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Algorithms on Khan Academy – a collaboration with Dartmouth College professors
What is an algorithm ? It’s a sequence of steps that you follow to solve a problem. In everyday life, you might have an algorithm for hangin...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 18 posts.
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Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms
Developers take garbage collection for granted, but it's hard to see how it works. Watch 5 different GC algorithm visualizations.
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Nassim Taleb: We should retire the notion of standard deviation
The notion of standard deviation has confused hordes of scientists; it is time to retire it from common use and replace it with the more effective one of mean deviation. Standard deviation, STD, should be left to mathematicians, physicists and mathematical statisticians deriving limit theorems. There is no scientific…
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World Cup Follow-Up: Update of Winning Probabilities and Betting Results
An update on the winning probabilities for the remaining World Cup teams, and an analysis of how our predictor performed on the group-phase matches.
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Craig Gentry named MacArthur Fellow for work on fully homomorphic encryption
Fueling a revolution in cryptography and theoretical computer science through his breakthroughs in fully homomorphic encryption, leading to the possibility of more secure cloud computing.
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SIMD Vectorization in Julia
A portfolio of HPC tools help data scientists, researchers, and developers efficiently build cross-architecture applications.
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Which Is Closer: Local Beer or Local Whiskey?
For which fraction of the US is the nearest brewery further away than the nearest distillery? Analysis and visualization done with Wolfram Language.
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A free, complete guide to Technical Analysis
Learn technical analysis - candlestick patterns, support & resistance, moving averages, RSI, MACD, Fibonacci retracements, Dow theory, and chart analysis.
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Programming with Nothing (2011)
I love Ruby! I’ve used it every day for years and I’m not sick of it yet. It’s an easy language to love: it’s expressive, flexible and syntactically beautiful ; it has a unique combination of useful features like mixins , metaclasses and blocks ; it comes with a useful core library and comprehensive standard library …