-
Announcing Sidechain Elements: Open source code and developer sidechains for advancing Bitcoinblockstream.com
We’re excited to announce the release of Sidechain Elements. Sidechains extend Bitcoin functionality through interoperable blockchain networks and toda... -
The peculiar despair of the hotel room – Suzanne Joinson – Aeonaeon.co
Travel is supposed to make us feel more alive so why is the hotel room a place of such loneliness and despair? -
people.mozilla.org
-
50 hospitals charge uninsured more than 10 times cost of care, study findswashingtonpost.com
Researchers said the hospitals with the highest markups are not in pricey neighborhoods or big cities. -
In New York And LA, New Startup Communities Flourishtechcrunch.com
Like New York, Los Angeles is experiencing quite the renaissance in technology and entrepreneurship. Notable companies like Snapchat, TRUECar, DogVacay,.. - shashi.github.io
- fots.ua.ac.be
-
The Himalayan tea train that's running out of steam - BBC Newsbbc.com
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway once took tea from the foothills of the Himalayas to the world, but it now faces a slow extinction. -
swtch.com
- thlorenz.com
-
Dremel made simple with Parquet | Twitter Blogsblog.twitter.com
Columnar storage is a popular technique to optimize analytical workloads in parallel RDBMs. The performance and compression benefits for storing and processing large amounts of data are well docume... -
stellar.org
-
A better user interface for mathwabisabistartup.com
Interactive Exploration of a Dynamical System from Bret Victor on Vimeo. Interactive Exploration of a Dynamical System from Bret Victor on Vimeo. I recently stumbled upon this fascinating article a... -
github.com
-
news.ycombinator.com
-
State of Hyperparameter Selectionstartup.ml
View Notebook Historically hyperparameter determination has been a woefully forgotten aspect of machine learning. With the rise of neural nets - which require more hyperparameters, more precisely tuned than many other models - there has been a recen... -
vhemt.org
-
Black Hole Huntersnytimes.com
Aiming to make the first portrait of the hungry monster at the center of our galaxy, astronomers built ‘a telescope as big as the world.’ -
blog.benjaminfry.com
-
Robert Darnton closes the booknews.harvard.edu
A historian, digital library pioneer, and champion of books, Robert Darnton will depart Harvard early this summer, giving up his post as University Librarian to resume a life of full-time scholarship.
