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Proscia | Front-end Engineer, Back-end Engineer, DevOps, Research Engineer, Machine Learning Systems Engineer | Philadelphia, PA | Full-time | Onsite The data to fight cancer is in…

Those familiar with the field will recognize an augmented reality microscope as an incomplete alternative to, or stepping-stone towards AI applied to whole-slide images, which are …

Sapiens?

In a similar spirit, the Bloomberg Businessweek magazine used to have zany cover designs (my favorite featured a sweaty Steve Ballmer in a Clippers jersey dribbling a basketball ca…

Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley.

Accredited investors/VC (disclaimer: I am neither, but co-founded a VC-backed startup) are often wary of crowd funding because of the idea that with more investors, the more headac…

> as I don't know if pulling venture capital is as easy as selling the stock. There's generally minimal liquidity. During a round, an existing investor may have the opportunity to …

Thanks a million, from me and the people who invested in my startup. edit: apparently SNI isn't supported on legacy dynos.

In 2014, while in college, I did a co-op rotation at the Bombardier Transportation facility in Pittsburgh, PA. The rail division may be based in Germany, but there's a sizable rail…

I use JSONB columns for similar use-cases, but to play devil's advocate, you can accomplish that a fourth way, which is almost certainly better than 1 or 2. A table for fields, one…

This is great news; I had been waiting.

Apt reference, but to be clear, it is Donny who jumps on the Dude's attempt to quote Lenin, and Walter who scornfully corrects him, "V.I. Lenin-- Vladimir Ilyich ULYANOV!"

While I largely agree with you, not all ads need to be clicked in order to be considered effective by the advertiser. Look at a Coca-Cola billboard, for instance. There's no action…

The example of the pizza ordering is technologically impressive, yes... But from an end-user perspective it is at best "as hard" as calling the pizza place and talking to a human t…

This is ironic. It used to be the analog medium that had a sort natural copy protection built in.

Lee's mailing a bootable USB with Tails on it to Greenwald seems super risky. I get that Greenwald isn't a tech savant, but instructing him to make his own bootable drive after ver…

It's a DIY project. They're not for sale.

It's not necessarily about misrepresenting your business to potential acquirers. In many cases, an acquirer may be interesting in a company's IP portfolio or product. Such an acqui…

Back when all iOS apps ran as root, and MobileSafari had a vulnerable libtiff, jailbreakme.com was "easy" by today's standards.

Flowers for Algernon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon

This is really good. Turned up some extremely relevant yet non-obvious results.

What if your tormentors in high school had raped you?

To play devil's advocate: hiring a less-experienced freelancer is a riskier investment than hiring an experienced freelancer with a big portfolio and many references. Even if the t…

I'd like to know your thoughts on today's cheap oil prices-- assuming oil stays around $70-80 a barrel for the next few years, do you see that slowing down solar development/invest…

>> Java gave me a choice that I didn't need, and I made the wrong choice What if Java gave an arguably more useful choice--whether to use a signed or unsigned integer?