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RethinkDB Course: Distributed Databasescourses.platzi.com
An open-source distributed database built with love. Enjoy an intuitive query language, automatically parallelized queries, and simple administration. - blog.kevmod.com
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Pi Day 2015: meet the man who invented πtheguardian.com
Anglesey-born William Jones was the first person to use the Greek letter π for the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. But who was this little-known figure? - fanfiction.net
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How To Clock a Glacier - Issue 22: Slow - Nautilusprime.nautil.us
A low-flying airplane buzzes along the coast of Greenland, hovering over a glacier. The belly of the plane holds a laser that bounces… -
The Shocking Finding From the DOJ's Ferguson Report That Nobody Has Noticedhuffingtonpost.com
The Department of Justice's 102-page report is a rich source of damning facts about the Ferguson criminal justice system. But tucked halfway in and passed over quickly is a truly revelatory set of figures: the arrest warrant data for the Ferguson Mun... - psmag.com
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Italian Architects Look To Replicate Success Of N.Y. High Line In Romenpr.org
The pedestrian and cyclist path would make use of a one-mile stretch of abandoned, elevated concrete track. "You are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city," Piano says. - bbc.com
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"You'd be impoverished to not know the story of video games"wrgms.com
We're incredibly lucky to be the very first generation to play videogames. But history moves fast and every day content is lost when services are shut down. -
π, Phase Space, and Bouncing Billiard Ballsaperiodical.com
There are many ways to estimate or calculate π, that number that is irrational, but well-rounded. But perhaps none is as remarkable as that outlined in a 2013 paper by G. Galperin. In this brief ar... - en.wikipedia.org