San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless
2019 Autumn, Heather Mac Donald Failure to enforce basic standards of public behavior has made one of America’s great cities increasingly unlivable.
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Ceramics enter a new era with laser-welded joints
2019-08-30 Chris Lee Right light pulse duration and joint orientation enable ceramics to be welded.
Are black holes made of dark energy?
2019-09-10 University of Hawaii at Manoa In 1998, two independent teams of astronomers discovered that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating, consistent with the presence of a uniform contribution of Dark Energy. It was not recognized, however, that GEODEs…
Day Trading for a Living?
2019-08-22 Fernando Chague, Rodrigo De-Losso, Bruno Giovannetti “We show that it is virtually impossible for an individual to day trade for a living, contrary to what course providers claim. We observe all individuals who began to day trade between 2013…
The Pyramids of Giza: Chapter 16: How to Build a Pyramid
2019-08-30 Jimmy Maher How the Egyptians may have built the Pyramid of Khufu.
Crops under solar panels can be a win-win
2019-09-05 Scott K. Johnson In dry places, photovoltaic shade can even reduce water use.
The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History
2018-08-22 Andy Greenberg Crippled ports. Paralyzed corporations. Frozen government agencies. How a single piece of code crashed the world.
The Eponymous Mr. Ponzi
2019-09-02 Michael Durbin The little known story of an age-old scam.
Exploring Weight Agnostic Neural Networks
2019-08-27 Adam Gaier, Student Researcher and David Ha, Staff Research Scientist, Google Research, Tokyo When training a neural network to accomplish a given task, be it image classification or reinforcement learning, one typically refines a set of weights associated with…