The fight to keep ideas open to all
The “commons of the mind” must be preserved, says James Boyle of Duke Law School, on the 50th anniversary of “The tragedy of the commons” https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/12/12/the-fight-to-keep-ideas-open-to-all?fsrc=gp_en?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/thefighttokeepideasopentoallopenvoices “THE ONLY way we…
First Kaggle Competition Experience
https://hackernoon.com/first-kaggle-competition-experience-591fbbc751a0 A write-up of my first kaggle competition experience During my Initial planning on My Self-Taught Machine Learning journey this year, I had pledged to make into Top 25% for…
Time Complexity of building a Suffix Tree
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7451942/time-complexity-of-building-a-suffix-tree Your intuition behind why the algorithm should be Θ(n2) is a good one, but most suffix trees are designed in a way that eliminates the need for this time…
Suzhou Pan Family donations
The Suzhou museum is running an exhibition of works collected by the Pan family of Suzhou, the lineage responsible for producing the most number of scholars in South East China,…
World Happiness Report
Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-22/global-happiness-which-countries-are-most-and-least-miserable https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-24/visualizing-relationship-between-money-and-happiness http://wuyuansheng.brinkster.net/doc/WHR_web.pdf How much happier would you be if were given a 10% raise? While money can be a crucial indicator of happiness at lower income levels, Visual…
habeas corpus
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/habeas+corpus 1. A writ that a person may seek from a court to obtain immediate release from an unlawful confinement, as when the confinement has occurred through a means that…
《新加坡调解公约》明年8月在我国签署
https://www.zaobao.com.sg/realtime/singapore/story20181221-917629?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1545363227 （早报讯）联合国框架下首个以新加坡命名的公约《新加坡调解公约》（Singapore Convention on Mediation）已在联合国大会通过。公约将促成国际商业和解协议的执行，从而促进国际商业发展和跨境贸易。 《新加坡调解公约》明年8月7日将在我国签署。 我国律政部发文告指出，第73届于美国纽约举行的联合国大会今天（美国时间20日）已通过决议，采纳联合国国际和解协议的公约，并以新加坡命名。这是联合国框架第一个以新加坡命名的公约。大会也决定，签署仪式明年8月在新加坡举行。 新加坡驻纽约联合国常任代表也在联合国大会发表声明，肯定联合国国际贸易法委员会（UNCITRAL）在调解方面的工作，并感谢联合国支持公约签署仪式在我国举行。
Why you can’t manage humans like they’re software
Early on at Amazon, CEO Jeff Bezos famously issued a memo about how software was to be built at the company. Teams would share their data through service interfaces, or…