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Forbes: How Did The Universe Expand To 46 Billion Light-Years In Just 13.8 Billion Years?
Forbes: How Did The Universe Expand To 46 Billion Light-Years In Just 13.8 Billion Years?
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When the Universe was a million years old, its edge was already some 100 million light-years away. When it was just a year old, we could see for nearly 100,000 light-years. When it was just a millisecond old, we could already see for a light-year in all directions.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/02/26/how-did-the-universe-expand-to-46-billion-light-years-in-just-13-8-billion-years/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/02/26/how-did-the-universe-expand-to-46-billion-light-years-in-just-13-8-billion-years/

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Консервативная собака — по ебалу на-ка!

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24 new photos added to shared album

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Why Supersymmetry May Be The Greatest Failed Prediction In Particle Physics History

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/why-supersymmetry-may-be-the-greatest-failed-prediction-in-particle-physics-history-e4e7d3879a00

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The Sultan of Speed

https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/sultan-speed-180970800/

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Remembering Darryl Greenamyer, Air Racing Champion

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/remembering-darryl-greenamyer-air-racing-champion

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The Perfect Airplane Wing

https://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/perfect-airplane-wing-180971225/

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23 new photos added to shared album

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7 new photos added to shared album

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7 new photos added to shared album

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2 new photos added to shared album

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Google backtracks on Chrome modifications that would have crippled ad blockers | ZDNet

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-backtracks-on-chrome-modifications-that-would-have-crippled-ad-blockers/

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Image: April 2016 Issue of Physics Today Is Online & in the Mail ...

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The Photometric LSST Astronomical Time-series Classification Challenge (PLAsTiCC)
The Photometric LSST Astronomical Time-series Classification Challenge (PLAsTiCC)
https://www.kaggle.com/c/PLAsTiCC-2018
https://www.kaggle.com/c/PLAsTiCC-2018

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John Gustafson presents: Beyond Floating Point – Next Generation Computer Arithmetic
John Gustafson presents: Beyond Floating Point – Next Generation Computer Arithmetic
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A new data type called a “posit” is designed for direct drop-in replacement for IEEE Standard 754 floats.
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https://insidehpc.com/2017/02/john-gustafson-presents-beyond-floating-point-next-generation-computer-arithmetic/
https://insidehpc.com/2017/02/john-gustafson-presents-beyond-floating-point-next-generation-computer-arithmetic/

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Footage Of Shirtless Bernie Sanders Drunkenly Singing With Soviets In ‘88 Surfaces

https://forward.com/schmooze/418282/footage-of-shirtless-bernie-sanders-singing-drunkenly-with-soviets-in-88/

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National Review: So Why Don’t We Already Have a Wall?.
National Review: So Why Don’t We Already Have a Wall?.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/border-wall-funding-politics-congress-white-house/
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/border-wall-funding-politics-congress-white-house/

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What DeepMind’s AlphaStar beating StarCraft players means for AI research

https://towardsdatascience.com/what-deepminds-alphastar-beating-starcraft-players-means-for-ai-research-62ca70ccb403

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Matterport3D Research Dataset
Matterport3D Research Dataset
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We’re excited that groups at Stanford, Princeton, and TUM have painstakingly hand-labeled a wide range of spaces offered up by customers and made these labeled spaces public in the form of the Matterport 3D dataset.

This is the largest public dataset of its kind in the world, and the labeling of this dataset was a very significant effort.
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This dataset contains 10,800 aligned 3D panoramic views (RGB + depth per pixel) from 194,400 RGB + depth images of 90 building-scale scenes. All of these scenes were captured with Matterport’s Pro 3D Camera. The 3D models of the scenes have been hand-labeled with instance-level object segmentation.
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https://matterport.com/blog/2017/09/20/announcing-matterport3d-research-dataset/

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Mask R-CNN for Object Detection and Segmentation | Matterport
Mask R-CNN for Object Detection and Segmentation | Matterport
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This is an implementation of Mask R-CNN on Python 3, Keras, and TensorFlow. The model generates bounding boxes and segmentation masks for each instance of an object in the image.
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https://github.com/matterport/Mask_RCNN
https://github.com/matterport/Mask_RCNN

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Черный кофе - "Листья" альбом "Переступи порог (1987) Переиздание 2003 года
Черный кофе - "Листья" альбом "Переступи порог (1987) Переиздание 2003 года
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С ветки падающий лист
В день осенний золотист,
Он по воздуху кружится
И танцует, как артист,
С ветки падающий лист.

