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Asilomar Principles (2017)

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

At a 2017 FLI conference, AI scientists and researchers developed the highly influential Asilomar AI governance principles. Add your signature.

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Chlormequat in food and urine from adults in the United States from 2017 to 2023

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

with detection frequencies of 69%, 74%, and 90% for samples collected in 2017, 2018–2022, and 2023, respectively. Chlormequat was detected at low concentrations in samples from 2017 through 2022, with a significant increase in concentrations for samples from 2023.

Eclipses in the Saturn System (2017)

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JANUARY 10, 2024

21, 2017, which will be visible all across North America, you may have wondered: Do eclipses happen on other planets? With a solar eclipse approaching on Aug.

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-Werror Is not your friend (2017)

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

22 May 2017 by Phillip Johnston • Last updated 8 September 2023I want to make a few points up front to short-circuit common misunderstandings with this article: I have a zero warning policy on my projects. I turn on a lot of warnings. Wall, -Wextra, and a whole host of specific warning flags.

Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Nearly 500 brands exited smartphone market during 2017-2023

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In 2017, the global smartphone market had over 700 brands that were competing. In contrast, today, the number is down to almost 250.

Things I wish I’d known before fulltime RVing (2017)

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JUNE 20, 2023

Pre-Post Note/ Nov 2017. Although this post was written in 2011 it's still my most popular post ever (!!), so I'm refreshing it as part of our 8th year on the road. See my updates in italics below the original text on each topic. One of the beautiful things about aging is you carry along the…

What's Going on with 'Nonplussed'? (2017)

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APRIL 29, 2024

Nonplussed' by definition means that one is perplexed, but a modern usage has sprung up to mean nonchalance. We try to explain how this came about and how to deal with it.

STAT+: NYU professors who defended vaping didn’t disclose ties to Juul, documents show

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MAY 6, 2024

Abrams, a frequent commentator about vaping in the news media, including CBS This Morning, CNN, and The New Yorker, coordinated extensively with Juul on public messaging in 2017 and 2018, according to company emails.

Pen Plotter Programming: The Basics (2017)

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MAY 12, 2024

Plotters were a thing before we had nice laser and inkjet printers. But now they’re coming back like 80s music (lol), this time at the…

Greg (2017)

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NOVEMBER 18, 2023

A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like. I now have an answer: Greg Brockman. Every successful startup I know has at least one person who provides the force of will to make.

Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression (2017)

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MAY 10, 2024

BBC journalist and the documentarian behind HyperNormalisation, Adam Curtis, discusses art, individualism, power, myth, and the complications of self-expression.

Don't Say Velcro (2017)

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

Our legal team decided to clear a few things up about using the VELCRO® trademark correctly. Don't say "Velcro", say VELCRO® Brand.

Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem (2017)

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MAY 16, 2024

Yet, every time you go to a new area, or load a new effect, there's a very slight but noticeable "stutter." When you're playing your favorite game on Dolphin with a powerful computer, things should run fairly well.

ESP8266 DIY Smart Socket (2017)

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Making things is fun, and adding ESP8266s to household items to turn it into IoT devices seems to be my new hobby! In this project, I'm adding an ESP8266 to an Aukey charger to create a DIY Smart Socket. This is the 2nd part of the guide focusing on the hardware.

How Equifax Was Breached in 2017

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

On a Saturday night, a security engineer at Equifax was updating an SSL certificate on a Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS). Immediately after, suspicious connections were detected. After a more in-depth investigation, it became evident that the situation was far graver than anticipated.

Good news for data scrapers! US appeals court rules out that it is legal for public data

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APRIL 21, 2022

In 2017, HiQ filed a lawsuit against LinkedIn’s. Public data scraping is not a problem according to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The court recently ruled that data scraping from a public website does not constitute computer fraud under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).

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The Reconstruction of Ulysses S Grant (2017)

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APRIL 12, 2024

As a civilian, the beloved American Civil War general and two-term president failed at every attempt to make money. Except for one.

