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11 votes
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Twilio's TaskRouter JavaScript SDK was in a world-writeable S3 bucket, and had what appears to be a precursor to a payment-card skimmer inserted for about 12 hours
10 votes -
How to think about individual vs group hereditarianism
3 votes -
How bouillon cubes became an international pantry staple
12 votes -
Rocket League is becoming free-to-play, and will no longer be available through Steam for new players
23 votes -
US phone carriers may soon be able to block all calls from robocallers' carriers
16 votes -
Benefit corporations go public
2 votes -
Race to the bottom: Museum curators in battle for #BestMuseumBum
8 votes -
A month-and-a-half of self-hosted email
10 votes -
Alone on a mountaintop, awaiting a very hard rain
7 votes -
The United States needs a third Reconstruction; whatever its shape, the era ahead must rekindle the aspiration of a nation molded in the ideal of perfect equality that we have always seeked
21 votes -
Yorushika - Plagiarism (2020)
2 votes -
Highlighting code with color can carry a huge amount of information, and there are many useful approaches other than just using it for syntax
10 votes -
MIT researchers created a deepfake of Nixon delivering the 'In Event Of Moon Disaster' speech
8 votes -
Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk: "Most parents have no idea how bad this is going to be"
40 votes -
Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller 'Tenet' delayed indefinitely
16 votes -
Annunciation Triptych - Thank God for the details
2 votes -
Solarpunk: Post-industrial design and aesthetics
5 votes -
Arabic in the Sky
6 votes -
The lights go out on Lebanon’s economy as financial collapse accelerates
13 votes -
My 2017 iPhone X died: I got a 2016 iPhone SE for $70, upgraded the battery and added wireless charging — it's great
23 votes -
Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown
@Twitter Safety: We've been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behavior that has the potential to lead to offline harm. In line with this approach, this week we are taking further action on so-called 'QAnon' activity across the service.
19 votes -
How the Minecraft title screen seed was found
14 votes -
Steven Bradbury, Australia’s last man standing
4 votes -
What online courses / MOOCs have you taken?
Not leaving the house much these days (due to social distancing and also insane heat in NYC right now) means I've got some time to kill that I'd like to spend productively. I took MIT 6.00.2x:...
Not leaving the house much these days (due to social distancing and also insane heat in NYC right now) means I've got some time to kill that I'd like to spend productively.
I took MIT 6.00.2x: Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science a few years back when I was refreshing my Python skills. I think it's been updated a bit since then. It was a high quality course and I enjoyed it, though there are so many Python-related courses these days, I can't guarantee it's the best.
I'm currently taking:
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Model Thinking on Coursera from the University of Michigan. I don't know where I saw this recommended (maybe on Tildes or Hacker News?) but it's quite good so far. Scott Page teaches about how to use various models (mental models, computational ones, etc.) for breaking down and analyzing various problems and systems. I've only just started but I quite like it.
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Testing and Monitoring Machine Learning Model Deployments on Udemy. Taking this along with a few coworkers since it's relevant to what I do. Only just starting but appears to be quite good and works through a well-documented example project on Github.
I've also come across a few that seem like they might be good courses for the future:
- Bayesian Methods for Hackers
- Probalistic graphical models on Coursera (3-part sequence, not free)
- Computational probability and inference
Now your turn: what have you taken? What did you like or not like, and why? What do you want to take?
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Situating LessWrong in contemporary philosophy: An interview with Jon Livengood
3 votes -
The fall TV season looks doomed, due to paused production during the coronavirus pandemic and the uncertain future of sports
12 votes -
What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
8 votes -
What’s the difference between a good QA director and a great one? A comparison
4 votes -
Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder arrested in connection with $60 million bribery scheme
19 votes -
Dover clifftops 'buzzing with wildlife' after National Trust takeover
7 votes -
The greatest Olympic cheat - The curious case of the electrified épée
11 votes -
Using a VPN may make you less secure
17 votes -
"The Girl From Ipanema" is a far weirder song than you thought
12 votes -
You Are A Chair
13 votes -
Building the Moroccan Court at the New York Met
4 votes -
Sudan's Bashir on trial over 1989 coup that brought him to power
4 votes -
Eight ways MLB is leaning on technology to keep fans engaged this summer
3 votes -
China blows up dam as death toll from flooding rises
12 votes -
Dream Nails - Text Me Back (Chirpse Degree Burns) (2020)
2 votes -
Personal Software Development Checklists
11 votes -
Reddit releases their new content policy along with banning hundreds of subreddits, including /r/The_Donald and /r/ChapoTrapHouse
85 votes -
SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity in cases of COVID-19 and SARS, and uninfected controls
12 votes -
AI Dungeon: Dragon Model Upgrade
12 votes -
Richard Rorty, cancel culture, political fallibilism, and achieving our country
5 votes -
Conservative arguments for inheritance reform
7 votes -
Cancel culture is the marketplace of ideas at work
16 votes -
Major videogame developer partners with philosophy department
4 votes -
Young climate activists are building a movement while growing up — planning mass protests from childhood bedrooms and during school
12 votes -
"Knowing it could kill you isn’t a deterrent": The deadly trade in diet pills
6 votes