Нет ни братьев, ни сестёр,
Он один на весь простор,
Он пьянеет от свободы
И пылает, как костёр.
Он один на весь простор.

Если б листья знать могли
Сколько лёту до земли,
А потом лежать, валяться
Под ногами и в пыли.
Если б листья знать могли. /2/

Но для каждого из нас
Сердцу мил свободы час.
И порой не жалко жизни,
Чтоб хлебнуть её хоть раз.
Так для каждого из нас, /2/
Если б листья знать могли, /2/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoPSjgm1Jv0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoPSjgm1Jv0

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Nuha
Nuha
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Alexey Shor, The Portrait of a Maltese Composer
Alexey Shor, The Portrait of a Maltese Composer
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A portrait documentary about famous American-Maltese composer Alexey Shor on the occasion of Images from Great Siege world premiere—an orchestral work performed by the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra and Armenian State Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sergey Smbatyan during the 2018 Malta International Music Festival. The film includes fascinating interviews with Shor himself and Maxim Vengerov, Ray Chen, Salvatore Accardo, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, David Aaron Carpenter, Denis Kozhukhin...
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https://www.medici.tv/en/documentaries/alexey-shor-maltese-composer/
https://www.medici.tv/en/documentaries/alexey-shor-maltese-composer/

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Ватник — Русский эксперт

https://ruxpert.ru/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA#.D0.9F.D1.80.D0.B5.D0.B4.D1.8B.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F_.D1.82.D0.B5.D1.80.D0.BC.D0.B8.D0.BD.D0.B0

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Forbes: IRS Publishes Final Guidance On The 20% Pass-Through Deduction: Putting It All Together.
Forbes: IRS Publishes Final Guidance On The 20% Pass-Through Deduction: Putting It All Together.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonynitti/2019/01/19/irs-publishes-final-guidance-on-the-20-pass-through-deduction-putting-it-all-together/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonynitti/2019/01/19/irs-publishes-final-guidance-on-the-20-pass-through-deduction-putting-it-all-together/

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Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Friday that lowers from a felony to a misdemeanor the crime of knowingly exposing a sexual partner to HIV without disclosing the infection.

The measure also applies to those who give blood without telling the blood bank that they are HIV-positive.
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https://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-gov-brown-downgrades-from-felony-to-1507331544-htmlstory.html

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Ann-Marie Madigan says Batygin is wrong
Ann-Marie Madigan says Batygin is wrong
https://youtu.be/YW0Zb5gY0HA

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Company co-founded by Nancy Pelosi's son charged with securities fraud
Company co-founded by Nancy Pelosi's son charged with securities fraud
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/17/company-co-founded-nancy-pelosis-son-charged-secur/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/17/company-co-founded-nancy-pelosis-son-charged-secur/

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FAST RADIO BURSTS: The Story So Far...
FAST RADIO BURSTS: The Story So Far...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjy-nNF2KTM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjy-nNF2KTM

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Unlike a traditional IPO, a direct listing issues no new shares. The company going public sets its own market for the sale of shares by existing holders—founders, investors and employees—then finds buyers at an agreed upon price using market makers at an exchange like Nasdaq or the New York Stock Exchange. Investment banks hired by the listing company don’t work to keep the price stable in its first 30 days, another departure from the norm. And while shareholders such as employees have to wait for a lockup of typically six months with a traditional IPO, with a direct listing there’s no wait—anyone can sell.

