Sick and tired: Online activists are silencing us, scientists say “Scientists researching treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome say they face online abuse and harassment. Some are leaving the field. It’s a ‘new normal,’ they say, and patients may lose out.”
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The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete. Here’s What’s Next. - The Atlantic Jupyter Notebooks, apparently.
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Modern Microprocessors - A 90 Minute Guide! Nice article about how modern microprocessors work.
(tags: microprocessor cpu hardware memory cache) The Aural Majority: Do You Want to Swing, Virginia? What makes music swing? With sound samples.
(tags: swing music shuffle rhythm) Our quantum reality problem - Adrian Kent - Aeon An article about quantum ( Read more... )

Scott Aaronson on Philosophical Progress | Machine Intelligence Research Institute Scott Aaronson on how philosophy can make progress.
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The Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang Ted Chiang’s short about memory, time and loss. It’s also an alien first contact story.
(tags: heptapod story science-fiction time ted-chiang sci-fi language first-contact memory) Cambridge: Poles apart Why Warsaw beats Cambridge Blog Mike Levy “A weekend in Warsaw made me think about Cambridge at night. In ( Read more... )