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How Pixar Solves Problems From The Inside Outtechcrunch.com
It’s easy to forget that Pixar is a technology company. Mostly because the invention that they do is in service of a narrative. When done successfully, your.. -
A simple model for Kaggle Bike Sharing.brandonharris.io
I've since developed a more accurate model, but I wanted to share a my initial attempt at a model for this problem that turned out very well. Simply repating this should easily land you in the top half of contestants, if not higher. -
Reengineering Work: Don’t Automate, Obliteratehbr.org
Despite a decade or more of restructuring and downsizing, many U.S. companies are still unprepared to operate in the 1990s. In a time of rapidly changing technologies and ever-shorter product life cycles, product development often proceeds at a glacial... -
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Why .COM will probably get Netflixed by New TLDsalexkehr.com
Reed Hastings started Netflix because he was angry that Blockbuster charged him a $40 late fee for returning Apollo 13 late. A few years later, 9,000 Blockbuster stores (all of them) are closed, and the ... -
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antipope.org
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Your Brain's API: Giving and Getting Technical Help - Sasha Laundyblog.sashalaundy.com
Your Brain's API: Giving and Getting Technical Help Apr 11th, 2015 My talk at Pycon on April 11, 2015. Abstract Software engineers are never done … -
coolwanglu.github.io
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More Efficient TLB Shootdowns (illumos #5498)zinascii.com
A look into illumos #5498, more efficient TLB shootdowns. -
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adrianchadd.blogspot.com
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The gamble on Tesla’s gigafactory in the Nevada desertwashingtonpost.com
For Elon Musk’s venture and the state, success will depend on quickly deploying a skilled workforce. -
Huthos VPS Provider: Totally legit, 1000% not a criminal organizationmorris.guru
TL;DR I observed a hacker trying to compromise one of my internet-facing Linux servers and repurpose it to sell to unknowing legitimate customers. Forward Last year I built a system called Animus. In a nutshell, Animus is a intelligent... -
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Why Nobel-Winning Scientists are Getting Olderpriceonomics.com
Nobel Prize winners these days are older when they produce their discoveries, waiting longer for their prizes, and apparently they smell different. -
The State of Probabilistic Programmingmoalquraishi.wordpress.com
For two weeks last July, I cocooned myself in a hotel in Portland, OR, living and breathing probabilistic programming as a “student” in the probabilistic programming summer school run by DARPA. The... -
Everest: is it right to go back to the top?theguardian.com
A year after an avalanche killed 16 Sherpas, climbers are gathering at Everest again. Should Nepalese guides continue to be put at risk to help rich westerners to reach the summit?