2012 - Data Science Current

The odd saga of CVE-2012-5639

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JANUARY 10, 2024

A new release for any project with a fix for a 12-year old CVE is going to stand out pretty obviously; a recent release has a fix of that nature, but the trail of CVE-2012-5639 is rather elusive. The Apache OpenOffice project made its 4.1.15

Rediscovering Literacy (2012)

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MAY 22, 2024

I’ve been experimenting lately with aphorisms. Pithy one-liners of the sort favored by writers like La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680). My goal was to turn a relatively big idea, the sort I would n…

Ancient Popcorn (2012)

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AUGUST 26, 2023

18, 2012. Reissued from Jan.

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The danger of delegating education to journalists (2012)

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JUNE 14, 2023

Anders Ericsson, Department of Psychology, Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida, October 28th, 2012 I have always viewed the APS Observer as a source for up-to-date summaries of advances in the wide research domains of the Association for…

The Camorra Never Sleeps (2012)

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APRIL 11, 2024

One of the Neapolitan underworld’s most powerful bosses, Paolo Di Lauro was invisible to the Italian police for most of his career. But since his 2005 capture, William Langewiesche reports, some wonder if Di Lauro was the only man capable of controlling Naples’s meanest streets. Photographs by Massimo Vitali.

Underscores are stupid? Get a Japanese keyboard (2012)

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JUNE 4, 2024

There was a surprising amount of discussion on Hacker News today on whether or not underscores are stupid, with suggestions ranging from changing key bindings to using the Dvorak layout. Here’s an alternative (although possibly slightly drastic) solution - get a Japanese keyboard:

Do we need copyright? (2012)

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JUNE 4, 2023

The concept of property is a social construction. Animals, such as cats, can own a piece of food, or a territory, but only as long as they are able to personally maintain a credible threat of violence. And animals can only defend concrete, physical properties, such as an area, a dead bird or a tree. … Continue reading Do we need copyright?

A vintage 1903 espresso machine at a Village cafe (2012)

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MAY 23, 2024

Sure Starbucks was the first retailer to mass market cappuccinos, lattes, and other espresso concoctions. But it was Caffe Reggio, a dimly lit place with an old-school Bohemian atmosphere at 113 Macdougal Street, which brought the first espresso machine to America in 1927, introducing New York to Italian coffee drinks.

Null is not false, part one (2012)

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The way you typically represent a "missing" or "invalid" value in C# is to use the "null" value of the type. Every reference type has a "null" value; that is, the reference that does not actually refer to anything.

The hierarchy of innovation (2012)

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AUGUST 25, 2023

“If you could choose only one of the following two inventions, indoor plumbing or the Internet, which would you choose?” ” -Robert J. Gordon Justin Fox is the latest pundit to ring the &#…

Deceit, Desire, and the Literature Professor: Why Girardians Exist (2012)

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APRIL 28, 2024

Casaubon called the future volumes. the Key to all Mythologies.—George George Eliot, Middlemarch Here are two readings of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Which do you think we should be teaching in our schools and universities?[1]Reading 1]Reading 1.

Most common PIN codes (2012)

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MAY 14, 2024

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The Story of Microsleep (2012)

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JUNE 1, 2023

It is time for a more hands-on post again. This time I am even going to give you some actual source code to play with! The issue I want to discuss today, is the issue of multithreaded GUIs. For the project I am currently working on, there are two reasons why the GUI should be multithreaded:…

Netflix never used its $1M algorithm (2012)

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JANUARY 10, 2024

Netflix was founded in the US in 1997, starting initially as a DVD-rental delivery service before finally morphing into more of a VoD streaming service. Today, it serves the US and Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, and, as of January th

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Seven signs of ethical collapse (2012)

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

How to spot moral meltdowns before it's too late.

Mystery monk makes billions with 5-hour energy (2012)

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Ever heard of Manoj Bhargava? Probably not. He's a former monk who struck it rich with that ubiquitous red bottle: 5-Hour Energy. Read his improbable story.

Singing synthesis as a new musical instrument (2012)

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Singing synthesis technology is changing musical situation in Japan recently. There are a lot of original compositions using singing synthesis softwares such as Vocaloid in a video site Niko Niko Douga or YouTube. Hit songs in the video sites are remastered and published as CDs from major record companies.

How is AI Powering the Future of Sports?

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MAY 25, 2023

FIFA announced Goal-Line Technology (GLT) in FIFA World Cup 2012 Japan […] The post How is AI Powering the Future of Sports? We can not imagine a sports industry without artificial intelligence, especially today! We’ve got a league of examples to admit that. appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Debian's /tmpest in a teapot

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JUNE 4, 2024

Debian had a major discussion about mounting /tmp as a RAM-based tmpfs in 2012 but inertia won out in the end. Debian systems have continued to store temporary files on disk by default. Until now. A mere 12 years later, the project will be switching to a RAM-based /tmp in the Debian 13 ("Trixie") release.

Decline in heart failure deaths has been undone, led by people under 45

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APRIL 24, 2024

death certificate data from 1999 through 2021, revealing a steady drop in deaths until 2012, when rates plateaued, then began to rise steadily, and accelerated upward once the Covid-19 pandemic arrived. The concerning conclusion comes as newer medications are raising hopes for better outcomes in the years to come.

