Among the things I learned this week:
* Historically, New England Roast meant a light roasted coffee. (Courtesy: Coffee Review)
* Starting with World War I and then because of the revolution, scientific research journals didn’t reach Russia again until 1921. (Courtesy: Ron Cowen’s Gravity’s Century).
* Bitflipping due to extraterrestrial causes. (Courtesy: ZS)
Tag Archives: computing
Things I Learned this Week
Among the things I learned this week:
* The data collection and storage implementations that Mercedes uses for its F1 cars. (Courtesy: Nathan Matisse/Ars Technica).
* The data collection and storage implementations that Mercedes uses for its F1 cars. (Courtesy: Nathan Matisse/Ars Technica).
* Chengdu is the center of Chinese hip hop. (Courtesy: Amy Qin/NYT)
* Colin Powell was against the tear-down-this-wall line in Reagan’s 1987 Berlin speech. (Courtesy: Wikipedia)
Things I Learned this Week
Among the things I learned this week:
* The history of the sports bra. (Courtesy: 99% Invisible)
* The history of the sports bra. (Courtesy: 99% Invisible)
* Spotify uses NLP with data from monitoring the Web to help with song recommendations. (Courtesy: Sophia Ciocca/HackerNoon)
* Students who don’t bring their phone to class, earn a letter-grade better than those who do. (Courtesy: Nicholas Carr/WSJ)