Big Thinkby Big Think12 Sept 2021
BEAU LOTTO: ALVA NOË However paradoxical it sounds, if we think of what is visible as just what projects to the eyes, we see much more than is visible. Let me give you an example.
Big Thinkby Steven D. Miller12 Sept 2021
For centuries, sailors have been reporting strange encounters like the one below. “The whole appearance of the ocean was like a plain covered with snow.
Big Thinkby Kristin Houser11 Sept 2021
This article was originally published on our sister site, Freethink. When Sophia the robot debuted in 2016, she was one of a kind.
Big Thinkby Alex Berezow11 Sept 2021
As the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack approached, I was disappointed to see how negative the media coverage is.
Big Thinkby Notger Heinz11 Sept 2021
One of the popular memes in literature, movies and tech journalism is that man’s creation will rise and destroy it.
Benoit Pasquierby Benoit Pasquier11 Sept 2021
Like many developers, I use open source tools on daily basis. Recently, I’ve got the chance to create one for other teammates and try to think about what I should consider before launching it.
Big Thinkby Robert Schofield10 Sept 2021
Many small animals grow their teeth, claws and other “tools” out of materials that are filled with zinc, bromine and manganese, reaching up to 20% of the material’s weight.
Big Thinkby Tim Brinkhof10 Sept 2021
We know a good deal about how early hominins — the branch of our evolutionary tree that split from chimps and bonobos up to seven million years ago — moved around their place of origin in eastern...
Big Thinkby Scotty Hendricks10 Sept 2021
While the term is often avoided for fear of ridiculing something more serious, mass psychogenic illness (MPI) — also known as mass sociogenic illness (MSI) or mass hysteria — is a real occurrence...
Big Thinkby Tom Hartsfield10 Sept 2021
Flying across the American Southwest, brilliant points of light shine in the distant wastes of the Mojave Desert. Three glowing spots hover over the horizon, each surrounded by a gleaming field.
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown9 Sept 2021
Since we are forced to spend most of our time using a web browser, it becomes natural to try improving the ergonomics of this tool in any way possible, to the point that even a single small...
Green Kitchen Storiesby Green Kitchen Stories8 Sept 2021
Hi! We are back after the summer with a vegan take on Caesar Salad. Or, the focus here is actually more on the mushrooms and the salad is just one way to serve them.
Cult of Androidby Cult of Mac8 Sept 2021
WhatsApp wants to make it easy to transfer chat data from Android to iOS Switching from Android to iPhone could soon be a little bit easier.
Slack Designby mlivingstone7 Sept 2021
There are plenty of comprehensive pieces on the practice of product design out there—our own Kyle Turman has written an excellent post on the Pillars of Digital Product Design—but there’s a crucial...
Distillby Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling; Emily Reif; Adam Pearce; Alexander B Wiltschko2 Sept 2021
Neural networks have been adapted to leverage the structure and properties of graphs. We explore the components needed for building a graph neural network - and motivate the design choices behind...
Distillby Ameya Daigavane; Balaraman Ravindran; Gaurav Aggarwal2 Sept 2021
Understanding the building blocks and design choices of graph neural networks. This article is one of two Distill publications about graph neural networks.
Sprouted Kitchenby Sara Forte2 Sept 2021
It used to be easier to write here. I like imagining who I am writing to and I’ve lost some of that here.
The Atomic Birdhouse2 Sept 2021
* Base 2 Last week at 360iDev I hosted the 8th edition of Stump 360. Stump is an evening event that, to my surprise as much as anyone else’s, has become a tradition at 360iDev. What is Stump 360?
zsmb.coby Márton Braun1 Sept 2021
A Bit of Gradle Housekeeping 2021-09-01 • Márton Braun While cleaning is traditionally a spring activity, let me invite you to do it at the end of summer this time around.
Erik Kroes - Accessibility Consultantby Erik Kroes31 Aug 2021
Color and contrast, what does it mean? Posted on The color contrast ratios mentioned in WCAG can give you an insight in how usable your color palette is. How that works isn't very transparent.
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