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1.		Practice Does Not Make Perfect: No Causal Effect of Music Practice on Ability [pdf] (gwern.net)
		20 points by gwern 25 minutes ago \| hide \| 4 comments
2.		Nuklear: A single-header ANSI C GUI library (github.com)
		209 points by mpweiher 5 hours ago \| hide \| 64 comments
3.		An opinionated guide to Haskell (lexi-lambda.github.io)
		75 points by kryptiskt 1 hour ago \| hide \| 12 comments
4.		Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to Deep Learning (wired.com)
		46 points by monsieurpng 2 hours ago \| hide \| 6 comments
5.		Nematode Neural System Uploaded to a Computer and Trained to Balance a Pole (tuwien.ac.at)
		50 points by r4um 3 hours ago \| hide \| 24 comments
6.		A Stall-Free Real-Time Garbage Collector for Reconfigurable Hardware (2012) [pdf] (ibm.com)
		35 points by mpweiher 3 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
7.		Concerns that social media causes childhood depression (bbc.co.uk)
		21 points by pmoriarty 3 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
8.		Multifamily Passive House in Vancouver (treehugger.com)
		119 points by f_allwein 9 hours ago \| hide \| 87 comments
9.		Feasibility of low-level GPU access on the Web (kvark.github.io)
		4 points by kvark 36 minutes ago \| hide \| discuss
10.		Quiet for Android – TCP over sound (github.com)
		230 points by adulau 12 hours ago \| hide \| 57 comments
11.		Graal: How to use the new JVM JIT compiler in real life [video] (youtube.com)
		92 points by pjmlp 9 hours ago \| hide \| 33 comments
12.		Altered Carbon – All the DNA of great science-fiction with some missing links (criticalhit.net)
		55 points by walterbell 2 hours ago \| hide \| 23 comments
13.		Cognitive Ability and Vulnerability to Fake News (scientificamerican.com)
		89 points by richardhod 4 hours ago \| hide \| 64 comments
14.		Foxconn unit to cut over 10k jobs as robotics take over (nikkei.com)
		60 points by nreece 8 hours ago \| hide \| 10 comments
15.		Using k-d trees to efficiently calculate nearest neighbors in 3D vector space (krum.io)
		4 points by nkurz 1 hour ago \| hide \| discuss
16.		Optimizing BitBlt by generating code on the fly (microsoft.com)
		17 points by luu 3 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
17.		A short tale of a read overflow (antirez.com)
		68 points by stargrave 9 hours ago \| hide \| 9 comments
18.		A Tiny Hedge Fund Made 8,600% on a Vix Bet (bloomberg.com)
		96 points by apesti 12 hours ago \| hide \| 70 comments
19.		1% of the population accountable for 63% of all violent crime convictions (nih.gov)
		158 points by gwern 2 hours ago \| hide \| 150 comments
20.		Brainpower wins over brawn when male hummingbirds display for mates (eurekalert.org)
		21 points by fern12 6 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
21.		Fullstack Academy (YC S12) is hiring devs in New York who love teaching (workable.com)
		2 hours ago \| hide
22.		Making Sense of the Bias / Variance Trade-Off in Deep Reinforcement Learning (medium.com)
		50 points by kawera 10 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
23.		The Economist house-price indices (economist.com)
		48 points by IshV 9 hours ago \| hide \| 22 comments
24.		The insane amount of backward compatibility in Google Maps (tnhh.net)
		136 points by jimmies 6 hours ago \| hide \| 35 comments
25.		A Multilogue on Free Will (rongarret.info)
		10 points by lisper 1 hour ago \| hide \| 3 comments
26.		What William James Got Right About Consciousness (nautil.us)
		55 points by dnetesn 11 hours ago \| hide \| 6 comments
27.		Why and How Java Developers Break APIs (arxiv.org)
		19 points by echo-4 7 hours ago \| hide \| 9 comments
28.		China Will Overtake the US in AI, said Alphabet's Eric Schmidt (investopedia.com)
		6 points by nopinsight 31 minutes ago \| hide \| 1 comment
29.		What Happens When You Put 500,000 People's DNA Online (theatlantic.com)
		28 points by gwern 2 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
30.		Visual Group Theory: What is a group? (2016) [video] (youtube.com)
		80 points by adamnemecek 14 hours ago \| hide \| 27 comments
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