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154
The Future of Notebooks: Lessons from JupyterCon
http://willcrichton.net/notes/lessons-from-jupytercon/
8 years ago
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211
Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/25/skim-reading-new-normal-maryanne-wolf
317
50
Set Theory and Algebra in CS: Introduction to Mathematical Modeling (2013) [pdf]
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d106/6b6de601c1d7d5af25af3f7091bc7ad3ad51.pdf
290
208
If you’re unsure whether to quit your job or break up, you probably should
https://80000hours.org/2018/08/randomised-experiment-if-youre-really-unsure-whether-to-quit-your-job-or-break-up-you-really-probably-should/
276
226
Elm 0.19 Broke Us
https://dev.to/kspeakman/elm-019-broke-us--khn
275
150
Centralized Wins. Decentralized Loses
http://highscalability.com/blog/2018/8/22/what-do-you-believe-now-that-you-didnt-five-years-ago-centra.html
263
146
Money Really Does Lead to a More Satisfying Life
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/business/money-satisfaction-lottery-study.html
237
64
Japan to add millions of new nodes to federated Nextcloud network
https://nextcloud.com/blog/japan-to-add-millions-of-new-nodes-to-federated-nextcloud-network/
222
358
The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/25/opinion/sunday/student-debt-loan-default-college.html
207
114
Energy Department teams up with Bill Gates to move mini-nuclear plants to market
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/energy-department-teams-up-with-bill-gates-to-move-mini-nuclear-plants-to-market
183
49
A satellite engineer explains the basics of space electronics
http://blog.snapeda.com/2018/08/16/engineer-spotlight-brady-salz-from-astranis/
182
81
Go 1.11 and Beyond
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EwuJhEHR5Trr2aXBPQajZ2Hcoh29tm_LQCpgfrCnuRk/edit#slide=id.g33148270ac_0_143
175
95
An Oral History of ‘GoldenEye 007’ on the N64
https://melmagazine.com/an-oral-history-of-goldeneye-007-on-the-n64-129844f1c5ab
169
124
Great Barrier Reef headed for ‘massive death’
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2018/08/world/great-barrier-reef/
167
129
Office Life Is Destroying Your Butt
https://melmagazine.com/your-office-life-is-destroying-your-butt-b0b19a08cf3d
155
20
The Berklee College of Music Sampling Archive
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sound_samples
102
Staying Public
https://www.tesla.com/blog/staying-public
148
35
How to Fit a Large Program into a Small Machine (1999)
http://mud.co.uk/richard/htflpism.htm
147
78
The Paradox of Karl Popper
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/the-paradox-of-karl-popper/
136
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I Delivered Packages for Amazon and It Was a Nightmare
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/amazon-flex-workers/563444/
134
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Plastic Straws Aren’t the Problem
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-07/plastic-straws-aren-t-the-problem
15
Beyond the pixel plane: sensing and learning in 3D
https://thegradient.pub/beyond-the-pixel-plane-sensing-and-learning-in-3d/
116
72
Fortnite Android Installer allowed hackers to download and install anything
https://www.androidcentral.com/epic-games-first-fortnite-installer-allowed-hackers-download-install-silently
112
152
Paradise Lost: How Tourists Are Destroying the Places They Love
http://www.spiegel.de/international/paradise-lost-tourists-are-destroying-the-places-they-love-a-1223502.html
105
TKVDB: radix tree persistent key/value storage engine written in ANSI C
https://github.com/vmxdev/tkvdb
★ 343 C ISC– 8 years ago
99
94
Recycling in the United States is in serious trouble. How does it work?
https://mashable.com/2018/08/18/how-recycling-works/
98
31
JSCPP, a simple C++ interpreter written in JavaScript
https://github.com/felixhao28/JSCPP
★ 877 TypeScript MIT– 8 years ago
96
22
Hatchful – Create stunning logos in seconds
https://hatchful.shopify.com/
What stable kernel should I use?
http://kroah.com/log/blog/2018/08/24/what-stable-kernel-should-i-use/
89
12
Federated Learning
https://florian.github.io/federated-learning/
88
Evenly distributing points on a sphere
http://extremelearning.com.au/evenly-distributing-points-on-a-sphere/
87
13
Predict Economic Indicators with OpenStreetMap
https://janakiev.com/blog/osm-predict-economic-indicators/
86
40
Ethical OS and Silicon Valley’s Guilty Conscience
https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2018/08/24/striving-to-minimize-technical-and-reputational-risks-ethical-os-and-silicon-valleys-guilty-conscience/
79
24
Thorium power has a protactinium problem
https://thebulletin.org/2018/08/thorium-power-has-a-protactinium-problem/
19
Sarcasm Analysis Using Conversation Context
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07531
77
The hidden reality of ridiculously complicated algorithms
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/ridiculously-complicated-algorithms/
75
9
Divergence and curl: The language of Maxwell's equations and more [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB83DpBJQsE
74
42
Tesla Semi made it ‘across the country alone’
https://electrek.co/2018/08/25/tesla-semi-drove-across-country-supercharger-elon-musk/
30
Hackable humans and digital dictators: Q&A with Yuval Noah Harari
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/hackable-humans-digital-dictators-qa-yuval-noah-harari-180824095306982.html
73
53
Javascript Fundamentals: ‘this’ keyword
https://blog.bloomca.me/2018/08/24/javascript-fundamentals-this.html
German Cryptanalytic Attacks on the British World War II “TYPEX” Machine
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog//2018-08/2018-08-24.html
