November 2015 Archive
1411.
Neural Programmer: Inducing Latent Programs with Gradient Descent [pdf] (xxx.lanl.gov)
1412.
Did Facebook Just Build a Kickstarter Competitor? (techcrunch.com)
1413.
Scientists argue that beer motivated our ancestors to start grain farming (m.nautil.us)
1414.
Storing solar, wind, and water energy underground could replace burning fuel (kurzweilai.net)
1415.
The Quest to Unlock an Ancient Library (newyorker.com)
1416.
An app recreating the experience of controlling trains in the NYC Subway system (nycsubway.org)
1417.
The Elements of Drawing: John Ruskin’s Teaching Collection at Oxford [video] (ruskin.ashmolean.org)
1418.
Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician, to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom (wvgazettemail.com)
1419.
Why the Cure for a Sluggish Economy Is Actually Longer Vacations (cepr.net)
1420.
BNSF Railyway Co. helped lead fight to delay train safety technology (reuters.com)
1421.
More Apple Car Thoughts: Software Culture (mondaynote.com)
1422.
How Soylent Auto-Transcribes Phone Calls to Build a Database of Legal Advice (zapier.com)
1423.
The perfect TV (technology.siekerman.nl)
1424.
Why most public apologies suck (blog.statuspage.io)
1425.
The German Tank Problem (2010) (statisticalconsultants.co.nz)
1426.
How Early Exit Disease Stunts the Growth of Midwest Startup Communities (techcrunch.com)
1427.
Is the web platform getting too big? (nczonline.net)
1428.
Detroit Businesswomen Team Up to Get Rape Kits Tested (nytimes.com)
1429.
Why has Italian cinema lost its appeal abroad? (theparisreview.org)
1430.
Quietly, the new space race between SpaceX and Boeing burns hot (arstechnica.com)
1431.
In Patagonia 2k years ago, it was common for people to modify skulls of babies (bbc.com)
1432.
The 50-year quest to build a mechanical heart (theverge.com)
1433.
How Cocaine Changes the Brain (neurosciencenews.com)
1434.
The Expanding Ecosystem For GPU Computing (nextplatform.com)
1435.
Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away? (theguardian.com)
1436.
Show HN: PicoTorrent, a tiny BitTorrent client for Windows (picotorrent.org)
1437.
Opaleye’s sugar on top: SQL in the type system (ren.zone)
1438.
An Ode to Kai's Power Goo (macworld.com)
1439.
TRIZ – Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (en.wikipedia.org)
1440.
The impact of Docker containers on the performance of genomic pipelines (peerj.com)