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tedfromtheinternet: FDR: America’s hippie president (at Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial)
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theatlantic: ‘We Are Creating Walmarts of Education’ Universities in South Dakota, Nebraska, and other states have cut the number of credits students need to graduate. A proposal in Florida would let online courses forgo the usual higher-education accreditation process. A California legislator introduced a measure that would have substituted online courses for some of the…
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theatlantic: Alan Turing’s Body On Christmas Eve, Queen Elizabeth II pardoned the computer scientist Alan Mathison Turing. Nearly all of the modern world is constructed on Turing’s accomplishments. He helped crack Germany’s “Enigma” code in World War II, contributed two important proofs to mathematics, and established foundational concepts in computer science and artificial intelligence. Without…
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theatlantic: Alan Turing’s Body On Christmas Eve, Queen Elizabeth II pardoned the computer scientist Alan Mathison Turing. Nearly all of the modern world is constructed on Turing’s accomplishments. He helped crack Germany’s “Enigma” code in World War II, contributed two important proofs to mathematics, and established foundational concepts in computer science and artificial intelligence. Without…
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missbhavens: fuckyeahbehindthescenes: To shoot the spacewalk scenes a LED screen was folded into a box, the actor was put inside, and the light from the screen was used to light the actor. That way, instead of moving either Bullock or Clooney in the middle of static lights, the projected image moved while they stayed still.…
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kenyatta: unionmetrics: journo-geekery: Tweets loud and quiet – O’Reilly Radar …the bulk of the service is decidedly smaller-scale–a low murmur with an occasional celebrity shouting on top of it. In comparative terms, almost nobody on Twitter is somebody: the median Twitter account has a single follower. Among the much smaller subset of accounts that have…
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laughingsquid: Uncovered Books App Helps You Choose a Book by Its Content by Hiding All Other Details someone made an app of Deleuze’s library!
