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A Brief History of the Wristwatchtheatlantic.com
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Q: Is there such a thing as half a derivative?askamathematician.com
The original question was: Another one of those questions of the type "does this make sense". You have first derivatives and second derivatives. f'(x), f''(x) or sometimes dy/dx and d^2y/dx^2. Is... -
Basho Relaunches To Deliver A Cohesive Big Data Platformforbes.com
Database and big data vendor Basho has had something of a turbulent history - not unlike many other vendors, its path to success has included twists, turns, pivots and organizational changes. But under it's relatively new CEO, Adam Wray, Basho seems to... -
Meet Improbable, The Startup Building The World's Most Powerful Simulationsforbes.com
Improbable invented a new way to simulate almost any complex system in software. Warriors, gamers and economists are extremely interested. -
LRB · Mike Jay · The Wrong Head: Am I Napoleon?lrb.co.uk
‘Scarcely one year has gone by, and everything has taken on a new countenance.’ Early in the French Revolution, in 1790, Philippe Pinel observed the ‘salutary effects of the progress of liberty’ everywhere he looked. During the Ancien Régime he had see... -
Bloomberg Beta Continues Its Data-Based Outreach Targeting Future Founderstechcrunch.com
The venture arm of the media and information services giant Bloomberg is continuing its grand experiment in data-driven outreach to folks the firm thinks have.. -
America's Peculiar Bail Systempriceonomics.com
In the truest sense, the ability to pay for bail is the ability to buy freedom, and there is a wide disparity in Americans’ ability to do so. -
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Kazakhstan's mass antelope deaths mystify conservationiststheguardian.com
With over 19,000 carcasses buried and more deaths expected officials are no closer to determining the cause of the catastrophe. RFE/RL report - sciencedaily.com
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The case for publicly funded therapytheglobeandmail.com
Mental illness affects one in five Canadians and costs us nearly $50-billion a year. So why aren’t we treating it like any other health-care crisis? Erin Anderssen explores the case for publicly funded psychotherapy -
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Multi-host Docker deployment with Swarm and Compose using Weave 0.11blog.weave.works
In this post I’d like to show how easily one can get up-and-running using Weave with all the latest and greatest Docker tools - Machine, Swarm and Compose. This was made especially simple with two ... -
Announcing Dolby Audio for high performance audio in Microsoft Edgeblogs.windows.com
Web browser media experiences have advanced significantly in recent years, from the first releases of HTML5 media, through the subsequent additions of Media Source Extensions for adaptive streaming and Encrypted Media Extensions for content protection.... -
Sony Buys a Facebook Spinoff to Give New Life to Blu-ray | WIREDwired.com
The Blue-Ray disc isn't as dead as you think it is. -
What Happens to Students When Their Professors Are on Welfaretheatlantic.com
The plight of non-tenured professors is widely known, but what about the impact they have on the students they’re hired to instruct? -
Why Your Dog Can Get Vaccinated Against Lyme Disease And You Can’twbur.org
Modern science has given us a vaccine against Lyme disease. But we don't use it. -
Illumigami | The Conference Room Heroillumigami.io
Find an available meeting room at a moment's notice with Illumigami. -
The Open Organization | Red Hatredhat.com
Learn more about CEO Jim Whitehurst’s book and see how inspired modern leadership and radically open organizations are changing business management.
