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Chernoff Faces with D3 and React.jskilotau.com
TL;DR: here's the demo! Chernoff faces[1] are a useful way to visualize multivariate data in a way that leverages the great facial recognition ability of our brains. There's a great paper[2] about it too! Here's an example... -
On El Capitan’s Dawn Wall, Climb Thought to Be World’s Toughest Progresses Slowlynytimes.com
Two men are trying to scale more than half a mile of El Capitan without ropes except to catch their falls, which many would consider the hardest climb in the world. -
Virool - Video Seeding, YouTube Views, Social Video Advertising, Video Promotionvirool.com
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Cells on Film: making movies in biologyblog.wellcomelibrary.org
I am a scientist in the Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics. I am also a cinematographer. Making movies of cells and tissues under a microscope is -
Robber barons and silicon sultanseconomist.com
IN THE 50 years between the end of the American civil war in 1865 and the outbreak of the first world war in 1914, a group of entrepreneurs spearheaded America’s... - davidor.github.io
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When a Cartoonist Landed in L.A. County Jail, She Drew What She Saw, Using Only a Golf Pencillaweekly.com
In June 2014, I was arrested for violating a court order. I bailed out on July 3. But because I had no money and an overworked public defender, I knew I’d have to serve time for my violation. That’s when my mentor, animator-director Ralph Bakshi, advis... - nsdavidson.com
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Kyoto taxi drivers reduce convenience store robberies by 50 percent by doing absolutely nothingen.rocketnews24.com
Throughout 2014, Kyoto Prefectural Police began an initiative having taxi drivers and late-night convenience stores work together to reduce incidents of armed robbery. Although still early, the program has so far been rousing success, leading to a 48 p... -
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damocles - An Erlang library for generating adversarial network conditions for QAing distributed applications/systems on a single Linux box. -
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Traditional watchmakers turn to smartwatches as Montblanc unveils the e-Straptheguardian.com
Smartwatches are no longer just the domain of tech companies as watchmakers from Montblanc to Swatch enter the market -
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Is depression a kind of allergic reaction?theguardian.com
Caroline Williams: A growing number of scientists are suggesting that depression is a result of inflammation caused by the body’s immune system - battlecode.org
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