Detecting SSH Tunnels (2017)

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

SSH is an incredibly powerful protocol whose footprint needs to be monitored closely in enterprises. The most common use of SSH is for totally legitimate purposes like terminal (ssh) or for file transfer (scp,sftp).

Interview with a blind developer on how he works (2017)

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APRIL 4, 2024

It’s only me, and my colleagues can assure you that I’m mostly harmless. I do software development and work at one of Vincit offices in Phoenix, Arizona.

Please, Enough with the Dead Butterflies (2017)

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MARCH 3, 2024

We all have pet peeves, even though there's a lot going on in the world that makes them pretty insignificant. While acknowledging that there are many more

Forrest Mims and RadioShack (2017)

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

There was a time when Radio Shack offered an incredible variety of supplies for the electronics hobbyist. In the back of each store, past the displays of Realistic 8-track players, Minimus-7 speakers,

The Solar Eclipse and the Substitute King (2017)

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APRIL 8, 2024

Sarah Graff, associate curator in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, reveals a surprising ancient Assyrian ritual, routinely performed at the time of a solar eclipse, that involved the creation of a temporary substitute king.

Do we need swap on modern systems? (2017)

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MARCH 10, 2024

Swap is used to give processes room, even when the physical RAM of the system is already used up. In a normal system configuration, when a system faces memory pressure, swap is used, and later when the memory pressure disappears and the system returns to normal operation, swap is no longer used.

Announcing Data Natives Berlin 2017!

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Data Natives Berlin 2017: A Conference for the Data-Driven Generation This November, Dataconomy’s global community of data science enthusiasts will once again gather in Berlin for the widely-celebrated, third edition of the Data Natives conference. appeared first on Dataconomy.

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A City Is Not a Computer (2017)

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APRIL 13, 2024

This seems an obvious truth, but we need to say it loud and clear. Urban intelligence is more than information processing.

Dealing with surprising human emotions: desk moves (2017)

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Dealing with surprising human emotions is one of the most challenging aspects of being a manager. Generally, when someone appears triggered, or angry, or some other strong emotion that’s surprising, it’s likely that their amygdala has been hijacked, which I’ve written about before.

An artificial glacier growing in the desert (2017)

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Using nothing but physics, Indian engineer Sonam Wangchuk is creating giant ‘ice stupas’ in the Tibetan plateau to counteract the effects of climate change.

Introduction to Thompson Sampling: The Bernoulli Bandit (2017)

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Thompson Sampling is a very simple yet effective method to addressing the exploration-exploitation dilemma in reinforcement/online learning. In this series of posts, I’ll introduce some applications of Thompson Sampling in simple examples, trying to show some cool visuals along the way. All the code can be found on my GitHub page here.

The tech behind Artifact, the newly launched news aggregator from Instagram’s co-founders

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MARCH 7, 2023

Late last month, Artifact , a personalized news reader built by Instagram’s co-founders, opened to the public. The launch was a surprise to many consumers, who wondered why the team behind one of the world’s most iconic social apps would return to startups to focus on one of the toughest areas instead: news.

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NLP News Cypher | 07.26.20

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JULY 21, 2023

Photo by Will Truettner on Unsplash NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP) WEEKLY NEWSLETTER NLP News Cypher | 07.26.20 The last known comms from 3301 came in April 2017 via Pastebin post. Last Updated on July 21, 2023 by Editorial Team Author(s): Ricky Costa Originally published on Towards AI. Sign Up , it unlocks many cool features!

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Why does the `reset` command include a delay? (2017)

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MARCH 7, 2024

The reset command includes a delay, between clearing the screen and returning. This is even on the latest terminal type xterm-256color. man reset does not mention a delay, only the printing.

A walk through Chicago Pedway (2017)

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FEBRUARY 10, 2024

The underground walkway is a shield against winter weather and connects to dozens of buildings in the Loop.

How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2017)

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APRIL 16, 2024

15 years on, Winamp "still lives"—but mismanagement blunted its llama-whipping.

Do be do be do (2017) [pdf]

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MARCH 30, 2024

We explore the design and implementation of Frank, a strict functional programming language with a bidirectional effect type system designed from the ground up around a novel variant of Plotkin and Pretnar's effect handler abstraction.

