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RA: Inside Tokyo's audiophile venues
https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2724, posted 2019 by peter in audio music todo tokyo toread travel
With a rich network of sound-obsessed cafés, bars and small clubs, Aaron Coultate explains why Tokyo might be the best place in the world to listen to music.
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The Supposedly Pristine, Untouched Amazon Rainforest Was Actually Shaped By Humans | Science | Smithsonian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/pristine-untouched-amazonian-rainforest-was-actually-shaped-humans-180962378/, posted 2019 by peter in environment science toread
Like humans everywhere, Native Americans shaped their environments to suit them, through burning, pruning, tilling and other practices. And the Amazon is no different: Look closer, and you can see the deep impressions that humans have made on the world's largest tropical rainforest, scientists reported yesterday in the journal Science.
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A Gentle Introduction to Erasure Codes
https://www.akalin.com/intro-erasure-codes, posted 2018 by peter in backup math reference toread
This article explains Reed-Solomon erasure codes and the problems they solve in gory detail, with the aim of providing enough background to understand how the PAR1 and PAR2 file formats work, the details of which will be covered in future articles.
I’m assuming that the reader is familiar with programming, but has not had much exposure to coding theory or linear algebra. Thus, I’ll review the basics and treat the results we need as a “black box”, stating them and moving on. However, I’ll give self-contained proofs of those results in a companion article.
So let’s start with the problem we’re trying to solve! Let’s say you have n files of roughly the same size, and you want to guard against m of them being lost or corrupted. To do so, you generate m parity files ahead of time, and if in the future you lose up to m of the data files, you can use an equal number of parity files to recover the lost data files.
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We Should Teach Media Literacy in Elementary School - Scientific American Blog Network
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/we-should-teach-media-literacy-in-elementary-school/, posted 2018 by peter in cognition education media opinion toread
We need to have a lot of difficult conversations in order to resolve the issues we are facing as a society, and the only way these conversations will be productive and enduring is if we all can agree on the facts. Right now, with Americans believing more than 40 percent of the news they see is fake, we aren’t quite there as a society, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be. The internet is an amazing tool, but to use it most effectively we have to embrace its benefits while also understanding the ways in which it makes us vulnerable. If students are still learning dated practices such as cursive writing in school, shouldn’t they be learning how to navigate and consume the internet responsibly as well?
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Educating for Democracy in a Partisan Age: Confronting the Challenges of Motivated Reasoning and Misinformation | Civic Engageme
www.civicsurvey.org/publications/263, posted 2018 by peter in cognition education media science toread
Much misinformation and many falsehoods related to politics circulate online. This paper investigates how youth judge the accuracy of truth claims tied to controversial public issues. In an experiment embedded within a nationally representative survey of youth ages 15-27 (N=2,101), we examined factors that influenced youth judgements regarding the accuracy of the content. Consistent with research on motivated reasoning, youth assessments depended on a) the alignment of the claim with their prior policy position and, to a lesser extent, on b) whether the post included an inaccurate statement. However, and most importantly, among those participants who reported the most media literacy learning experiences, there was a large, statistically significant difference in ratings of accuracy between those exposed to a post that employed misinformation and those who saw an evidence-based post. Implications for educators and policymakers are discussed.
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Application-Layer DDoS Attack Protection with HAProxy - HAProxy Technologies
https://www.haproxy.com/blog/application-layer-ddos-attack-protection-with-haproxy/, posted 2018 by peter in howto networking performance toread
In this blog post, we’ll demonstrate how the HAProxy load balancer protects you from application-layer DDoS attacks that could, otherwise, render your web application dead in the water, unreachable by ordinary users. In particular, we’ll discuss HTTP floods. An HTTP flood operates at the application layer and entails being immersed with web requests, wherein the attacker hopes to overwhelm your application’s capacity to respond.
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11 Open Source Tools for Writers | It's FOSS
https://itsfoss.com/open-source-tools-writers/, posted 2018 by peter in free list literature opensource software toread writing
The open source community produces a large amount of software for different uses. I have already told you about open source tools for interactive fictions. Here are eleven open source tools to help authors be creative.
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Max Planck Neuroscience on Nautilus: Learning to Read in Your 30s Profoundly Transforms the Brain
maxplanck.nautil.us/article/338/learning-to-read-in-your-30s-profoundly-transforms-the-brain, posted 2018 by peter in cognition science toread
In contrast to previous assumptions, the learning process leads to a reorganization that extends to deep brain structures in the thalamus and the brainstem. The relatively young phenomenon of human writing, therefore, changes brain regions that are very old in evolutionary terms and already core parts of mice and other mammalian brains.
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Actually, DMARC works fine with mailing lists
https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-09-18-dmarc-mailing-list.html, posted 2018 by peter in email howto spam toread
Lists should keep the From address, the Subject, and the Message totally unchanged. They should add a Sender header to indicate their relay role, and set at least the List-Id and List-Unsubscribe headers for mailbox rules and subscription management.
This configuration will allow mailing lists to function as proper SMTP citizens in the age of DMARC.
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Kom igång med programmering – Kodboken
https://www.kodboken.se/, posted 2018 by peter in development forkids howto inswedish toread
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