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Is there something mysterious about mathematics? — Why isn’t it more mysterious? by Scott Aaronson — Aeon Ideasideas.aeon.co
In one sense, of course, there’s less mystery in math than there is in any other human endeavor. In math we can really understand things, in a deeper way than we ever understand anything else. (When I was younger, I used to reassure myself durin... -
Wherein I ridicule Facebook some more, then collaborate with the Panopticon.dnalounge.com
In my last update, I busted on Facebook for their relentless -- yet halfassed and inconsistent -- morality policing. They had blocked a bunch of ads that Hubba Hubba Revue had purchased, claiming that the ads didn't follow the rules, when in fact they ... -
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T.H. Tsien, 105, Dies; Scholar of Chinese Books Rescued 30,000 of Themnytimes.com
Professor Tsien risked his life in 1941 to smuggle tens of thousands of rare volumes to safety at the Library of Congress amid the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. -
Milestone Achieved: Over 1 Million Apps!crashlytics.com
Developer tools have always been about power, focusing less around ease-of-use and the overall user experience. When Jeff and I founded Crashlytics four years ago, we made it our mission to fix this. We didn’t just want to build the most powerful, y... -
Building A Salesforce Powered Call Center with Twilio TaskRoutertwilio.com
ThinkVoice gives businesses the communications tools they need to create exceptional customer experiences. ThinkVoice CEO Brian Coyle knows that something as si -
MongoDB + RocksDB at Parseblog.parse.com
If you've been paying attention to the MongoDB world lately, then you know that exciting things are afoot. The 3.0 release introduces a modular storage engine API, allowing third party engines like RocksDB, TokuDB and WiredTiger to integrate seamlessly... -
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Guy Trading at Home Caused the Flash Crashbloombergview.com
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EFF to Congress: Stop the Cybersurveillance Billseff.org
EFF joined over 50 privacy and civil society organizations that sent two letters to Congress demanding it vote against the Senate Intelligence Committee's cybersecurity "information sharing" bill, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (CISA... -
Adding Compose to the Swarm + Powerstrip + Flocker + Weave demo - ClusterHQclusterhq.com
Huge shout out to Ben Firshman for demoing live on stage our highly experimental demo of Swarm + Powerstrip + Flocker + Weave on-stage at Container Camp… in which he added Compose support to the demo! Here’s the part of Ben’s talk where he performs thi... -
Baidu's Boffin Describes Beijing's Homegrown Self-Driving Car - IEEE Spectrumspectrum.ieee.org
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9 Rules for Your Unborn (or Growing) Startup - Visible.vcvisible.vc
For the last few years I’ve gifted Rules for My Unborn Son, a book by Walker Lamond, to almost everyone I know that is graduating from high school or college. Now that I am a newly minted dad, I’ve revisited my own copy of the book to see if there is a... -
Microsoft hiring engineers for R projectsblog.revolutionanalytics.com
Are you a talented software engineer who would like to build out the R ecosystem and help more companies access the power of R? Microsoft (Revolution Analytics' parent) is hiring a new team to do just that: Our mission is to empower enterprises to easi... - blog.brokep.com
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Three Years on Rikers Without Trial - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
Jennifer Gonnerman on Kalief Browder, a Bronx teen-ager who was accused of stealing a backpack. He spent over a thousand days awaiting trial. -
Sometimes you understandhemlismessenger.wordpress.com
The road is long and winding and what lies ahead is often not as it looked. Lately we have been awfully quiet. The reasons are many, sad and non important right now. They have though made th... -
Is There Enough Meat for Everyone?gatesnotes.com
Bill Gates reviews the book “Should We Eat Meat?” by his favorite author Vaclav Smil. -
Yahoo Shows Growth in Mobile Advertising, but Results Miss Estimatesnytimes.com
The results reflect the slow progress by Yahoo’s chief executive, Marissa Mayer, in reviving the company.
