Die Schweiz präsentiert sich gerne als Forschungs- und Innovationsnation. Und das mit gutem Grund: Kein Land produziert pro Kopf mehr wissenschaftliche Publikationen und auch bei der Zitat
In the beginning of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, John Connor uses a laptop to crack the PIN of a stolen debit card. I don’t think I saw Terminator 2 in the theater. I probably watched it years later o
A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that the Coasting-website (coasting.com) was not online anymore and that the landing page was Shimano’s corporate website, Shimano.com. Just before writing this, I goo
The number of researchers and peer-review publications is growing exponentially. It has been estimated that the number of researchers in the world doubles every 16 years and the number of research out
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Almost every weekday for six years, Christie Smythe took the F train from Park Slope downtown to her desk at Brooklyn’s federal court, in a pressroom hidden on the far side of a snack bar. Smythe, who
Special thanks to Jennings Anderson who looked over an early draft of this post and helped me refine it. Also, as usual, the views expressed herein do not represent those of my parents, my wife, my de
Sea beast: The only Soviet-era Lun-class ekranoplan ever completed has been left to rust for 30 years, but now this remarkable flying machine is on the move. Musa Salgereyev/TASS/Getty Images On the b
(Cross-posted from my blog) The other day I made an advice thread based on Jacobian’s from last year! If you know a source for one of these, shout and I’ll edit it in. Possessions 1. If you want to fi
Published 6 March 2015 Share page About sharing Image source, AP By Jason Caffrey BBC World Service In the mid-1960s, Australian athlete Reg Spiers found himself stranded in London with no money to bu
Data Science Datalore Python Research We Downloaded 10,000,000 Jupyter Notebooks From Github – This Is What We Learned Here’s how we used the hundreds of thousands of publicly accessible repos on GitH
2020 has been a lousy year. Time magazine’s cover story declared it the “worst year ever” (or at least “in living memory for most Americans”). And it is finishing on a miserable note, with coronavirus
Es ist der 22. Januar 2020, und ich sitze auf der Beerdigung meines Opas. Draußen reihen sich Gräber aneinander, ein Friedhof, wie es ihn tausendfach in Deutschland gibt, drinnen, in der Trauerhalle,
Do you consider yourself to be a disabled person? Yes: ☐ No: ☐ Prefer not to say: ☐ Yes. Because forms like this – and questions like this – always throw me into confusion, and sometimes into complete
Hi. This post is written by a friend of Margins, who happens to be a product executive at a public tech company. He wrote this initially in September 2020, but we were hesitant to publish it anonymous
As the great sage Charlie Brown once said: “There are 3 things in life that people like to stare at: a flowing stream, a crackling fire, and a Zamboni clearing the ice.” Watching one of these machines
Die Frau mit der Clownsnase zweifelt. Bei der Kundgebung von Corona-Leugner:innen auf dem Kölner Neumarkt kämpft sie sich durch die Menge, bis sie Ralf Ludwig erreicht. Von ihm erhofft sie sich Antwor
I spent a large part of 2019 working with the distributed and decentralized web, especially IPFS, also known as the “Inter-Planetary File System”. I’ve written a few articles on the topic, on how you
«Es ist absolut haltlos, zu sagen, dass die SVP rassistisch ist», sagte SVP-Nationalrätin Andrea Geissbühler im Juni in der SRF-«Arena» mit dem Titel «Jetzt reden wir Schwarzen». SP-Nationalrätin Sa
Am 4. September 2014 wird bei den NSU-Prozessen in München ein ungewöhnliches Beweismittel angeführt: eine 216-seitige Novelle, die mit über 200 rassistisch-motivierten Morden weltweit in Verbindung g
The last time I spoke to Michael J Fox, in 2013, in his office in New York, he was 90% optimistic and 10% pragmatic. The former I expected; the latter was a shock. Ever since 1998, when Fox went publi
In the early two-thousands, Merlin Mann, a Web designer and avowed Macintosh enthusiast, was working as a freelance project manager for software companies. He had held similar roles for years, so he k
I’ve been reading Garfield comics with my son this week. He’s too young to really follow the narratives — after every strip he pauses, asks what happened, and then says, slowly and calmly, “Why” — but
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Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown. A
The person who tells the most compelling story wins. Not the best idea. Just the story that catches people’s attention and gets them to nod their heads. Something can be factually true but contextuall
Why you should get an autopsy if it’s the last thing you do Published inElemental · 29 min read· Sep 22, 2020 -- Disclaimer: The images in this story may be disturbing for some people. For most people
Marc Polymeropoulos awoke with a start. The feeling of nausea was overwhelming. Food poisoning, he thought, and decided to head for the bathroom. But when he tried to get out of bed, he fell over. He
By Jaed Coffin | Photographed by Ryan David Brown From our October 2020 issue One sunny afternoon in late July, 12-year-old Zachary Wallace stood on a float beneath the Eastport pier, fishing for mack
Er hat ein paar miese Tage hinter sich. Ein paar ganze miese Wochen eigentlich. Denn Oliver von Dobrowolski ist Polizist. Und die Polizei stolpert in Deutschland gerade von einem Skandal in den nächst
Better necessarily implies different. That’s one of my favorite axioms. It’s both intuitively and undeniably true. But it gets to the heart of a certain universal cognitive dissonance inherent in mank
Practical Doomsday Whether you're wrestling bears in the wilderness, struggling to stay safe online, or shopping for the right home insurance policy, Practical Doomsday will take you on an engrossing,
https://www.ibiology.org/techniques/multi-dimensional-microscopy-datasets Modern microscopy produces large multi-dimensional datasets, which creates new challenges for data storage, processing and vis
The Billion Dollar Dataset Next Door 9 min read· Nov 18, 2020 -- Special thanks to Jennings Anderson who looked over an early draft of this post and helped me refine it. Also, as usual, the views expr
I was a power user of IFTTT for many years, so I had mixed feelings recently about their decision to change their pricing model. Under IFTTT’s new pricing, you can only have 3 “custom” actions created
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