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Oops, sorry, here's the actual ACM DL link that works for non-Brown people. Let's change these stats. (-:

"In America only 57% of doctoral students will have a PhD ten years after their first date of enrollment... The earnings premium for a PhD is only 3% more than a master's degree"

RT @jackrusher: On the power of using the right primitives:

"For our [Convolutional Neural Network], the requisite operations can be expressed in ten lines of native #APL code, using just 22 built-in verbs and conjunctions."

Federation IS the Ferengi culture.

vector magazine

@smdiehl wonder if already has this list.. I use them on my router to block FB/IG etc.

RT @razibkhan: Modern human origins cannot be traced back to a single point in time
"Contrary to what many believe, neither the genetic nor fossil records has so far revealed a defined time and place for the origin of our species." this seems right

I'm excited to share that this month there will be a @Suricata_IDS webinar for those interested in starting to contribute! My fellow intern Tharushi Jayasekara and I will be sharing our experience in a Beginner's Guide to Adding New Features to Suricata :)

ನೀವೂ ಕೂಗಳಿ ...

How Indian Americans Feel about India and Prime Minister Modi "Interestingly, Modi’s approval is lowest among Indian Americans who have been in the country the longest." this is what many of us have been saying. most indian americans arrived after 2000

A look at their presumptive tech stack -- full of Google and Facebook.

I should probably go ahead and delete my account.

I'd rather have my data handled by $FB, $GOOG, $TWTR IPO millionaires (who already have the data) than wannabe SV clones /sarcasm.

The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous the author claims fixation on intent/motive etc. is WEIRD

@nytimes position is standard across history

Short selling, explained

Excellent discussion on Vedic oral culture, sacral rites and level of preservation down to this day (unmatched in every other culture of its vintage)

I like how they comment that even Shakespeare’s work has more variants than the ṛcas.

Pandemic’s Toll on Housing: Falling Behind, Doubling Up we need to build. developers need to build. the state needs to build. it's atrocious what america does to lower-income ppl. not everyone can/should live in stockton and commute to oakland

I don't understand gamer culture and most of you don't understand Midwestern culture so let's be confused, together:

Imagine if this report was about any other country..

Thought I’d compile my translation attempts on a blog...

Start your own company
Start your own community
Start your own currency
Start your own city

In my mind this is a typical workday for @switchingtoguns

New working paper with @SVNieuwerburgh @VrindaMittal2 and Jonas Peeters on Covid-19 and real estate.

We document that urban land gradients have gotten temporarily much less steep, associated with the rise of telework and land scarcity

One of the more important things to happen for was @jain_ankit (CEO of ) dropping by, very early in the project, asking how they could help.

They generously donated the use of Eva, their digital assistant. She is magic for us.

One of the more important things to happen for was @jain_ankit (CEO of ) dropping by, very early in the project, asking how they could help.

They generously donated the use of Eva, their digital assistant. She is magic for us.

One of the most straight talking, easy to understand, and data backed articles on the farm bills. All the way back from June 2020

Kudos @JacobShap @PerchSpectives

Rare level-headed foreign coverage of India 👏🏼

The Future of India Depends on its Farmers

@thorstenball

WSB User Has New License Plate Number: “GMEAPE”

5 minute read on what India did right, and that there is no “mystery” to it. Yes, lockdown was terrible economically, but paid out in terms of healthcare outcomes.

This graphic in the article brilliantly sums up my beef with UX being seen as some touchy feely humanist empathy profession. No matter how evil some code is, there's a designer and UX pro helping to lure people to it. See also:

Wonderful news: the Italian state has bought Umberto Eco's library from his family. It will be kept at Bologna University and at the Braidense Library in Milan. If ever there was an author's library that deserved to be preserved intact, it was this one.

Almost Deja Vu, It has been 20 years since .@VenkyHariharan wrote a post . What has really changed since ? Both these posts are great reads conveying the same point from different snapshots of Indian FLOSS timeline.

Joshua Slocum was the first to sail around the world alone (1895–1898). He couldn't swim.

Robert E. Case circumnavigated alone without his left leg (1998-2001).

These people have no fear. It's inspiring. I want to be like them.

There is no connection between the stock market and reality.

A thread:

1. Airlines spent 96% of free cash flow on stock buybacks for a decade, then cut 90,000 jobs as soon as trouble hits. Then they got a $50 billion bailout

Computer science and programming courses that will challenge your mind. All online for 2021.

• Rafting Trip (Distributed Systems), May 10-14.
• Write a Compiler, May 24-28.
• Advanced Programming with Python, June 7-10.
• SICP, July 12-16.

2/3 of Tesla’s income is from selling regulatory credits to companies that are required by law to buy them.

Five Spectacular Indian Destinations Beyond The Taj Mahal

@forbes highlights the splendor of some of the other grandiose structures from the treasure trove of architectural wonders spread across the country.

Every destination has a story 🙏🏽

The fantastic Dr. Sthaneshwar Timalsina introducing himself, Vimarsha Foundation, and his new free course on the Tripurarahasya, bringing together Tantra and Vedānta, śāstra and abhyāsa, Indian textual traditions, philosophies, and spiritual practices:

Applications surge after big-name colleges halt SAT and ACT testing rules "a 2 percent dip in applicants with enough financial need to receive fee waivers, and a 3 percent drop in those who would be among the first in their families to go to college."