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Supreme Court Ruling Fuels Fears of Police Overreach

citizenschronicle.org
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Neural network trained on 'Friends' can detect sarcasm 75% of the time

popsci.com
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Floor796

floor796.com
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Sitting on the Art

aeon.co
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Racing driverless cars is pushing autonomous technology

cnn.com

Editor’s Note: This CNN series is, or was, sponsored by the country it highlights. CNN retains...
Editor’s Note: This CNN series is, or was, sponsored by the country it highlights. CNN retains full editorial control over subject matter, reporting and frequency of the articles and videos within the sponsorship, in compliance with our policy. Hype over autonomous vehicles has sometimes outpaced reality. For years,...
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Hashing Modulo Theories

philipzucker.com

Hashing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function is a scrambly function that turns a datastructure into an integer. We anticipate that...
Hashing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function is a scrambly function that turns a datastructure into an integer. We anticipate that hash functions will have collisions. They have to. Good hash functions don’t have collisions for keys likely to appear together. It is “wrong” though if there is some notion of eq...
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Previsualization for Feature Films (1998)

stagetools.com
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Personality changes associated with organ transplants

mdpi.com

Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 13001 E 17th Pl, Aurora, CO 80045,...
Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 13001 E 17th Pl, Aurora, CO 80045, USA Department of Biology, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, 1420 Austin Bluffs Pkwy, Colorado Springs, CO 80918, USA Department of Psychiatry, Colorado Springs Campus, University of Colorado School of Medic...
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Transforming the National Gallery, one painting at a time

apollo-magazine.com

‘Often the most appropriate frame is the most invisible frame,’ says Peter Schade, head of framing...
‘Often the most appropriate frame is the most invisible frame,’ says Peter Schade, head of framing at the National Gallery in London. The sentiment points to a paradox: the more Schade excels at his work, the less people will notice it. It’s only when tastes run counter to his own that we are reminded that how paint...
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Swiss' Entire Boeing 777 Fleet Now Has Shark Skin Technology

simpleflying.com

SWISS has applied AeroSHARK technology to all 12 Boeing 777 fleet to reduce aerodynamic drag. Deployment...
SWISS has applied AeroSHARK technology to all 12 Boeing 777 fleet to reduce aerodynamic drag. Deployment was supported by Lufthansa Technik, BASF, and Swiss Confederation, enhancing efficiency. SWISS plans to consider AeroSHARK tech in other long-haul fleets. SWISS ' 12-strong Boeing 777-300ER fleet features new Aer...
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The Natural Selection of Bad Vibes

substack.com

TLDR: Things seem bad. But chart-wielding optimists keep telling us that things are better than they’ve...
TLDR: Things seem bad. But chart-wielding optimists keep telling us that things are better than they’ve ever been. How to explain this gap? Hypothesis: the point of conversation is to solve problems, so public discourse will focus on the problems—making us all think that things are worse than they are. A simple comp...
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Houston, We Have a Solution (2023)

worksinprogress.co

Houston is rarely held up as an example of good land use planning. The Texan city,...
Houston is rarely held up as an example of good land use planning. The Texan city, as recently as a few decades ago, famously had a downtown area consisting largely of car parking. But over the last 25 years, without the rest of the world noticing, things have been quietly changing. Downtown is no longer just a gian...
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500-year-old maths problem turns out to apply to coffee and clocks

newscientist.com

lost in space-time mathematics nuclear power
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Scrabble, Anonymous

theparisreview.org

alcoholics anonymous dispatch overheard
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Calculus with Julia

jverzani.github.io
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King Clone

wikipedia.org

34°25′14″N 116°42′17″W / 34.420445°N 116.704764°W / 34.420445; -116.704764 Ancient clonal colony of creosote bush in the...
34°25′14″N 116°42′17″W / 34.420445°N 116.704764°W / 34.420445; -116.704764 Ancient clonal colony of creosote bush in the Mojave Desert King Clone, the 11,700-year-old creosote bush ring in the Mojave Desert King Clone is thought to be the oldest creosote bush ring in the Mojave Desert. The ring is estimated to be...
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We'll need universal basic income – Geoffrey Hinton

bbc.com
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Psychedelics could treat some of the worst chronic pain in the world

vox.com
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Days since it was DNS

itwasdns.net
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A Teacher Did All He Could to Keep Kids Off Phones. He's Quitting in Frustration

msn.com
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Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones

bbc.com
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London Webcam

londonwebcam.co.uk

This is a view of Westminster Bridge, looking towards Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament...
This is a view of Westminster Bridge, looking towards Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament which you can see on the left-hand side. The bridge spans the River Thames. The camera is located at the east end of the bridge and is looking west, but it always feels like the bridges are going north to south because the riv...

big ben harrods london oxford street piccadilly circus
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Show HN: Peanut Butter Spinner

cdaringe.com

I love peanut butter. I also hate mixing it. There are many products available to mix...
I love peanut butter. I also hate mixing it. There are many products available to mix peanut butter for you, but I wanted my own design that took no effort to use. I'm looking for a "set it and forget it" solution. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, many natural peanut butters are not homogeneous at al...

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AI Is Taking over Accounting Jobs as People Leave the Profession

forbes.com

Experienced accountants are leaving for careers in finance, human resources and banking.getty The accounting profession is...
Experienced accountants are leaving for careers in finance, human resources and banking.getty The accounting profession is hemorrhaging talent and failing to see growth as young college graduates are not gravitating toward this once-buoyant sector. The shift in attitudes regarding the occupation presents an existent...
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