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Modeling communication mediums.medium.com
The natural transition of every medium, since the beginning of human communication, is from a necessity to a vehicle for… -
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Restless Genes - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazinengm.nationalgeographic.com
Scientists are trying to learn what drove us out from Africa and on to the moon and beyond. -
The inside story of PayPal's One Touch: Bill Ready's bet-the-company, six-year battle to make you spend more moneypando.com
On Tuesday, PayPal officially launched "One Touch For Web." The new service, an update of the mobile version of the One Touch e-commerce product that the company launched last August, allows consum... -
The birth of the weather forecast - BBC Newsbbc.com
Admiral Robert FitzRoy took his life 150 years ago. He gave the world the weather forecast. -
Emojineering Part 1: Machine Learning for Emoji Trendsinstagram-engineering.tumblr.com
🆒🆕In October 2011, Apple added the emoji keyboard to iOS as an international keyboard. Since then, digital language has evolved such that nearly half of comments and captions on Instagram contain... -
Probabilistic M2M Relationships Using Bloom Filters | Zack’s Blogzacharyvoase.com
Here’s an idea that’s been kicking around inside my head recently. -
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Personalized medicine: Time for one-person trialsnature.com
Precision medicine requires a different type of clinical trial that focuses on individual, not average, responses to therapy, says Nicholas J. Schork. -
I was underpaid for years and I didn't know it. #talkpaylimedaring.com
The recent hashtag #talkpay on Twitter reminded me of a situation I found myself in at a former job. I contracted with a local startup during my last few years of college, and they gave me a job offer the winter before I graduated. The $40,000/year ... -
The Old Consciousnessthenation.com
Hilary Mantel and Penelope Fitzgerald have saved historical fiction from a middlebrow wasteland. -
Bayesian Statistics and Multi-armed Banditstech.gc.com
A few weeks ago, during a GameChanger Hack Day, my fellow data engineer Zach Markin and I prototyped a multi-armed bandit micro service. As a motivating example, consider the problem of deciding between these three buttons on some page of a website. -
Coolest jobs in tech (literally): running a South Pole data centerarstechnica.com
You know it's cold when you have to heat the air used to cool your data center. -
Artificial photosynthesis could help make fuels, plastics, and medicine | KurzweilAIkurzweilai.net
Schematics of a general artificial photosynthetic approach. The proposed approach for solar-powered CO2 fixation includes four general components: (1) -
Why, after a year with Adobe EchoSign, I’m taking my business elsewheremedium.com
Neal Stephenson was right about bugs. A jobless Belgian might hold the answer. -
Grooveshark music-sharing service closes down - BBC Newsbbc.com
Music-streaming service Grooveshark has announced that it is shutting down. -
Venture Capitalists Enlist Student-Run Funds to Find the Next Facebookwsj.com
With fierce competition for spotting early startup winners, some venture capitalists are developing new strategies to find promising young businesses, such as sponsoring student-run funds. -
Bringing Clang to Windows - Visual C++ Team Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogsblogs.msdn.com
Catch up on the latest news, events, and technical insights from the Microsoft Visual C++ product team. Learn about new compiler and IDE features, dive into some code with language and feature samples, see how to build modern Windows 8 apps, meet the p... - pricetheory.uchicago.edu
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The best museum in Pariscraftsmanship.net
Gary Rogowski makes the case for a former church made into an encyclopedia of mankind’s greatest innovations and creative genius.
