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Let’s build and optimize a Rust extension for Python
Sep 16, 2024 | Python⇒Speed
Python code too slow? You can quickly create a Rust extension to speed it up.
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Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Sep 16, 2024 | defector.com
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars’s dead core? No? Well. It’s...
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In Newton, Brookline, and Cambridge, more parents are sending their kids to private school. Why? - The Boston Globe
Sep 09, 2024 | BostonGlobe.com
The trend comes at a tough time for public schools and could impact culture and competitiveness.
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Lessons from the California Journalism Legislative Debacle
Sep 08, 2024 | dicktofel.substack.com
Opinion | My Son and Gus Walz Deserve a Champion Like Tim Walz
Aug 25, 2024 | www.nytimes.com
What We Learned In Our First Year of 404 Media
Aug 23, 2024 | 404 Media
In August 2023, we launched 404 Media with a novel idea: pay journalists to do journalism. Here we are, a year later.
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Column | With six words, Michelle Obama rewires America’s conversation on race
Aug 22, 2024 | Washington Post
Most of us, Michelle Obama said, “will never benefit from the affirmative action of generational wealth.”
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Neurodivergent Kids Flourish When They’re Taught How Their Brains Work
Aug 20, 2024 | Scientific American
When teachers and parents talk to kids about having ADHD, autism or learning disabilities, they set them up for success
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Welcome to a new era of technology growth for the Minnesota Star Tribune
Aug 19, 2024 | www.startribune.com
Meta unleashes its Llama
Aug 14, 2024 | Platformer
The company's open-source AI is now roughly on par with rivals from OpenAI and Google. Should we worry?
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Applications to Boston’s exam schools have tumbled by half over four years. Here’s what’s behind the drop. - The Boston Globe
Aug 14, 2024 | BostonGlobe.com
The smaller applicant pools come as BPS has made significant strides in increasing the racial, socioeconomic, and geographic diversity of students offered exam school admission.
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Towards Standardizing Place
Aug 02, 2024 | Drew Breunig
Overture’s Global Entity Reference System (GERS) could revolutionize geospatial data by standardizing ‘place’, making geospatial intelligence more accessible through simple data joins rather than complex mapping tools.
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AI crawlers need to be more respectful
Jul 28, 2024 | Read the Docs
We talk a bit about the AI crawler abuse we are seeing at Read the Docs, and warn that this behavior is not sustainable.
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Load Balancing
Jul 21, 2024 | samwho.dev
A bottom-up, animated guide to HTTP load balancing algorithms.
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Former DCist staff launch the 51st, new local news site for Washington
Jul 21, 2024 | Washington Post
The 51st is a worker-run newsroom that will attempt to fill a niche its founders say opened when WAMU closed DCist.
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Free George R. R. Martin from The Winds of Winter
Jul 18, 2024 | Polygon
At this point, it seems like George R. R. Martin simply does not want to finish writing Winds of Winter. And if he doesn’t want to write it, I don’t want to read it.
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Wall Street Journal fires Hong Kong reporter who headed embattled press club
Jul 17, 2024 | Washington Post
The Hong Kong Journalists Association has been accused in recent weeks by state-run media outlets in Hong Kong and China of destabilizing the city.
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