RiczWestflipped into VisualEcology Extraordinary pictures of the most ancient trees on EarthGizmodo Photographer Beth Moon spent 14 years traveling around the world taking pictures of the most ancient trees on Earth. The resulting photos—printed in …
RiczWestflipped into Miscellanea I tried to hack my insomnia with technology. Here’s what worked.MIT Technology Review - Charlotte Jee Fancy trackers and headbands are all part of a growing sleep-tech industry. I decided to put them to the test. I’d just arrived at college, having …
RiczWestflipped into SoftwareHow-To's The Best RSS Readers and News Aggregation AppsLifehacker A few days ago, I asked you for your favorite news aggregator apps. We got tons of responses, but it was pretty clear which apps were going to be our …
RiczWestflipped into People & ProcessDesign What is ‘design thinking’? And why does it belong in classrooms?The Washington PostInnovative methods of teaching and learning like design thinking are helping students and teachers reframe the way that school is done. What has become clear is that the success of each individual won’t
RiczWestflipped into HardwareComputer Hardware A Basic Guide To Motherboard, Case and Power Supply Form Factorstomshardware.com - Thomas Soderstrom Computer form factors are important for any potential PC builder or upgrader, because they’re a fixed set of dimensions that assure components fit …
RiczWestflipped into MiscellaneaLearning Machine Learning: A Formal Learning ModelReadWrite - Divyesh DharaiyaIn day to day life, individuals are effectively confronting a few choices to make. For a machine to settle on these sorts of decisions, the automatic route is to show the issues faced in a numerical articulation.
RiczWestflipped into Hardware3D Printing Watch the worlds largest 3D printer create a 25ft boat hullgeeky-gadgets.com - Julian Horsey The world’s largest 3D printer has fabricated a 25 foot boat hull in just 72 hours and offers a glimpse at the industrial and commercialisation of 3D …
RiczWestflipped into People & ProcessJeff Bezos Jeff Bezos: This is the 'smartest thing we ever did' at AmazonCNBC - Taylor Locke Jeff Bezos has a nontraditional management style at Amazon, and he says Amazon's unique twist on meeting structure is the "smartest thing we ever …
RiczWestflipped into MiscellaneaQuantum Mechanics How Randomness Can Arise From DeterminismQuanta Magazine - Pradeep Mutalik Playing with a simple bean machine illustrates how deterministic laws can produce probabilistic, random-seeming behavior. Is nature inherently random? …
RiczWestflipped into SoftwareIcon version of the Flipboard logoProgramming Grokking Simplicity – HTML All The Things [Podcast]lispcast.com In this episode, I talked about my new book “Grokking Simplicity – Taming complex software with functional thinking”. Matt: Hello everybody and …
RiczWestflipped into SoftwareMathematics A New Map Traces the Limits of ComputationQuanta Magazine - John Pavlus A major advance reveals deep connections between the classes of problems that computers can — and can’t — possibly do. At first glance, the big news …
RiczWestflipped into HardwareDesign Shapeshifter – An Open Source Drum Machinehackaday.com - by: Lewin Day With microcontrollers growing ever more powerful each new generation, things that were mere pipedreams before are now readily possible. The …
RiczWestflipped into HardwareGear & Gadgets Clear-as-day telescopes for watching the night skyPopular Science - Stan HoraczekGalileo’s telescopes allowed him to study the lunar surface, glimpse Jupiter’s moons, and chart constellations. Modern backyard versions let you peer even deeper into the universe and check out nearby
RiczWestflipped into SoftwareIcon version of the Flipboard logo family namewikipedia.org - Contributors to Wikimedia projects Landauer is a surname, originally referring to somebody from Landau. It may refer to: Bernhard Landauer (born 1970), Austrian countertenor • Carl …
RiczWestflipped into VisualPhotographers Photographer documents world's most dramatic ritual masksCNN - Oscar Holland, CNN(CNN) — Chris Rainier's fascination with ritual masks began in the mid-1980s, when, during a photography trip to New Guinea, he was confronted by a tribesman adorned with feathers from a bird of paradise.
RiczWestflipped into HardwareMobile Technology This $50 rocket can break the sound barrier and travel more than a mile highPopular Science - Claire MaldarelliA cardboard craft that can satisfy the need for speed? Sign us up. Sputnik 1's 98-minute jaunt around the planet in 1957 ignited a passion for space among amateur rocketeers that endures today. Models
RiczWestflipped into People & ProcessInnovation Job Hunting? A Google Executive Says to Use This 3-Part Resume Formula to Stand OutInc Magazine - Melanie CurtinSo it's no wonder their recruiters are picky. A resume with a typo in it is automatically rejected. But a more subtle problem with your resume could also get you axed from consideration: excessive length.
