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headalgorithm··on Scientists Implant False Memories in Birds to Teach Songs They've Never Heard
See recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21164686
headalgorithm··on The Future of Mathematics?
See previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20909404
headalgorithm··on Ask HN: Why does Google index pages I cannot access?
See Google's Webmaster Guidelines on cloaking: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355
headalgorithm··on DNS-over-HTTPS privacy and security concerns
Alternative link https://uk.godaddy.com/engineering/2019/09/04/doh-concerns/
headalgorithm··on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Account Hacked
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20842247

and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20841976

headalgorithm··on How to Love Your Enemies: The Behavioral Science of DIY Depolarization
From the article:

When we stop thinking of ourselves as advocates for a position, and more as truth-seekers, happy to accept appropriate uncertainty, we become less likely to think of those with different views as “enemies.”

headalgorithm··on Tardigrades crash-landed on the Moon and probably survived
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20634080

and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20628574

headalgorithm··on Cloudflare terminates service for 8chan after El Paso shooting
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20610395
headalgorithm··on Jeff Bezos Sells $2B of Amazon Stock After 4% Stake Transfer
Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20583938
headalgorithm··on Painted-on salt provides glowing thermometer for tiny things
Original paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08727
headalgorithm··on 'Unprecedented' Wildfires Burned Across the Arctic Circle in June
Related article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20446645
headalgorithm··on Apple May Finally Ditch Problematic Butterfly Keyboard with MacBook Air Refresh
See this discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353148
headalgorithm··on Towards Multiverse Databases [pdf]
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20200127 for a recent discussion
headalgorithm··on Launching Today: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19970333 for discussion
headalgorithm··on The Riemann Hypothesis, explained (2016)
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13344071 for some interesting past discussion
headalgorithm··on Evaluating the Unsupervised Learning of Disentangled Representations
Link to the Google AI blog post: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/04/evaluating-unsupervised-le...
headalgorithm··on Great developers are raised, not hired
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19642722 for a recent discussion of this article
headalgorithm··on MIT Researcher Exposing Bias in Facial Recognition Tech Triggers Amazon’s Wrath
From the article:

"Those disparities can sometimes be a matter of life or death: One recent study of the computer vision systems that enable self-driving cars to “see” the road shows they have a harder time detecting pedestrians with darker skin tones."

Just think about the consequences of deploying such systems.

headalgorithm··on A Team at Amazon Is Listening to Recordings Captured by Alexa
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19629513 for more discussion on this and the original Bloomberg article
headalgorithm··on Wearable Device Scrubs Cancer Cells from Blood
See https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09439-9 for the original paper
headalgorithm··on 2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19614674 for more discussion
headalgorithm··on Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up? (2017)
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14895121 for some interesting past discussion
headalgorithm··on About 40% of Europe’s “AI companies” don’t use any AI at all
This has been going on for some time. To see if you have a viable product it is easier to use humans than spend years building a workable AI solution.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17477768 for a similar story.

headalgorithm··on QED Manifesto
See https://www.cs.ru.nl/~freek/qed/qed.html for the actual manifesto.

It is a shame the project never got off the ground.

headalgorithm··on Programming Books You Wish You Read Earlier
See this thread from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19225964

I think it's the same article, just under a different url.

headalgorithm··on Twenty-five ways in which MIT has transformed computing
Propaganda is a harsh word. Self-promotion maybe better.

The article is to commemorate the "launch of the new $1 billion MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing" and credit has been given to the creators and outside groups that MIT worked with.

headalgorithm··on What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger (1944) [pdf]
It is also being released as an audiobook. Release date: 22 Jan 2019.

https://www.amazon.com/What-Life-Matter-Autobiographical-Ske...

headalgorithm··on Ask HN: How to found a company as a single founder?
I totally agree.

I've found Steve Blanks book "The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company" very insightful.

headalgorithm··on Risch Algorithm – An Algorithm for Indefinite Integration
I don't know of a full implementation but SymPy has a simplified version of the Risch algorithm, called the Risch-Norman algorithm.

https://docs.sympy.org/latest/modules/integrals/integrals.ht...

headalgorithm··on GM’s decline truly began with its quest to turn people into machines
I'm no expert in car production lines but I would assume most major car manufacturers use the same production techniques so I find it hard to believe GM's decline can be linked to "treating assemblers as though they were little whirring parts of one giant machine".
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