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Dark horse of the dark matter huntsymmetrymagazine.org
Dark matter might be made up of a type of particle not many scientists are looking for: the axion. -
University challengeeconomist.com
IT IS a long time since the groves of academe were paced only by men, but even now some of them are more populated by women than others are. Why, is a mystery.... -
Language Translation Tech Starts to Deliver on Its Promisebits.blogs.nytimes.com
It may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but translation tools are improving enough to imagine a day when a Spanish speaker and an English speaker can easily chat. -
alex/what-happens-whengithub.com
what-happens-when - An attempt to answer the age old interview question "What happens when you type google.com into your browser and press enter?" -
Servo: Building a Parallel Browseryoutube.com
Jack Moffitt http://lca2015.linux.org.au/schedule/30171/view_talk Servo is an experimental browser engine for modern multi-core hardware written in an experi... -
Oppenheimer, Unredacted: Part II – Reading the Lost Transcriptsblog.nuclearsecrecy.com
What do the newly released Oppenheimer transcripts tell us about the security hearing, and its original redaction? - paulgraham.com
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Scalability! But at what COST?frankmcsherry.org
Michael Isard, Derek Murray, and I recently sent in a HotOS submission (it’s not blind, so no harm talking about it, we think). The subject is hinted at from... -
Topic Analysis and Marc Andreessen’s Tweets - AdventureL(DA | and)dhurley14.github.io
Background Motivation I began this experiment with topic analysis on a friend’s suggestion on utilizing the treasure trove that is twitter. … -
Feeding the sharksslideshare.net
Powered by Rabbit 2.1.2 Feeding the Sharks Ruby Association Heroku @yukihiro_matz Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto - isaac-thedataincubator-project.herokuapp.com
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New Revelations U.S. Tracked Americans’ Calls for Over a Decadewsj.com
The Justice Department secretly kept a database of Americans’ calls to foreign countries for more than a decade, according to a new court filing and officials familiar with the program. -
What blocks Ruby, Python to get Javascript V8 speed?stackoverflow.com
Are there any Ruby / Python features that are blocking implementation of optimizations (e.g. inline caching) V8 engine has? Python is co-developed by Google guys so it shouldn't be blocked by soft... - personifyjs.github.io
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A Startup Just Got $30 Million to Shake Up the Garbage Industry | WIREDwired.com
Rubicon Global says the trash industry should make money by keeping junk out of landfills, not the other way around. -
Cuba Is Hoping To Replace Venezuelan Oil With American Touristsfivethirtyeight.com
Cuba’s strategic pivot toward the United States got specific on Thursday, as the White House announced new regulations easing travel and other restrictions for Americans wishing to go to the island...