RiczWestflipped into MiscellaneaRussia Movie filmed to look like a first person shooter game looks incredibleGizmodo Here's an action scene from a movie called Hardcore that's filmed completely from one character's point of view so it looks exactly like a first …
RiczWestflipped into HardwareCameras Sigma’s tiny full-frame mirrorless camera is now available to preorder for $1,900The Verge - Jon PorterThe Sigma fp, which the company claims is the “world’s smallest and lightest” full-frame mirrorless camera, is now available to pre-order for $1,900 with a release date of October 25th. The 112.6 × 69.9
RiczWestflipped into SoftwareMobile Facebook launches PyTorch Mobile for edge ML on Android and iOS devicesVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonFacebook is planing to release PyTorch Mobile for deploying machine learning models on Android and iOS devices. PyTorch Mobile was released today alongside PyTorch 1.3, the latest version of Facebook’s
RiczWestflipped into SoftwareMind The Best Mind-Mapping Apps of 2019Lifehacker Let’s get the hard question out of the way, first: What the heck is a mind map? Think of it like a way to organize your thoughts. You pick a general …
RiczWestflipped into SoftwareUNIX Forum cracks the vintage passwords of Ken Thompson and other Unix pioneersArs Technica - Dan Goodin Security in the early days of Unix was poor. Then, there were the passwords. As one of the original versions of Unix, BSD is an ancient operating …
RiczWestflipped into MiscellaneaCryptocurrency Perth Mint harnesses blockchain and crypto-currency technology to bring gold into digital eraabc.net.au - Rachel Pupazzoni The Egyptians were on to it, so too were the Incas and the Aztecs. Thousands of years later, gold, the world's most prized metal, has been brought …
RiczWestflipped into MiscellaneaIcon version of the Flipboard logo How Dr. Seuss would prove the halting problem undecidableumbc.edu - UMBC ebiquity I just discovered (via del.icio.us/polular) an extraordinary proof of the halting problem by linguist Geoffrey Pullum, now at the University of …
RiczWestflipped into MiscellaneaMathematics With Category Theory, Mathematics Escapes From EqualityQuanta Magazine - Kevin Hartnett Two monumental works have led many mathematicians to avoid the equal sign. Their goal: Rebuild the foundations of the discipline upon the looser …
RiczWestflipped into SoftwareDesign Why do I like Denotational Design?lispcast.com Denotational Design is a abstraction design process created by Conal Elliott. I like it because it really asks you to step back and design the …
RiczWestflipped into Design ThinkingIcon version of the Flipboard logoEmpathy The 3 stages of empathyuxdesign.cc - Insight, behavioural science, creativity. Co-founder of INDUSTRY of Us, a design thinking and innovation consultancy based in Bristol, UK The word empathy first appeared in the English language over 100 years ago; from the German word einfühlung, which means “feeling into”. Originally, it …
RiczWestflipped into MiscellaneaDavid Johnson Drinking water at the wheel on 39-degree day lands Brisbane driver $173 fineabc.net.au - By Jessica Hinchliffe Drinking water or coffee in a car is something many of us do daily, but are we breaking the law? A Beaudesert man has been fined $173 by Queensland …
RiczWestflipped into MiscellaneaTopology Scalar model of flocking dynamics on complex social networksunam.mx - cxdig We investigate the effects of long-range social interactions in flocking dynamics by studying the dynamics of a scalar model of collective motion …
RiczWestMobile Technology Google will pay $11 million to settle hundreds of age discrimination suitsEngadget - AJ Dellinger
RiczWest Tree planting 'has mind-blowing potential' to tackle climate crisisThe Guardian - Damian Carrington Environment editor
RiczWest Comparing the Functionality of Open Source Natural Language Processing Librariesdominodatalab.com - Domino
RiczWest Report: WhatsApp surpasses Facebook as the social network's most popular appTNW - Ivan Mehta
RiczWest Infrascapes 8K timelapse shows stunning landscapes in infrareddiyphotography.net - John Aldred
RiczWestFlorida Department of Law Enforcement Election hack in Florida? DHS and state officials say they haven't seen oneCNET - by Laura Hautala
RiczWest From lewd comments to upskirting: female teachers speak out about sexual harassmentThe Guardian - Laura Bates
RiczWest Amazon Hopes Parents Will Trust Its New Gadgets — And We Probably WillRacked - Chavie Lieber
RiczWest A neuroscientist explains why reality may be a hallucinationBusiness Insider - Jessica Orwig
RiczWestDaimler AG Daimler Teams With Google Quantum Computers for Automotive ApplicationsThe Drive - By Dave Bartosiak
RiczWest Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6, Visual Studio for Mac version 7.4 Released | Visual Studio Blogmicrosoft.com
RiczWest Astonishing Drone Photos from Hong Kong, Japan, China and Australia by Tom Leesphotogrist.com - photogrist
RiczWest You Can’t Secure 100% of Your Data 100% of the TimeHarvard Business Review - Shuman Ghosemajumder
