Bookmarks tagged “history”
89 bookmarks tagged “history”
Pando: Move fast, break things: The sad story of Platform, Facebook’s gigan
Democratizing career progression
Ronald Fisher, a Bad Cup of Tea, and the Birth of Modern Statistics | Science History Institute
A lesson in humility begets a scientific revolution.
The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
Part 1 of 2: "The Road to Superintelligence". Artificial Intelligence — the topic everyone in the world should be talking about.
The Secret History of Women in Coding
Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?
The F-35 Is a $1.4 Trillion National Disaster - War Is Boring - Medium
The F-35 still has a long way to go before it will be ready for combat. That was the parting message of Michael Gilmore, the now-retired Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, in his last…
The Secret History of SEAL Team 6: Quiet Killings and Blurred Lines - NYTim
The unit best known for killing Osama bin Laden has been converted into a global manhunting machine with limited outside oversight.
One Man’s Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake
On a Friday in July 2012, two employees of the Wikimedia Foundation gave a talk at Wikimania, their organization’s annual conference. Maryana Pinchuk and Steven Walling addressed a packed room as…
The Overprotected Kid - The Atlantic
A preoccupation with safety has stripped childhood of independence, risk-taking, and discovery—without making it safer. A new kind of playground points to a better solution.
What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs - NYTimes.com
The inside story of how Yahoo’s C.E.O. lost her way.
Is coding the new literacy?
Why America's schools need to train a generation of hackers.