Another big difference: Because a direct listing issues no new shares, the company going public doesn’t make money off the event.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/01/14/a-slack-direct-listing-could-tempt-other-tech-unicornsbut-its-unlikely-to-challenge-the-traditional-ipo/

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A Parkland Father’s Quest for Accountability - WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-parkland-fathers-quest-for-accountability-11547249451

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The Peryton is a mythological hybrid animal combining the physical features of a stag and a bird. The Peryton was created and described by Jorge Luis Borges in his Book of Imaginary Beings, using a supposedly long-lost medieval manuscript as a source.
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According to Borges, Perytons lived in Atlantis until an earthquake destroyed the civilization and the creatures escaped by flight. A Peryton casts the shadow of a man until it kills one during its lifetime, at which time it starts to cast its own shadow.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peryton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peryton

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POLITICO: What Happens if Ruth Bader Ginsburg Remains Too Sick to Work?.
POLITICO: What Happens if Ruth Bader Ginsburg Remains Too Sick to Work?.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/16/ruth-bader-ginsburg-supreme-court-health-224014
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/16/ruth-bader-ginsburg-supreme-court-health-224014

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Gaia measures the position, parallax, and annual proper motion of 1 billion stars with an accuracy of about 20...
Gaia measures the position, parallax, and annual proper motion of 1 billion stars with an accuracy of about 20 microarcseconds (µas) at 15 mag. GR bending of starlight by the Sun's gravitational field at 90 deg from Sun is 4 milliarcsecond. Light bending by Jupiter is a "200 σ detection". Will detect Jupiter's frame dragging (Lense–Thirring effect). Will detect gravitational wave energy from white dwarf inspirals. May detect actual gravitational waves 1e-12 < f < 1e-9 Hz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdOrqooSS64
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdOrqooSS64

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Tom Mueller keynote at ISDC 2018
Tom Mueller keynote at ISDC 2018

Space Propulsion Development-Tom Mueller (SpaceX-CTO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4JLWFqEsZo (part 1, ignore)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xWRhKB3JTM (part 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgHcf33RMW8 (part 3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4JLWFqEsZo

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Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nnLbRaxtCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnk0rnBQrR0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GrjjCVk6cA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2jVqJDZIck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSEXA5JueRU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX2R8-nJhLQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mQ0Yu2x9vE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mQ0Yu2x9vE

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S&P500:
S&P500:

Sep 20, 2018 $2930.75
Dec 24, 2018 $2351.10 (-19.78%)
Jan 09, 2019 $2,584.96 (+10.00%)

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Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks (2018)
Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks (2018)
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we focus instead on the channel relationship and propose a novel architectural unit, which we term the “Squeeze-and-Excitation” (SE) block [...] demonstrate
that SE blocks bring significant improvements in performance for existing state-of-the-art CNNs at minimal additional computational cost. Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks formed the foundation of our ILSVRC 2017 classification submission which won first place and reduced the top-5 error to 2.251%, surpassing the winning entry of 2016 by a relative improvement of ∼25%.
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TABLE 2

Single-crop error rates (%) on the ImageNet validation set and complexity comparisons. The original column refers to the results reported in the
original papers. To enable a fair comparison, we re-train the baseline models and report the scores in the re-implementation column. The SENet
column refers to the corresponding architectures in which SE blocks have been added.
"""
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.01507.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.01507.pdf

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Strassen’s Algorithm Reloaded (2016) Jianyu Huang, et al, Intel Corporation
Strassen’s Algorithm Reloaded (2016) Jianyu Huang, et al, Intel Corporation
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Abstract—We dispel with “street wisdom” regarding the practical implementation of Strassen’s algorithm for matrix-matrix multiplication (DGEMM). Conventional wisdom: it is only practical for very large matrices. Our implementation is practical for small matrices. Conventional wisdom: the matrices being multiplied should be relatively square. Our implementation is practical for rank-k updates, where k is relatively small (a shape of importance for libraries like LAPACK). Conventional wisdom: it inherently requires substantial workspace. Our implementation requires no workspace beyond buffers already incorporated into conventional high-performance DGEMM implementations. Conventional wisdom: a Strassen DGEMM interface must pass in workspace. Our implementation requires no such workspace and can be plug-compatible with the standard DGEMM interface. Conventional wisdom: it is hard to demonstrate speedup on multi-core architectures. Our implementation demonstrates speedup over conventional DGEMM even on an Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor utilizing 240 threads. We show how a distributed memory matrix-matrix multiplication also benefits from these advances.
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http://jianyuhuang.com/papers/sc16.pdf

http://jianyuhuang.com/papers/sc16.pdf

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