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Live coding in VR with the Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript and Three.jsyoutube.com
I built a live-coding web app for the Oculus Rift where you code in JavaScript using Three.js and watch the world change around you in real-time. This only w... -
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The Germans are coming, againeconomist.com
We’re American, and German too AMERICA’S German roots are rich and strong. From California to New York, 48m people claim German ancestry, which would make them... -
Navy: Self-guided unmanned patrol boats make debutmyfoxal.com
Self-guided unmanned patrol boats that can leave warships they're protecting and swarm and attack potential threats on the water could join the Navy's fleet within a year, defense officials say, adding the new... -
Tim Lott – Zen Buddhism and Alan Wattsaeon.co
How I found my way out of depression, thanks to the writings of the English eccentric who brought Buddhism to the West - present.go-steel-programmers.org
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Some thoughts about the affordances and biases of social networksdajbelshaw.withknown.com
For the past few weeks I've been using a new social networking platform called Sublevel. While a few brave souls who follow me on Twitter -
A Couple Gaining Independence, and Finding a Bondnytimes.com
After a federal inquiry in Rhode Island turned the workplace of their repetitive jobs upside down, a couple with intellectual disabilities is marrying, learning to budget and adjusting to a new freedom. -
Why women leave tech: It’s the culture, not because ‘math is hard’fortune.com
Stories from 716 women who left tech show that the industry’s culture is the primary culprit, not any issues related to science education. -
To Find Meteorites, Listen to the Legends of Australian Aboriginessmithsonianmag.com
Oral traditions may have preserved records of impacts over thousands of years and could lead to fresh scientific discoveries -
The Most Ambitious Environmental Lawsuit Evernytimes.com
A quixotic historian tries to hold oil and gas companies responsible for Louisiana’s disappearing coast. -
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Why do roots of polynomials tend to have absolute value 1?mathoverflow.net
While playing around with Mathematica I noticed that most polynomials with real coefficients seem to have most complex zeroes very near the unit circle. For instance, if we plot all the roots of a -
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writing my first nlp application (in go)drshrey.github.io
A blog about me and my thoughts on programming, movies, books, food and places. -
Google to Make Security Guards Employees, Rather Than Contractorsblogs.wsj.com
In a move that could reverberate around Silicon Valley, Google plans to hire more than 200 security guards as its own employees, rather than through an outside contractor. -
Why haven't quadcopters been scaled up yet?aviation.stackexchange.com
Why are quadcopters not flown by human pilots yet? Wouldn't they be more stable and easier to control than helicopters? -
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I come to bury IAmCarbonatedMilk.com, not to praise itsalon.com
From BuyClamsOnline.com to billromanowskisucks.com, a stroll through the graveyard of defunct domain names offers a melancholy vision of really dumb hopes that were cruelly dashed. -
Fraud possible in Brazil's e-voting system | ZDNetzdnet.com
Vulnerabilities found in the pioneering electronic voting system could lead to tampering in the country's upcoming general elections.
