Robots Must Be Ephemeralized
Eric Jangby noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)20 Sept 2021
In a previous blog post, I also discussed how iterating in simulation solves some tricky problems around new code changes invalidating old data.
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top 15%Service Architecture at SoundCloud — Part 3: Domain Gateways
SoundCloud Backstage Blog17 Sept 2021
This article is the last part in a series of posts aiming to cast some light onto how service architecture has evolved at SoundCloud over the past few years, and how we’re attempting to solve some...
A new window to the early universe (and aliens?)
Big Thinkby Marcelo Gleiser15 Sept 2021
The history of science could be written as a history of instrumentation. From particle accelerators and microscopes to fMRIs and telescopes, as instruments become more powerful, they act as reality...
The cruelest people in Russian history
Big Thinkby Tim Brinkhof15 Sept 2021
A popular joke among American students majoring in Slavic Studies is that you can pretty much sum up the entirety of Russian history by saying things have gone from “bad to worse.” It is a gross...
Mindfulness: New age craze or science-backed solution?
Big Thinkby Kevin Dickinson15 Sept 2021
- Mindfulness has become a billion-dollar industry. - Research shows mindfulness can be an effective wellness practice, yet the effect sizes found in studies tend to be moderate.
Big Tech and privacy: Apple flirts with the "dark side"
Big Thinkby Tom Hartsfield15 Sept 2021
Apple has built a reputation as the “least evil” Big Tech giant when it comes to privacy. All these companies — Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon — collect our data and essentially spy on...
What happens when two different respiratory viruses infect the same cell?
Big Thinkby Connor Bamford15 Sept 2021
Right now, there’s just one virus on everyone’s minds: SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
How to understand Einstein's equation for general relativity
Big Thinkby Ethan Siegel15 Sept 2021
- The Einstein field equations appear very simple, but they encode a tremendous amount of complexity.
What really happens when your foot goes to sleep?
Big Thinkby Zachary Gillen14 Sept 2021
Imagine you’ve just sat down to watch your favorite TV show. You decide to snuggle in with your legs crisscrossed because you find it more comfortable that way.
MAPLE BANANA CAKE WITH YOGURT FROSTING — Sprouted Kitchen
Sprouted Kitchenby Sara Forte14 Sept 2021
I really wanted to push this as a smash cake idea, but I must tell you that in retesting, it is quite delicate. It is DELICIOUS, but she is not a sturdy, easy to frost cake.
Saving history: 3D laser scans preserve world heritage sites
Big Thinkby Tim Brinkhof14 Sept 2021
On the night of May 14, 1940, the German Luftwaffe bombed the Dutch city of Rotterdam. When government administrators entered the streets to tally their losses the next morning, they learned that...
Who was the most original philosopher?
Big Thinkby Jonny Thomson14 Sept 2021
Nothing in life can be treated in isolation. Behind every idea, person, discovery, invention, or project is a hidden network of conditions that gave rise to it.
Exoplanets with moons may be likelier to host life
Big Thinkby Scotty Hendricks14 Sept 2021
Though Earth has only one (very special and precious) moon, the average planet in our solar system has 26 moons. (The range is from zero moons for Mercury and Venus to 82 moons for Saturn.)
Could fundamental physical constants not be constant across space and time?
Big Thinkby Ethan Siegel14 Sept 2021
Whenever we examine the universe in a scientific manner, there are a few assumptions that we take for granted as we go about our investigations.
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Marco.orgby Marco Arment13 Sept 2021
After the dust settles from the developer class-action settlement, the South Korean law, the JFTC announcement, and the Apple v.
Clever wild boar brings rescue party to save young from a trap
Big Thinkby Robby Berman13 Sept 2021
There is a danger in attributing human-like motivations to animal behavior. We have no way, after all, of really knowing what is going on in a non-human’s mind.
Lao Tzu only wrote a single sentence about Yin and Yang, but it changed philosophy forever
Big Thinkby Jonny Thomson13 Sept 2021
No person is one thing. The kindest person you know has a tiny recess of cruelty in them. The happiest person you have ever met will have their depressive moments.
Neuroplasticity: how to use anxiety to improve your life
Big Thinkby Wendy Suzuki13 Sept 2021
The following is an excerpt from Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion. Copyright (C) 2021 by Wendy Suzuki, PhD. Reprinted with permission from Simon & Schuster.
What are dormant volcanoes good for? Copper mining
Big Thinkby Kristin Houser12 Sept 2021
This article was originally published on our sister site, Freethink. Oxford scientists have proposed what they believe is a more sustainable approach to copper mining: digging deep wells under...
What do Putin and Bieber have in common? A lot, if you think they look alike
Big Thinkby Scotty Hendricks12 Sept 2021
Humans are so good at identifying faces that we see them in places where they do not exist, such as on the moon or Mars or in combinations of circles, line segments, and dots.