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Re:Show HN: Lunch Money, a personal budgeting tool with multi-currency... on Thursday August 29, 2019 @06:00PM (#20834145)

Does Pocketsmith use Plaid to connect to your bank accounts?

The Teflon Toxin (17 part investigative series)

Posted by xoher on Friday October 05, 2018 @06:53PM
from the theintercept.com dept.

https://theintercept.com/series/the-teflon-toxin/

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An Introduction to Quantum Algorithms [pdf]

Posted by xoher on Thursday September 13, 2018 @08:48PM
from the people.cs.umass.edu dept.

https://people.cs.umass.edu/~strubell/doc/quantum_tutorial.pdf

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Why clocks in Europe are running slow

Posted by xoher on Friday March 09, 2018 @08:56AM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/JohnHyphen/status/971402820091105282?s=19

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Google's ML crash course with TensorFlow

Posted by xoher on Thursday March 01, 2018 @02:45AM
from the developers.google.com dept.

https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course/

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Bill Gates advice for new grads

Posted by xoher on Thursday May 18, 2017 @04:16AM
from the recode.net dept.

http://www.recode.net/2017/5/15/15642526/bill-gates-tweet-advice-foundation-ai-happiness-new-graduates

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Practical Natural Language Processing Done in Ruby

Posted by xoher on Sunday January 08, 2017 @03:48AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/arbox/nlp-with-ruby

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Saudi Royal Family Is Still Spending in an Age of Austerity

Posted by xoher on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @10:41AM
from the nytimes.com dept.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/27/world/middleeast/saudi-royal-family-money.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen? on Thursday October 27, 2016 @09:38AM (#12804996)

I'm surprised no one has posted about Andrej Karpathy.

http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/

Re:When a Chinese PhD Student Meets a German Supervisor [pdf] on Saturday October 22, 2016 @06:08PM (#12770791)

It is mentioned in the first line that this is the second book in the series. Anybody knows where I can find the first book?

From dangerous tunnels in Congo to consumers’ mobile tech

Posted by xoher on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @05:08AM
from the washingtonpost.com dept.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/classic-apps/the-cobalt-pipeline-from-dangerous-tunnels-in-congo-to-consumers-mobile-tech/2016/09/30/66103382-5a8c-11e6-9767-f6c947fd0cb8_story.html

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L'esprit de l'escalier (Staircase Wit)

Posted by xoher on Saturday September 24, 2016 @10:13AM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27esprit_de_l%27escalier

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Pascal’s Wager about God

Posted by xoher on Sunday September 11, 2016 @12:42PM
from the iep.utm.edu dept.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/pasc-wag/

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Stigler's law of eponymy – Wikipedia

Posted by xoher on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @02:50PM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy

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Gambler's fallacy – Wikipedia

Posted by xoher on Friday August 19, 2016 @05:47PM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy

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Business Case Studies from MIT Sloan

Posted by xoher on Sunday August 14, 2016 @08:41PM
from the mitsloan.mit.edu dept.

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/LearningEdge/Pages/Case-Studies.aspx

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Management Simulation Games from MIT Sloan

Posted by xoher on Sunday August 14, 2016 @08:40PM
from the mitsloan.mit.edu dept.

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/LearningEdge/simulations/Pages/Overview.aspx

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Transforming Images to Feature Vectors – Marek Rei

Posted by xoher on Monday July 11, 2016 @09:51PM
from the marekrei.com dept.

http://www.marekrei.com/blog/transforming-images-to-feature-vectors/

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The Strange Case of a Nazi Who Became an Israeli Hitman – Israel News – Haaretz

Posted by xoher on Saturday April 02, 2016 @09:08AM
from the haaretz.com dept.

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.711115?v=D1C792888EBD437CAA620933907C9345

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My secret to my success on Wall Street-–commentary

Posted by xoher on Friday April 01, 2016 @01:13PM
from the cnbc.com dept.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/31/my-secret-to-my-success-on-wall-street-commentary.html?__source=facebook%7Cmakeit%7Cstatus%7C033116%7C3PM%7Csecret-to-wall-street-success

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The career advice no one tells you

Posted by xoher on Friday March 18, 2016 @01:42PM
from the qz.com dept.

http://qz.com/640112/the-career-advice-no-one-tells-you/

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Time Zones: What If We Got Rid of Them? – Co.Exist – Ideas and Impact

Posted by xoher on Friday February 26, 2016 @01:57PM
from the fastcoexist.com dept.

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3056950/time-zones-what-if-we-got-rid-of-them?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fast-company-daily-coexist&position=1&partner=newsletter&campaign_date=02262016

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E-Commerce: Convenience Built on a Mountain of Cardboard

Posted by xoher on Friday February 26, 2016 @12:45PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/16/science/recycling-cardboard-online-shopping-environment.html

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How punitive, omniscient gods may have encouraged the expansion of human society

Posted by xoher on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @03:03AM
from the theconversation.com dept.

https://theconversation.com/how-punitive-omniscient-gods-may-have-encouraged-the-expansion-of-human-society-54275?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=February%2011%202016%20%20730&utm_content=February%2011%202016%20%20730+CID_3176e6755b239960c07b5647b2401a64&utm_source=campaign_monitor_us&utm_term=How%20punitive%20omniscient%20gods%20may%20have%20encouraged%20the%20expansion%20of%20human%20society

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Computer Science Field Guide

Posted by xoher on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @05:52PM
from the csfieldguide.org.nz dept.

http://www.csfieldguide.org.nz/

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The Hackathon Handbook- a Complete Guide to Hackathons

Posted by xoher on Saturday January 30, 2016 @04:25PM
from the hackerearth.com dept.

https://www.hackerearth.com/hackathon-handbook/?utm_campaign=activity-updates&utm_medium=email&utm_source=event-updates&utm_campaign=mailers&utm_source=email&utm_medium=sendgrid

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Marvin Minsky, “father of artificial intelligence,” dies at 88 – MIT News

Posted by xoher on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @12:13PM
from the news.mit.edu dept.

http://news.mit.edu/2016/marvin-minsky-obituary-0125

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Reimagining Journalism,Story of the One Percent

Posted by xoher on Sunday January 24, 2016 @03:16AM
from the nybooks.com dept.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/12/17/reimagining-journalism-story-one-percent/

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How to Cover the One Percent

Posted by xoher on Sunday January 24, 2016 @03:07AM
from the nybooks.com dept.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/01/14/how-to-cover-the-one-percent/

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Raw Nerve

Posted by xoher on Friday January 22, 2016 @08:52AM
from the aaronsw.com dept.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve

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