Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes The Next Web:
The word ‘hack’ used to mean something, and hackers were known for their technical brilliance and creativity. Now, literally anything is a hack — anything — to the point where the term is meaningless, and shou… Continue reading ‘The Word Hack is Meaningless and Should Be Retired’
An anonymous reader writes:
Flat earther “Mad” Mike Hughes, who also bills himself as “the last great daredevil,” promised Super Bowl-sized ratings for an event Saturday where he’d blast himself nearly half a mile into the sky on a homemade rocket. “We… Continue reading Flat Earther Fails To Launch His Homemade Rocket — Yet Again
An anonymous reader writes: In November “Cards Against Humanity” announced “a complicated holiday promotion” where people paid $15 for six surprises in December. (For the first surprise in the Cards Against Humanity Saves America promotion, “we purchas… Continue reading ‘Cards Against Humanity’ Gives Out $1000 Checks
“A trio of data scientists developed a betting strategy to beat bookmakers at football games,” writes austro. [The game Americans call soccer.] New Scientist reports:
The team studied 10 years’ worth of data on nearly half a million football matches a… Continue reading Data Science Meets Sports Gambling: How Researchers Beat the Bookies
“A trio of data scientists developed a betting strategy to beat bookmakers at football games,” writes austro. [The game Americans call soccer.] New Scientist reports:
The team studied 10 years’ worth of data on nearly half a million football matches a… Continue reading Data Science Meets Sports Gambling: How Researchers Beat the Bookies
Python is the Arduino of software projects. It has a critical mass of libraries for anything from facial recognition and neural networks to robotics and remote sensing. And just like Arduino, I have yet to find the killer IDE for Python. Perhaps I just haven’t tried the right one yet, but it could be that I’m just doing Python wrong.
I’m a Linux-only type of a guy so using IDLE for Python is a natural fit. It’s in the repositories for super quick and easy install and there’s basically zero configuration to be done. Generally …read more
[TVMiller] has a bone to pick with you if you let your car idle while you chat or text on your phone. He doesn’t like it, and he wants to break you of this wasteful habit – thus the idle-deterrence system he built that he seems to want on every car dashboard.
In the video below, the target of his efforts is clear – those who start the car then spend time updating Twitter or Instagram. His alarm is just an Arduino Nano that starts a timer when the car is started. Color-coded LEDs mark the time, and when the …read more
Continue reading Car Idle Alarm Helps You Stop Wasting Gas While Tweeting
