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Building stuff that matters

[chartier]

Good to hear DuckDuckGo is profitable and growing. Good to see a company doing business the respectful way step up and fight back. I wish Path had grown this kind of backbone.

[think-progress]

We should be celebrating Indigenous People’s Day not Clumbus

[oraclesofnorway]

The syntax of a new language; networkism

[climateadaptation-deactivated20]

The troubling reasons why NASA is so focused on studying sea level rise

NASA isn’t saying — yet — that sea level will be worse than expected this century, but it’s certainly rushing to study the possibility.

The Jakobshavn glacier in Greenland, alone, could raise sea level by half a meter if it were to melt entirely, Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at the University of California, Irvine, said. The entire Greenland ice sheet contains about 6 meters worth of sea level rise, or 20 feet.

To determine what’s happening here, a new NASA program called Oceans Melting Greenland — yes, OMG — will be examining the coastal interface between sea and glacier and also mapping the complex topography beneath the ice, which has major implications for how fast it can slide into the seas.

[prostheticknowledge]

Implementation of ‘A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style’

Data scientist Kai Sheng Tai has produced public available code to transform images into the style of various painters (as first seen in this paper I covered last Friday here):

This is a Torch7 implementation of the method described in the paper ‘A Neural Algorthm of Artistic Style’ by Leon Gatys, Alexander Ecker, and Matthias Bethge.

You can access the code at Github here

[Original PK post on the subject here]

[pewinternet]

Internet Usage by Education Attainment

 Adults with a college or graduate degree are the most likely to use the internet, with almost all of these adults (95%) saying they are internet users.

[thoughtbot]

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[thoughtbot]

In this episode of the Weekly Iteration, Chris is joined by Matthew Mongeau, aka Goose, to discuss regular expressions. Learn how to work with them, where they fit, and perhaps more importantly where they don’t.

Regex Introduction

If you’re new …

[minerva-warner-deactivated20210]

Methinks Jessica should have said this much more often.

[tirelessnihilist]

I’m a little in love with Murder, She Wrote

[think-progress]

I’m speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information. They’re gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it. We think that’s wrong. And it’s not the kind of company that Apple wants to be.

Apple CEO Tim Cook (via think-progress)

[discoverynews]

Could Our Universe Be a Matrix-like Simulation?

If we are living in a simulated universe, this might be the theory to help us detect it.

Perhaps?

[wildcat2030]

Don't Overthink It, Less Is More When It Comes to Creativity

See on Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future

Most of us have experienced writer’s block at some point, sitting down to write, paint or compose only to find we can’t get the creative juices flowing. Most frustrating of all, the more effort and thought we put into it, the harder it may become. Now, at least, neuroscientists might have found a clue about why it is so hard to force that creative spark. Researchers at Stanford University recently set out to explore the neural basis of creativity and came up with surprising findings. Their study, published May 28 in Scientific Reports, suggests the cerebellum, the brain region typically associated with movement, is involved in creativity. If so, the discovery could change our understanding of the neurological mechanisms behind some thought processes. (Scientific American and Scientific Reports are both parts of Nature Publishing Group.)

See on scientificamerican.com

[thelandofmaps]

The Internet’s Undersea World [1703x1037] CLICK HERE FOR MORE MAPS! thelandofmaps.tumblr.com

[chartier]

Food for thought regarding Mad Max and its feminist implications.

[theverge]

Reddit user podrickforking has created beautiful GIF versions of Hayao Miyazaki’s movie posters.

(via thecreatorsproject)

[treedance]

Yoda Found in 14th Century Manuscript

H/T: BoingBoing.

[singularitarian]

Of all the transhumanist technologies coming in the near future, one stands out that both fascinates and perplexes people. It’s called ectogenesis: raising a fetus outside the human body in an artificial womb.