us: My Time With the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim. Out now from Crown Publishers. Essay was a much-dreaded word among my students. It was the fall of 2011, and I was teaching English at Pyongyang Univers... -
Fialka: The Bigger, Better, Russian Enigmawondersandmarvels.com
By Matthew Gu (Guest Contributor) The nuclear capabilities of the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War were no small matter. A single attack could, in theory, escalate all the way... -
Building the promo video for Loose Leaf | Wulfwelcome.totheinter.net
For any other indie devs out there wondering what its like to hire out a promo video, I wanted to share my experience working with Josh at Bluepic Studios on -
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I Asked My North Korean Students to Write Critical Essays. They All Chose America as Their Topic.slate.com
Adapted from Without You, There Is No Us: My Time With the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim. Out now from Crown Publishers. Essay was a much-dreaded word among my students. It was the fall of 2011, and I was teaching English at Pyongyang Univers... - vldb.org
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Aliens in the valley: The complete and chaotic history of Redditmashable.com
Reddit's CEO shocked the tech industry by resigning. Yet it's just the latest dysfunctional episode that has nearly undermined Reddit's success. -
Hunting Task Wabbitsmedium.com
Everybody’s crazy mad with TaskRabbit — but the startup that launched the sharing economy really doesn’t want to talk ab… -
Introducing MakeSchoolmakeschool.com
We’re changing our name to MakeSchool and launching a new Gap Year program. Our revitalized mission is to build a more relevant and practical alternative to the computer science degree. -
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Welcome Michael, Jon, and Ilyablog.ycombinator.com
I’m delighted to share that Michael Seibel (formerly a part-time partner at YC) and Jon Levy (formerly a part-time lawyer for YC) are becoming partners. Additionally, Ilya Sukhar (former CEO of... -
Type-safe vector addition with Dependent Typeschrisstucchio.com
The two sides of my programming world have long suffered a disconnect. When I build a robust low latency system, I typically write it in a language like Scala. I make great use of type safety to reduce the number of errors I've made. On the other hand,... -
How the Brain Uses Glucose to Fuel Self-Controlonline.wsj.com
The brain requires tons of energy—and new experiments show how low glucose levels and self-control issues are connected.