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The Vagus Nerve: A Back Door for Brain Hackingspectrum.ieee.org
Doctors stimulate a nerve in the neck to treat epilepsy, heart failure, stroke, arthritis, and a half dozen other ailments -
Libraries And Cities Are Terrible At Keeping Track of Artatlasobscura.com
Late in May, when the Boston Public Library was still missing a Rembrandt etching worth $30,000 and a 16th century Dürer print worth $600,000, the situation... -
Opinion: Parallel Implementationsgamasutra.com
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday -opinion piece, id Software co-founder John Carmack explains why he implements new ideas in parallel with the old ones, instead of mutating existing code. - healthstone.ca
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Twitter Announces CEO Dick Costolo Stepping Down, Jack Dorsey Named Interim CEOtechcrunch.com
After years of growth struggles, Twitter just announced that its CEO Dick Costolo will be stepping down July 1st, though he'll remain on the board... -
StrongLikeBull - A Lesson in Recursion - LivingSocial's Technology Blogtechblog.livingsocial.com
&tl;dr; I’ve created a new gem called StrongLikeBull that suggests what parameters to permit in your strong parameters configuration based on what … -
Crawling Billions of Pages: Building Large Scale Crawling Cluster (part 1)engineering.bloomreach.com
This post is by Chou-han Yang, principal engineer at BloomReach. At BloomReach, we are constantly crawling our customers’ websites to ensure their quality and to obtain the information we need to r... - sarasotasheriff.org
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How a history of eating human brains protected this tribe from brain diseasewashingtonpost.com
The findings from Papua New Guinea offer possible insights into Alzheimer's and dementia. -
CiscoCloud/distributivegithub.com
distributive - A distributed, easily configured server health monitoring system. - rancher.com
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Lesson 10: UART Receive Bufferingsimplyembedded.org
In the last lesson, we created a very simple UART driver which polls the peripheral for received data. As we learned with the push button back in lesson 6, this is not the optimal solution for most... -
Fermented foods, neuroticism, and social anxiety: An interaction model. - PubMed - NCBIncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Psychiatry Res. 2015 Aug 15;228(2):203-8. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.04.023. Epub 2015 Apr 28. -
Type safe SalesForce Queries (SOQL) in Scaladeveloperblog.redhat.com
This blog shows how to implement a relatively simple type safe DSL for the SalesForce Object Query Language (SOQL). SalesForce doesn’t provide much tooling specifically for the Scala world, which g... -
The Human Family Tree Bristles With New Branchesnytimes.com
Scientists reported finding another species of ancient hominid, Australopithecus deyiremeda, fanning debate over the pace of evolution and the number of human forebears. -
Why did the Universe start off with Hydrogen, Helium, and not much else?scienceblogs.com
“I see a lot of new faces. But, you know the old saying, ‘out with the old, in with the nucleus.'” –The Simpsons Looking around the Universe today, there’s no doubt that there’s plenty of hydrogen and helium around; after all, it’s the nuclear fusion o... - schneier.com