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The Proof of Wagner’s Conjecture and Why it Mattersmedium.com
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bliki: Yagnimartinfowler.com
Yagni ("You Aren't Gonna Need It") is the principle that we should not build presumptive features. It should not be used as a justification for neglecting internal quality. -
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recurse.com
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Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processingblog.acolyer.org
Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing - Malewicz et al. (Google) 2010 "Many practical computing problems concern large graphs." Yesterday we looked at some of the models for understandi... -
The female mathematician who changed the course of physics—but couldn’t get a jobarstechnica.com
(Emmy) Noether's Theorem may be the most important theoretical result in modern physics. - pl.atyp.us
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The Myth That the Highway Lane Next to Yours Is Moving Fastercitylab.com
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Why We'd Be Better Off if Napoleon Never Lost at Waterloosmithsonianmag.com
On the bicentennial of the most famous battle in world history, a distinguished historian looks at what could have been -
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github.com
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Why investors don't fund datingandrewchen.co
I’ve been listening to the excellent Season 2 of the podcast Startup, which gives an inside look at YCombinator startup The Dating Ring (NYT coverage here). The episodes are all great. They talk about a couple different important topics, but I had a co... - google-opensource.blogspot.com
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Critical massblog.nuclearsecrecy.com
The problem with thinking about the "critical mass" as a fixed quantity, and a new visualization to aid in thinking about it in a better way. -
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jariz.github.io
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How Browsers Work: Behind the scenes of modern web browsers - HTML5 Rockshtml5rocks.com
In this comprehensive primer, you will learn what happens in the browser between when you type google.com in the address bar until you see the Google page on the browser screen. -
PowerPoint should be banned. This PowerPoint presentation explains why.washingtonpost.com
Make these slides the last ones you ever read. -
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