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I want an RSS reader which lets me temporarily mute stories which contain words. For example, I've not seen eight different stories in my feed about the euthanizing of Freya the walrus. I'd like to be able to mute 'Freya' for the next week while those stories get printed. Add it to the list of […]
"Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledges to make India a developed country in 25 years"
Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged to raise millions out of poverty and turn India into a developed country in the next quarter-century as he marked 75 years since independence from British rule.
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"The Four Pillars of Data Observability"
Answering questions like “is our data anomalous?” and “how has this metric trended over time?” requires historical knowledge of our data over time. Until storing complete historical snapshots of our data becomes feasible, we’re left with storing approximations. How much data do we need to reconstruct a useful picture of our data? That’s the question […]
"The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world"
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change. I had read this stat at some point in the past but did not come across a larger discussion on it and thus it faded from […]