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Stephen Diehl: The Case Against Crypto in 2025

stephendiehl.com
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Show HN: What did you do last week? – Evaluates your 5 bullet points

whatdidyoudolastweek.biz
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Knowing CSS is mastery to Front end Development

helloanselm.com
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'Slime' keeps the brain safe ― and could guard against ageing

nature.com

Conquering Alzheimer’s: a look at the therapies of the future

ageing brain cell biology
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A voice model significantly more human-like than OpenAIs advanced voice

sesame.com

One approach to modeling audio with transformers is to convert continuous waveforms into discrete audio token...
One approach to modeling audio with transformers is to convert continuous waveforms into discrete audio token sequences using tokenizers. Most contemporary approaches ([1], [2]) rely on two types of audio tokens:Semantic tokens: Compact speaker-invariant representations of semantic and phonetic features. Their compr...
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'Craven. He's Fearful of Trump': Baron Slams Bezos' Censorship of Post Opinion

zeteo.com

Marty Baron interviews Jeff Bezos at The Washington Post via Getty Images Transformers event in May...
Marty Baron interviews Jeff Bezos at The Washington Post via Getty Images Transformers event in May 2019. Photo by April Greer For The Washington Post via Getty ImagesDuring the first Donald Trump presidency, Martin Baron may have been America’s most important journalist. As executive editor, he led the Washington P...
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Mozilla site down due to "overdue hosting payments"

linuxmom.net
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Animations vs. Geometry [video]

youtube.com

film & animation
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AlgoMIDI – A Mathematical 'Music Studio'

github.com
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Passing the Buck: The story of the 2022 Wings Over Dallas air show collision

medium.com

In search of the answer to that question, the National Transportation Safety Board conducted numerous interviews,...
In search of the answer to that question, the National Transportation Safety Board conducted numerous interviews, pored over countless pages of documentation, reviewed dozens of photos and videos, and conducted multiple studies. In addition to their final report, the NTSB assembled a docket of evidence 1,896 pages l...

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The NIH Is Being Slashed and Burned, Not "Reformed"

sensible-med.com

Sensible Medicine continues to encourage criticism of our viewpoints. Vinay Prasad wrote recently that cutting NIH...
Sensible Medicine continues to encourage criticism of our viewpoints. Vinay Prasad wrote recently that cutting NIH funding was Sensible Medicine. Dr. Leslie Bienen offers this rebuttal. It is an excellent read. JMMBy Leslie Bienen Since the NIH order on February 7th capping indirect funds to grantees at 15%, the “ou...
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Reimagining Fluid Typography

oddbird.net
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Backyard Bird Has a Lot to Teach Us about Sex Variability

scientificamerican.com

It’s springtime in your backyard. You watch a pair of little brown songbirds flit about, their...
It’s springtime in your backyard. You watch a pair of little brown songbirds flit about, their white throats flashing in the sun. One of the birds has striking black and white stripes on its crown and occasionally belts out its song, “Old Sam Peabody, Peabody, Peabody.” Its partner is more drab, with tan and gray st...
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Why I'm Learning C# and .NET After Two Decades of Programming

kerrick.blog

I’ve been programming for over two decades, and I can’t make a full-stack enterprise web application....
I’ve been programming for over two decades, and I can’t make a full-stack enterprise web application. The first lines of code I wrote were in GW-BASIC. When I was in eighth grade, I enrolled in a typing class. Students who finished their typing practice before class ended were given an extra credit opportunity: copy...
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Boeing's Bean-Counters Courted the 737 MAX Disaster (2019)

thedailybeast.com

boeing boeing-737 opinion
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Texas measles outbreak rises to 146 cases spanning more than 9 counties

pbs.org

DALLAS (AP) — The number of people with measles in Texas increased to 146 in an...
DALLAS (AP) — The number of people with measles in Texas increased to 146 in an outbreak that led this week to the death of an unvaccinated school-aged child, health officials said Friday. The number of cases — Texas’ largest in nearly 30 years — increased by 22 since Tuesday. The Texas Department of State Health Se...

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Wealthy Americans Fuel Half of US Economy Consumer Spending

bloomberg.com
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Woman dies after being impaled by metal straw (2019)

independent.co.uk

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights,...
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Rifling Through the Archives with Legendary Historian Robert Caro

smithsonianmag.com
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Unleashed Recompiled – Unofficial PC Port of Sonic Unleashed

github.com
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The Early Days of Linux

lwn.net

Benefits for LWN subscribers The primary benefit from subscribing to LWN is helping to keep us...
Benefits for LWN subscribers The primary benefit from subscribing to LWN is helping to keep us publishing, but, beyond that, subscribers get immediate access to all site content and access to a number of extra site features. Please sign up today! My name is Lars Wirzenius, and I was there when Linux started. Linux i...
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I'm Done with Coding

neelc.org

In my high school days, I was a huge server and networking person. My homelab was...
In my high school days, I was a huge server and networking person. My homelab was basically my identity, and not even a good one: consumer-level networking gear running Tomato and a then-7-year-old homebuilt desktop PC running FreeBSD. Then I joined NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering for Computer Science. It was a f...
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Euclid finds complete Einstein Ring in NGC galaxy

euclid-ec.org

Gravitational lenses are rare in the sky – galaxies bending the light-paths of light from other...
Gravitational lenses are rare in the sky – galaxies bending the light-paths of light from other galaxies behind them to form distorted or even multiple images. Even rarer is a perfect alignment of the two galaxies with us, the obervers, with the light being bent into a so-called Einstein Ring. And the rarest case wa...
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Measles: The race to understand 'immune amnesia'

bbc.com
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