January 2019 Archive
2161.
Germs and ancient migrations help explain our world of 'haves' and 'have nots' (geneticliteracyproject.org)
2162.
An audio message improved our conversion rate by more than 50% (genius.engineering)
2163.
Death of the private self: how 15 years of Facebook changed the human condition (theguardian.com)
2164.
Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made [pdf] (advances.sciencemag.org)
2165.
Microsoft Project Rome 1.0.0 (github.com)
2166.
The Verified CakeML Compiler Back End [pdf] (cs.cmu.edu)
2167.
A teenager found Apple's FaceTime bug – and why it was so hard to report it (nbcnews.com)
2168.
History of Teaching Machines (teachingmachin.es)
2169.
Wikibook-Bot – Automatic Generation of a Wikipedia Book (arxiv.org)
2170.
Tech writer suggests '10 Year Challenge' may be collecting data for algorithm (ctvnews.ca)
2171.
Instrumenting HTTP requests in Node (medium.com)
2172.
China's population shrank last year for the first time in 70 years (straitstimes.com)
2173.
A long read on a former quant coder convicted of stealing algorithms (scmp.com)
2174.
Rails 6.0.0 beta1 is released (weblog.rubyonrails.org)
2175.
An Overview of Computer Science Concepts for Engineers (blog.robertelder.org)
2176.
Show HN: A Course on Deep Learning Using Google's TensorFlow (github.com)
2177.
The elite that failed (economist.com)
2178.
HTTP/1 should die; HTTP/2 can do everything HTTP/1 could, only faster (medium.com)
2179.
Excercise in futility – Why exercise alone won't save us (theguardian.com)
2180.
I Took a Couple Years Off of Work to Swing Trade. Here’s What Happened (theascent.pub)
2181.
‘Alarming’ burnout is making doctors want to kill themselves (nypost.com)
2182.
Microsoft recommends switching to iPhone, Android as it kills off Windows phones (cnbc.com)
2183.
Cost breakdown for Solar PV with lithium-ion storage (pv-magazine-usa.com)
2184.
Voynich Manuscripts Problematic Pipes (2018) (ciphermysteries.com)
2185.
Risk of Discovery (2017) (paulgraham.com)
2186.
Tim Cook: You Deserve Privacy Online. Here's How You Could Actually Get It (time.com)
2187.
Capsule Networks- the New Deep Learning Network (towardsdatascience.com)
2188.
The Case of the Bumbling Spy: A Watchdog Group Gets Him on Camera (nytimes.com)
2189.
IPv6 in China (potaroo.net)
2190.
Public Domain Day: Works Enter Public Domain for the First Time in 21 Years (openculture.com)