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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
Special Drawing Right (SDR)
The SDR is an international reserve asset, created by the IMF in 1969 to supplement its member countries’ official reserves. So far SDR 204.2 billion (equivalent to about US$281 billion) have been allocated to members, including SDR 182. Read more
Exploring Hearing Aid Integration in iOS
Last year I got my first hearing devices. For some time I had noticed that I turned up the TV much louder than my wife did, and I had problems following discussions with larger groups of people. Read more
石油巨头兴隆崩塌！深度剖析创始人林恩强和“福建石油帮”黑金史
负油价、中行原油宝巨亏、2.5亿桶石油海上“漂流”……国际原油市场动荡不安下，新加坡最著名的石油贸易商，兴隆集团也频频传出了财务丑闻。 Read more
A Jupyter kernel for SQLite
While it is well known in the Python scientific computing community, Jupyter is in fact a language-agnostic development environment. High-quality language kernels exist for the main languages of data sciences, such as Python, C++, R or Julia. Read more
Biohacking Lite
Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew that you’re supposed to get some exercise and eat vegetables or something, but it stopped at that (“mom said”-) level of abstraction. Read more
Swift Process and osascript: so much easier than the command line
I use osascript a lot to automate things that need automating and until yesterday, I did so almost exclusively from shell scripts. Read more
Argentina Defaults on Sovereign Debt Amid Coronavirus Crisis
Argentina defaulted on sovereign debt for the ninth time in its history, as Latin America’s third-biggest economy grapples with a new cycle of economic contraction, runaway inflation and a hard-currency squeeze exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Read more
Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring networks
The faculty job market plays a fundamental role in shaping research priorities, educational outcomes, and career trajectories among scientists and institutions. However, a quantitative understanding of faculty hiring as a system is lacking. Read more