Close to 2,000 Environmental Activists Killed Over Last Decade

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Between 2012 and 2022, at least 1,910 people advocating for environmental protection were killed worldwide, a new report finds. Read more on E360 →

Hotel WiFi JavaScript Injection (2012)

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APRIL 25, 2024

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How long is your child's lunch break? In France they get 2 hours (2012)

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MARCH 14, 2024

My post a couple of months ago about the long lunch break that French kids get (between one and a half and two hours) elicited a lot of great responses. By Ministry of Education regulation, French children spend a minimum of 30 minutes eating (it's often more), and then usually have at least an hour…

Computer built using swarms of soldier crabs (2012)

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JULY 1, 2023

Computer scientists at Kobe University in Japan have built a computer that draws inspiration from the swarming behavior of soldier crabs. The computer is based on theories from the early 1980s that studies how it could be possible to build a computer out of billiard balls. Proposed by Edward Fredkin and Tommaso Toffoli, the mechanical […]

Unix as IDE (2012)

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

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Remembering Jon Postel and the day he hijacked the internet (2012)

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DECEMBER 9, 2023

One January day in 1998, Jon Postel emailed eight of the 12 organizations that served as address books for the entire internet.

Wat [video] (2012)

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MARCH 29, 2023

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Ever Dealt with a Leap Second?

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The missing connection Without warning, on a summer evening in June 2012, multiple sites went down. This puzzle went beyond technical challenges and forced him to think deeply about the ripple effects space and time have on Ops, and the Earth itself. At first, Hany thought it […]

When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed (2012)

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Was the US drug Vioxx responsible for far more deaths than has been acknowledged so far?

Classification without Training Data: Zero-shot Learning Approach

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Since 2012 after convolutional neural networks(CNN) were introduced, we moved away from handcrafted features to an end-to-end approach using deep neural networks. This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction Computer vision is a field of A.I. that deals with deriving meaningful information from images.

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Learnable Programming (2012)

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

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Life on board a British nuclear submarine (2012)

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AUGUST 23, 2023

<p>They hug cruise missiles in their sleep, don't see women for months and their biggest fear is 'going wibble' Stephen Moss joins the crew of HMS Triumph</p>

The Nature of Code, refreshed

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APRIL 29, 2024

The original version from 2012 focused on Processing. Daniel Shiffman, who you might know from his enthusiastic YouTube channel The Coding Train , updated his book The Nature of Code. The new version uses p5.js js , while still focusing on “understanding the mathematical principles behind our physical world.”

More people should write (2012)

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

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Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are partners in crime (2012)

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Most applications do not deal with disks directly, instead storing their data in files in a file system, which protects us from those scoundrel disks. After all, a key task of the file system is to ensure that the file system can always be recovered to.

Evaluating Eye Tracking Systems for Computer Input (2012)

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MAY 10, 2024

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From Cyberdog to dataless files: a brief history of iCloud

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AUGUST 5, 2023

From Cyberdog in 1996, through iTools in 2000,Mac in 2002, the dreaded MobileMe in 2008, to iCloud in 2012 – a long and sometimes painful journey.

The little SSH that sometimes couldn't (2012)

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

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Small scale data migrations (2012)

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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Reviving decade-old Macs with antiX and MX Linux (2022)

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

I also had a 2012 Macbook Air no one was using, I was visiting family this past weekend and saw an iMac from 2007 and MacBook from 2008 destined for the trash. As the tech nerd of the family, I was asked if these machines were still useful at all.

Happiness ratings, by country and age

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MARCH 21, 2024

The World Happiness Report, published each year since 2012, just dropped for 2024. They focused on age and happiness this year. Overall, the United States ranked in the range from 17 to 29 among all countries, but was worse for young people. Finland was definitively at the top.

Banker pays $2M for coal mine, discovers $37B rare Earth elements

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DECEMBER 2, 2023

Former Wall Street banker Randall Atkins got a lot more than he bargained for when he paid $2 million for a Wyoming coal mine without even seeing it in 2012. At the time, he planned to make money selling coal from his mine to other plants.

How to Build a Windmill (2012)

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

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How to Learn Emacs (2012)

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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The odd saga of CVE-2012-5639

Rediscovering Literacy (2012)

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Ancient Popcorn (2012)

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The danger of delegating education to journalists (2012)

The Camorra Never Sleeps (2012)

Underscores are stupid? Get a Japanese keyboard (2012)

Do we need copyright? (2012)

A vintage 1903 espresso machine at a Village cafe (2012)

Null is not false, part one (2012)

The hierarchy of innovation (2012)

Deceit, Desire, and the Literature Professor: Why Girardians Exist (2012)

Most common PIN codes (2012)

The Story of Microsleep (2012)

Netflix never used its $1M algorithm (2012)

Seven signs of ethical collapse (2012)

Mystery monk makes billions with 5-hour energy (2012)

Singing synthesis as a new musical instrument (2012)

How is AI Powering the Future of Sports?

Debian's /tmpest in a teapot

Decline in heart failure deaths has been undone, led by people under 45

Close to 2,000 Environmental Activists Killed Over Last Decade

Hotel WiFi JavaScript Injection (2012)

How long is your child's lunch break? In France they get 2 hours (2012)

Computer built using swarms of soldier crabs (2012)

Unix as IDE (2012)

Remembering Jon Postel and the day he hijacked the internet (2012)

Wat [video] (2012)

Ever Dealt with a Leap Second?

When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed (2012)

Classification without Training Data: Zero-shot Learning Approach

Learnable Programming (2012)

Life on board a British nuclear submarine (2012)

The Nature of Code, refreshed

More people should write (2012)

Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are partners in crime (2012)

Evaluating Eye Tracking Systems for Computer Input (2012)

From Cyberdog to dataless files: a brief history of iCloud

The little SSH that sometimes couldn't (2012)

Small scale data migrations (2012)

Reviving decade-old Macs with antiX and MX Linux (2022)

Happiness ratings, by country and age

Banker pays $2M for coal mine, discovers $37B rare Earth elements

How to Build a Windmill (2012)

How to Learn Emacs (2012)

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