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Navy: Self-guided unmanned patrol boats make debutmyfoxal.com
Self-guided unmanned patrol boats that can leave warships they're protecting and swarm and attack potential threats on the water could join the Navy's fleet within a year, defense officials say, adding the new... -
Tim Lott – Zen Buddhism and Alan Wattsaeon.co
How I found my way out of depression, thanks to the writings of the English eccentric who brought Buddhism to the West - present.go-steel-programmers.org
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Some thoughts about the affordances and biases of social networksdajbelshaw.withknown.com
For the past few weeks I've been using a new social networking platform called Sublevel. While a few brave souls who follow me on Twitter -
A Couple Gaining Independence, and Finding a Bondnytimes.com
After a federal inquiry in Rhode Island turned the workplace of their repetitive jobs upside down, a couple with intellectual disabilities is marrying, learning to budget and adjusting to a new freedom. -
Why women leave tech: It’s the culture, not because ‘math is hard’fortune.com
Stories from 716 women who left tech show that the industry’s culture is the primary culprit, not any issues related to science education. -
To Find Meteorites, Listen to the Legends of Australian Aboriginessmithsonianmag.com
Oral traditions may have preserved records of impacts over thousands of years and could lead to fresh scientific discoveries -
The Most Ambitious Environmental Lawsuit Evernytimes.com
A quixotic historian tries to hold oil and gas companies responsible for Louisiana’s disappearing coast. -
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Why do roots of polynomials tend to have absolute value 1?mathoverflow.net
While playing around with Mathematica I noticed that most polynomials with real coefficients seem to have most complex zeroes very near the unit circle. For instance, if we plot all the roots of a -
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writing my first nlp application (in go)drshrey.github.io
A blog about me and my thoughts on programming, movies, books, food and places. -
Google to Make Security Guards Employees, Rather Than Contractorsblogs.wsj.com
In a move that could reverberate around Silicon Valley, Google plans to hire more than 200 security guards as its own employees, rather than through an outside contractor. -
Why haven't quadcopters been scaled up yet?aviation.stackexchange.com
Why are quadcopters not flown by human pilots yet? Wouldn't they be more stable and easier to control than helicopters? -
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I come to bury IAmCarbonatedMilk.com, not to praise itsalon.com
From BuyClamsOnline.com to billromanowskisucks.com, a stroll through the graveyard of defunct domain names offers a melancholy vision of really dumb hopes that were cruelly dashed. -
Fraud possible in Brazil's e-voting system | ZDNetzdnet.com
Vulnerabilities found in the pioneering electronic voting system could lead to tampering in the country's upcoming general elections. - aristeia.com
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Computer says “try this”economist.com
APPLES, mushrooms and pork sounds a promising recipe for a kebab, but the average barbecuer might balk at adding strawberries. According to John Gordon of IBM,... - cs.cmu.edu
