Why we at $FAMOUS_COMPANY Switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY

(via) Beautiful piece of writing by Saagar Jha. “Ultimately, however, our decision to switch was driven by our difficulty in hiring new talent for $UNREMARKABLE_LANGUAGE, despite it being taught in dozens of universities across the United States. Read more

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有位老师用动森形容mRNA 疫苗的工作原理:免疫细胞A感染了疫苗,开始制作大量的蛋白;其它免疫细胞都来A这里摸了一下,然后也学会了制作蛋白的方式。最后大家都学会了,病毒来了就不怕了。 全美最有希望新冠疫苗遭遇大 Read more

1998 Russian financial crisis

The Russian financial crisis (also called ruble crisis or the Russian flu) hit Russia on 17 August 1998. It resulted in the Russian government and the Russian Central Bank devaluing the ruble and defaulting on its debt. The crisis had severe impacts on the economies of many neighboring countries. Read more

SwiftUI: Running a Mac App Without an Xcode Project

In 2018, we wrote a post about using AppKit from the command line. We can use exactly the same technique to run a SwiftUI app directly from a Swift file. When you’re writing a quick tool, perhaps to visualize something, or to get user feedback, an Xcode project can feel like overkill. Read more

Troy Hunt: How BeerAdvocate Learned They’d Been Pwned

Well that’s… damning. You simply don’t have that many matches without there being a very high likelihood BeerAdvocate had suffered a data breach. For every one instance of an email address or password with the string “beeradvocate” in it there’ll be another 100 instances that still came from their service but didn’t use a customised […]

What I learned from looking at 200 machine learning tools

To better understand the landscape of available tools for machine learning production, I decided to look up every AI/ML tool I could find. The resources I used include: After filtering out applications companies (e.g. Read more

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Olivia de Havilland, golden age of Hollywood star, dies at 104

Olivia de Havilland, one of the last remaining stars from the golden age of Hollywood, has died at the age of 104. De Havilland’s career spanned more than 50 years and almost 50 feature films, and she was the last surviving star of Gone with the Wind (1939). Read more