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An algorithm to figure out your genderboingboing.net
Twitter claims a 90 percent accuracy rate for the clever techniques it uses to learn the gender of any given user. Glenn Fleishman reports on a the company's disconcerting new analytics tools, the research behind them, and how large a pinch of salt the... -
youtube.com
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Plants in offices increase happiness and productivitytheguardian.com
Study suggests that minimalist offices produce miserable employees because 'sometimes less is just less' -
String Deduplication - A new feature in Java 8 Update 20 - codecentric Blogblog.codecentric.de
Strings consume a lot of memory in any application. Especially the char containing the individual UTF-16 characters is contributing to most of the memory consumption of a JVM by each character eating up two bytes. It is not uncommon to … Continue readi... -
fractio.nl
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blog.easydns.org
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cheswick.com
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Out in the Open: Hackers Build a Skype That’s Not Controlled by Microsoft | Enterprise | WIREDwired.com
The web forum 4chan is known mostly as a place to share juvenile and, to put it mildly, politically incorrect images. But it’s also the birthplace of one of the latest attempts to subvert the NSA’s mass surveillance program. When whistleblower Edward S... -
A zap to the brain can trigger a lucid dreammnn.com
Lucid dreams are an opportunity to observe how the brain changes from one state of consciousness to another, a boon to those who study how consciousness works. -
github.com
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Start-Ups Accrue Funding in Case of Leaner Timesdealbook.nytimes.com
Some entrepreneurs say worries about a possible downturn are partly why they are stocking up on financing, essentially taking out insurance on the risk of harder days ahead. -
Tech Talent Hunt Tries New Venue: Middle Schoolonline.wsj.com
Apple and Google are providing programing tools and inviting software coders as young as 13 years old to conferences, looking to land whiz kids interested in writing apps for their smartphones and tablet computers. -
Boolean Satisfiability: Theory and Engineeringcacm.acm.org
The Boolean Satisfiability Problem is a problem of central importance in computer science. At the same time, it is a paradigmatic constraint-satisfaction problem with numerous applications, including hardware and software design, operations research... -
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An Experimental Investigation of the Functional Hypothesis and Evolutionary Advantage of Stone-Tipped Spearsplosone.org
PLOS ONE: an inclusive, peer-reviewed, open-access resource from the PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SCIENCE. Reports of well-performed scientific studies from all disciplines freely available to the whole world. -
adrianlopezroche/fdupesgithub.com
fdupes - FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories. -
What your 1st-grade life says about the rest of itwashingtonpost.com
A study over decades of young Baltimoreans offers insight into who succeeds and why. -
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