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This reminds me of CGP Grey’s “Digital Aristotle”, which actually references both Khan Academy and A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer https://youtu.be/7vsCAM17O-M

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Tom Scott has a great video about the issues with electronic voting, chief among which is a lack of trust and understanding by the general public of how electronic voting would wor…

On the other hand, however, the outcomes of a breach are vastly different. An individual who fails to secure their information is liable for only their information. If a "big-tech"…

>>> I’ll proceed to give them a two minute tour about what you can do with tmux. After that they’re either hooked and want to try it themselves or they tell me to go away with my a…

This seems to play very well with some of MIT CSAIL's research in training robots to be able to manipulate objects they haven't seen before. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9U…

It seems like they're selling ASICs. It would be useful in something like an embedded system where you train a model beforehand, deploy it, and then let it go. On top of speed impr…

"1,300 people were eventually killed, and 350,000 were displaced. That was a result of our leak" - Julian Assange https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/aug/01/julian-assange...

Crimes committed against the United States are seen as crimes committed in the United States. This is an issue of sovereignty, as there is no (for most intents and purposes) higher…

Yes, this is the entire premise of extradition treaties. If you conspire to commit a crime in a different country, you are potentially able to be sent there to be put on trial. As …

Correct, cities in Virginia are independent [1]. Falls Church, for example, is an independent city, and has the governing power of a county, but is not in and of itself a "county" …

~/Code/ L python/ L project1/ L ... L dotnet/ L web/ L work/ L ... ~/Documents/ L school/ L Spring2019/ L ... L personal/ L work/ That's about all I really access other than Downlo…

Computerphile did a video recently giving a 10,000 foot overview of Reed Solomon codes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBRMaEAFLE0

Here's a video of one of his prosthetic arms in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrWckNLgshc

There was a discussion on the HTTP 203 show about the JAM stack as well, which talks relatively quickly and briefly about concerns when deciding whether or not to implement a JAM s…

Internal combustion engines operate at about 25% efficiency (per this paper, page 54) https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/5764... Coal power plants operate in t…

The issue with the Kyoto Protocols (and most multilateral agreements) is that there is no recourse from the international community for leaving the agreement. The only enforcement …

I assume learning to build interfaces in Javascript allows you to port that skill to both the desktop environment (via something like Electron) or web environment through a browser…

RE: Conference Speeches There's a channel called 'Coding Tech' that conglomerates talks from a variety of conferences.

But in slack emoji, you have to modify the universal standard for the workspace in order to add those emoji, and now you're back to where you started. The whole benefit of Unicode …