The VC acid test as a founder (2017)

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APRIL 17, 2024

“A contract is only as good as the people who sign it,” was a saying often quoted by an elderly attorney I worked with for the first fifteen years of my practice and I always nodded in his general direction when he said that and smiled as if agreeing.

The United Slate (2017)

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NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Part of California’s housing problem is an infrastructure problem.

Cold showers on overhyped topics (2017)

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JANUARY 4, 2024

For when people get too hyped up about things. Contribute to hwayne/awesome-cold-showers development by creating an account on GitHub.

How to use repetition (2017)

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JUNE 4, 2023

A couple times a week, I hear someone remark “It is what it is,” accompanied by a weary sigh. I always puzzle over the expression a little bit, thinking What else could it be?

Announcing confirmed speakers for Data Natives 2017

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OCTOBER 5, 2017

Whether focused on the fastest growing developments in fields such as FinTech and AI or examining the many minute ways that data sets can affect individuals, The post Announcing confirmed speakers for Data Natives 2017 appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Medjed: From Ancient Egypt to Japanese Pop Culture (2017)

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JANUARY 18, 2024

Salvador Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart. Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Email: salvador.rodrigo.b (at) at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF [link] Not so long ago I have devoted a good deal of time and effort analyzing Egyptian mythology in the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona video game series (Salvador, 2015).

Samuel Morland, Magister Mechanicorum (2017)

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JUNE 1, 2023

Samuel Morland was many things - writer, spy, and mathematician. But it was his inventions that led to King Charles naming him "Magister Mechanicorum"

It's official: ADSL works over wet string (2017)

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MAY 17, 2024

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The Ornate Bird Palaces of Ottoman-Era Turkey (2017)

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

An important element of Ottoman architecture in Turkey was the addition of birdhouses affixed to the outer walls of significant city structures, a safe space for regular avian guests to nest outside of mosques, inns, bridges, libraries, schools, and fountains.

Asilomar Principles (2017)

Chlormequat in food and urine from adults in the United States from 2017 to 2023

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Eclipses in the Saturn System (2017)

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-Werror Is not your friend (2017)

Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Nearly 500 brands exited smartphone market during 2017-2023

Things I wish I’d known before fulltime RVing (2017)

What's Going on with 'Nonplussed'? (2017)

STAT+: NYU professors who defended vaping didn’t disclose ties to Juul, documents show

Pen Plotter Programming: The Basics (2017)

Greg (2017)

Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression (2017)

Don't Say Velcro (2017)

Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem (2017)

ESP8266 DIY Smart Socket (2017)

How Equifax Was Breached in 2017

Good news for data scrapers! US appeals court rules out that it is legal for public data

The Reconstruction of Ulysses S Grant (2017)

Detecting SSH Tunnels (2017)

Interview with a blind developer on how he works (2017)

Please, Enough with the Dead Butterflies (2017)

Forrest Mims and RadioShack (2017)

The Solar Eclipse and the Substitute King (2017)

Do we need swap on modern systems? (2017)

Announcing Data Natives Berlin 2017!

A City Is Not a Computer (2017)

Dealing with surprising human emotions: desk moves (2017)

An artificial glacier growing in the desert (2017)

Introduction to Thompson Sampling: The Bernoulli Bandit (2017)

The tech behind Artifact, the newly launched news aggregator from Instagram’s co-founders

NLP News Cypher | 07.26.20

Why does the `reset` command include a delay? (2017)

A walk through Chicago Pedway (2017)

How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2017)

Do be do be do (2017) [pdf]

The VC acid test as a founder (2017)

The United Slate (2017)

Cold showers on overhyped topics (2017)

How to use repetition (2017)

Announcing confirmed speakers for Data Natives 2017

Medjed: From Ancient Egypt to Japanese Pop Culture (2017)

Samuel Morland, Magister Mechanicorum (2017)

It's official: ADSL works over wet string (2017)

The Ornate Bird Palaces of Ottoman-Era Turkey (2017)

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