COVID-19 Vaccine Visualization.
The Milken Institute partnered with First Person to create a COVID-19 interactive vaccine visualization. View the tool for at-a-glance updates on the race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine.
How to interpret historical analogies.
Historical analogies are not algorithms and they cannot tell the future; history does not repeat itself.
Ruhrgebiet 2.0.
How Germany Is Turning a Mining Hellscape Into a Holiday Paradise.
The mining machines in Lusatia are like the prehistoric glaciers that carved up the landscape of Europe.
Google’s Top Search Result? Surprise! It’s Google.
The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page.
Relevant: How We Analyzed Google’s Search Results.
Conda — Package, dependency and environment management for any language.
Python, R, Ruby, Lua, Scala, Java, JavaScript, C/ C++, FORTRAN, and more.
The challenge and blessing of Down’s syndrome.
Jamie is empathetic and funny – and a ‘complete mystery’ to those who love him.
Pando is back. Or: timeo teutones et dona ferentes.
- The MySpace culture gap: what happens when platforms die?
- Immigrant wants to ban immigration: Peter Thiel pumps $850,000 into an immigration hawk in Kansas.
- According to Genderify, Meghan Smith is a woman -- but Dr. Meghan Smith is a man.
Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning (via Bots & Beer).
Fast learns, slow remembers. Fast proposes, slow disposes. Fast is discontinuous, slow is continuous. Fast and small instructs slow and big by accrued innovation and by occasional revolution. Slow and big controls small and fast by constraint and constancy. Fast gets all our attention, slow has all the power.
Totally missed this #nofomo.
Savor the Sight of Comet NEOWISE From Some Wondrous Places.
(…) in July 2020, comet C/2020 F3, known as NEOWISE, has been dazzling skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere, with a once-in-many-lifetimes appearance. We won’t see it again for another 6,800 years.
