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AI is wrestling with a replication crisis | MIT Technology Review

technologyreview.com/2020/11/12/1011944/artificial-intelligence-replication-crisis-science-big-tech-google-deepmind-facebook-openai/

• google, tag
• health, tag
• ai, tag
• science, tag
• science_communication, tag
• paper, tag
• nature, tag
• ·4 years ago

Wondermark » Archive » On the bonkers color palette of Garfield comics

wondermark.com/garfield-color/

• comics, tag
• colour, tag
• archives, tag
• colour_theory, tag
• ·4 years ago

Brexit stems from a civil war in capitalism – we are all just collateral damage | Brexit | The Guardian

theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/24/brexit-capitalism

To one sort of capitalist, the insecurity and chaos that Brexit will bring is horrifying. To the other, it is highly profitable

• capitalism, tag
• politics, tag
• brexit, tag
• democracy, tag
• economics, tag
• ·4 years ago

Zoomquilt

zoomquilt.org/

The infinitely zooming image.

• animation, tag
• art, tag
• artwork, tag
• cool, tag
• fun, tag
• infinite, tag
• ·4 years ago

Learn Difficult Concepts with the ADEPT Method – BetterExplained

betterexplained.com/articles/adept-method/

• teaching, tag
• education, tag
• learning, tag
• math, tag
• thinking, tag
• writing, tag
• ·4 years ago

Eating Too Much Rice Almost Sank the Japanese Navy | by War Is Boring | War Is Boring | Medium

medium.com/war-is-boring/eating-too-much-rice-almost-sank-the-japanese-navy-f985772c81a6

• japan, tag
• vitamins, tag
• health, tag
• history, tag
• ·4 years ago

Psychology of Code Readability | by Egon Elbre | Medium

medium.com/@egonelbre/psychology-of-code-readability-d23b1ff1258a

By no means should this be regarded as truth, but rather a model that I’ve found extremely helpful in understanding and finding better ways of writing code. I think one of the things every programmer…

• programming, tag
• psychology, tag
• development, tag
• coding, tag
• readability, tag
• ·4 years ago

A Jobs to be Done Framework for Startups — JTBD Templates & Examples for Building Products Customers Want | First Round Review

firstround.com/review/build-products-that-solve-real-problems-with-this-lightweight-jtbd-framework/

• business, tag
• product, tag
• design, tag
• startups, tag
• ·4 years ago

Can You Get Coronavirus Inside a Restaurant? - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/can-you-get-coronavirus-inside-restaurant/617151/

The risk of catching the coronavirus is much higher indoors.

• coronavirus, tag
• restaurants, tag
• risk, tag
• optimism, tag
• bias, tag
• ·4 years ago

Building Your Color Palette

refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-palette/

• design, tag
• palette, tag
• UX, tag
• colour, tag
• teaching, tag
• ·4 years ago

Your company's Slack is probably sexist — Quartz at Work

qz.com/work/1128150/your-companys-slack-is-probably-sexist/

• gender, tag
• sexism, tag
• diversity, tag
• slack, tag
• ·4 years ago

Optimizing things in the USSR · Chris Said

chris-said.io/2016/05/11/optimizing-things-in-the-ussr/

• data_science, tag
• economics, tag
• optimisation, tag
• ·4 years ago

So you've made a mistake and it's public... - Meta

meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/So_you%27ve_made_a_mistake_and_it%27s_public...

• management, tag
• psychology, tag
• community, tag
• advice, tag
• apologies, tag
• publicity, tag
• ·4 years ago

What distinguishes great software engineers?

faculty.washington.edu/ajko/papers/Li2019WhatDistinguishesEngineers.pdf

• filetype:pdf, tag
• software, tag
• engineering, tag
• career, tag
• leadership, tag
• best_practices, tag
• ·4 years ago

How do you write simple explanations without sounding condescending?

jvns.ca/blog/2020/11/15/simple-explanations-without-sounding-condescending/

How do you write simple explanations without sounding condescending?

• advice, tag
• communication, tag
• writing, tag
• blogging, tag
• ·4 years ago

How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps

vice.com/en/article/jgqm5x/us-military-location-data-xmode-locate-x

• privacy, tag
• government, tag
• data, tag
• surveillance, tag
• databrokers, tag
• ·4 years ago

June 10, 1990: Miracle of BA Flight 5390 as captain is sucked out of the cockpit – and survives | BT

home.bt.com/news/on-this-day/june-10-1990-miracle-of-ba-flight-5390-as-captain-is-sucked-out-of-the-cockpit-and-survives-11363985642960

• story, tag
• aviation, tag
• accident, tag
• planes, tag
• ·4 years ago

Trump Is Trying to Overturn the Election, but I’m Not Panicking—Yet | The Nation

thenation.com/article/politics/biden-victory-trump-lawsuit/

All the reasons I think the Trump-GOP gambit to deny Biden’s victory will not change the fact that he will become president on January 20.

• america, tag
• democracy, tag
• politics, tag
• suppression, tag
• law, tag
• ·4 years ago

SvgPathEditor

yqnn.github.io/svg-path-editor/

Online editor to create and manipulate SVG paths

• bezier, tag
• creator, tag
• svg, tag
• tools, tag
• curve, tag
• editor, tag
• graphics, tag
• path, tag
• ·4 years ago

Response to Kohavi's note on non-significance in A/B testing - Big Data, Plainly Spoken (aka Numbers Rule Your World)

junkcharts.typepad.com/numbersruleyourworld/2020/01/response-to-kohavis-note-on-non-significance-in-ab-testing.html

Kaiser Fung (Principal Analytics Prep, Numbersense) explains a note on A/B testing by Ron Kohavi, which advises against adopting treatments deemed statistically insignificant.

• analytics, tag
• decisions, tag
• errors, tag
• data, tag
• shipping, tag
• a/b_testing, tag
• ·4 years ago