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This is certainly a great immediately useful tool but also a relatively small ROI, both the return and the investment. Big tech is aiming for a much bigger return on a clearly bigg…

I'm unable to read the article due to the paywall, but if the first paragraph is indicative of the thesis, then it is "startups that build incremental functionality on top of exist…

While hemoglobin in blood has magnetic properties there’s no evidence that it leads to anyone being able to feel magnetic fields. At least one study has shown evidence for humans s…

SparkMeter is hiring! We're looking for a Systems Engineer, a Customer Operations Associate, a Commercial Operations Associate, a Business Administration Intern, and a Commercial O…

The article mentions that it's a problem to ride the elevator past the top or bottom floor, but it is unclear why. I don't see why this should be an issue.

Agreed. How are knitted objects normally made on these machines? Are they using the "assembly" instructions?

Is it really true that "all of mathematics can be described with sets"?

Unquestioning acceptance of science is definitely not a conclusion of this piece nor is it alluded to. The main argument of this piece is how "an understanding of what real truth-s…

Speculation: It appears they are using this for the overarching structure of projects. Rather than managing individual appointments it manages overall time, e.g. on this day BobbyS…

The 99.6% effectiveness statistic comes from the planned parenthood website and I'm assuming they quoted it from this study since they do not cite their source http://humrep.oxford…

I actually did the same %s/2048/4096/g in the code the other day after getting 2048. And I finally beat it! http://i.imgur.com/pC51sNT.png I suppose the next step is to make it end…