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Molly White, a prolific Wikipedia editor, has written a good overview of how information source reliability is handled in practice: https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-th…

Measurement of subjective wellbeing has a long history in healthcare and can be very useful for both treatment and research; see e.g. pain scales: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pai…

It's long, but do give it a chance. The main premise is how the legend of Feynman (as in "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!") is often at odds with Feynman the person. It is neith…

1.5 hours of complete downtime for our apps now. We're getting "App boot timeout" errors for every request and "One or more of these arguments were missing: uid, gid, gateway, soma…

Case in point: The ongoing Covid-19 inquiry request for access to government WhatsApp messages: https://www.ft.com/content/208263bf-b6bb-4ea6-8e6b-ee2e522ac...

Later popes did indeed. Popes Leo XIII and Pius X were drinkers of the Vin Mariani coca wine, the former even awarding its creator Angelo Mariani a Vatican gold medal. https://en.w…

If using Django there are tools like django-docs ( https://django-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ) and the recently released django-sphinx-view ( https://noumenal.es/django-sphinx-…

She was interviewed on February 4th 2021 as part of their digital events series ("An audience with Ann Wroe, obituaries editor"). Worth a listen: https://economist-subsevents.zoom.…

You can buy it on itch.io as well: https://www.anchorhead-game.com/purchase/

For those familiar with the original 1998 version, note that a remastered and illustrated edition was released in 2018--worth a replay and a good way of supporting the author! http…

You may be thinking of Ice Station Zebra (1968). The Wikipedia page mentions Project COLDFEET as one of the inspirations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Station_Zebra

I remember young me spending hours on a VIC-20 version of animal.bas ("Computer guesses animals and learns new ones from you"). Given enough time and training input the computer co…

Perhaps the life forms with long-term success have learned that it is not prudent to broadcast your location; the smaller the chance of other civilisations knowing about your exist…

For the kind of diagram in your example I have been using Cacoo for some time now: https://cacoo.com It does not take a lot of practice to get decent results and they also have som…

Thanks for the suggestions, folks!

Would like to hear general information security recommendations as well.

I find Ben Eater's 8-bit computer from scratch series really wonderful, mainly because of his skills as an educator and the effort he puts into the material: https://www.youtube.co…

Analogy, metaphor or just simple evocative imagery are good tools for making subject matter stick, though: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/lecture...

Also, any good examples of Django REST with React out there?

Shannon's original paper, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", is still a good read: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pd...