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James Dyson: ‘The Public Wants to Buy Strange Things’He made billions selling vacuums. Now he is backing Brexit, building an electric car — and making antiquated comments on ‘racial differences.’

How to build an autonomous, voice-controlled, face-recognizing drone for $200 More adventures in deep learning and cheap hardware.

How to build a robot that “sees” with $100 and TensorFlow Adventures in deep learning, cheap hardware, and object recognition.

Startups are raising too much money, says a veteran VC investor in India Avnish Bajaj of Matrix Partners regrets not investing in Paytm, OYO, and Snapdeal.

What Are the Biggest Problems Facing Us in the 21st Century?In “21 Lessons for the 21st Century,” Yuval Noah Harari’s latest book, the historian takes on everything from terrorism to inequality.

The Insect Apocalypse Is Here What does it mean for the rest of life on Earth?

Not Your Dickensian Bowl of Porridge Rice — left to rest overnight — is mixed with a brown-butter-squash purée to create a dish that is as satisfying at dinner as it is at breakfast.

The Key to This Creamy, Thick Pesto? A Mortar and Pestle I traveled to the proud home of basil pesto to learn the secrets of the sauce from a lifelong pounder.

The World Needs to Quit Coal. Why Is It So Hard?Coal, the most polluting of energy sources, shows no sign of disappearing three years after the Paris agreement, when world leaders promised decisive action against global warming.

Short Story (The Man Who Hated Time) - Beginners Contacto por instagram: @SoyGiorgio Contacto por WhatsApp: +58 414 338 6771 Contacto por e-mail: fundeit@outlook.com

North to the Future | Luke Wiget How do you escape the kind of future you think you should have? Start by taking a train to Oregon. Or a Cadillac. Or anything. New fiction from Luke Wiget!

quantamagazine.org

Data Driven: The New Big Science

Fruits of Thailand A list of some popular fruits of Thailand. Some of them are exported to all corners of the world, while others are rarely found outside of Thailand.

scalaformachinelearning.com

Bootstrapping by resampling with replacement Introduction the Bootstrap re-sampling with replacement and its implementation in Scala.

Mental Rock Climbing Problems: Rebus Puzzles (Part 1)Win a free subscription if you can solve them all!

Tech C.E.O.s Are in Love With Their Principal Doomsayer The futurist philosopher Yuval Noah Harari thinks Silicon Valley is an engine of dystopian ruin. So why do the digital elite adore him so?

Not enough people are paying attention to this economic trend Bill Gates reviews “Capitalism Without Capital” by authors Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake.

Startups have spun an incomplete narrative about the future of work The future of work can look very different depending on where you are standing.

How to Pick the Fastest Line at the Supermarket Experts offer tips for reducing your time in the grocery store checkout line.

blog.ycombinator.com

The Hidden Forces Behind Toutiao: China's Content King Toutiao, one of the flagship products of Bytedance, may be the largest app you’ve never heard of–it’s like every news feed you read, YouTube, and TechMeme in one. Without any explicit user inputs, social graph, or product purchase history to rely on, Toutiao offers a personalized, high quality-conte

multithreaded.stitchfix.com

Putting the Power of Kafka into the Hands of Data Scientists | Stitch Fix Technology – Multithreaded How Stitch Fix designed and built a scalable, centralized and self-service data integration platform tailored to the needs of their Data Scientists.

blog.twitter.com

Productionizing ML with Workflows at Twitter Cortex automates machine learning pipelines at Twitter with Airflow.

karpathy.github.io

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks Musings of a Computer Scientist.

JerryLead/SparkInternals Notes talking about the design and implementation of Apache Spark - JerryLead/SparkInternals

Your Easy Guide to Functional Reactive Programming (FRP)Managing state. It’s the bane of every programmer’s existence. The more stateful processes, subroutines, objects, components, widgets…

Your easy guide to Monads, Applicatives, & Functors Are you curious about monads? 🤔 Or maybe you’re further down the rabbit 🐰 hole, looking into applicatives? Does “functor” sound alien 👽…

quantamagazine.org

Plate Tectonics May Be Essential for Life Life needs more than water alone. Recent discoveries suggest that plate tectonics has played a critical role in nourishing life on Earth. The findings carry major consequences for the search for life elsewhere in the universe.

In Japan, the Kit Kat Isn't Just a Chocolate. It's an Obsession.The story of how Kit Kats, once a British chocolate export, became a booming business from Hokkaido to Tokyo - and changed expectations about what a candy bar could be.

quantamagazine.org

Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found The nearest neighbor problem asks where a new point fits into an existing data set. A few researchers set out to prove that there was no universal way to solve it. Instead, they found such a way.

Apple News’s Radical Approach: Humans Over Machines While Google, Facebook and Twitter face scrutiny for spreading misinformation, Apple has avoided scandal by using people to pick what news to show. Is that good for news outlets?

wiki.openag.media.mit.edu

pfc_edu_3.0 [OpenAg]

Can You Spot the Deceptive Facebook Post?Facebook has been plagued with disinformation posts placed by foreign operatives. Can you tell the difference between a real post and one designed to fool you?

Uber’s Big Data Platform: 100+ Petabytes with Minute Latency Responsible for cleaning, storing, and serving over 100 petabytes of analytical data, Uber's Hadoop platform ensures data reliability, scalability, and ease-of-use with minimal latency.

Here’s How America Uses Its Land

themindcircle.com

20 Adorable Animal Comics by Liz Climo Climo continues to tickle our funny bone and tug at our heartstrings with her ongoing collection of lighthearted animal comics.

lips.cs.princeton.edu

The Alias Method: Efficient Sampling with Many Discrete Outcomes – Laboratory for Intelligent Probabilistic Systems

snap.stanford.edu

Representation Learning on Networks

What Does It Take to ‘Assimilate’ in America?Americans often worry whether newcomers will adapt to our way of life. But we’ve never quite decided just what it is we demand of them.

How Chinese cuisine became India’s comfort food First cooked by immigrants in Calcutta, Chinese food has taken on a life of its own in India.

Is holacracy the future of work or a management cult?In a workplace that practices holacracy, there are no bosses, which is great—until it isn't.

theconversation.com

AI's first pop album ushers in a new musical era AI and human musical collaborations have been around since the 60s, but for the first time, we are hearing AI "pop" music: can AI actually create creative and emotionally engaging music?

theatlantic.com

How Railroad History Shaped Internet History It’s no accident that Iowa, where the first transcontinental railroad began, is now home to a huge data-center industry.

The Coaching Networks Playbook Emergence is a top enterprise cloud venture capital firm. We fund early stage ventures focusing on enterprise & SaaS applications. Emergence is one of the top VC firms in Silicon Valley.

Practical Frameworks for Beating Burnout After leading a massive division at LinkedIn, and now running three groups at a startup, Roli Saxena knows about burnout. Here's how she fights it with logic.

theatlantic.com

The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete Here's what's next.

Economic Growth – Paul Romer

The best parts of your childhood probably involved things today’s kids will never know Many people who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s are nostalgic for a childhood with lots of unstructured time—and no social media.

towardsdatascience.com

Coral Cities: An Ito Design Lab Concept – Towards Data Science For the past six months I have been fascinated by the concept of making city networks look like living corals.

forum.savingplaces.org

Why Do Old Places Matter? Architecture A discussion about why old places matter focused on architectural value.

towardsdatascience.com

On Average, You’re Using the Wrong Average — Part II Real & Simulated Data + Summary Statistic Dynamics using R & BigQuery