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Opinion: Let's take a closer look at MIT, one target of Trump's blunderbuss

Posted by oscarwao on Friday December 12, 2025 @03:18PM
from the washingtonpost.com dept.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/12/mit-trump-education-universities/

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Re:Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B y... on Sunday March 23, 2025 @05:50PM (#43456180)

Turns out this story is bogus. https://www.fastcompany.com/91302948/amazon-layoffs-14000-ma...

Douglas Crockford: Why We Should Stop Using JavaScript

Posted by oscarwao on Sunday July 16, 2023 @10:17PM
from the youtube.com dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc5Np9OqDHU

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Exploring the MIT Mathematics and EECS Curriculum Using Large Language Models

Posted by oscarwao on Friday June 16, 2023 @06:19PM
from the arxiv.org dept.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08997

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What if the dinosaurs hadn't gone extinct? Why our world might look different

Posted by oscarwao on Sunday November 27, 2022 @09:36AM
from the phys.org dept.

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-dinosaurs-hadnt-extinct-world.html

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They’re locked up in D.C. – and learning how to code from MIT

Posted by oscarwao on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @04:16PM
from the washingtonpost.com dept.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/09/13/mit-coding-course-dc-jail/

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Why aren't smart people happier?

Posted by oscarwao on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @06:18AM
from the experimentalhistory.substack.com dept.

https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier

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Elon Musk’s Friendship with Sergey Brin Ruptured by Alleged Affair

Posted by oscarwao on Sunday July 24, 2022 @04:10PM
from the nypost.com dept.

https://nypost.com/2022/07/24/elon-musk-begged-googles-sergey-brin-for-forgiveness-over-alleged-affair-with-wife/

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She set out to save her daughter from fentanyl on the streets of San Francisco

Posted by oscarwao on Thursday December 02, 2021 @10:45PM
from the sfchronicle.com dept.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/rescuing-jessica-san-francisco-fentanyl-addiction/

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Pentagon software chief quit because China has already won global tech war

Posted by oscarwao on Monday October 11, 2021 @10:48AM
from the nypost.com dept.

https://nypost.com/2021/10/11/pentagon-software-chief-nicolas-chaillan-resigns/

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How Indian Americans Came to Love the Spelling Bee

Posted by oscarwao on Saturday July 03, 2021 @10:19AM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/03/style/spelling-bee-south-asian-americans.html

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NYC professor had to write computer code just to book Covid-19 vaccine

Posted by oscarwao on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:08PM
from the nypost.com dept.

https://nypost.com/2021/01/28/nyc-professor-wrote-computer-code-just-to-book-covid-19-vaccine/

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The Lasting Lessons of John Conway’s Game of Life

Posted by oscarwao on Monday December 28, 2020 @02:15PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/science/math-conway-game-of-life.html

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Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Pro Review: This Changes Everything

Posted by oscarwao on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @08:09AM
from the petapixel.com dept.

https://petapixel.com/2020/12/21/apple-silicon-m1-macbook-pro-review-this-changes-everything/

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Yann LeCun’s Deep Learning Course

Posted by oscarwao on Thursday November 19, 2020 @04:18PM
from the nyudatascience.medium.com dept.

https://nyudatascience.medium.com/yann-lecuns-deep-learning-course-at-cds-is-now-fully-online-accessible-to-all-787ddc8bf0af

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A biological anthropologist explains why and how exercise reduces senescence

Posted by oscarwao on Saturday October 24, 2020 @07:31PM
from the harvardmagazine.com dept.

https://harvardmagazine.com/2020/09/features-active-grandparenting

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FB goes all in on work-from-home, for its own employees and others

Posted by oscarwao on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:12PM
from the washingtonpost.com dept.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/21/facebook-permanent-remote-work/

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No one can “own” the law

Posted by oscarwao on Monday April 27, 2020 @03:00PM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/EFF/status/1254815366712197125

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How to Talk to Coronavirus Skeptics

Posted by oscarwao on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @05:53PM
from the newyorker.com dept.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-to-talk-to-coronavirus-skeptics

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Stockdale Paradox

Posted by oscarwao on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @04:30PM
from the jimcollins.com dept.

https://www.jimcollins.com/media_topics/TheStockdaleParadox.html

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Don’t Mute, Get a Better Headset

Posted by oscarwao on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @08:15AM
from the ma.tt dept.

https://ma.tt/2020/03/dont-mute-get-a-better-headset

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Humanity's Origin Story Just Got More Complicated

Posted by oscarwao on Friday April 03, 2020 @07:22AM
from the gizmodo.com dept.

https://gizmodo.com/humanitys-origin-story-just-got-more-complicated-1842616478

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Doctors with Pittsburgh university announce potential coronavirus vaccine

Posted by oscarwao on Friday April 03, 2020 @07:07AM
from the mystateline.com dept.

https://www.mystateline.com/health/coronavirus/doctors-with-pittsburgh-university-announce-potential-coronavirus-vaccine/

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How the White Working Class Is Being Destroyed

Posted by oscarwao on Thursday March 19, 2020 @06:52PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/books/review/deaths-of-despair-and-the-future-of-capitalism-anne-case-angus-deaton.html

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Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan Win Turing Award

Posted by oscarwao on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @07:12AM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/technology/pixar-pioneers-win-1-million-turing-award.html

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The Epic Battle Between Trump and Bezos Is On

Posted by oscarwao on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @04:10PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/opinion/trump-amazon-jedi.html

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I Am 35 and Running Faster Than I Ever Thought Possible

Posted by oscarwao on Saturday February 01, 2020 @01:49PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/opinion/sunday/olympic-runners-women-qualifiers.html

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Mike Judge on the Real Silicon Valley

Posted by oscarwao on Saturday November 30, 2019 @02:49PM
from the nypost.com dept.

https://nypost.com/2019/11/30/mike-judge-on-the-real-silicon-valley-steve-jobs-didnt-create-anything/

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Dining Preferences of the Cloud and Open Source: Who Eats Who?

Posted by oscarwao on Saturday November 23, 2019 @06:53PM
from the platformonomics.com dept.

https://www.platformonomics.com/2019/11/dining-preferences-of-the-cloud-and-open-source-who-eats-who/

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Re:Troubles with the AWS web console on Saturday September 07, 2019 @03:26PM (#20905930)

So did AWS. See https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/

Not just a shell but a robust IDE in the cloud.