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A Glimpse Inside the Hidden Vault Where Harvard Keeps Millions of Booksgizmodo.com
Harvard's flagship library, Widener, is an imposing granite cube built quite literally as shrine to the book. A central alcove cuts through the stacks to show off a prized relic: an original Gutenberg bible. But this is not the heart of Harvard's libra... -
Feynman Lectures on Computationbooks.google.com
When, in 198486, Richard P. Feynman gave his famous course on computation at the California Institute of Technology, he asked Tony Hey to adapt his lecture notes into a book. Although led by Feynman, the course also featured, as occasional guest speak... -
Wings of steeleconomist.com
A LOT of tosh is talked about “nanotechnology”, much of it designed to separate unwary investors from their hard-earned cash. This does not mean, though, that... - bashrcgenerator.com
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For Preventing Disease, Data Are the New Drugs - Issue 21: Information - Nautilusnautil.us
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100 Must-Read Articles on Testing and Optimization from 2014 - Brooks Bellbrooksbell.com
Every week we round up five of our favorite testing and optimization posts from around the web. Looking back over all the Top 5’s of 2014, we noticed a few trends. Inspired by this, we’ve collected 100 of our favorite articles and organized them around... -
Learning to love the command lineblog.expertinamonth.com
If you are trying to learn programming, then you MUST learn the command line. It’s unbelievable how many “professional programmers” struggle with the most basic of command line tasks. In fact, I often... -
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Introduction to Distributed Messaging with Elixir - Reactive.TIPS - The Official Blog of Reactive.IOreactive.io
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Meet the Man Who Finds Your Stolen Passwordspopularmechanics.com
Last summer a gang of Russian hackers was caught amassing the largest cache of stolen user names and passwords ever discovered—1.2 billion in all. Alex Holden found them. - iamthefold.com
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Could we stop the anti-vaxxers if we said measles contains gluten?theglobeandmail.com
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The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever - Telegraphtelegraph.co.uk
New data shows that the “vanishing” of polar ice is not the result of runaway global warming