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github.com
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Ask Ethan #50: Why didn’t the Universe become a black hole?medium.com
With all the matter-and-energy so close together and so dense at the moment of the Big Bang, why didn’t it recollapse? -
Your Gut Bacteria Want You to Eat a Cupcaketheatlantic.com
A new study suggests the microbes in humans' intestines may influence food choices. -
scientificamerican.com
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news.ycombinator.com
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The Chairless Chair, an invisible chair that you can wearcnn.com
It's like a chair that isn't there, but magically appears whenever you need it. -
Autistics in the Silicon Valleymodelviewculture.com
While attempts to increase the size of the Autistic work force are laudable, it is important to critically think about how these attempts are executed. -
Researchers find it’s terrifyingly easy to hack traffic lightsarstechnica.com
Open wireless and default passwords make controlling a city's intersections trivial. - dropjar.com
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krebsonsecurity.com
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Robustness versus Accelerationmrtz.org
My blog post on the Zen of Gradient Descent hit the front page of Hacker News the other day. I don't know how that happened. It got me more views in one day than this most humble blog usually gets ... - neilmitchell.blogspot.com
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lwn.net
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The Smithsonian Wants You! (To Help Transcribe Its Collections)smithsonianmag.com
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gnu.org
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hci.stanford.edu
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rachelbythebay.com
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Amazon.com Coming to Shanghai's Free-Trade Zoneonline.wsj.com
Amazon.com plans to set up operations in Shanghai's new free-trade zone, a major move that will allow it to sell more merchandise from abroad in China and help boost competition against rivals like Alibaba. - opstarts.com
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Who Stole the Four-Hour Workday? | VICE United Statesvice.com
A four-hour workday could solve a lot of our problems. If everyone worked fewer hours, for instance, there would be more jobs for the unemployed to fill. The economy wouldn’t be able to produce quite…