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45drives.blogspot.com
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The New Jews of Harvard Admissionswsj.com
Jason L. Riley on the new Jews of Harvard admissions: Asian-Americans are rebelling over evidence that affirmative action discriminates against them but elite colleges deny using quotas. -
Information Exchange Between the Ubuntu Community Council and the Kubuntu Councilskitterman.wordpress.com
Here is all that we have to share in terms of background information. The Ubuntu governance goals demand that "Decisions regarding the Ubuntu distribution and community are taken in a fair and tra... -
‘The Millionaire and the Bard,’ by Andrea E. Maysnytimes.com
Henry Folger set out to purchase as many First Folios as he could — and succeeded. -
The Proof of Wagner’s Conjecture and Why it Mattersmedium.com
This post was adapted from a Term Paper written for my Spring ’15 Combinatorics class Math155r at Harvard College -
bliki: Yagnimartinfowler.com
Yagni ("You Aren't Gonna Need It") is the principle that we should not build presumptive features. It should not be used as a justification for neglecting internal quality. -
shipilev.net
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recurse.com
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Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processingblog.acolyer.org
Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing - Malewicz et al. (Google) 2010 "Many practical computing problems concern large graphs." Yesterday we looked at some of the models for understandi... -
The female mathematician who changed the course of physics—but couldn’t get a jobarstechnica.com
(Emmy) Noether's Theorem may be the most important theoretical result in modern physics. - pl.atyp.us
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The Myth That the Highway Lane Next to Yours Is Moving Fastercitylab.com
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Why We'd Be Better Off if Napoleon Never Lost at Waterloosmithsonianmag.com
On the bicentennial of the most famous battle in world history, a distinguished historian looks at what could have been -
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github.com
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Why investors don't fund datingandrewchen.co
I’ve been listening to the excellent Season 2 of the podcast Startup, which gives an inside look at YCombinator startup The Dating Ring (NYT coverage here). The episodes are all great. They talk about a couple different important topics, but I had a co... - google-opensource.blogspot.com
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Critical massblog.nuclearsecrecy.com
The problem with thinking about the "critical mass" as a fixed quantity, and a new visualization to aid in thinking about it in a better way. -
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