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In the Mind of the Fractal King - Preview Issue: The Story of Nautilus - Nautilusnautil.us
Our namesake, the nautilus, is not just a cultural and mythical object; it has also some rich (and not imagined) math to it. That’s… -
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Welcome to September. It’s a new month and this yields another security and hacking incident. Back in August, The Register reported that the largest ever quotient of email addresses, usernames and passwords had been put together by groups of Russian ha... -
The Pentium 4 and the G4e: an Architectural Comparison: Part Iarstechnica.com
When the Pentium 4 hit the market in November of 2000, it was the first major … - batsh.org
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Deutsche Bank Fined $7.8 Million Over Faulty Reports on Swapsdealbook.nytimes.com
The Financial Conduct Authority of Britain said Deutsche Bank improperly reported about 29 million equity swap contracts handled in London from 2007 to 2013. - news.ycombinator.com
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Salaries paid in bitcoin a growing trend in Canadacbc.ca
A small but growing — and surprising — number of workers are rejecting Canadian dollar salaries for bitcoin, according to an Ontario payroll firm. - github.com
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Serotonin may not be a major factor in depression, study suggestsmedicalnewstoday.com
New evidence has put into doubt the long-standing belief that a deficiency in serotonin - a chemical messenger in the brain - plays a central role in depression. -
Millionaire Chess to Hit Las Vegas, in Gambit to Raise Game’s Profile With Big Prizesnytimes.com
The tournament is intended to be the first step in a multiyear plan to organize and run tournaments with big prize funds. - huffingtonpost.com
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An algorithm to figure out your genderboingboing.net
Twitter claims a 90 percent accuracy rate for the clever techniques it uses to learn the gender of any given user. Glenn Fleishman reports on a the company's disconcerting new analytics tools, the research behind them, and how large a pinch of salt the... -
Plants in offices increase happiness and productivitytheguardian.com
Study suggests that minimalist offices produce miserable employees because 'sometimes less is just less' -
String Deduplication - A new feature in Java 8 Update 20 - codecentric Blogblog.codecentric.de
Strings consume a lot of memory in any application. Especially the char containing the individual UTF-16 characters is contributing to most of the memory consumption of a JVM by each character eating up two bytes. It is not uncommon to … Continue readi... - fractio.nl
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Out in the Open: Hackers Build a Skype That’s Not Controlled by Microsoft | Enterprise | WIREDwired.com
The web forum 4chan is known mostly as a place to share juvenile and, to put it mildly, politically incorrect images. But it’s also the birthplace of one of the latest attempts to subvert the NSA’s mass surveillance program. When whistleblower Edward S...