The Art of the Awkward 1:1
You probably do a lot of one-on-one meetings at work: with your manager, teammates, folks from other teams. Unfortunately, most people…
DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research environment | DeepMind
Announcing DeepMind's collaboration with Blizzard Entertainment to open up StarCraft II to AI and ML researchers around the world.
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Posted on 2016-11-05T06:34:18+0000
Lahore smog: It's not a natural phenomenon
Every December, thick fog descends upon Lahore, blocking out the winter sunshine, closing off the motorway after ...
Empire shaped the world. There is an abyss at the heart of dishonest history textbooks | Moni Mohsin
Nearly 90,000 Indian soldiers laid down their lives for Britain in the second world war, yet the scale of that sacrifice – and the troubled history of the imperial project – is barely recognised
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This is a must read. Honestly surprised the British curriculum doesn't discuss colonization
Posted on 2016-10-31T21:14:50+0000
Why Do Americans Stink at Math?
The Common Core should finally improve math education. The problem is that no one has taught the teachers how to teach it.
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Really interesting article, touching upon math, education, and lots of random tidbits.
"The unschooled may have been more capable of complex math than people who were specifically taught it, but in the context of school, they were stymied by math they already knew. Studies of children in Brazil, who helped support their families by roaming the streets selling roasted peanuts and coconuts, showed that the children routinely solved complex problems in their heads to calculate a bill or make change. When cognitive scientists presented the children with the very same problem, however, this time with pen and paper, they stumbled. A 12-year-old boy who accurately computed the price of four coconuts at 35 cruzeiros each was later given the problem on paper. Incorrectly using the multiplication method he was taught in school, he came up with the wrong answer. Similarly, when Scribner gave her dairy workers tests using the language of math class, their scores averaged around 64 percent. The cognitive-science research suggested a startling cause of Americans’ innumeracy: school."
Posted on 2016-10-28T17:16:41+0000
Dear Microsoft, let’s open source Age of Empires II
tl;dr: game is broken but still popular, my suggestion for fixing it and making more money in the process is to open source
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Posted on 2016-10-28T05:14:31+0000
Apple's new MacBook Pro has no escape key
So it turns out that images of Apple's new MacBook Pro, set to be unveiled on Thursday, are actually hiding inside the latest macOS Sierra update. They confirm that Jony Ive and Apple's designers...
Terrorists storm police training college in Quetta: 20 dead, 65 injured
IG Frontier Corps says the terrorists were communicating with their handlers in Afghanistan.
Review: ‘Black Mirror’ Finds Terror, and Soul, in the Machine
Netflix’s expanded version of this sci-fi anthology explores digital cultures that are chillingly close to our own.
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