When I asked Sam how he pulled this all together:

I began the archive after the Every Apple Video Youtube channel went down in March(?) I’ve been sourcing from YouTube (both Apple’s own and other small personal channels ppl uploaded Apple vids to) as well as FTP servers and clips internet friends donated. You can reach Sam on Twitter.

Arabic, on the other hand, twists healthy minds in twelve ways:

Nearly all Arabic words consist of a three-consonant root slotted into a pattern of vowels and helper consonants. There are a few words that take a regular plural suffix, but most of the time to make a plural you have to change the structure of the word quite dramatically:

This holds even for borrowed words:

Other Semitic languages have broken plurals, but as with other unusual language features Arabic runs this one furthest into the end zone. Arabic has a large number of dialects, some of which are not mutually intelligible, but all educated Arabs will know the formal written language, which they consider to be a higher form of their day-to-day speech.

It’s fun of problem-solving, it’s an excitement of discoveries, it’s a pride of accomplishments, and it’s a ton of tedious computations, too. This means that it descends exactly as it climbs, and at the point where it reaches full π, its derivative is sin(π)’ = -1, and the function itself sin(π) = 0. If my humble introduction to SymPy will help you enjoy math long after your final calculus exam, it’ll make me happy too.

Nic Wilkins started selling parts of his sneaker collection online two years ago as a way to make some extra cash in college. Sneaker collecting and trading “just keeps growing,” said Mr. Wilkins, a 24-year-old San Francisco resident who recently hired a business partner to manage his shoe inventory at a warehouse in upstate New York. StockX is part of a burgeoning group of online marketplaces that have turned resales of sneakers into a kind of currency — and an increasingly big business.

To arrive at these language changes, we started out with a small set of viable proposals, selected from the much larger list of Go 2 proposals, per the new proposal evaluation process outlined in the “Go 2, here we come!” And we added the Go 2 draft design proposal on error inspection, which has been partially accepted. For generics, we are making progress, with a talk (“Generics in Go” by Ian Lance Taylor) coming up at this year’s GopherCon in San Diego, but we have not reached the concrete proposal stage yet.

The U.K.’s independent fact-checking organization Full Fact looked at research into the so-called “backfire effect,” the idea ( popular in the media ) that “when a claim aligns with someone’s ideological beliefs, telling them that it’s wrong will actually make them believe it even more strongly.” Ahead of the Monday event where it is expected to announce a streaming TV product and an Apple News premium tier, Apple this week announced that it’s providing funding to three media literacy organizations: The News Literacy Project and Common Sense in the U.S., and Osservatorio Permanente Giovani-Editori in Italy. But not so much this time, as noted by BuzzFeed’s Craig Silverman and Jane Lytvynenko, perhaps because the killer’s own media strategy took up all the crime’s oxygen:

Friday’s attack at two mosques in New Zealand was committed by a shooter who deployed a social media strategy to go with his actions.

An online game in which people play the role of propaganda producers to help them identify real world disinformation has been shown to increase “psychological resistance” to fake news, according to a study of 15,000 participants. The study, published today in the journal Palgrave Communications, showed the perceived reliability of fake news before playing the game had reduced by an average of 21% after completing it. Roozenbeek and van der Linden worked with Dutch media collective DROG and design agency Gusmanson to develop Bad News, and the idea of a game to inoculate against fake news has attracted much attention.

Blade Runner background wallpaper cyberpunk ambience website? It’s this website where it plays cyberpunk cityscape sounds on a loop on a Blade Runner background, and it’s pretty awesome. At least one person here has to be into cyberpunk enough to have come across it, and if so, I’d appreciate it if you could share it with me.

Three weeks ago I received a very flattering email from the University of Cambridge, asking me to judge the Adam Smith Prize for Economics:

My name is Gregory Harris. As far as I can make out (I haven’t seen this explicitly written anywhere, and I could very well be wrong about it), attackers compromised email accounts and webpages at the University of Cambridge belonging to two people called “Gregory Harris” and “Neil Morris”. I don’t know if “Gregory Harris” and “Neil Morris” are real people whose university accounts were compromised, or if they’re fake people created by someone who compromised the university computing system itself, or if I’m just completely misunderstanding what happened.

An online game in which people play the role of propaganda producers to help them identify real world disinformation has been shown to increase “psychological resistance” to fake news, according to a study of 15,000 participants. The study, published today in the journal Palgrave Communications, showed the perceived reliability of fake news before playing the game had reduced by an average of 21% after completing it. Roozenbeek and van der Linden worked with Dutch media collective DROG and design agency Gusmanson to develop Bad News, and the idea of a game to inoculate against fake news has attracted much attention.